• No parking

  • Single-stair buildings

  • A street width most fire departments wouldn’t allow

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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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      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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          Private buildings are different, because the owner (or owners) have to decide to implement those measures themselves,

          Yes, and that’s problematic. All businesses should be as accessible as possible

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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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      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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            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’