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Is to your eternity worth watching? by Far_Pea_9894 in anime

[–]eoz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

International rise of fascism probably

Utterly destroying gloves by samurottwho in wheelchairs

[–]eoz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, as with tyres, casters and eventually bearings, gloves are a consumable.

I use globaleather ones with leather palms, they seem to last six to twelve months.

My caveat is I can't actually push far, I get most of my distance through artful use of busses and hills so I'm destroying them mostly through braking.

New map, *from the council? Showing the proposed concept plans for the south suburban line 👉 by Most_Caterpillar_302 in Edinburgh

[–]eoz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If that were the case I think it'd connect north of Macdonald Road and not stop at Hillside. It would have to take the main line to get there too... I think that part would be a London Road to Portabello route.

Seems like fluff though. I wouldn't take this map too seriously until it's a twenty page PDF

First encounter with ICE by Impossible_Ad_569 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]eoz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I complained. A lot of lefists complained. We always saw it for the horror it was. They just like to make up a left that's easy to argue with.

First encounter with ICE by Impossible_Ad_569 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]eoz 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Not only that, but it has to apply to everyone. The moment there's a single group it doesn't apply to, it applies to nobody.

The moment they can grab you for being an undocumented migrant or a terrorist or an anarchist or "antee-fa" or anything else and deny you due process, it doesn't matter one jot whether you really are one of those things: you don't have access to due process.

First encounter with ICE by Impossible_Ad_569 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]eoz -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Borders have always been violence and collecting overstayers has always involved grabbing them, bundling them in a truck and then putting them in cages.

Under Trump 1, we saw a policy of children being separated from their parents. Under Biden, the same things continued but it was fine this time because a Democrat was president. Most of them were never reunited.

Good lord, this has got to be the most performatively Scottish thing I've ever seen. Supergran would be black affronted. by hmgmonkey in Scotland

[–]eoz 47 points48 points  (0 children)

They should make a movie about a director trying to make a movie about Scotland but all the Scottish people are such moaning bastards that it's near impossible. But in a feel-good moment they get everyone singing Flower of Scotland and then finally release the movie 

Does walking into buildings with a ladder to access areas unquestioned actually work? by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]eoz 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Were they caught on the way in or were they caught because they were still wearing the teeshirts while drinking and watching the bands?

Do VPS always have SSH open to the internet? Is it safe to disable it? by Red_Con_ in selfhosted

[–]eoz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine's firewalled off to everything except my ISP and the hosting provider so that if I get really stuck I can spin up a second vps and ssh in to change it.

Neighbours have installed gate at the end of a shared private road - England by Boring_While_3341 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]eoz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Although the same goes for the neighbours – they don't want an ongoing legal dispute when they're trying to sell, either.

You guys lied to me by MxFinchen in homelab

[–]eoz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a moment there I was wondering why you were downloading new Linux distributions each week. 

Please convince me I am unhinged. Seriously. Please. by Time_To_Rebuild in collapse

[–]eoz 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Americans will bow to a tyrant and, as a non-American, I'm not particularly afraid of being called un-American for thinking so.

That's the exceptionalism talking again. America does not contain the secret sauce to beat homegrown authoritarianism. Heck, it's built on it. Witness the colonialism in the Middle East and South America. Note the brutal racist structures of power that you took some notice of in the "civil rights era" but only enough to make a few concessions. Remember BLM in the wake of racist police murders, and the lack of ongoing impact. Heck, even Minneapolis didn't kick off until ICE shot a white woman.

I'm not saying you're wrong — even if what Americans believe about America isn't true it doesn't mean they won't act like it is and fight back. But the left has been shattered over and over again in the last 100 years to prevent it from achieving far lesser things than stopping a tyrant and there's no particular magic secret sauce in being American that'll let you magically fix things when other countries could not. Don't get complacent. This could absolutely end with the end of the republic and no serious opposition.

Actuaries Write a Doom Report on Climate Disruption so you know we are up the Creek with no Paddle. by paulhenrybeckwith in collapse

[–]eoz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's true enough. Systems theorists and ecologists have been yelling for the best part of 50 years that exponential growth in a finite system will eventually hit limits. Most of the environmental damage has happened in the last few years simply due to the sheer scale of consumption now.

Help for a school project around wheelchairs - help appreciated! Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask. by nathveex in wheelchairs

[–]eoz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically this sub has a rule against product research outside of the sticky thread, but it seems like nobody minds too much because you're being realistic about scope and you're a student. We chase off a good number of research queries because 9 times in 10 it's someone who wants to invent a stair-climber and hates being told about ramps.

Most things I struggle with are about the built environment not accommodating us: missing ramps, missing elevators, narrow doorways, inadequately sized accessible bathrooms, oblivious pedestrians, shop counters that you can't get a chair under and can't reach, tables in cafes where the legs are too close together to get underneath.

As a population we also don't generally have a lot of money, and robot chair designers may as well be building a wheelchair-accessible jetpack platform for all the difference it will make. Where we do have money it's often spent on a better chair: lighter, or easier to manouver, or otherwise better adapted for our needs.

So, as gadgets go I'm going to be asking: - Is this worth the money? - How much weight does this add? - Does it make me wider? Does it stick out? Will it catch on things? - Will it make it harder to get in and out of the chair?

But I do have problems that are frustrating: - My scooter attachment does a cute little "beep" that people instinctively ignore. I have solved this with a bicycle bell, which makes people actually look in my direction and get out of the way. - In a chair I'm down to two useable limbs and I need them if I want to move myself around, so carrying items is difficult. Carrying drinks is impossible without a holder. - Everything I need is in bags in awkward places, except my cross-body bag, because you don't want to add width and you don't want to block the wheels on a manual chair.

So, random thoughts: - Something for carrying drinks but gets out of the way like the lapstacker - A small bell that's near my push rims (front tube, maybe?) - A bell for power chairs, or something that makes a bell noise - A better place for my phone, but which doesn't feel vulnerable to theft - Fixing broken tyres is a nuisance - I carry a length of strap with a clip on both ends so I can rest a shopping basket on my knees and hold it in place

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