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

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    405 points blindgeek | 12 comments | 18 Nov 24 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.276s | source | bottom
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    Rastonbury ◴[18 Nov 24 14:46 UTC] No.42172733[source]▶
    Some captchas are getting pretty discriminatory, not everyone lives in the West and can identify the objects they are asking you to. Another recent one sticks out where they asked me to pick a shape as the same number of conoids on screen. If you ask people on a street what a conoids I bet a significant amount will give you blank looks

    Also at least now I know some people call those markings crosswalks

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    ta1243 ◴[18 Nov 24 14:57 UTC] No.42172860[source]▶
    Sorry I live in the west, what's a "crosswalk"

    Did you mean to say

    > 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)

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    1. jstanley ◴[18 Nov 24 15:56 UTC] No.42173581[source]▶
    You don't think you could identify yellow buses without cultural knowledge?

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

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    2. dkdbejwi383 ◴[18 Nov 24 16:08 UTC] No.42173729[source]▶
    It's hard to really say objectively, as the strange yellow American school bus is kind of an iconic image - perhaps because it looks so different to a regular public transport bus as seen around the rest of the world.
    3. itishappy ◴[18 Nov 24 16:12 UTC] No.42173765[source]▶
    Does DHL delivery via yellow busses?
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    4. wccrawford ◴[18 Nov 24 17:17 UTC] No.42174543[source]▶
    Does anyone deliver anything except people via "busses"?
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    5. ta1243 ◴[18 Nov 24 17:37 UTC] No.42174772{3}[source]▶
    Well yes, how else do you get the mail?
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    6. Toorkit ◴[18 Nov 24 18:13 UTC] No.42175154{4}[source]▶
    Those are called Vans.
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    7. lostlogin ◴[18 Nov 24 19:32 UTC] No.42176011{3}[source]▶
    Despite the name, you can’t deliver people over the Universal Serial Bus.
    8. TeMPOraL ◴[18 Nov 24 19:37 UTC] No.42176069{5}[source]▶
    In the US.

    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.

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    9. itishappy ◴[18 Nov 24 20:47 UTC] No.42176816{5}[source]▶
    Oh, vans! Of course, who could mistake those?

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

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

    10. pbhjpbhj ◴[18 Nov 24 22:53 UTC] No.42178004{3}[source]▶
    Don't they have postbuses in some countries that do all types of delivery including people and mail, alpenhorns and cheese and that kinda thing??
    11. jacoblambda ◴[19 Nov 24 00:56 UTC] No.42179066{6}[source]▶
    Well technically anything can be a shuttle because specifically the thing that makes it a shuttle is the operating pattern (repeated point to point service) rather than the machine itself.

    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).

    12. Ekaros ◴[19 Nov 24 08:29 UTC] No.42181147{3}[source]▶
    Well the local long distance bus "consortium" did move at least part of parcels via busses here.