Dasus
@Dasus@lemmy.world
- Comment on No baroque golden decorations though 10 hours ago:
I genuinely bought my brother a painting which said that just the year before it came a meme and I felt such a Karen though I wasn’t even 30
- Comment on No baroque golden decorations though 15 hours ago:
Boomer? Boi I’m almost 40, a millenial, and this hits me right in the laughter because of how right it is
- Comment on Are people still fooled by this dumb quiz's? 1 week ago:
Aka the grocer’s apostrophe
- Comment on Hostile architecture 1 week ago:
I mean, as an actual disabled person… By just like, backing up to it?
Well, as an actual disabled person, how many different chairs do you have on a daily basis? Because as a taxi driver driving around disabled people, there’s a lot of different chairs.
I’ve never seen one without a backrest. Do you have one?
Could you back into that with a chair? Ofc.
But if yours has a backrest like all the other chairs, you’ll hit the backrest before with the back of your chair before you’d be in the same line as a person leaning back on other parts of the bench.
Not to even mention that a ton of the people that I know who use chairs have often have a bag or a backpack hanging back there.
I don’t want to be around when they pull into a parking spot and then can’t drive forward out of it…
As a professional driver, I can tell you that if you have to choose a parking place between a space that’s only just and just free (three cars around it, all parked tightly so as to not leave any extra room even close to the line), and one that is completely free, not a single car around it, you choose the latter one.
Can I reverse into the former? Ofc. Even just a few years after I started, when I was still very young, around 20, I made grown (and somewhat drunk) men give a little shriek as they thought I would crash the car when driving in places where they thought a car wouldn’t fit (because people were picked up usually from in front of a bar, and bars can exist in the weirdest places.)
So with that logic in mind, my question is why would you, as a chair user, ever want to back in to this bench, when you could just park next to it, effectively lengthening the bench?
Put 1,000 hotel rooms, but only 5 are made for accessibility? Your store has a wheelchair ramp, all the fuck at the end of the building near the loading docks?
Not a problem in the EU/Finland (idk which the regulations comes from) We got building regulations.
Shit, even paving walkways, in fucking modular concrete squares, suck ass: when (not if) the front wheels get stuck, especially if I’m being pushed, my ass gets launched.
I would’ve been proud if this wasn’t a problem either, but as someone who regularly pushed chairs, I’m so goddamn disappointed in my own city. They remodelled the market square for a parking garage they wanted to build below it. Corruption and capitalism wins and after years and years of talks, more years of building and millions of euros, we got an utterly shit market square made of roughly 40cm x 40cm tiles which won’t stay the fuck down because of the soil. I haven’t had to push a chair through that yet but I dread it for any one who does, be they pushing their own chairs or getting pushed. Hell, I’ve almost fallen down several times and I like to think I have good awareness in general.
It would be bad enough when a completely abled person falls off their feet, seems it would be much more devastating to someone in a chair, let alone if they’re traveling solo. Thankfully it’s literally the busiest place in the city, so at least anyone who gets hurt will get help quickly, but still.
It used to be centuries old paved stone, as stable as, well idk, something really stable. Perhaps a bit bumpy for a chair user, but honestly only a tiny bit, dad used to take lots of his customers in chairs there for coffee. He had his own taxi-van with a chair-lift in the back, that’s how I started as a taxi driver, working for him. And he started because his dad (my grandpa) had the first taxi the town I was born in. My father chose to prominently tape “Gentleman of the Road” in the back of the van. For aura farming when he wouldn’t start accelerating to speeding just because some dick was hurrying him up. He really impresses upon me the need to keep the car stable. But whenever he didn’t have customers in there, just me, it wasn’t as smooth, as he raced on the slippery backroads like the pro he was.
It sucks ass being disabled, but god damn it’s like the dumbest people get assigned to accessibility planning.
I do empathise and honestly while I criticise a ton of things about Finland, infrastructure for disabled access is really one thing I can’t help but be somewhat proud of. Let me see if I have a photo I took perhaps last year. It might be my previous phone and then it’s lost. (Actually binned my old phone by accident, a top of the line flagship phone that only had the sim-reader faulty gooooooooodammit I still blame myself so much for that fuckup.)
Oh I do have the photos, yeah.
This is an outhouse for disabled people, along a nature path of which roughly 60-70% is available with a chair. The route goes around a small lake and while it is regrettable the whole path isn’t available, I think even a majority of it being available is a win. Half of it is this well maintained gravel footpath that you can sort of see the material there, but around a third or so is really craggy forest on the beach on the other side and I’d argue the amount of nature you’d have to completely get rid off to pave that part as well, the places designation as a “nature trail” would really lose something. Mainly the view from the main side of the lake, which would affect disabled people as well.
- Comment on Hostile architecture 1 week ago:
And how exactly would one even back a wheelchair into that? Wheelchairs have backrests already, so you’d just hit the backrest of this bench before being on the same line as the other people sitting on it.
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
I mean, that’s a very sweeping generalisation, which sort of ignores reality. There’s clearly a lot of protesting, and I, as I’m sure you have as well, have seen videos of people being murdered on the street to the cries of “stop resisting” even when the person didn’t do jack shit, only tried to hold on to their 1st and 4th amendment rights. And the end up under the knee of some psycho powertripper, repeating “I can’t breathe” for minutes before finally succumbing to death.
Also nowadays I believe using AI is rather more common than photoshop.
- Comment on really makes you think 2 weeks ago:
The reason we’ve evolved to tune out whatever taste water may have, is because we need to be able to detect when there’s shit in it. Literally. But also anything else non-suitable.
Which is why waters taste slightly different as we never drink distilled water really. Not that it’s somehow toxic, but drinking only distilled water when there’s no food and then sweating a lot would dehydrate you eventually.
- Comment on really makes you think 2 weeks ago:
Hydrophobia is still very much the name of one of the symptoms that rabies has.
As in a doctor might write “patient exhibits hydrophobia, rabies suspected” or something. Although most doctors wouldn’t ever be in a situation like that, but still.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 weeks ago:
Socrates was wrong guys
Yeah, he was, about a lot. But what specifically do you mean?
- Comment on The boy who was relentlessly bullied by his uncle 2 weeks ago:
Oh damn I didn’t even notice I thought my phone had some dust or thrash on it but yeah theyve censored the i in “died”
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 weeks ago:
Also in regards to lenses and pretty things, because pottery and paper were already so massive industries in China, they didn’t see use for glass as much as Europe which needed it for windows and whatnot.
So then Europe had the advantage in glassworking and thus got some scientific instruments (such as beakers and lenses) first.
How much of that was of because wine, I couldn’t say. But I would like to mention that a gene for naturally being (much more) intolerant to alcohol is more common in Asia than in Europe. But how long it’s been more common is a question I couldn’t answer, as it might be more of a consequence than a cause, with how fast evolution works. (ie Europe has had strong liquor for centuries and you can see from places which only recently got liquor how much more prevalent alcoholism is — it gets filtered out pretty fast as if you’re dependant on alcohol and sauced all the time you prolly might not procreate, unless you’re not that intolerant to it and manage to function.)
- Comment on shoutout to finland 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon catches a glimpse of his own mortality 3 weeks ago:
What is with this Russian propaganda of them starting wars all over Europe and China despite them not having enough supplies to even support their “special military operation” in Ukraine?
Russian army is a fucking joke.
Regards a Finnish person ready to defend the borders of Europe from some low iq orcs with stones and spears.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 3 weeks ago:
“Yeah, did you read that on Wikipedia?”
Yes, I did.
Just like I used to read things at the library in the 90’s, and no-one would’ve thought to mock that. And one of the books I read was some Soviet scientists from the 50’s describing how spiritual auras work in real life.
Although that was in the 00’s I just didn’t have the internet all the time while in the army.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 4 weeks ago:
Ishmael aims to expose that several widely accepted assumptions of modern society, such as human supremacy,
Click link, go to “anthropocentrism”.
Bro I can believe people are smarter than other animals and still not believe we’re the best or most valuable or worthiest or anything like that.
I know dogs are not as smart as me, but they’re sure as fuck better people than me.
- Comment on Contain them 4 weeks ago:
And you’ll probably understand why instinctively I would say cats get that more than dogs.
- Comment on Contain them 4 weeks ago:
Don’t learn Finnish I guess.
No gendered pronouns and we honestly use “it” (se) as a pronoun. No, I would never use it in English unless I meant to purposefully dehumanise someone, but in Finnish it’s just the normal colloquial version of a personal pronoun, whereas “hän” is a 3rd person pronoun that’s more formal, (but also non-gendered) . Pets usually get to be referred to as “hän” with the more formal personal pronoun, weirdly enough.
- Comment on awooga hubba hubba 4 weeks ago:
Bro had never seen naked apes.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Huh. Us other Finno-Ugrics are on the other side of the divide. Varvas, varpaat. Toe, toes.
- Comment on Anon remembers 5 weeks ago:
Because mild but overmedicated cases are completely unheard of?
Oh wait, no, they’re just not documented, unlike when inpatients misbehave.
People who are not medicated enough are very easy to spot. People who are overmedicated are not, because they don’t make a fuzz.
What are your feelings on lobotomy?
- Comment on Kevin McCallister and [redacted] 5 weeks ago:
If only
- Comment on OP has a realization 5 weeks ago:
And understanding what “flying” means. Yes, you’re right.
- Comment on OP has a realization 5 weeks ago:
You saw a flying thing you didn’t identify and that doesn’t really mean anything towards the existence of aliens or even advanced secret technology.
It just means you don’t know what you saw.
Doesn’t make you a grifter. If you start claiming it was actually aliens and write a book about it to sell, then it’s a gift.
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 5 weeks ago:
Nauroin ääneen.
- Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube 5 weeks ago:
Fortune in misfortune though, at least in this day and age it’s much easier paying those games without paying them. Although the DRM on some of the newer games have been a a bitch and a half.
Still, yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!!
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything? 5 weeks ago:
how to ask for mercy in Russian
Sorry, am of lazy. Prefer shootings Ruski over learning his gibberish.
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 5 weeks ago:
American
Very ethnocentric of you. I first heard it from Stephen Fry, so no, not literally zero people.
Also, it’s literally the first definition there. That’s the definition of the species in hemiptera. Just because you don’t know anyone who knows orders of animals in latin doesn’t mean we don’t exist.
I for one always enjoyed reading taxonomy, especially because sometimes translating a species can be quite weird if you don’t know the translation and have to essentially hope that the yellow-breasted warbler is the thing they also described it as in the other language. Sometimes it’s another feature.
But I’m sure you’d know roughly what I mean if I refer to the order of primates. Possibly the infraorder cetacean as well. Especially if you’ve watched Star Trek religiously.
Stephen Fry on Insects, and the beauty of nature and Evolution
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 5 weeks ago:
Yeah that because that sound funny. You should change it something like “look, a bug. And I say that as this is a member of the order ‘hemiptera’, also known as ‘true bugs.’”
Or perhaps it’s just your face? People listen to me quite easily.
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 5 weeks ago:
He’s gonna have a bitch of a time a few decades later passing kidneystones.
