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like a great example of this is needing a wheelchair. so what if your legs don't work? I'm a programmer; almost all of my job (if I had one) is done sitting down.

the reason why needing a wheelchair (or the reasons for needing, whatever) is a disability is because society constantly deems this accommodation too burdensome and instead just forces wheelchair users to suffer in rude af ways.

like, yeah, there's no question that a wheelchair is something that some people need because of a physical condition. but, for example, so are glasses, and most people who need glasses but can see okay with them don't even consider themselves disabled as a result. people who can't move without a wheelchair often move perfectly fine with one, but we don't give them the space or ramps or anything they need to successfully exist in spaces with their wheelchairs.

so, the point here is that while the underlying conditions that lead to disability are real and shouldn't be ignored, largely, the reason why we consider things to be disabilities is more focused on not wanting to deal with the accommodations, rather than the reasons

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its so baffling sometimes when im just hangin out on mastodon and someone who made an account 2 years ago and never used it (but i followed them in case they do) pops in for a second just to say "too bad this place never took off" and leaves

no context 

But... was these conclusions accurate?

KDE lets me change the TV brightness now! Yo! Amazing!

:hahe: It makes me happy when you are hurt! ha he!

labor is not being automated 

@thufie pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.

labor is not being automated 

This isn't universal, this is just a pattern I've noticed.

I think a lot of people think they are being replaced by a machine. Whether it is creative workers or everyday laborers, in more and more of their tasks. I would like to offer an alternative explanation, as technology is not magic, and often comes with a huge maintenance burden.

Modern labor issues ought to highlight how much corporations want to replace a mass of moderately-trained employees with an extremely specialized and overextended set of maintenance specialists. It's not "AI" it isn't "IoT", it's not "self-service", it is small traveling crews of IT maintenance people. Sometimes in combination with outsourced menial IT tasks instead of purely mechanical compute. Labor is not being automated, it is being replaced with tech workers who are at once being stretched thin and also exploiting everyone around them in shittier system maintenance roles. This is attractive to corporations because they can subcontract the tech work and use them as pawns in disputes with labor, later throwing the sub-contractor under the bus if the ploy doesn't work without losing much of anything. This can be a very incremental process, with only very small parts of work becoming pure IT maintenance at a time.

uspol , silly subtoot 

Hey you're stupid! Go vote for Jill Stein!

(and unlike you I am gonna use a cw for uspol and spare the rest of the world our bullshit)

What if Mozilla asked me to draw their new Firefox logo

we don't call people who leave social media websites refugees, just as a reminder, that's not what being a refugee is. deleting an account on a social media website is not what being a refugee is. it's not cute or funny.

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getting the boys at the auto shop to add raised cock vein decals to my pickup truck so that when people see it they know it's erect and throbbing and not limp and pitiful. this is important to me and my family

so, due to change in icelandic law regarding unemployment benefits, our household is officially without income. this has made us very angry, and it was widely regarded it as a bad move.

but we have bills to pay and are, frankly,
fucked at the moment. if you'd like to help in the long term, please hire me, i have a decade of tech support experience in wildly different fields and i am Very Good At What I Do. please get in touch in DMs if you have concrete leads, or know a guy who knows a guy.

however, right now, i need short-term help, so here i am, rattling the collections tin.

thanks. love you.

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Also have another #MutualAidRequest for Darieon, a COVID orphan who I've been materially supporting for several years. He's trying to get $30 so his little brother DJ can make it to his basketball game on Tuesday, can anyone help out?

Cashapp $Darieon2
Venmo @/darieon-Williams
Paypal paypal.com/paypalme/DarieonW

@mutualaid

Why are so many weather control conspiracy theorists German?

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