• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    The footage, posted by TikTok user legallyswiftie13, captures a tense exchange between airline staff and passengers on the plane as the woman explains she is deaf and had already noted the accommodation on her ticket.

    Frontier Airlines says passengers who are deaf or hard of hearing can request assistance either during booking or through the airline’s “Manage Trips” tool.

    According to the airline’s assistance page, crew members can work with travelers to, “establish a way to share important flight information,” once they are on board.

    The passenger, who is visibly emotional in the video, repeatedly says she is willing to comply, but feels humiliated by the situation.

    “I didn’t do anything wrong,” she says in the clip while gathering her belongings.

    The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Traveler Disability Bill of Rights states that airline staff who interact with passengers must be trained to recognize and accommodate the needs of people with disabilities.

    Lawsuit incoming. Or expect MAGA to overturn the ADA.

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      Lawsuit incoming. Or expect MAGA to overturn the ADA.

      That’s literally on their to-do list, aka Project 2025.

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          Isn’t having a member of society being able to participate in that society a material gain? They can’t work and become a tax paying citizen if they can’t take part in the system.

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        I think it is just an easy excuse and buzzword for “you slow down our max profit efficiency by not being simple” like there is an automated process that all of life needs to fit into. So you punish them out of existence by them either not participating or worse.

        So we will pass laws to make it so we don’t accommodate to squeeze out a little more profit. What a dumb addiction.

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            Reality rarely goes the way those that think they can control others think it will when they try. But not never.

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      I don’t know how but everyone seems to agree that if anything requires effort or some level of complex thought away from routine that it should be banned.

      Like how did we come to expect life to be so easy?
      And the people with power will push it like it is right.

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        Like how did we come to expect life to be so easy?

        By it being so easy for so long. How many people do you know that grow any of their own food? How many people do you know that literally never work out and also don’t have a physically demanding job? We are victims of our own success. And we have had it so long that we expected it to unsustainably continue ad infinitum.

        Also the whole being nice requires a step above basic instincts thing, and conservatives are lazy both physically and intellectually.

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          See, its funny cause this is probably why I don’t fit into the modern western world.

          Cause I did not grow up easy. I did/do grow my own food, paid my own way through college with 3 jobs and 2 days of sleep a week and when I had to deal with the fact that I was still broke and unemployable after, I sold myself into indentured servitude and had little control over my life for 6 years before I came back to the US.

          I truly can not relate to the life of an average american even if I can empathize that the world sucks. I’m 30 and I joke that I’m 300 at heart.

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              Yeah. Wednesday and Saturday.

              I worked as a telemarketer from midnight to 8am as one of the jobs and the days I had off were sleep in the middle of the week and so I could have Friday nights to hang with friends.

              Definitely do not recommend it, I cried a lot at that time and the lack of sleep was not good and I think it left me with permanent insomnia.

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                Damn that’s nuts. I worked 96 hours a week (5 8 hour shifts at one job and 7 8 hour shifts at another) for a while when I was younger and I was only sleeping 2-3 hours a day on the five overlap days. That wasn’t sustainable at all and burned me out in six months or so. Clearly you were doing even more, I’m shocked you lived. I hope things are better for you now.

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                I was a teenager when internet chat rooms were first invented.

                I have insomnia now, yeah. Oops…

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                  I am on the fence as to whether it was better to get paid to fuck up my sleep schedule or to have done it for the thrill of the AOL.

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                  Anxiety attacks and shortness of breath but nope, no heart attacks. Also horrible depression kicked in at some point.

                  Did get in lots of physical accidents which I partially attribute to the tiredness. After 8 months of that I quit as a christmas present to myself after almost drowning in a bathtub.