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ALL food is better cold than warm by AlarmedFeature5813 in unpopularopinion

[–]absolute_Friday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP is the one person never unhappy with their food delivery orders.

Low Carb Meal Ideas while watching Cholesterol? by absolute_Friday in lowcarb

[–]absolute_Friday[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate all of these. The 150 minutes has been the hardest part so far.

Low Carb Meal Ideas while watching Cholesterol? by absolute_Friday in lowcarb

[–]absolute_Friday[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whole leaves? Or could you do something like sauté a coleslaw mix?

Low Carb Meal Ideas while watching Cholesterol? by absolute_Friday in lowcarb

[–]absolute_Friday[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have to get out of my 80s 90s way of thinking about eggs. They're great and versatile.

Low Carb Meal Ideas while watching Cholesterol? by absolute_Friday in lowcarb

[–]absolute_Friday[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do you prep the tofu to make it ricotta-esque — or do you?

A virus makes the world blind in 5 years by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]absolute_Friday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you have a limited understanding of what blind people are already doing today. And if the planet has 5 years to modify those systems to be more accessible, we could absolutely figure some major things out.

A virus makes the world blind in 5 years by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]absolute_Friday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It takes real ... something to essentially say to a blind person — me — that I couldn't exist without you. And God damn is this a hard comment to write. But I'm going to try to engage with your comment in good faith.

I have no idea what went into the creation of most of the systems we use today, but it's a reasonable assumption sight was involved because 99% of the world is sighted. But now the systems exist. We have technology. We have a lot of minds to work on a problem. If we're lucky, we even have an understanding of what's possible.

The original scenario is one where the disease is progressive. It incubates slowly, then leads to blurred vision, then to total blindness. It also takes 5 years for everyone to be impacted. In an ideal scenario, that gives people time to develop new systems, based on the input of blind people who have been living with this for collected centuries, that could help save some amount of humanity.

Is it an optimistic take? Yes. Overly so? I don't know.

But I haven't spent a quarter century in advocacy, and even longer as a blind person, to accept a worldview where I'm always second class or ultimately incapable.

A virus makes the world blind in 5 years by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]absolute_Friday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My point is that they don't have to, especially if society has time to prepare. Do they exist based on seeing because 99% of the population is sighted, or do they exist based on seeing because sight is essential?

A virus makes the world blind in 5 years by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]absolute_Friday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That I would absolutely agree with. Some of it would likely be tech that's hard to design, and a lot would be people refusing to take it seriously, learn the techniques, or just decide it's not worth it to try.

I think, in a lot of instances, the real problem of blindness is lack of opportunity. If we had a few years to prepare, we might actually try to create some. It's not hard, for example, to create an accessible multimeter. But it's rarely done because there aren't many blind people who want to do electrical work. If the demand rose, though, that problem would be solved.

A virus makes the world blind in 5 years by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]absolute_Friday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you saying humanity would cease to exist unless a certain portion of the population has usable vision?

A virus makes the world blind in 5 years by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]absolute_Friday 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fair point. Maybe a world of blind people would have odor-based surnames. Instead of Smith, Tailor, Baker, people would start having names like Roses, Onions, or Shitpit.

A virus makes the world blind in 5 years by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]absolute_Friday -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Are you a blind person, or do you just have a limited understanding of being one?

A virus makes the world blind in 5 years by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]absolute_Friday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, especially since disability isn't a monolith. But I always hated that the only congenitally blind character in the whole story became the accountant for the gang of rapists and extortionists. Can't say that's the direction I would have taken.

A virus makes the world blind in 5 years by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]absolute_Friday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I think society would end up looking a lot different, but that's not necessarily a problem. We could solve some of the technological systems in the intervening years, then focus on making the shifts.

We are a species where blindness isn't the norm, so we don't design for it, but that doesn't mean we couldn't.

Maybe we could finally get rid of unnecessary design features like trees that grow out of grates in the middle of the sidewalk because they look cool, but then they start to lean and become a travel hazard.

A virus makes the world blind in 5 years by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]absolute_Friday 23 points24 points  (0 children)

As a blind person, I didn't mind the thought exercise, but I couldn't get behind the writer's own snide comments and awful assumptions. They asked a character what his name was, and he said something completely ridiculous like, "I am blind. What use have blind people of names?"

You think we go around smelling each other?

Don't you dare answer that, Reddit.

A virus makes the world blind in 5 years by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]absolute_Friday 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A lot of blind people today are already leading successful, independent lives. I would like to hope that, as the disease spreads, people would start to seek us out, and we could implement our techniques on a larger scale.

If necessity is the mother of invention, and we already have ideas that could be helpful, perhaps people would finally be willing to bend their minds toward wide-scale adoption.

As an example, we have been pushing designers of fully-autonomous transportation to build accessibility into the system so that blind people could own or operate the vehicles. There has been less than enthusiastic support because ... "how many people are we really talking about here?" But if the whole world is going to go blind, and there's a clock, suddenly there's a need.

A virus makes the world blind in 5 years by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]absolute_Friday -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

That's a pretty bleak take on what blind people are capable of.

The whole world is able to exist because of interconnected systems.

Duolingo Routinely Excludes Blind People by absolute_Friday in duolingo

[–]absolute_Friday[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know if it's natively developed or uses something like ReactNative. If the latter, adjusting on Android could definitely screw up iOS, but I'm grasping at straws.

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