• No parking

  • Single-stair buildings

  • A street width most fire departments wouldn’t allow

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    Well they don’t have that many to be such a problem. Nobody shoots each other and they don’t send any young adult to be blown up in middle east for oil. Also easier to keep fit and healthy as food is not engineered to be addictive

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      Every person eventually becomes disabled or dead. You are no exception no matter how good your health is right now.

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      That’s fucking crazy bro. Please tell me you’re a teenager. This is definitely the world view of someone who is probably peeking in physical shape right now. It’s a long road down life buddy get ready for those knees to hurt.

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      They have plenty of wheelchair users, you just don’t see them because it’s so inaccessible they’re stuck at home.

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        It’s hard to make a neighborhood accessible if the whole thing was built 500 years ago so I assume tons of places in southern Europe will have problems. Finland, on the other hand, is very accessible and last I checked, still in Europe.

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          Of course, and it’s fantastic to keep for its historical value. But OP is talking about developing modern spaces like this. Like 500 years of human activity didn’t create a few safety concerns along the way

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      One of the few things I, as an American, feel comfortable making fun of Europeans about is how inadequate their ada accessibility is.

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        ADA in Europe lol May I suggest checking what that first A stands for….

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          Right. For a group of people who spend a lot of time developing digital rights; you guys could probably use a bit more disability rights ya know?? Maybe that’s why there’s so many psychopaths in the comments that can’t understand how people end up in wheelchairs or disabled? I’m certainly noticing a theme here in the comments.

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            Bruh. You just called out a disabled person for other people’s comments/actions. I know you have some brain in there, since you’re on Lemmy, but come on.

            Edit: Oh my god. You double commented too. Wth

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              Trying to enforce weird norms like no double comment… its an international platform, people are going to communicate in all types of ways. Some really odd chronically online behavior. Ima triple comment if i still got something to say that popped into my head after i post. Have you never heard or talked to someone with ADHD?? Or anyone disabled at all. Im waiting to hear what you thought i said… and im already guessing you dont understand sarcasm due to being a perpetual internet being.

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                I don’t downvote just because of hot takes, but I do double down. The triple comment is crazy. You do you.

                Also, was busy. I’d love to be perpetually online, but can’t.

                As for missing sarcasm. I was trying to call the first guy disabled to tie into a different joke payoff, but that chance has been murdered in cold blood from being taken too seriously.

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                  The triple comment is crazy? Bro I’ve been kidnapped over a quarter pound of weed. US$1000. They were gonna kill me over it. That’s crazy. A triple comment is a way to express a large amount of information, or hear me out, separate two separate questions / comments in logical order. I’ve got a lot of crazy things in my life, but none of them involve commenting on the Internet.

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              Huh?? Are you talking about the thread where the guy said the Iraq war was how people ended up in wheel chairs?? Was I the disabled person I called out?? Not the double comment oh nooo! People have ADHD too! Yes, I am mentally and physically disabled. Sometimes people who are not Neurotypical we communicate differently than people who are. I’m pretty sure you’re having a reading comprehension problem as well but if you’d like to point out what I said, I’d be happy to respond to it.

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          There’s another discussion on lemmy about why right wing populism is rising. It seems like a lot of of you guys clung to those Nazi views about the infirm and disabled. Just sayin’

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            about why right wing populism is rising

            Because the center bothers only to block the left, and therefore the quite valid anger at the capitalism status quo gets pushed to the right.

            Also, most European right wing parties are to the left of the US Democrats, so comparing them is pretty silly.

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              Ya you guys just invented fascism and Nazism, we inspired it with Jim Crow, which was inspired by your colonies, we went on to work on our own stupid version which is on full display right now. Let’s see how Germany does with the AfD shall we??

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                “you guys”?

                Buddy, I’m an American who emigrated to Spain.

                Nazism took major points from the American south - there’s a decent argument that the Redeemer governments that put in Jim Crow were the first proto-fascists.

                Let’s see how Germany does with the AfD shall we

                Yeah, Germany is once again trying to imitate the US. Its automobile sector became rapidly outdated by missing the boat on EVs . . . and so now they’re trying to push a defense sector to substitute. Pretty USA in the 1980s actually.

                The EU has some major things to fix - and German defacto leadership is one of the first, along with removing the German reflexive bootlicking of the US.

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        ADA= Americans with Disabilities Act? So you expect other countries to obey your legislation? There’s a surprise.

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        Modern European buildings are handicapped accessible. What they don’t do is tear down old buildings for the benefit of a few disabled people. Or make it so expensive to reuse old buildings that they fall into neglect. Before you go there, I do have a disability but not a mobility problem.

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          At least in Spain, all the public buildings are retrofitted with removable wheelchair ramps and wheelchair lifts. They also install handrails and other accessibility measures, like tactile flooring/paving for the blind, non slip surfaces or induction loops.

          Private buildings are different, because the owner (or owners) have to decide to implement those measures themselves, unless they’re offering a public service in that building. Most don’t implement those accessibility measures because they don’t need them, but residential buildings often install them when someone who needs them lives in the building.

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      Do you think that the only people that use wheelchairs got there because of gun violence, bombs in the middle east, and health issues related to less healthy food?

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      Alot of Europe whent with America during Afghanistan. Fewer for iraq. Most of the problems in the middle east trace back to disisions made in France or Britain.

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        Yes and everyone in a wheelchair got their due to war. Obviously there’s no other medical reason to be in a wheelchair other than participating in a war.

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          I was only commenting on the part mentiond about Americans and forever wars. The Europeans have had wars for just as long. That’s not a reason America has better accessibility.

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            I’m pretty sure McDonald’s and diabetes did more damage to Americans than all the forever wars. That’s what I’m saying. It’s a pretty fucking minuscule part of the global disabled population. It’s like completely irrelevant is what I’m trying to point out.