The ant powered consciousness was pretty cool 😁

We share a lot of traits and opinions it would seem.

It’s uplifting to come across someone who reminds you that there are still at least a few worth fighting for, that not everyone is a self-absorbed asshat with an axe to grind or agenda to push.

School in general in the UK is a bit of a shit show, slowly getting more and more privatised with each successive government. “Privatisation isn’t working… Maybe we’re not doing it hard enough…”

Perhaps the things your economy relies on should not be placed in the hands of organisations whose very raison d’être is to extract the maximum possible profit possible for themselves…? Energy, transport, education, healthcare, food supply; all privately owned and decreasing in quality while costing more, and, to rub salt into the wound, the entities responsible then dodge as much tax as is possible.

Our supposed “Labour” party is captured by self-serving neoliberal corporate puppets that are beholden to the extremists running the US right now.

They’ve recently announced that they’re going to make it even harder to claim disability benefits, and those that still make it will be paid less than currently. In almost the same breath, they were excited to let everyone know that they’re going to either cut or get rid of the new Digital Services Tax designed to ensure Amazon, Google et al actually pay tax to speak of. Because, y’know, Bezos needs another new yacht.

Honestly, it seems we’re long overdue to remind the politicians who they’re actually supposed to work for. If that means a few heads have to come off to get the message across loud and clear, I’m certainly not upset about it. I don’t see things getting better until that level of event occurs, to be frank.

Still “experimenting” via my GP with various meds. Perhaps one day we’ll stumble onto something that works.

Glad to hear you’ve found a regimen that works for you though, and that it enables/better places you to help your brother.

Ultimately, helping each other survive existence with the minimum of anguish is the best any of us can be.

As for UKGov (or CanGov for that matter) getting their collective heads out of arses and not using disabled folk as easy marks, I suspect much worse is to come before it gets better. This place is like a microcosm of the US in a lot of ways.

I appreciate your well wishes all the same 💛

Same position and age as you, except I got diagnosed autistic and ADHD at 33. Haven’t been able to work in the one field I have any training in for decades, as that now basically means call centre work which triggers migraines (now known to be sensory overload).

Can’t afford to retrain, can’t get disability to help with costs because of UKGov cycling disability claimants through tribunals to massage the statistics. I lose the disability, I lose my funding. I get the disability back plus back pay, but am still booted from university for not being able to pay in the mean time.

G fucking G. I guess I just wait around until I die or get angry enough to commit an act of political violence that leaves a mark.

Same thing. Include those under the same law and solve both problems at once. 💛

As an outsider whose overton window isn’t calibrated to US norms, it’s because the “Democrats” aren’t anything like left wing, same as “Labour” in the UK.

They’re both neoliberal centre-right parties masquerading as left wing for votes.

What you appear to be deeply emotionally connecting to “left wing” is simply authoritarianism, which is neither left or right, and exactly the playbook Trump is reading from.

You would be well served to read some political theory explainers that aren’t US based. It may open your eye to exactly how hard you’re about to be fucked over the barrel by those that are supposed to be serving you, not themselves. 💛

Can you imagine the anguished cries of the parasite classes?

Truly, it would be music like no other.

Sure, it won’t solve anything in the long term, but fuck me, a global debt reset would be hilarious. Landlords and banks, zeroed overnight.

Damn. There’s a thought experiment.

“Intelligent Design”

Fucking LOL

That isn’t possible. Time is as part of space as the other dimensions. Time is distorted by mass, just like space.

You can’t move “purely on the Y axis” any more than you can move “purely on the time axis”, or vice versa.

Off topic: Why is it a new idea that the observed motion of the universe around us is affected by “faster time” in denser areas of space? Why is that not blindingly obvious? Bwuh?