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Anon dates blind girl (sh.itjust.works)

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(A 4Chan "green-text", with an image of giga-chad doing a thumbs-up)

Dating a blind girl

All of her friends are blind

Love that she holds my arm when we're out

Love that she eventually got used to my apartment and can now navigate around by herself

Love that her guide dog is super friendly and is always on the job to help her.

Love that her family sees me as a great person because her being blind doesn't bother me

Love that she doesn't use the internet because it's too much hassle

Love that she requests I read new books for her in my voice and record them so she has her own boyfriend audiobook library.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Washington State has a digital braille library if anyone out there knows someone like Anon's GF.

https://www.sos.wa.gov/washington-talking-book-braille-library

It's available to anyone

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Washington State has a digital braille library

And since it’s a blue state, this library is unlikely to be viciously defunded or be legally/legislatively attacked by regressives.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This maxes out the wholesome meter god damn.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Look at how good of a person i pretend to be.

Jasss so wholesome

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How come they're pretending, in your opinion?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

not that I necessarily agree, but probably because they made a post to "show off" instead of just enjoying it themselves. like, why share unless you want to get acknowledgement?

that's at least where I think they may be coming from

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Sometimes when you're happy you just want to share why you're happy

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

waiting for the awful twist before i read the community name

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

>love she is so dependent on me

>love I can just take her into the woods and she can't say no, because of the implication

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Transcpibtion is usually done as ![transcribtion goes here](url to image goes here)

[–] sjmarf 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm aware of this - unfortunately, Lemmy doesn't allow transcription of the post image in this way, as it isn't part of the post body markdown. In Lemmy 0.19.4 or 0.19.5 (I'm not sure which) they added an actual alt_text field to posts for this (see here). Once sh.itjust.works updates to that version, I'll start using that field :D

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is that shit doesn't just work.

[–] CaptainEffort 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Someone call in Todd Howard!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPN0qhSyWy8

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

This is so cute, anon is adorable

[+] [email protected] -22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"doesn't use the internet" - thats a lie, blind people can use the internet with all these tts programs, a lot of which are simple to configure and use

[–] sjmarf 55 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It says "doesn't use the internet", not "can't use the internet". Whilst the internet has become more accessible over time through the use of screen readers etc, accessibility is unfortunately not considered a priority for many apps and websites. It's trickier to navigate the web as a blind person because websites are primarily designed to be looked at, not heard. It's not unreasonable that she might just not want to use it, even though she could learn to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Have you ever seen those wheelchair ramps to nowhere and wondered why they exist? The answer is that they're the result of the Americans with Disabilities Act and lawsuits with consent decrees forcing governments to install them. (There really ought to be some more lawsuits and consent decrees forcing them to build the sidewalks connecting the ramps as well, but never mind that for now.)

Similarly, I look forward to the day when websites are finally held accountable for their failure to abide by the ADA and required to provide proper accessibility.

[–] brbposting 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What’d the parent comment say?

Did it break rules?

[–] sjmarf 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I didn’t remove it; the instance admins (the modlog says “automod”) did. They also got permanently banned from sh.itjust.works, apparently. I personally don’t think it was that bad - it sounds more like misunderstanding or ignorance than intent to cause offense. You’re welcome to look at the modlog to see what it said

[–] Scubus 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

? It's still up for me on boost

[–] sjmarf 4 points 5 months ago

Maybe Boost doesn't display that it's been removed? When a comment is removed, Lemmy stills sends the content of the comment to the frontend - it's up to your client to not display the content. The comment is definitely gone on the website frontend.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can check the modlog. The reason given is "automod," which seems quite bizarre to me, especially given that there are no objectionable keywords in the comment, and that it was removed 2 hours after it was made.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Blind" is ableist language, the preferred term is unsighted

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you use it as a noun to describe such a person, sure, but as an adjective it's perfectly acceptable and much more natural.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm just joking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I hoped as much.

[–] tostiman 2 points 5 months ago

This:

"doesn't use the internet" - thats a lie, blind people can use the internet with all these tts programs, a lot of which are simple to configure and use

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

whilst

Ew.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In theory, yes. In practice, most websites continue to be hostile for differently abled people, with the vast majority of websites continuing to have poor accessibility features. There might be a few things worth still going to the internet for, but not that many. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's a matter of motivation. It's not like the surface web is very worthwhile... Imagine if you were introduced to the web today. Twitter is on fire, Reddit is nonsense karma bots, common searches return unhelpful SEO garbage, YouTube has 10 ads to watch a 10 minute video... Why would you bother?

Doesn't mean there's not much worthwhile, it's just buried. They have braille readers, you can learn to use a screen reader at crazy speeds, and an endless amounts of sites use a consistent layout that a screen reader could easily handle, let alone specialty devices

It's just one more layer of bullshit that turns people away

[–] LaserTurboShark69 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why is this comment removed? I thought Lemmy was supposed to be better about this sort of thing

[–] sjmarf 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The modlog says it was the sh.itjust.works automod. The comment content didn't contain any keywords that could have tripped it, so I'm not sure why it would have been set off. Maybe the automod is set to permanently ban recently created accounts that have a significant number of downvotes.

[–] sjmarf 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Definitely doesn't deserve a permanent ban imo, I don't think they were trying to cause offence.

@[email protected]

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong 3 points 4 months ago

Just restored the comment and unbanned the user.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because a lot of the mods are power tripping dipshits. Usually they're the people who hated the mods over at reddit and now that they have power they run places how they want, which is usually with an authoritarian fist.

[–] idegenszavak 1 points 4 months ago

It's the circle of life