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and why is this banality interesting to a hacker?
Try to move with wheels in a world built for people with legs. You have to hack your way. Or you thought hacking was a computer thing only?
How many people I know got hit by a car and had their life ruined horribly. Or a bad surgery. Things totally out of their control. We need to see disability as a cost to society we must pay, not a failure of individuals which is more or less what were treating it. The American disability system is basically proving (very painfully) that life is barely livable to get scraps of help. Like below poverty levels. I really…
The Canadian system has been systematically dismantled by the conservative movements for decades. Long term care was privatized and has been in a slow decline. I've been writing our ministers here for years urging them with solutions to fix the system. Meanwhile my Nan in her 90's, living with Type 1 diabetes, had to go hungry during the pandemic when they couldn't get workers who understood her dietary needs to prepare food she could actually eat. It's been a huge drain on her health in these years of her life and has left a terrible mark.
Definitely worth advocating for and joining movements to push for social programs and human rights. When everyone's quality of life improves so many other things are raised up with it.
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You should also look into an able account. Your son can have up to 100k in assets invested in what's basically a 529 for people with disabilities. It can go towards housing and food. Get them on snap as well. Every little bit helps.
They aren't very old, so whether or not an able account is a good idea will depend on if they can manage money as an adult. The issue with able accounts is they are under the sole control of the account holder with few checks in place. Further, crossing that 100k line really sucks. If they let the funds ride and they appreciate past that level, they can lose their qualifications for Medicare/SS. For now, there's no r…
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> and the advice to aggressively gain weight is also not appropriate for everyone (GOMAD etc.). Yeah, don't do GOMAD unless you're a 17-year-old teenage boy with a BMI of 18.5 who wants to be a linebacker or something. Some of the Starting Strength advice is... very situational, to put it politely as possible. Their coaching certification, however, means more than 95% of the "personal trainer" certifications you'll s…
How does one know when newbie gains are maxed out? I mostly do calisthenics because I actually got into working out because it was part of injury-recovery. I'm enjoying my gains and would like to push myself to get bigger gains, but lifelong fitness maintenance has always been #1 in my mind. I'd like to figure out how to identify what the "maximum maintenance point" is.
In general, for a compound lift (squat/bench/deadlift/overhead press) most would consider newbie gains exhausted once you can no longer linearly add weight/reps on a weekly basis (assuming a normal weekly schedule). This is the point when various forms of periodization (waving weight/reps/frequency up/down in many possible ways) need to start to support the increase of weight/reps over time.
How many people I know got hit by a car and had their life ruined horribly. Or a bad surgery. Things totally out of their control. We need to see disability as a cost to society we must pay, not a failure of individuals which is more or less what were treating it. The American disability system is basically proving (very painfully) that life is barely livable to get scraps of help. Like below poverty levels. I really…
Building our entire society and physical space around cars is a poor choice, or set of choices: https://jakeseliger.com/2019/12/16/maybe-cars-are-just-reall...
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They aren't very old, so whether or not an able account is a good idea will depend on if they can manage money as an adult. The issue with able accounts is they are under the sole control of the account holder with few checks in place. Further, crossing that 100k line really sucks. If they let the funds ride and they appreciate past that level, they can lose their qualifications for Medicare/SS. For now, there's no r…
As you approach $100k in assets, you get into special needs trusts.
Able works if my kid can make ok financial decisions. It's a bad idea if they can't.
I once sat on a zoom call with a vision impaired user to do some accessibility testing on our site. First, it was enlightening for me to see how she navigated through our site using her screen reader. Second when she landed on our booking page we got so embarrassed because she couldn’t use our date picker. A basic HTML version would have done the job. But a few weeks back we had debated over which fancy jquery date p…
It's been a while, but I'm not convinced there is a truly accessible date picker out there. Allowing manual typing of the date seems like the best and only viable option.
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I feel like the biggest thing the US could do is remove means-testing from our disability aid programs. Means testing usually does not feel like an effective way to distribute services. I want millionaires to be using government aid to help their children: just like with free education, when everyone who needs help uses it, the richer parents will demand, and ensure we pay for, higher quality for all. Everyone who is…
> I feel like the biggest thing the US could do is remove means-testing from our disability aid programs. Means testing usually does not feel like an effective way to distribute services. This was an argument for "libertarian" universal income. Huge government edifice which exists to determine who, where, and how aid is distributed. Much glad-handing, acrimony, and inefficiency. Just cut out the middle-man and cut ev…
Let's say we set the level at $1k per month for everyone. Great, until it's 2050 and that level is still $1k. Without inflation adjustments it eventually turns into giving people the equivalent of a penny, only now there aren't other safety nets in place.
But also, you'll have politicians saying "This is a huge cost to the government and everyone should just take care of themselves. So let's cut back the spending for people born in 2023". Just like they did with SS.
For example, you might be carrying something in one hand, and only have 1 hand free.
Or your wrist might be sore from a tough sportsball game and you can’t squeeze a grip at all.
Or you don’t want to turn on the light and wake up baby so you are trying to read in the dark. Or you don’t have your reading glasses at the moment.
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Injuries are not talked about enough on the internet. And they should be the number one topic for amateur fitness enthusiasts of any kind. Everybody is focusing on impressive performance results but: - you will never achieve anything resembling impressive as an amateur natty no matter what you do. PED use is so common now they're the standard for comparisons - your pay check does not depend on achieving certain resul…
I think the number one topic should be actually doing it at all. Too many people just talk about getting exercise, or endlessly watch videos about it, or endlessly read blogs and articles and guides, but never actually do it, or do very little.