Tuukka R

In a different part of this same city. I have children who have lives that I cannot break by moving away from here just now.

Hm, yeah. Metallica does kind of sound like Beyonce, when you give it a thought! :)

(*duckundweg*)

Most do, many don’t.

Most blind people are not told by anybody that you can use a computer in text form, because most sighted people don’t know you can. The user experience is on a whole another level when you have an interface that is basically tailored to you, instead of using something made for people with wildly different abilities than yours! At least, when I watch my friend browse the web in those two formats, the difference is daunting.

It’s not okay to block them from using an otherwise much better option. Even if not everyone knows about the better way.

The same has happened in something like 25 % of countries, and they haven’t gotten sanctioned for that.
Most of our diamonds and cobalt and cocoa come from countries that have similar problems as USA now does.

Since all real people accessing the site will be doing so through a browser, which has JavaScript built in

Many blind people don’t, because for blind people a text-based interface makes a LOT more sense than a graphical user interface. And the text-based browsers don’t precisely excel on JavaScript.

(But, who cares about some blind people anyway?)

There’s the thing known as white passport, officially “Certificate of identity” or semi-officially “Alien’s passport”. That’s a document that looks just like a passport of a country but has a white cover instead of red, black, green or blue. It means that the country that has issued the white passport proves that the person is who they say they are, and it also tends to mean that that person has a right to reside in that country. It’s much more difficult to travel abroad with a white passport than with an actual passport, but it gets you started. Then, after living somewhere long enough, you can get a new citizenship and get on with your life at last.

One thing that can be difficult is that to get some other citizenship, many countries require you to get rid of our previous ones first. For example in the Russia you can get rid of your citizenship only by travelling to the Russia and doing all the paperwork there. Which takes about two months. During which time they’ll send you to the front and you’ll die. It depends on the mood of the worker whether you can get a white passport in such a case or not.

You’re not stateless if you are a citizen of a country. The country you are a citizen of refusing to fulfill its duties doesn’t make you stateless yet.

This gives me strong [email protected] vibes. But still a different theme, as meanwhileongrad is concentrated on tankie madness and this is more of a generic “you speak bad about people supporting some form of totalitarianism -> we dislike you”.

It’s also sad that it doesn’t suprise me something like this comes from .world.

Whenever I’m going abroad within Europe, for a bit over month before that, I start buying stuff only with banknotes. I put all of the coins made in Finland or (other) Baltic countries in a separate pocket and then make sure to use those during my travel.

It feels nice that people get to see coins that they don’t see that often. And at the same time, I’m increasing the relative amount of non-Finnish coins in Finland, which I also think is good, as that helps people here notice that there’s more to the EU than just Finland :)

I would guess it’s unlikely that all that many other people do the same.

Well… I’m using an instance that has 10 active users according to https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list :)

I wanted to move from Lemmy to PieFed, because its development is faster than that of Lemmy’s and because its maintainers have values I have nothing against and because I want to help a cool project grow.

And then I had a bunch of criteria that I wanted my instance to fulfill, and piefed.ee was the only PieFed instance that fulfilled all of my wishes. So, now I’m apparently one out of ten :)