GeneralVincent

Chicago has a pretty big police force unfortunately. Looks like around 12- 13k little piggies (source)

So about 25 cops here leaves... roughly 12- 13k cops in the rest of the city :P

ETA: fun facts, the Chicago Police Dept budget is just below $2 billion. That puts it right below Slovakia's entire military budget. Slovakia's population is ~5.5 million vs. Chicago's 2.7 million people.

Chicago alone has almost as many cops as the entirety of Ireland (which has 14.6k cops for 5.3 million Irish citizens)

Hey, I work for canon in tech support right now. Trying to find a better job though haha

Ada said the mods ignored the mod log, the mods said they didn't ignore it. It's kinda the admins word vs the mods word atp

Sorry I'm super late to this, but I don't mind!

The craziest part of that article is

Vice co-founder Shane Smith stepped down as CEO in 2018, but has remained the company's (...) The Canadian-born journalist’s focus seems to be trained on the southern border, with an editorial line closer to Trump campaign fearmongering than hard news reporting. (Smith is not to be confused with Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, who left the media company and established the far-right militant group the Proud Boys).

So two of the three Vice media founders are now far right? I tried to find out more about Suroosh Alvi, the third founder, but didn't see much. Though on his X (🤢) he posts and reports a bunch of pro Gaza stuff.

I shouldn't be surprised cuz it looks like they all got rich off Vice, but still.

I signed up and got an email with a link to the apk. I'd share, but it looks like it's personalized to my email maybe? and it doesn't work anymore

Zeezee already has a great reply. I'd also like to add that gender dysphoria isn't the same as being trans, it's possible to be trans and not have dysphoria

Idk that looks like 5 inches to me, maybe even 6

Kinda random but it also broke Canon scan software

Your neighbor says women wearing dresses isn't transphobic, but not respecting pronouns is?

Why do we need competitiveness among minorities when they're already at a disadvantage? The competitiveness should be equal between minorities and majorities, otherwise it's not a meritocracy, it's just oppression.

Edit to add: the disadvantage I'm referring to is bigoted hiring practices that are well documented, and a history of oppression.

I think you're just chronically online. Just say female if you're in a conversation and want to exclude trans women. Most trans people won't care as long if the context isn't transphobic. I really don't see why it's unacceptable to have an adjective if you're describing a subset of women. Like there's not a singular noun for "tall men" but if you're actually not being transphobic then whatever.

Again with sexual orientation, it sounds like you're saying that because chronically online. There are people who say it's transphobic to say straight but exlude trans people. Again, context and intent matters. You can just say straight. This one is tricker because not all trans people have surgically transitioned, genital preference matters, and orientation is a spectrum.

And it's a tough subject within the trans community itself, because it's frustrating to present as a gender, transition in every way to that gender, be accepted and pass for that gender, only for someone to say they aren't attracted to you only after they find out you're trans. What other conclusion would you have other than transphobia? And it doesn't help that it often is accompanied by blatant transphobia.

So if someone is calling you transphobic, either the context is also transphobic or they're misunderstanding your intent.