TheaoneAndOnly27

TheaoneAndOnly27 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

There's a really cool episode of the podcast Factually touching on what you're talking about.

https://eightify.app/summary/social-issues/prioritizing-disability-needs-in-technology-and-society-factually-239

(Side note, I've never seen this website but I really dig that it has question and answer summaries on the bottom. That was super cool.)

Edit: also, as somebody who is disabled who can't lean forward without intense pain, these wheelchairs would be hell.

TheaoneAndOnly27 , 4 months ago

Awesome, thank you for the update.

TheaoneAndOnly27 , 4 months ago

To add to your metaphor. The grocery store has also collected enough data on you to know exactly how much you'd be willing to pay for eggs versus how much your neighbor would be willing to pay for eggs. So they show you and your neighbor two different egg prices when you get to the cooler.

TheaoneAndOnly27 , 4 months ago

I 100% agree, but is there any way we could kind of keep working to phase out retarded from common vocabulary. It's just such a charged and unnecessary word to use as a pejorative.

TheaoneAndOnly27 , 5 months ago

Similar to the person who commented below. I live in a very rural area so it would be 10 bucks in gas just to drive to the closest Target to buy a pack of pens that I need for work the next day. And I know that I could just swing by on my way home from work and pick them up, but then it becomes a time thing. I mean my entire plan is to ditch Amazon prime after my current subscription expires. But man, there are some interesting things that have just become normalized with the convenience of getting things mailed to me that I'm totally going to miss. But fuck bezos

TheaoneAndOnly27 , 6 months ago

Well fuck I'm suddenly looking at my pacemaker and the little box that sends the messages to the doctor with much more suspicion now.