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Nick Magrino's avatar

There’s a real Twilight Zone quality to the current situation where everyone (?) is basically aware that social media is making us sick. It’s in the New York Times, it’s in the congressional testimony, it’s in the leaked documents from the tech companies. People know it! And they’re just kinda scrolling right past it. Are we just going to do this forever?

I remember my brain feeling a lot better, like ten years ago, in the six months between getting rid of Facebook and getting Twitter. It definitely was not as good of a feeling after getting rid of Twitter earlier this year, because social media sickness has eaten so much of the actual world. That, and you somehow still manage to be aware of many of the worst tweets...

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Erin E.'s avatar

> The Americans with Disabilities Act standard is one of the most elegant and useful in law - that we should extend every reasonable accommodation, but not every conceivable accommodation, to those with disabilities.

My late disabled uncle advocated for the ADA and I agree, it is an elegant standard. I'm a big proponent of Universal Design practices: it would be great if all new builds included wider door frames and flat thresholds, for instance, and adopting that standard hurts nobody while helping a great deal. Requiring all homes to have elevators, for example, would be ridiculous. Part of disability is the coping. Same with mental illness. The ADA demands dignity and respect for people's physical realities; it does not demand praise, or pity, or veneration of the disabled.

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