Drusas

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[–] Drusas@kbin.social 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"Man" also means "humankind". In fact, it was originally a gender-neutral word.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/man

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago

Looks like someone doesn't want to deal with the hassle and (small) cost to dispose of a couple heavy chairs.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

You really should.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

But do you have a flag?

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Going with "your experience doesn't count because you're a little different" is not the winning argument you might want it to be.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 17 points 9 months ago
[–] Drusas@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)
  1. You have completely missed the point of attics not always being very accessible in order to argue for no good reason.

  2. Yes, I would. The respirator type mask which you require in that environment is very stuffy and tough on someone like me who has a lung condition.

  3. It being tiny makes it more inaccessible than the need for a mask does. The opening into the attic is narrow. I can fit through it, but most Americans would not be able to. Once up there, you have to crawl. I have a medical condition affecting my muscles which makes it exceedingly difficult to crawl.

Point is, once again, that not all attics are accessible. This isn't a discussion about masks.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

I tried it long enough to adjust, and I can assure you, it's still uncomfortable. Hard to cancel that instinctive urge to pull the wedgie out of your butt crack.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Requires a different type of mask, but yes, I have many masks of different types.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Most dogs don't bark that much, but some certainly do.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

And if the police pursue it. I know. Kind of a lose lose situation.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It seems like you're just refusing to acknowledge that you are frustrating medical staff by making your problem worse. Repeatedly.

 

ProPublica editor-at-large Eric Umansky started investigating police oversight after an NYPD officer hit a teenager with a car in 2019. In the years since, he’s learned how police departments have undermined the promise of body-worn cameras.


I got my first real lesson in police accountability in 2019 on Halloween. My wife, Sara Pekow, and our daughter had watched an NYPD officer drive the wrong way up a Brooklyn street and hit a Black teenager. The police had been chasing him as a suspect in the theft of a cellphone. When the boy rolled off the car and ran away, the officers turned their attention to other nearby Black boys who seemed to be simply trick-or-treating. The police lined them against the wall of our neighborhood movie theater, cuffed them and took them away.

At the time, I was editing coverage of the Trump administration, not policing. But I was troubled and, frankly, curious. I ended up waiting outside the police precinct with the boys’ families. The boys were released hours later, with no explanation, no paperwork and no apology.

The next day I reached out to the NYPD’s press office and asked about what happened. Eventually, a spokesperson told me that nothing inappropriate had occurred. A police car hadn’t hit the kid, he said. The kid had run over the hood of the car.

I couldn’t get it out of my head. Not just what had happened, but the NYPD’s brazen denial of what my family and others had witnessed. Surely, I thought, that wouldn’t be the end of it.

I was wrong.

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