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  • This may be amusing in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ where the Queen of Hearts yells, ‘Off with their heads!’ at annoying subjects … and announces a sentence before a verdict,” Howell said, “but this cannot be the reality we are living under.”

    Seems to be pretty close. As an outsider the world seems to be seeing trump trample the constitution by going around the 3 equal branches provision and attacking government departments directly.

    He seems to be using DOGE to simply cripple any Congress approved spending he disagrees with. And the other branchs really do not seem willing or able to limit his power in time.

    This really looks more like a lead up to civil war/hostile take over then politics as usual.



  • If we are unbiased and ignore OPs political claims. (Both/all sides use aid for this when they can).

    And the actual statements of skill do not contradict each other. Cuba will be using very different equipmentment and procedures compared to the MX. Just like most poorer nations. A very very skilled doctor in one nation will usually.ly take time to fit into the system and requirements of another. Adding the limited supply from Western medical tech to Cuba due to political restrictions. Well of course things are different. MX for all its immigration hate has a healthy trade with the US.

    Anyone who thinks Western doctors have nothing to learn when going to Africa etc. Is rather unrealistic.


  • All amounts to the same thing.

    Your just a guy eh is in a position to choose 1 or 5. And did not. So from that point. Yes you chose to allow 4 people to die. The death of those people is on your hands when you chose to do nothing.

    You seem desperate not to make the choice but the responsibility for that lack of choice still lies with you.

    Just as you were in a position to choose trump or Harris. So trump is as much your fault for failing to vote a viable alternative. As if you had chosen to vote him. Just because do not like either option dose not forgive you the effect of not choosing.


  • You really seem to be failing to understand. And simple typos are easy to read around. I’m visually impaired so have little patience for that excuse.

    As you said its a thought experiment. As you say you only have two options. Rejecting responsibility is the same as leaving the lever in the kill 5 position.

    Pull or don’t pull. If you pull 1 person dies. If you don’t 5 die. There is no don’t kill.

    Yes the person tieing them to the track murdered them. But just like not voting you don’t get to rewind time amd select better candidates. As the guy in the signal box. Your duty iss to direct the train. Just as your duty is to vote. Not wanting people to have been tied to the track is obviose but not an answer. Unless you are the one willing to invent a time machine. Your duty is still to direct the train.

    Not voting leaves you with trump. Because you live in a fptp nation where 3rd parties just reduce the opposing vote.

    Just like not pulling the lever means 5 folks died. You still had the task to direct the train. Refusing to pull the lever still leave you responsible for 5 rather then one dying.

    Refusing to take responsibility dose not forgive you for failing to select the lesser evil. You are still directly responsible for choosing the greater evil by failing to pull the lever.

    Rejecting responsibility and blaming others is not an option provided. Because the thought experiment recognises you live in a system where you have to make choices based on facts not your hopes and wishes. You live in a world where if you don’t have the option to stop the train. Or prevent the arsehole tying people to the tracks. You still have responsibilities. I refuse to play still has an effect on the world you live in. Like it or not.




  • You are still the one making the choice.

    Hence why the trolly problem is equivalent to a political vote. Not voting has the same effect as not making a choice between one or 5.

    If you are there before they get tied to the track you do more. But that is not the situation you are in on election day.

    On election day its to late to change candidates. Just as its to late to try and untie the victims. If you do not have correct of the breaks or the ability to stop the trolly on time.

    Your only option is to choose or not to choose the lesser of 2 evils.

    Failing to choose is no less evil then choosing the worst.








  • Yeah thanks for the effort. You would be stunned at how many web sites make no effort.

    Many modern web sites often fail miserably, especially scripted ones. But mostly because companies just don’t care. As you say it is hard work. So when companies outsource that hard work is rarely if ever asked for up front. And the cost to modify existing site is hugew…

    But remember if we are talking software. Again all the pro measures are based on 0 or 100% able. So again leave all disabled depending on solutions that slow down workload.

    All the laws on the West only require reasonable accomadations. And being less productive is never considered reasonable. Or in anyway a hope for a successful career.

    So with so much software moving to Web apps. Those AA standards rarely help beyond making the page usable. If your career depends on performance as almost all do. Most disabled are not able to efficiently use them.


  • @HumanPenguin@feddit.uktoOpen Source@lemmy.mlUI Design?
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    Honestly best approach is to find some small projects you feel need help. Introduce yourself to the development team and offer time and suggestions. Eventually one will say yes.

    But as a visually impaired developer I’ll give you a heads up. Most pro non foss ui is freaking awfull for accessibility. The choices made over the last 20 year are just bad. OS is far from perfect. But I find the interfaces generally work way better with enlarged text then anything using modern UI ideals.

    So please if you get involved. Remember accessibility is more complex the let voice assist work. Most blind folks have some vision. And rellying on the Systems accessibility options is not enough for us to be able to use software in a competitive way.

    OS software using the UIs designers seem to dislike. Is generally more customisable for font sizes and colour options accross different parts of the system. In ways able folks would just never consider. This allows us to actually layout software so we only need magnifiers or text readers for things we individually rarely need to read. But can increase the stuff we do in ways that allow us to work at competitive speeds.

    Modern UI design is pecomming less accessible as the software becomes much more complex but developers of ui tools seem to see disability as a 0 or 100% slowing disabled users with some ability down to the point they are unemployable.

    Please please try to avoid moving the OS stuff we can use that way as well.