It’s Dutch uwu speak, but the real version would not be much better: “Oeps! De trein is stuk. Wij zijn heel hard aan het werk om dit te maken. Misschien kan je beter fietsen.”

(Oops! The train is broken. We’re working very hard to repair it. Maybe you’d be better off biking.)

Accessibility is sorely needed everywhere but it’s pretty wild that they’re tackling it online before tackling it in the real world.

One of my close friends here in NL can’t use the train station in their neighborhood because they use a wheelchair and the platform can only be reached by stairs. They would need to go to the station in the city center, but busses aren’t wheelchair accessible, so they would need to call an expensive and extremely inconvenient transportation service. So they pretty much never travel.

There are almost no bathrooms in public and the ones that do exist are not free and are usually not accessible to people with many kinds of physical disabilities. In my city center the only bathroom is in a mall, which does have an elevator between the parking garage and the ground floor, but not to the bathrooms, which are one floor higher.

Old cities are hard to retrofit! But if this super rich country, world-renowned for amazing infrastructure and creative architecture, hasn’t tackled this problem yet, we have a bigger problem. It’s a cultural issue.

Every person will become disabled at some point, unless they suddenly and tragically die early.

As a disabled person, we get pretty fed up with a pervasive lack of accessibility options literally everywhere, everyday, constantly, forever. Both online and offline.

I agree that cookie popups are stupid but they’re pretty easily avoidable with a browser extension. If the accessibility options are unnecessarily intrusive there will surely be countless extensions as well.

Idk it’s kind of tone deaf to preemptively complain about the mere possibility that accessibility options might inconvenience you in some teeny tiny and completely solvable way. Oh no won’t someone think of the non-disabled people.

It looks like he wanted a big chest piece but chickened out after the lining and never went back to get it finished.

Damn that antihistamine, preventing good hardworking people from being able to enjoy laying in the grass!!1 <shakes fist>

If you liked Geocities, you’ll probably like Neocities

Jesus, every single post is made by the same person.

So the responsibility lies with the person who wasn’t thick-skinned, and not with the (likely) hundreds of people who tormented them, got it.

Being sensitive and deeply affected by the treatment one receives from others is a normal human trait. It’s not a moral failing. In fact, the world would be a better place with more sensitivity.

It’s interesting how so many people won’t criticize the bad actors, but easily criticize those on the receiving end of this behavior.

Is it fascist to acknowledge that Harris planned to continue supporting Israel’s genocide?

You literally used the term “dunk on” like three comments ago. A bit hypocritical to criticize the use of slang, don’t you think?

If you think of the democratic party as first and foremost a fundraising organization, their actions start to make sense.

https://youtube.com/shorts/SInLePq2Ryo

Here is how the Dutch say Gouda, with Van Gogh thrown in as a bonus.

Or Gouda. For extra fun while you’re there, pronounce Gouda the way it’s typically said in English and watch the Dutchies flinch as little parts of their soul leave their bodies.

So you haven’t contributed anything of use. Gotcha.

Lol she’s an academic who has undoubtedly contributed to the body of historical knowledge on the this topic and has written this article which will reach tens of thousands of people, but you’re calling her a coward who won’t help fight fascism… What have you done, exactly?

If I ever find myself in that kind of serfdom without a dime in my pocket, I will put on my shoes and start walking.

…Okay Denmark.

Is $47 considered a good deal in the states nowadays? Before I left (2015) I was paying about $80/month.

Now I’m in the Netherlands and I pay $7/month. I don’t remember what my plan is but it’s something like 8gb data and more minutes/SMS than I could ever use.

Cell/internet/TV plans are a total racket in the US.

“Actual woman”? Yikes.

The RFK Jr episodes also led me to believe that RFK Jr is probably not as neurotypical as he probably wants to think.

Which is not surprising considering the amount of hatred and seething rage that some unrecognized neurodivergent people (primarily low support needs) have for anyone exhibiting neurodivergent traits.

After years of social rejection (especially by family) and being denied support, many neurodivergent people learn to mask their traits at all costs. So when they see others openly express their traits or receive accommodations, it can feel deeply triggering, even infuriating. This resentment often fuels a cycle of shame and suppression that repeats across generations in ND families

Most of the late-diagnosed autistics/ADHDers in my circle have experienced abuse from undiagnosed autistic/ADHD parents. These parents, having been forced to mask their traits due to less obvious support needs, often harshly suppress the same traits in their children to avoid stigma.

Some people who’ve struggled want to ease the path for others; others believe everyone should struggle as they did. The latter are the ones who go on to try to abuse their kids (and sometimes a whole country) out of being neurodivergent.

Also, the term Asperger’s was coined in Nazi Germany to help determine which patients with autism (back then considered a subgroup of schizophrenia) were fit for labor camps and which were destined for death camps.

Which is part of the reason we don’t use the label Asperger’s anymore.