I’m glad I don’t live in a federal country where rights vary by state.

I’m basically in France’s Midwest except it’s more left leaning.

Where are you?

Seeing the prices I’d guess some 3rd tier city in the usa?

And I’m living in a metropolis of 750 souls in buttfuck France.

Almost bit the bait lol

The fuck is going on where you live?

My family and I bought a 250m² house for less than 50k. (2yrs ago)

eh, induction stoves are nice.

You forgot all the shades of xenophobia.

Cringe asf

Yeah this one is pretty niche nowadays.

I did it for my nephews because I found it funny to give them time capsules of what kind of music was broadcasted when they were born. And cassettes are a good medium for long time storage :p

Yeah I was thinking about renting physical copies not streaming.

I’d count digital ones as well.

That’s how I didn’t get the point since none of my leatherback encyclopedias is a complete set (yay backyard sales).

Like a getting movies in a public library can count as renting at Blockbusters imho?

I’d assume it’s the floppy one but same lol

Same and I’m not even 30 ^^`

What’s the thing you’ve never done?

Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s a popular commander in the new uruk hai extension.

Thank you all for making me feel less lonely in my dumbness.

Excellent.

Honestly “differently-abled” seems more like a media term than anything linked to either handicapped communities or scientific research. Imho it’s kinda stupid.

And people speaking on behalf of marginalized communities is a real issue that does a lot of harm. e.g. Autism Speaks

An expression I encountered helping my roommate work on their education master was “handicapping situations”. It’s a bit unwieldy but I like that it conveys that someone is handicapped by a combination of an ailment, an activity, and a lack of accessibility.

In other words, someone who’s paraplegic isn’t in a “handicapping situation” when gaming in a chair.

Or someone who’s dysorthographic isn’t handicapped as long as their not trying to write anything.

I use handicapped as a shorthand for myself but it’s still a neat concept imho.

I might be mistranslating some stuff since said roommate is French.

PS: about the dance, blame it on people insisting on using our disabilities as insults.

PS2: You’re always gonna hurt someone at one point or another. But it’s not hard to try not to and apologize when it happens imho.

Yup but imho it doesn’t stop there.

Once the word stops being used as a medical diagnosis it will slowly stop being associated with learning / mental disabilities.

Nowadays not a lot of people associate saying someone is an idiot with any social minority so it kinda is just a disparaging qualifier.

Retard just happens to currently be in that sour spot.

idk for idiot or imbecile.

Moron is a slur imho.

But these are only my opinions and English isn’t even my first language so I might miss some things ^^`