Db0 has an extremely active ADHD comm. Try asking there.

You can subscribe, post or comment to the hexbear comms through the magic of federation. You don’t need a separate account. Just like I can do for this lemmygrad comm from hexbear.

I believe if I write the link this way you should be able to click through to see: !theory@hexbear.net from any instance, but this is this specific link for lemmygrad: https://lemmygrad.ml/c/theory@hexbear.net. You can always use the search bar at the top of page (in web browser) to find comms on other instances.

@yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml see above comment

Have you considered a reading group? Online or IRL if it is available. Or just keep posting here or other places. Try to apply your theory to analyze an event or situation. Create homework assignments for yourself.

hexbear.net/c/theory used to have regular reading groups, maybe they will restart if there is interest. Or you can post your thoughts there as threads.

Even if you dont share, writing helps to clarify ideas.

There are all kinds of guides that include self reflection questions, for example https://hexbear.net/post/7689647

Even if you find the best most communist LLM to help you, you’ll have learned to understand things in a robot way. How will you be able to talk to people about it? What is your goal with theory? Personally its my idea that the way you learn is also the way you know.

They’re like “we only use them when there is absolutely no other safe option”. Two examples presented: a disabled student probably having some kind of meltdown and another “trying to escape after fighting with a security guard” which sounds like the cop probably picked a fight with him and the student was trying to deescalate (by getting the fuck outta there). In order for this to have worked to stop him running away, the cop would have had to tackle the kid first? Or is it enough to just barely touch them like playing tag.

On the down side, if the speculation about cops accidentally shocking themselves all the time were correct, we’d probably be finding out from these dorks. So they probably have a good trigger that doesn’t get activated unintentionally.

Omaha’s mayor, John Ewing Jr, who helped oversee creating the school resource officer program when he was on the police force, said the department has honored the school district’s decision to “opt out”. The Omaha police department said officers will continue to carry stun guns, batons, pepper spray and firearms.

Most of the Omaha police department’s 34 school resource officers had been trained and were allowed to use the gloves, the mayor and the police chief, Todd Schmaderer, said in a statement.

“We believe it is the safest use-of-force option in the rare times when it is used,” the statement said.

In 2025, Omaha police agreed to pay Compliant Technologies LLC, which manufactures the gloves, about $66,000 for 40 gloves, according to the contract.

Officers were expected to give warning before using the gloves and then touch the person for up to 15 seconds while the electric shock was delivered, the statement said.

Bellevue’s police chief, Ken Clary, said his officers will continue carrying the gloves, which they have had for more than three years.

“I am not comfortable having our officers give up a tool that has repeatedly proven to be safe, effective and less harmful than the alternatives,” Clary said in a statement.

The devices activate when an officer presses a button. The gloves must touch someone’s skin directly to produce voltage that causes pain, which is intended to make people stop resisting officers. Unlike stun guns, they do not leave burn or contact marks.

In the 2025-26 school year, an Omaha officer used the glove in one case to stop a high school student from another school from trying to escape after fighting with a security guard, according to the statement. In a second case, the glove was used on a student at the Omaha district’s integrated learning center for special education students. Police said that student made verbal threats and threw a chair at a school security guard, striking the guard in the head. The student also punched the guard in the head, according to the statement.

Bellevue police didn’t immediately have details about when its officers have used the gloves. Clary said the devices have been an extremely effective tool that sometimes make students cooperate on sight even without shocking a student.