At no point did I claim the results were false.

It is undisputable fact that a minority of the voting population voted to leave.

Acting like we must respect a deliberately corrupt process as if it’s some undisputable truth, even when all evidence points to it not only being false, but heavily manipulated is the epitome of bootlicking, and plays a significantly bigger part in maintaining the corrupt status quo and the power of those who benefit from it than any vote does.

I reached the same conclusion - it says why the thing doesn’t work, and then suggests you try the thing anyway, with maybe an extra step or two.

Most Brits didn’t.

How about instead of pointing your finger at those at the bottom, aim it instead at those running the deliberately corrupt system, manipulating the media and propagandising the population, to the point where they can get shit like that passed without the majority of the public actually supporting it?

Getting rid of the ECHR was always his goal and why he and the rest of the greedy bastards at the top put us through brexshit. It has always been about giving themselves more freedom to oppress us.

They are who “First they came” was written about…

Literally no. 8 on Umberto Eco’s 14 properties of fascism:

8. Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak”. On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

I’m in a similar boat (E: things were always worse with the parent who would never seek diagnosis), cutting contact was the best decision I’ve ever made for myself.

Personally I realised that if being related meant so little to them to treat me the way they did, there’s no reason it should mean much to me, so I did what was healthiest for me for a change and cut contact. I wish you the best of luck getting her help (seriously), but you shouldn’t be suffering just because someone is related to you.

Bonus points if your boomer parent got a ND diagnosis in their 50s, yet still refuses to believe that neurodiversity was just as much a thing when they were young as when you were, it was just ignored harder, as they actively ignore your ND diagnosis that you finally got independent of them in your 20s or 30s.

The Great American Buffalo is a must watch.

Producing electricity when it isn’t needed is only a problem when someone is looking to make money off of it.

I never said it should be. There are plenty of ways to regulate electricity production, storage, and even usage, they just aren’t considered “profitable” so are dismissed, overlooked, and or deliberately smeared and destroyed because they threaten those whose profits they would hurt.

Corporate greed aside none sane would like their tax money either to be spent on producing electricity when it’s not needed.

You need to set the corporate greed aside in your own mind, too (not saying you’re greedy, saying you’ve been indoctrinated to only see life in capitalist terms). Stop thinking in “cost” or “profit”, start thinking in “benefit” and “use”. Producing electricity when it isn’t needed is only a problem when someone is looking to make money off of it.

Not blaming anyone, just don’t want to watch content with ads, so I won’t…

I don’t disagree, but I do think the anarchist idea of a government (which is what I personally had in mind) is so far removed from what most people today can envisage when they hear that word, that it’s still worth differentiating.

I’ve never used Plex before, that’s a huge turn off. Though tbf I’ve still not watched the episodes I already have, so I’m in no rush to put myself through that annoyance lol

It’s good to know they’re there though, for now anyway, and that at least someone has them and is making them available.

I’ll give it a look, thanks! Though I was really looking forward to having the entire collection safe on my own machine. :/

So I was going to say thanks for the reminder to go check if more episodes of the Drew Carey Show had been uploaded to archive.org since the last time I checked, only to find that those that were already on there (first 2 or 3 seasons I think?) are now all gone (apart from the Improv-A-Ganza episodes, which I will be downloading before they disappear too). Nowhere is safe.

It starts off funny, and they you remember that these are the out of touch arseholes running the fucking country (she seems to be refusing to fuck off, but also even if she did, she’s far from the only right winged wanker who genuinely believes this shit).

But Twitter is a real fuckup for him

Except it clearly fucking isn’t, it’s doing exactly what he bought it for, including convincing people like you to feel sympathy for him and his “loss”, which is equal parts hilarious and really fucking sad. You’re looking at his life from the point of view of a poor person, something he never was and never will be, yet he’s still so easily manipulated you in to feeling bad for him (and the billions he’s lost, leaving him… still the motherfucking richest person on the planet), and even fucking (think you) relate to him and the idea that he can “fail” just like you can, using you as a living breathing mouthpiece to make his life easier. Not yours.

perfect boy genius mystique

I just threw up a little in my mouth, thanks.

Meanwhile, a high school in London is trialing a 12-hour school day to prepare pupils for adult life.

I bet I can guess which school this is in one try - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaela_Community_School

Hearing the headmistress talk about her attitudes to kids and their education (and indoctrination) is stomach churning.