• Etterra@discuss.online
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    10 years from now: I just watched my grandma chew our some poor nurse because the hospital’s wheelchair won’t shut the hell up.

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    OK but pedal wheelchairs are actually useful tools for folks with either limited mobility or in rehab from accidents/surgery.

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        “Yeah, we shouldn’t care about LGBT+ folk especially Trans athletes there’s only like one of those” that’s you dude

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          To quote a well known microblog meme:

          No b*tch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.

          Not all wheelchairs need pedals, like not all apps need AI.

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      Difficult for Wheelchair user, end of the way for pedal Wheelchair users

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      surely they wouldn’t be able to reach the pedals from where the seat is located? It’s not designed like a bike

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      That don’t make sense, with limited mobility it is more difficult to move a Wheelchair with pedals than walking, maybe with a cane or walker.

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        There’s all kinds of injuries or fatigue symptoms that may mean you can move your legs and sit, but you cannot stand…

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        On a flat surface, bikes expend less energy to use than walking. This actually makes total sense. Biking is also a kinder motion on joins than walking which is actually quite hard on knees.

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          walking is hard on knees because we walk on asphalt and concrete, which are not what our body is made for. our body is made for the soft dirt grounds of forests and fields

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          Not the same a bike in the plane street than a wheelchair on the sidewalk with borders on the beginning and end, often problematic for people in wheelchairs in cities with too much obstacles for them.

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    Hey look naked ableism

    You have some options. Be a mature adult, apologize, recognize that stuff like this is real mobility assistive and rehab tech, or go the lemmy mod and admin route, double down and throw a hissy fit. Up to you.

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        The meme is “giving a chatbot to an email user is like giving pedals to a paraplegic”

        Why are email users comparable to paraplegics. What are they unable to do that everyone else can?

        In a pedal wheelchair? Come on

        This feels like clarifying with mud.