ArianMar 26

Me : let's watch some YouTube my favorite creators

US AI LLM psychosis peptide addicted Google Soylent junkie: lemme translate your English video titles to German. Dub your German videos to English and your English videos to German.

How the fuck do I disable this AI slop hell

Show threadArianMar 26
Just let me fucking watch a video like the creator intended. I CAN SPEAK MULTIPLE LANGUAGES YOU DUCKING SILICON VALLEY PEANUT.
Show threadArianMar 26
I'm so done with tech. We all deserve to lose your jobs
Show threadArianMar 26
Google Maps also stopped showing connections that involve walks longer than 500 meters. It'll just be like "no its impossible to reach the other end of Berlin in half an hour by public transport. You need to change 6 times". Because it refuses to let me cross a bridge to another busstation because US brained people dont believe in legs.
Show threadDaniël Franke 11h ago
@arianvp I have noticed this as well, although I didn't realise it was because of the walking distance. So many times, I'm just confused on why it's not suggesting a route/connection that I KNOW is better...
Show threadGlowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands11h ago
@ainmosni @arianvp I'm going to go out on a limb, and please don't confuse this as me defending this bullshit choice of theirs, but it might have something to do with how often walking that far can be impossible in the US. Not because of people's limitations, but because the public infrastructure to do so safely doesn't exist.

Obviously they should have people who know the area audit the routes their system is offering and adjust the defaults to reflect the local infrastructure. And please yell at them so they can fix it for your area. I'm just saying, this is very likely a systemic issue because of how car brained the people who build our infrastructure are, and how unsafe it is to walk in many parts of the US. And I say this as someone who was forced to use the broken infrastructure here for many years when I didn't have a car, where I was often walking along roads without sidewalks because there was no other route available to me or the next bus was an hour away, where my only other alternative was to pay for a fucking Lyft or Uber.
Show threadpenpencilbrush🇨🇦10h ago

@deathkitten @ainmosni @arianvp Why do you need a sidewalk? Sincere question.

That's the beauty of walking. A sidewalk is not necessary.

(Other than highways, better to avoid highways.)

Walking is the freedom to go where you want to go without needing 'infrastructure'.

#Walking

Show threadeestileib (she/hers)

@penpencilbrush @deathkitten @ainmosni @arianvp

I use a wheelchair and I like to go places too.

5:12pmWeb
Show threadpenpencilbrush🇨🇦5h ago
@eestileib @deathkitten @ainmosni @arianvp I ran into a guy in a wheelchair last summer who was going from one shopping strip mall to another, crossing the road at the crosswalk, then crossing the grass verge, then crossing the parking lot. I was impressed. He adamantly didn't want/need my help.
Transportation should be easier for everyone, not just cars. We are so car brainwashed.
Show threadeestileib (she/hers)2h ago

@penpencilbrush @deathkitten @ainmosni @arianvp

I was trying to answer your question "why do we even need sidewalks?"

We need sidewalks if we want our human spaces to be navigable by non walking people.

Show threadwolfwalks1h ago

@penpencilbrush @eestileib

Agreed w/ @eestileib. Also, "I once saw a wheelchair user cross difficult terrain" is not a counterpoint to "Sidewalks are necessary infrastructure for many people using mobility aids." A wheelchair user declining your help is also not an indicator that the terrain is not difficult. Wheelchair users very famously often have their agency overridden on a regular basis by someone trying to "help" them.

I'm glad we all agree that the world should be better for everyone to navigate, and that car users should not be the only group considered.