OK but pedal wheelchairs are actually useful tools for folks with either limited mobility or in rehab from accidents/surgery.
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2026
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I think the comparison still stands. It's a narrow use case.
"Yeah, we shouldn't care about LGBT+ folk especially Trans athletes there's only like one of those" that's you dude
To quote a well known microblog meme:
No b*tch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.
Not all wheelchairs need pedals, like not all apps need AI.
"A narrow use case" is not the same as "no use case."
And they make ones that are fucking fun, too
They probably have chain guards. OPs looks… dangerous.
Difficult for Wheelchair user, end of the way for pedal Wheelchair users
surely they wouldn't be able to reach the pedals from where the seat is located? It's not designed like a bike
Kinda more like:
10 years from now: I just watched my grandma chew our some poor nurse because the hospital's wheelchair won't shut the hell up.
Hey look naked ableism
You have some options. Be a mature adult, apologize, recognize that stuff like this is real mobility assistive and rehab tech, or go the lemmy mod and admin route, double down and throw a hissy fit. Up to you.
I don't get it.
Why are people who use email or something unable to operate a chatbot?
In a pedal wheelchair? Come on
The meme is "giving a chatbot to an email user is like giving pedals to a paraplegic"
Why are email users comparable to paraplegics. What are they unable to do that everyone else can?
In a pedal wheelchair? Come on
This feels like clarifying with mud.
you're misunderstanding the analogy. this is a fundamental problem with analogies.
I understand that adding an chatbot to an product don't make it more practical, when you find even a Toaster with AI. Also an design made with ChatGPT insteatof research can also result in an absurd crap, halucinating not only in chats.
'fundamental' would mean it applies to good analogies, not just wrong ones
it does. an analogy is not 1:1 and if it was it wouldn't be an analogy, it would just be the thing.
That's getting a bit too vague for me.
How is giving people a chatbot like giving paraplegics pedals? Nobody has explained it yet.