How do you wipe your butt?!?!
Very few blind people have no vision at all, and many, including myself, have sufficient vision to see what’s on the TP. Otherwise, the friction as you wipe is a decent indicator, and if you’re not sure you can just make a few more passes.
I’d never heard that! So you might be able to see it from very close, or only in peripheral vision or something? That’s great.
Smell test
Taste test is actually more accurate /j
The same way they pick up their dogs poop ┐( ˘_˘)┌
This question, asked by Jim Jefferies in his bit about guide dogs, ruined my wiping experience. When I was younger, my ass smaller and and my shits smoother, it was enough to give a single wipe and go on with my day. Then Jefferies asked the question of how blind people see the poop on the paper, and the next time I had to look at the paper and do a control wipe to see that it’s clean. But now that I’m fatter and my shits messier, I have to do like six wipes to get a clean one. Curse you Jim Jefferies.
The same way they pick up dog poop. They have a theme or compulsion.
It would be great if my existence and the existence of my friends and family weren’t considered “political.”
But here we are. Sorry that our not going quietly into the camps inconveniences you.
Did you miss that OP mentioned they’re blind?
Here is that image you posted, but with manually-written alt text added.
(I don’t usually do this when adding alt tags but in this case I also added the same text as a title/tooltip to make it also easy to read for users without a screen reader. Apologies to screen reader users that this probably causes you to hear the description twice.)
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that being blind is much worse than any of that extremely common stuff you want to feel oppressed about
Nobody is sending anyone to camps bro.
Might help if your talking points were delusional conspiracy nonsense.
The Trump administration literally sold merch at the front gate of one such camp in Florida. Old prisons are being reopened and new ones are being built to hold all the new ICE detainees, and they throw them all together in a cell with deportation papers in the middle of the room hoping they’ll give up and sign to be willingly deported. ICE now has massive deportation quotas that they’re being pushed to meet.
The above doesn’t even scrape the iceberg of everything that’s been happening. Your confident ignorance betrays your stupidity.
the issue is that ‘political’ people inject their politics into everything, and want to put every comment and commentator into the prejudged boxes they regard as right and wrong.
they don’t care about what anyone says. just about passing judgement and feeling superior.
put every comment and commentator into the prejudged boxes they regard as right and wrong.
I hate that this is commonly known as “politics”. To me, this is a sports event. I still like to think that politics is about discourse, compromise, coalitions etc.
that’s cool, but the vast majority of people don’t. for them it’s about whether you are on their team, and how pure your loyalty to their team is. discussion and discourse are violations of that purity.
It’s not even always that I disagree with what people on here say, I’ve been a 3rd party/independent voter most of my adult life, hardly a Trump fan, but if I post about where to find good fajitas in Dallas I don’t want to hear a manifesto. A fanatic is someone who won’t change their mind and won’t change the subject, and a lot of lemmings fit that bill as evidenced by this very thread.
**American politics
This is the important part. I enjoy reading political news and discussions. But in the country I live in, not American politics which forced into each conversation.
My favourite part of Lemmybis being able to block communities and users, don’t live in America so it’s not my problem you got a tangerine hitler for a president, we got our own problems.
Yes, politics is here, because Spez pushed a lot of it out, due to Elongated Muskrat.
Were you born sighted? Or did you go blind over time?
I was born blind.
I’m sorry to hear that. I had a friend in college born without eyes. I talked a lot with him about concepts like shapes and colors. He was able to tell how much battery the electric carts on campus had by the sound of the motor, it’s quite interesting. I guess you might have an easier time than someone that lost their vision. I now have a friend that went blind after a car accident, he gets a lot of help from neighbors. He try’s very hard to do things himself, but often needs help. I hope you have a good support network for the things you need in life.
My god… How do blind people pick up their dogs poop?
Dogs do poop in the blind person’s hand.
That is incorrect. Certainly at least not a bare hand. I’ve heard of people catching it midair with a bagged hand but that was when the dog was having an accident IIRC.
Sorry. I forgot add “/s” at the end. Thanks for the clarify.
This is what happens when you browse “All” on lots of platforms.
Gotta stick to your niches. And sadly, it’ll come up in comment sections too sometimes, because power is everywhere.
lemmy is too small to have active niche communites. the only active communities are the general ones.
It’s an unfortunate dilemma. To sustain an active niche you need a huge user base like Reddit. But if you have a huge user base costs start piling up and the temptation to lessen the experience to pay the bills (or appease shareholders) grows.
The issue with the fediverse is that its members are highly self-selecting. If you’re an average Joe looking to join an online community, it’s going to be Reddit, not Lemmy, Twitter, not Mastodon, or Facebook, not whatever the fedi equivalent is. So the likelihood of amassing enough average Joes who just want to look at funny pictures of orangutans or talk about video games with anyone regardless where they fall on the political spectrum is small.
And I always thought that was the point of these little niches. Alice the gun nut likes vintage 80s computers, and Bob who wants to seize the means of production also likes vintage 80s computers, so Alice and Bob have fun together talking about vintage 80s computers despite their differences. The problems arise when Alice goes into the vintage 80s computers community and tries to make everything about guns.
Do you have a stable work? And what do you do
I admin an instructional data center at a community college.
Whoa, that’s mind-blowing. I always wondered what kind of jobs there would be for me if I suddenly lost my vision.
I just want to say that I’m sorry for the current status of the web; I’ve worked on making some apps accessible to blind people and I bet most of them are horrible to use for a person with visual impairments.
It can be hard. I have yet to see an elegant way to navigate threaded chains of comments. It’s like “UltimateGamer386 <tab> <tab> <tab> <tab> <tab> [actual content]”. On Reddit, at least Old Reddit, the upvote and downvote controles were the only buttons and were located immediately before the actual comment, so you could go from button to button, then press down arrow to read the comment.
I have enough vision to navigate to some degree, at least on a desktop. For laptop or phone it has to be a screen reader. I really should be reading braille more.
I was just thinking the other day that a dedicated semantic tag for user replies like <comment> or <reply> or <post> would be nice, and they could be nested.
I wonder if semantic tags like <article>, with controls embedded in <nav> or similar tags, could work anyway.
- Bidet.
- Two dogs, taking turns. One poops, the other eats it. And then licks your face.
Filters
Yeah once politics aren’t killing everyone slowly and ruining life in general for the public then it’ll be better
I get the desire but this is so over the moral boundaries its fucking crazy so your gonna just have to see it through
Maybe help make it so its not needed but bitching and moaning about that is just making it MORE necessary
So yeah. Fuck your post but heres to hoping you change your mind 👍
Trump is sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Biden was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Obama was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Dubya was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Clinton was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Bush 1 was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Reagan was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.
Forgive me if I’m a little numb to it all.
Maybe a lesson here that your life is not in a way that it should be based on the reality outside and your ignorance is the product of that and not the solution
I know you want to live fat and happy so does the next generation and the slaves in Guatemala that’ll likely die in some water wars or some other byproduct of this insanity.
Its just not in the cards for people right now. You can always change your moral definitions but there will always be a jealousy of those that are stronger then that.
I see your not entirely wrong, (tho some of them obviously weren’t as responsible and/or more help then hurt outside of irresponsible but also nigh unavoidable (Considering the actual power structure in the US) military/industrial complex military “strategies”. (👀 Looking mostly at Clinton/Obama there) But being better then some isn’t enough and truly never will be. And it doesn’t make the defeatist “Well its not MY job” idea less bullshit. You clearly want it to change. Your just to apathetic to contribute meaningfully for whatever “reason”
Unless your literally incapable of helping for some reason (say mentally ill or debilitated) or near 100% maxed out personally and so stability is now a NEED not a want, you could be doing more and giving up is understandable at best but best be quiet about it as as to not encourage other members of the species to do the same out of groupthink or some misguided group justifications like it
Pay attention, talk about it, be uncomfortable, make others do the same, otherwise someone else is taking your share 👍 and I think that’s bullshit cause you seem smart enough to know better then that
lol Americans
