Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.
The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.
Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.
It was a joke.
Literally impossible to tell the difference when it’s just a line of text on a webpage.
That particular phrasing isn’t used as “a joke”.
That’s why we typically use a “/s” to remove the ambiguity.
Just a hint for you, I’ve noticed a considerable uptick in the proportion of people taking my sarcasm literally, when I started hanging out on Lemmy instead of Reddit.
Thats a hint for you.
Or would you like to say that to my face?