[-] CeruleanRuin 27 points 1 week ago

The point about accomodation is the key here.

If being born without functioning legs isn't actually an impediment or challenge because society makes allowances for people without legs, then it's no longer a handicap!

If a blind person has options beyond merely having their sight "restored" to that of the baseline "normal", then they have options that might open up paths that regularly sighted people don't have, in which case their unique trait of being blind becomes an asset.

There's the secret to the utopia Star Trek positsv not that we try to "cute" everyone born different, but that we instead create opportunities for them to thrive as they are. In the future of Star Trek, the word "disability" is probably alien to them. Rather, they would describe someone in our time with such challenges as "disenfranchised" because we don't offer them opportunities.

[-] CeruleanRuin 28 points 2 months ago

Gandalf never forgave him for knocking that shit down the well.

[-] CeruleanRuin 26 points 3 months ago

No better way to signal stability and confidence than shuffling your deck so close to the big game.

[-] CeruleanRuin 26 points 8 months ago

St. Patrick's Day in America has always been more of a celebration of Irish-American immigrant culture than it is of Ireland itself.

[-] CeruleanRuin 25 points 1 year ago

So a while back, the smoke alarm in the kid's room directly below mine started going off for no apparent reason at 3 AM. Got up, went downstairs to silence it, checked everything in the house, smelled for smoke, looked at all the outlets, etc. Dug through drawers to find a new 9V battery and figured it was either a battery issue or a literal bug set it off. Never really got back to restful sleep after that, and the next day I kept worrying I had missed something and a shorted wire was quietly smoldering away in the wall somewhere.

Next night, around the same time, I was again jolted out of sleep by a loud beep, but by the time I had gotten downstairs, there was no alarm going off, just my ears ringing. Asked everyone else if they heard an alarm, they said no. I must've hallucinated it, but I was also experiencing the most intense tinitus I have ever had. I don't usually get tinitus at all, but my ears were ringing so loudly I couldn't get back to sleep for a half hour afterwards.

I believe I had a major psychosomatic event, which manifested tinitus. It's either that or the timing of the random tinitus that woke me up was a bizarre coincidence.

[-] CeruleanRuin 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As someone with a bladder over 40 yrs old now (ugh), I think intermissions ought to be mandatory in anything over 2.5 hrs.

If studios want cinema to survive (and at this point I'm not sure they do), they need to stop trying to cater exclusively to the 29-35 yr-old demo.

My parents used to go to movies often. Now they find it a daunting chore because of the online reserved seating. So they just don't go anymore. I don't imagine they're alone in that.

[-] CeruleanRuin 27 points 1 year ago

Nobody's concerned with what their own children are wearing. They're concerned that they might be exposed to abdomen skin (the horror!) because of what someone else's child is wearing.

[-] CeruleanRuin 27 points 1 year ago

He's clearly just pandering to his constituents, who are apparently literal children.

[-] CeruleanRuin 26 points 1 year ago

That's the real reason the crackheads left.

[-] CeruleanRuin 27 points 1 year ago

This is a really great illustration of how mere extrapolation can lead you to shitty conclusions.

[-] CeruleanRuin 27 points 1 year ago

Yep. This particular configuration only works because of Sam's devotion to Frodo.

[-] CeruleanRuin 26 points 1 year ago

Someone needs to bring signs that say GROOMERS AGAINST EDUCATION

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