Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSKpPrtNDiCHTzU
RE: https://facts.computer/@computer/115567282849485159
"Premium users can also converse with Satan."
No, really: https://www.today.com/news/religious-chatbot-apps-rcna243671
Once upon a time I called a restaurant and asked if they were wheelchair accessible. I specifically asked about stairs. They said yes they were wheelchair accessible, there were no stairs at all. We arrived, excited to try their food, to find there were steps to get into the restaurant. I asked why they said it was accessible when I couldn't even get in the door. They said the restaurant is accessible once you get inside.
I think about this a lot. It's accessible once you get inside, but they don't offer you any way to get in there.
This is common. That restaurant wasn't the first place to be inaccessible while saying it is accessible, it's just the one that stuck with me most because the host was so sure they were accessible and could accommodate me. They were even happy about being able to have me there.
So how does this go so wrong? Can you tell me, because I don't know. How did they get so close and still fail?
Here's a funny one for you: There is a restaurant on Staten Island that has a really great ramp. It's obviously up to spec. The only problem is to use the door at the top of the ramp you have to go up the stairs, inside the restaurant, and ask someone to open the door at the top of the ramp. So close, right? Disabled people would never be out without a nondisabled person, so this is a smart decision. (This is not a smart decision. Disabled people do in fact go out alone or with other disabled people.)
Nondisabled people do not understand disability or disabled people. Not at all. They think they do, but they view everything through their own biases and fail to truly know us as separate human beings. That's a problem, not that they realize it.
Related, the best movie website design is still online, having migrated slightly over the decades:
from spacejam.com/index.cgi
to spacejam.com/jam.htm
to warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
to spacejam.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
before finally moving into its retirement home today at www.spacejam.com/1996
This is peak TV channel website design:
The Travel Channel via the Wayback Machine, captured 1997-04-18 09:30:54 UTC: https://web.archive.org/web/19970418093054/http://www.travelchannel.com/index.htm
Ever wonder why the "vi" editor uses H, J, K, and L keys for cursor navigation, and why Unix shells traditionally use "~" as an alias for the home directory?
The ADM-3A terminal was a very popular and inexpensive Unix terminal in the 1970s. Notice where the arrow keys are, and where the "~" key is? It influenced a lot!
re: uspol, fuck ICE
This after prosecutors, who famously can get any grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, utterly failed to get a grand jury to indict the guy who shared one ballistically.
The fash couldn't find 12 random joes to charge Sandwich Guy with a felony, and the fash couldn't find 7 random joes to convict him of a misdemeanor.
This chips away at fear and adds support to hope.
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