[cartoonscientist]

friendly reminder that skin picking, overwashing, finger biting, and hair pulling are not “bad habits” or personal failings; they are all forms of evolutionarily ingrained self harm disorder called Repetitive Body-Focused Behavior that is a natural response to high stress levels and poor quality of life caused by the same neurological processes that cause animals to overgroom when they’re kept in inhumane conditions

[vorbisx]

Replacing physical buttons and controls with touchscreens also means removing accessibility features. Physical buttons can be textured or have Braille and can be located by touch and don't need to be pressed with a bare finger. Touchscreens usually require precise taps and hand-eye coordination for the same task.

Many point-of-sale machines now are essentially just a smartphone with a card reader attached and the interface. The control layout can change at a moment's notice and there are no physical boundaries between buttons. With a keypad-style machine, the buttons are always in the same place and can be located by touch, especially since the middle button has a raised ridge on it.

Buttons can also be located by touch without activating them, which enables a "locate then press" style of interaction which is not possible on touchscreens, where even light touches will register as presses and the buttons must be located visually rather than by touch.

When elevator or door controls are replaced by touch screens, will existing accessibility features be preserved, or will some people no longer be able to use those controls?

Who is allowed to control the physical world, and who is making that decision?

[maggotmuncher0]

THESE AREN'T MINE

[sobcat]

the summer I turned evil

[unanuvola]

​[D-6] CHANGBIN 𖹭 HYUNJIN 🎂

[ribbonrevivals]

now i am you

[oinkhop]

countdown to changbin's birthday!

d-5: merbin 🧜‍♂️🐠🐚

[papawolfchris]

Hyunjin enjoying himself and being a cutie doing the shuffle part on the Spotify Smart Shuffle Show for @appleschloss

[gaslit-dipshits]

Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center

A former programmer spoke up during a city council meeting in a small town in Ohio, making a well-articulated argument against data centers.

[eclecticpjf]

[wolfchans]

😘

[seungminogie]

[rhaemonds]

lee know Ი𐑼 changbin two kids room (181103)

[straykidsmedia]

[straykidsmedia]

[rekhaa]

what the actual fuck

[greater-than-the-sword]

This kind of thing wouldn't be socially acceptable to do with photoshop and all of a sudden people think this is okay?

[afemalesebastian]

I remember, back in the Before time (around 2015), browsing The Onion and getting a nasty shock like this. They had used a publicity photo taken at my previous workplace of the woman who had directly replaced me (!), and photoshopped someone else's face onto her body. But our coworkers were visible (unaltered) in the background, and our uniforms were left the same. Anyone who knew the workplace could identify that it was based on my friend instantly. The joke caption was really unflattering, and my friend was hurt and upset (even though her face wasn't used).

It was weird and gross then, when people were manually photoshopping this stuff. And it's weirder and grosser now that the process has been automated.

[shadowfromthestarlight]

yeah this is happening all the time lol

[stephenroot]

I hate cigarettes so much I hate that smoking is becoming cool again I hate that we're becoming contrarian hipsters about this disgusting habit that has literally killed so many people and destroyed so many lives I'm so serious we need to become absolute killjoys about this again it's time to go 90s scolds on cigarettes until the scourge is wiped out entirely.

[swordshapedleaves]

It's not even that they kill you. Lots of contrarian passively suicidal people hear that they kill you and they think "oh cool. Whatever."

They make your hands cold. They give you little asshole pucker wrinkles around your mouth. They kill you so fucking slow. Make it so your lungs hurt all the time. They make every cold a chest cold that takes months to go away. They suck your money out bit by bit, every day forever. Just be a little bit more poor forever until they kill you in fifty years. They kill you for fifty years. Just a little shorter of breath, just a little colder, heart beating a little too fast. And the longer you go, the harder it is to quit.

You're depressed and nicotine is an anti-depressant as well as a stimulant. It helps ease that crushing void in your soul just a little bit. Puts a little bit of energy in your steps. Until it doesn't. Until all you can think about is when your next smoke break is. Until you're sixty five and in the hospital because you need emergency surgery on an clogged artery and you're attempting suicide by willful medical neglect because getting the surgery that will save your life will mean not smoking a cigarette for three whole days.