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In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

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hoffman's car

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Megan Thee Stallion and Glorilla stepped into that studio on a mission to change lives, because I think about white boy wasted Channing Tatum everyday!!

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My favourite kind of straight people are the ones who tried fucking someone of their same gender just to be absolutely sure they weren't actually into it. Like of course you don't need to do that to know your attraction model; most of us just know and we tell them that but they're like, "Nope. Gotta be one hundred percent on this" and walk away from it like, "Yeah, no. I'm definitely straight." and I love them for it. More straight folks should give it a whirl. I think taking the mystery out of gay sex for them would help to work out that internalized bias.

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i should nOT BE tuRNED ON BY THAT 

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sucks so bad that i have to do physical therapy and wear a wrist brace. On account of jacking it too often and too hard

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Guy whose wife comes out to him as a lesbian and he just sighs and starts googling ‘estrogen near me’

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true queer pain

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I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

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you can discuss the problems within academia literally forever and you probably should but “historians are trying to keep information from you” is always going to be an anti-intellectual, reactionary opinion, sorry, literally no way around that

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if you think about it, every time we tranquilize animals to transport them safely to another place, we are the sleep paralysis demon

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maybe if we torture this kid harder our lives will get even more awesome

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Here is a skill that many of us are going to need for survival: how to tell if someone is offering to let you lie.

The tip-off phrase is "If [circumstance] was true, then we/I could do [helpful thing.]" This is not a guarantee that the person is offering, but it should tell you "I am being informed of a way to improve things."

Your confirmation phrase is "What documentation would that require?" This is essentially asking them "if people come asking me to prove this, will I be able to? Or will they not come at all?"

The answer you are hoping for with the confirmation phrase is "Just tell me if it's true, and I'll put it on the form." Note that this is not a direct instruction to lie, because they can't tell you that.

If they didn't mean to extend an offer to lie or this is a situation where they can't, then they'll list off something like your paystubs or your birth certificate. Your response back in that case is "Thanks, I'll tell my friends who qualify." This clears you of any concerns that you may have been considering lying.

The more complex answer is when they answer by giving you a form on the spot. Your job, in this case, is to scan the form and see if what they are asking you can be meaningfully verified by an official source.

Things that can be verified by an official source include, but are not limited to, your age, legal sex, income, veteran status, and place of residence. It's not generally a good idea to lie about these on official documents.

Be smart, and be practical. Do what you need to in order to stay alive, and keep an ear out for the people offering to help you do so.

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My father is a libertarian, which usually isn’t funny, but he DOES believe that if stores are going to switch to self checkout machines you should shoplift enough per trip to pay yourself minimum wage for “doing the cashier’s job for them”. And that’s hilarious.

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at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.

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