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quietly_vociferous t1_jcwjn61 wrote

The company I worked for sent a coworker and I for something similar. Like above no fanfare needed. My point, stuff like this happens every day, more good than the newspaper tells as bad.

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squidsauce99 t1_jcx6tl4 wrote

He then went on to take control of France.

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Explorers_bub t1_jcwpc3z wrote

Too steep. Compliance pencil pusher or ambulance chaser going to make you tear it down and not care how long there is no replacement despite the lowered quality of life.

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Baldr_Torn t1_jcxkjbb wrote

I haven't done it myself, but I knew some people who had a group who built a wheelchair ramp every month. I'm not sure how they decided on who they were going to help, but they provided all the manpower (and did it as a group) and all the material. They do this in the Dallas area.

And from the pictures I've seen from them, I think you are right. I think this is too steep. I don't know if the law will force them to take it out from a house, but it wouldn't be allowed in a public building, and it isn't ideal for use in a home. (Though it may be much, much better than the stairs they had before.)

I also have started using a wheelchair myself recently. I mostly walk with a cane, but I can't walk far or stand for long, so a wheelchair gives me options I wouldn't have otherwise.

That ramp looks like the roughly the same angle as the steep part of my driveway. I can get up it, but barely. I'm actively using that to build up my upper body strength, much like lifting weights. Resistance training. I'll roll up it, then back down, then up again. Sometimes I more or less just rock back and forth, going forward a foot or so, then back again, then up a foot again. It's surprising to me how hard it is to power myself in a wheel chair very far or long, so I'm trying to build up more strength.

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pm_cheesecakes t1_jcwphet wrote

The stories here are so small, this sub turned out to be a pretty weak sub

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Vigitiser t1_jcxrpn1 wrote

The reason why is because mainstream news never reports good news, humans have a negativity bias and will happily read things that make them angry over things that make them happy, so we came here to pile together the good news we can find

If you can find better things to post, please do

But if you just want to complain, please leave

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