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As proof that adequate descriptions of even the most complex images are fully possible (which is not the same thing as being easy or feasible for everyone), I will use the very image that was used to argue image descriptions are useless.

Try reading the image description of the attached image. Sighted people can compare it to the original image. Does the description give you an idea of what the image is about? Can you understand the gist of it? For sighted people, is the description comparable to an understanding most sighted people would have at a first glance?

If the answers to these questions is "yes," then it's a useful image description that proves that even complicated and inscrutable images can be described, if only to convey the complicated nature of the image. And I promise you, very few if any sighted people can take in, completely understand, or even read an image like this in its entirety at most display settings.

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Why the cancellation of the new NICE guidelines matters, MECFS 

To people outside the #MECFS community who might not know why this matters... The old guidelines included so-called treatments (GET - Graded Exercise Therapy & CBT) that have been proved, at the least, to do nothing, but at the worst, have caused serious damage to a lot of patients with ME. The new guidelines acknowledged & removed them.

By not publishing the new guidelines, doctors etc, can continue to push these damaging treatments. The DWP can continue to push patients to undertake these treatments and deny anyone who refuses, their benefits. And research into ME continues to be stymied, by both stopping people researching the physical causes of ME, and stopping investment in research.

We thought we were finally seeing the end of the BPS (biopsychosocial) model that GET & CBT are based on. Instead, they are continuing to maintain their control over people with ME.

This will also impact on people with #LongCovid, which has a lot of similarities to ME, and who the BPS lot, are now going after.

@MECFS @ChronicIllness

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me, not climbing anything
youtube: "Falling physics that Every Climber Needs to know"

ok yes lets watch this at 3:30 this is very important

fucking hell I can up the video settings to best with 20 chunks render distance and still be at 150+ fps except close to my tree farm lol

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yay random replyguy from kolektiva being against image captioning

ugh the other pakig is coming between 14:00 and 18:00 the waiting aaa

survival, crafting, open-world, early-access

the four horsemen of the apocalypse

in a pinch, using the Windows ssd in a USB enclosure, with my thinkpad, actually worked surprisingly well, actually got some schematic work done today

half the parts are arriving in the morning.. other half in the (late) afternoon..

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