This. You start making these money making machines chip in their fair share to the local infrastructures they leech off of, and all that political shit will stop real fast.
I was thinking the other week about how it's getting to a point that I would consider a membership fee to access something like lemmy but guaranteed no AI or bots or bullshit advertising.
I know it isn't possible, but if it was, I'd pay a small fee to have it.
We use it regularly in engineering for this exact definition. Mentally disabled people typically operate in the best version of themselves nearly all the time (minus bad days, we all have em)
But people who have the potential to operate at their full capacity but choose not to are the very definition of the word.
I will definitely think it while standing in line behind someone for 15 minutes at a coffee shop who don't decide to even look at the menu until the cashier gets to them.
But I still don't say it, as intention and perception are competely unrelated.
I'd also add "you dumb fucker" hits about the same, without the fallout of "the R word"
I guess that's the part about people and taboo words I don't understand. A little fun flex in vocabulary can transmit the same sentiment without impacting others.
Southwest Airlines in the United States let's you buy an extra seat, and then when you check in at the airport, they will refund the cost of the extra seat provided you are a "person of size."
Being that the center arm rests go up, this makes it significantly more tolerable for both me, and the regular sized person who sits in the row with me.
A lot of the other airlines used to do this as well. Now only Southwest does... For now...
As an American, the fact that 25% are for it or indifferent is a shameful number...