Oh good, so you agree that his excuse is unreasonable then! I'm glad we had this little discussion.

It's more about, in this case, how he's openly sexist since that's what this alliance seems to be against. But either way that's a classic false binary. There's no reason they cant provide aid for both groups at the same time, it doesn't take away from either group to do that. This wasn't even much additional funding, it was a policy oversight thing who's stated goal decidedly wasn't "care more about women than disabled people".

Oh boy, I bet this won't be even a little bit existentially dystopian!

With secure access to T-Mobile data and its ability to comprehend customer intent and sentiment in real time, IntentCX will have the ability to apply meaningful understanding and knowledge of the customer to every interaction, offer solutions to resolve issues and even take proactive actions on their behalf.

Oh so they're just replacing customer service with ChatGPT. This is... gonna be a disaster.

... It does?

It is backed by the Ukrainian and German governments in particular, with the Ukrainian branch of UN Women playing a key role. Participants in the alliance include the foreign ministries or development agencies of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as the EU.

Finnish media outlets have previously reported that issues related to sexual and gender minorities do not progress under Tavio's watch, and that he does not allow any mention of sexual or gender minorities in his speeches.

Sounds like the usual regressive far right bullshit to me, only with an obviously even more transparent excuse than usual

Well heck, that really is a much better retort. Well said.

Enjoy your sense of smug superiority, I guess...?

At the risk of sounding like the kind of edgelord I was calling out initially: Who?

No, seriously, that show was off the air before I was born. I only know what you're talking about because of this cliche'd line, I've never seen the show or anything. Has there really not been anything in the 23 years since they bulldozed his neighborhood that is wholesome enough to guilt me with? Has society really stagnated that much? Is your sense of decorum only anchored by a largely forgotten children's television show?

Between the teargas and the smoke from trump's cuts to the forestry service I used to just have a couple in my glovebox.

Seriously. "Why do you own all these gasmasks???" my mother asks, somehow forgetting the several consecutive years where trump's thugs were regularly gassing me & all of my friends...

Until they release the body cam footage, all we have is a blurry photo of someone on the ground holding a knife. As nice as that image is, it does nothing to support the claim that they were "charged at with a knife" and that is the claim people are holding you to task over (and assuming that is true, just allowing this situation to escalate to that point was inexcusably incompetent). The NYPD has been caught intentionally misleading the public with bodycam footage many times before and thus lack the credibility to be believed without evidence, especially when they are being this cagey over releasing the footage. This may very well have been the case, but until they prove it we can't reasonably take them at their word and you damn well know it.

Again, people can have multiple takeaways to a story, like:

• It's advisable to use USPS as they have federal protections for the customer that UPS/FedEx do not
• Indiana is a terrible place full of corrupt bullshit like this
• Op doesn't know what victim blaming is
• The US is a kleptocracy

People can take two things away at once. Indiana is just as corrupt as ever (but in this fun new flavour!) and the reason you use USPS over another carrier is that USPS has federal protections and UPS/FedEx have none of those (and also they are bootlicking scum)