How do blind people use cash in the US? Other countries have different sizes and textures and stuff, but not our cash.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2025
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- Two dogs, taking turns. One poops, the other eats it. And then licks your face.
Well now I gotta now. How do they pick up their dogs poop? Is it the two dogs taking turns and eating it theory?
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Obviously there has to be a space for politics here as we’re trying to build a global, decentralised alternative to corporate social media, and that has to include every form of discussion and a plurality of voices. However, on traditional web forums based around a shared interest it was always a bad idea to let the politics run free, as you’d get flame wars, and eventually a ruling clique with moderator influence banning posters along political lines and a resultingly toxic McCarthyite culture. I think the answer has to be more tools that allow us control over our feeds, more easily - there is space for all of politics free, ml instances, neutral grounds, etc if we are adults about it.
Agreed. In a way though I should expect this. Most people on the fediverse are here for ideological reasons, including myself. We dislike the corporate platforms that the fediverse seeks to replace. Simply having an account here makes a statement. But what exhausts me is when I go onto a community like mildlyinteresting expecting to see pics of three-chambered peanuts and yellow stop signs but most of it is stuff like "French President explains the political consequences of AI" or "There’s a selection bias baked into US democracy that most people never stop to consider. Owning a car significantly increases the likelihood of voting." Like I can even attest personally to that last one as I don't own a car and that makes it hard to get out and vote, but that's not why I came here.
Yeah once politics aren't killing everyone slowly and ruining life in general for the public then it'll be better
I get the desire but this is so over the moral boundaries its fucking crazy so your gonna just have to see it through
Maybe help make it so its not needed but bitching and moaning about that is just making it MORE necessary
So yeah. Fuck your post but heres to hoping you change your mind 👍
Trump is sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Biden was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Obama was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Dubya was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Clinton was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Bush 1 was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Reagan was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Forgive me if I'm a little numb to it all.
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Do you have a stable work? And what do you do
I admin an instructional data center at a community college.
Whoa, that's mind-blowing. I always wondered what kind of jobs there would be for me if I suddenly lost my vision.
Filters are your friends. :)
I just want to say that I'm sorry for the current status of the web; I've worked on making some apps accessible to blind people and I bet most of them are horrible to use for a person with visual impairments.
It can be hard. I have yet to see an elegant way to navigate threaded chains of comments. It's like "UltimateGamer386 [actual content]". On Reddit, at least Old Reddit, the upvote and downvote controles were the only buttons and were located immediately before the actual comment, so you could go from button to button, then press down arrow to read the comment.
I have enough vision to navigate to some degree, at least on a desktop. For laptop or phone it has to be a screen reader. I really should be reading braille more.
I was just thinking the other day that a dedicated semantic tag for user replies like or or would be nice, and they could be nested.
I wonder if semantic tags like , with controls embedded in or similar tags, could work anyway.