I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)

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> not everyone lives in the USA

Other things I don't have a clue about - a fire hydrant, yellow taxis, yellow buses

(Obviously I do, because of American cultural imperialism through things like Captchas which mean the world has to understand American cultural touchstones)

(Cue theme music in mind's ear)

There might or might not be a sign marking the location.

Sweden: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fire_hydrants_in...

UK: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fire_hydrants_in...

It's also not necessarily relevant to worry about blocking one when parking a car.

Americans will need to learn what speed limit, parking prohibition and pedestrian crossing signs look like in the rest of the world, as well as realizing buses and taxis come in more colours.

I think simply knowing "yellow" and "buses" would suffice.

The service refused to acknowledge my humanity until I relented that a standpipe was a hydrant. If at some future date any of us burn to death due to an automated fire truck that misbehaved due to this, we’ll know why.

Am I identifying the boxes wrong? Am I doing it too fast? Where do "Stairs" begin and end? Does a motorcycle include its rider? Or is Google just fucking with me and failing me on purpose?

My workplace had a period this year where captcha was put into the cashier checkout process.

#internationalisation

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/12cwylk/microsoft...

For non-bikers, a scooter has an automated gearbox and small wheels etc. Think vespa.

In the UK at least they are generally a different category of license, although that's because of the size of a standard scooter engine.

https://fev.se/images/18.7ea68079182e95d391364a41/1663668627...

Scooters are cycles that have motors, and are thus motorcycles in the most-inclusive definition of such.

And then there's "shuttle", I believe the US has at least one kind of thing called "shuttle" for every possible mode of transport, including orbital flight.

Reminds me of this scene from Police Academy 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cil6HFXlccw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_van

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_utility_van

Even within the United States, fire hydrants vary greatly from city to city.

I remember the first time I moved to a city that had those little squatty dark blue ones. I thought they were water main access points.

It's interesting to see so many people on HN assessing that captchas are biased toward American culture. Very frequently I get captchas that include things I don't know, and when I look them up, they turn out to be Indian in origin.

If you think this is a binary America/Rest of the World problem, then you haven't visited very much of the "rest of the world" and noticed that every place is full of variations.

> A scooter (motor scooter) is a motorcycle with an underbone or step-through frame, ....

Scooters are often legally motorcycles as well. For example, I had to get a motorcycle endorsement on my license for a scooter I owned, because the engine displacement was too large for the extremely restrictive "moped" category in my state.

Is a scooter a motorcycle, what about a pedal-and-pop, an ebike? Is the backbox (rear carrier) part of the motorcycle?

Is a single light at a junction, ahem intersection, a traffic light? Is the outer-container part of the "light"? What about the lights for pedestrians, are they part of the traffic light?

Are house steps, that don't carry you to a different storey, still stairs? Is a single step also stairs?

Are fire hydrants always red?

So, yeah, usually I just leave the website and come back to HN.

There's motorbikes with scooter like controls, there's scooters with motorbike like controls. Many small automatic motorbikes feel basically identical to driving a scooter except that your sitting position is very slightly different.

Etymology-wise a shuttle was a type of weaving tool which is why the verb shuttle exists, i.e. to rapidly move back and forth across a length (as if you were weaving a thread into a piece of fabric).

So then you got shuttle trains which frequently ran back and forth. And from there other types of shuttle services (shuttle buses, shuttle vans, etc).

And of course eventually the space shuttle being intended to be a launch vehicle designed for shuttle service to and from orbit. (side note but technically if the SpaceX Starship actually achieves it's intended sub-24h turn around it'd be able to qualify as a shuttle provided it ran a fixed point to point route on a regular basis).

US driving laws vary quite widely depending on the state (and sometimes depending on the city within the state). So there’s probably no uniform answer. But parking at an intersection is indeed allowed in a lot of places within the US, in my experience.

I actually feel a fellowship with all two-wheel riders but don't let any other bikers know or I'll be shunned.

Now it's being used to push imperialism through captchas of all things?!

I feel like all the non-US or non-Western or however you want to categorize the 'rest of the world' should be striving to use free-range local culturally-appropriate captcha services if this is true.

It's easy to blame the colonizers, but what about the local artisanal websites who give the colonizers/invaders a voice by integrating their captcha services?

We really need an 'international-divorce' to put these issues to bed once and for all.

I'm a big fan of two-wheeled transport in all its forms, but wow is there a prevailing toxic attitude among a large group of "true motorcycle" riders. Instead of welcoming people into the fold, it's just tribalism -- you drive a scooter, you're not a true biker; you ride a cruiser, true bikers only drive super sports; you drive an e-bike, but only loud pipes make a true rider!