@NewsFromGoogle You've already ruined trust years ago by being evil. You had the most useful search engine on the planet, but you let the demons in marketing make it shitty to force people to look at ads longer. No one wants anything you make. We want you to lay off the enshittification lever.
interesting seeing people get mad that i think people should be aware of what can and does happen to bodies during and after pregnancy and childbirth
“it scares women away from having kids!” sounds like you just want people to have kids, you don’t care if people are informed
If you have felt discouraged lately, it is important to remember you are living through a tragedy.
It is not your personal flaw but rather because at this pivotal moment in human history, there is a tension between doing what is right for society and the negative consequences pushed on you as an individual.
Acknowledging this reality can bring moral insight, something that must be encountered, and not merely explained away. That insight can bring a sense of nobility or selflessness in your pain.
There's a huge myth that a ton of people are faking sickness for some social/financial benefit, but the reality is that most disabled/chronically ill people are actually pretending to be less disabled than they really are because that's what society wants.
I truly believe this guy is in, like, the bottom tier of intelligence among human beings. like that's an astronomical idiot talking. I don't even think I *know* anyone who is this stupid. he is living proof that making money does not make you smart or interesting.
all of my adult experience has been extreme economic decline followed by little to no recovery. Bullshit numbers to make things seem okay while i watch my friends and family suffer immensely
I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.
Everyone wants to talk about making reasonable adjustments for disability but no one wants to talk about CHRONIC PAIN. It’s always absent from the discussion. There is no way to work with debilitating chronic pain and that’s what I think people are missing (on purpose).
“Reminder that it’s okay to not have it all figured out yet 🤍 At 18 I thought I was so behind everyone else around me and I would never be able to catch up. 8 years later I’m doing more than I ever dreamed possible and I’m forever grateful for the people who encouraged me to keep going.”
͢ Amber’s new TikTok :)
WHY DO SO MANY AUTISTIC PEOPLE USE SUBTITLES FOR EVERYTHING... even in English?
Because people think subtitles are just for deaf people or foreign shows.
For a lot of us autistic folks, that’s not it.
We can hear you just fine. The problem is processing.
Hearing words is only step 1.
Your brain then has to:
1. Cut out background noise
2. Organize the sounds
3. Turn them into meaning
4. Do it all in 0.2 seconds
For many of us, that last part is the hard one. It takes longer. It takes more energy.
This is what it actually feels like:
- The delay: I heard every word you said. But my brain didn’t understand the sentence until 3 seconds later.
- The buffering: You’re already on your next point while I’m still loading the first one.
- The replay: I have to run what you just said through my head again before it makes sense.
- The overlap: If you talk fast, or over someone, or there’s noise, I lose you completely.
Subtitles give us a cheat code.
Now the words aren’t just sound. They’re also text.
Two ways in instead of one. It’s way easier to keep up.
And then there’s the sound thing.
It’s not “super hearing.” It’s _all_ hearing.
The fridge. The AC. The light buzzing. Someone chewing. Traffic. The table next to us.
None of it fades into the background. It all fights with your voice for attention.
Subtitles don’t fix that. But they take some pressure off.
My brain doesn’t have to work as hard to decode speech, so it can actually spend that energy on _understanding_ you.
So for a lot of us, subtitles aren’t a vibe.
They’re access.
For TV, movies, TikToks, and real conversations — even in our own language.
It really just bums me out that we have the resources to fix our society, stop our reliance on fossil fuels, guarantee healthcare, house the homeless, and feed every person in the country, but doing so would be a bad time for like, 8 men, so we can’t do it.
Hey @Walmart this is horrific behavior and I now feel violated and unsafe at the idea of shopping in any of your locations again. This must be immediately addressed.
@voidedintern Only time we made packaging not suited for the intended use was if a big client threatened to pull if we kept warning them about the impracticality. We were told "just make it" bc the contract was big & client wanted "cool" over functional. We documented all test fails though.
@voidedintern I worked in corrugated packaging & it pains me how all of this could have been avoided if he actually had professionals TEST THE DESIGN. There's a reason other on shelf display boxes don't fall over. It's because professionals in the industry know wtf they are doing & DO TESTS.