Accessibility is sorely needed everywhere but it’s pretty wild that they’re tackling it online before tackling it in the real world.

One of my close friends here in NL can’t use the train station in their neighborhood because they use a wheelchair and the platform can only be reached by stairs. They would need to go to the station in the city center, but busses aren’t wheelchair accessible, so they would need to call an expensive and extremely inconvenient transportation service. So they pretty much never travel.

There are almost no bathrooms in public and the ones that do exist are not free and are usually not accessible to people with many kinds of physical disabilities. In my city center the only bathroom is in a mall, which does have an elevator between the parking garage and the ground floor, but not to the bathrooms, which are one floor higher.

Old cities are hard to retrofit! But if this super rich country, world-renowned for amazing infrastructure and creative architecture, hasn’t tackled this problem yet, we have a bigger problem. It’s a cultural issue.

Every person will become disabled at some point, unless they suddenly and tragically die early.

As a disabled person, we get pretty fed up with a pervasive lack of accessibility options literally everywhere, everyday, constantly, forever. Both online and offline.

I agree that cookie popups are stupid but they’re pretty easily avoidable with a browser extension. If the accessibility options are unnecessarily intrusive there will surely be countless extensions as well.

Idk it’s kind of tone deaf to preemptively complain about the mere possibility that accessibility options might inconvenience you in some teeny tiny and completely solvable way. Oh no won’t someone think of the non-disabled people.

It’s amazing his blood pressure isn’t off the charts considering how angry he is all the time. Then again, maybe it is. One can only hope.

It looks like he wanted a big chest piece but chickened out after the lining and never went back to get it finished.

The problem is not that this person asked chatgpt for cleaning tips (tbh it’s pretty cringe to call someone lazy and stupid for trying to learn something 🙄 Have you seriously never looked up how to clean something weirdly specific? And I suppose those who weren’t lucky enough to have parents who taught them how to adult properly are lazy and stupid when they try to learn?)

The bigger problem is that LLMs are being used to create content for the web. So now someone who knows they can’t just mix any old chemicals together is going to Google whether bleach and vinegar are safe to mix and find a bunch of websites that have contradictory info.

These people, whether they use LLM to search or to create content, aren’t even the root of the problem. Expecting that everyone is tech savvy enough to understand the limitations of generative AIs and how untrustworthy they can be is an unrealistic standard, especially in a world where everyone and their brother is using them and they seem like miracles of technology.

The responsibility lies with the companies that keep touting this technology as something it is not and who refuse to put meaningful limitations on them, and with governments who are dragging their feet in regulating them.

Damn that antihistamine, preventing good hardworking people from being able to enjoy laying in the grass!!1 <shakes fist>

If you liked Geocities, you’ll probably like Neocities

Jesus, every single post is made by the same person.

So the responsibility lies with the person who wasn’t thick-skinned, and not with the (likely) hundreds of people who tormented them, got it.

Being sensitive and deeply affected by the treatment one receives from others is a normal human trait. It’s not a moral failing. In fact, the world would be a better place with more sensitivity.

It’s interesting how so many people won’t criticize the bad actors, but easily criticize those on the receiving end of this behavior.

Amen. As a millennial I’ve lost count of the times I’ve heard that WW3 is starting. Every time shit pops off in the Middle East (almost always thanks to the good ol’ US of A) the media starts handwringing and people start panicking.

But even if we do end up in a world war, the world won’t stop turning. People with bombs raining down on them still need to go to work and cook dinner and pay their bills.

War has always been a reality for someone somewhere in the world. But if/when it’s our turn, we’re so self-centered we think that it’s the actual apocalypse.

All we can do is keep working to make life better for each other. Even though shit is pretty bleak for everyone with late stage capitalism and climate change, it’s not nearly the worst thing any group of people have ever experienced.

So you can give up, or you can embrace radical nihilism and choose to cling to any scrap of joy you can find while working to make things better, even if it’s just the tiniest bit.

In the grand scheme of human history, western civilization as we know it is a tiny blip. It’s incredible that we’re here to witness this moment. If nothing else, let sheer curiosity and spite drive you to keep going.

Is it fascist to acknowledge that Harris planned to continue supporting Israel’s genocide?

You literally used the term “dunk on” like three comments ago. A bit hypocritical to criticize the use of slang, don’t you think?

Chickens will eat almost anything. I once saw a chicken grab a frog and swallow it whole. One of its legs was hanging out of her mouth the rest of the day. She was fine afterwards.

Eggs are also especially tasty to them. You can feed them cooked eggs (very nutritious), but if they ever get ahold of a broken egg and realize how tasty they are, they can start eating their freshly laid eggs before you can collect them.

If you think of the democratic party as first and foremost a fundraising organization, their actions start to make sense.

https://youtube.com/shorts/SInLePq2Ryo

Here is how the Dutch say Gouda, with Van Gogh thrown in as a bonus.

Or Gouda. For extra fun while you’re there, pronounce Gouda the way it’s typically said in English and watch the Dutchies flinch as little parts of their soul leave their bodies.

So you haven’t contributed anything of use. Gotcha.

Lol she’s an academic who has undoubtedly contributed to the body of historical knowledge on the this topic and has written this article which will reach tens of thousands of people, but you’re calling her a coward who won’t help fight fascism… What have you done, exactly?

If I ever find myself in that kind of serfdom without a dime in my pocket, I will put on my shoes and start walking.

…Okay Denmark.

Is $47 considered a good deal in the states nowadays? Before I left (2015) I was paying about $80/month.

Now I’m in the Netherlands and I pay $7/month. I don’t remember what my plan is but it’s something like 8gb data and more minutes/SMS than I could ever use.

Cell/internet/TV plans are a total racket in the US.