Happy Back To The Future Day!
something that made me sit down and stare at my wall for an hour
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point of reference from an able-bodied person: standing in one place for an hour kinda makes my feet/legs hurt. longer than that is when it really hits but it takes an hour to get there.
if you are in pain within minutes or seconds, that is not normal. that is a Symptom. poke your doctor into finding out what it is or connect with disabled and chronic pain groups.
if you are in extreme pain, not just "ugh my feet ache" pain but "i am going to pass out" pain, that is not normal. that is a Symptom. poke your doctor into finding out what it is or connect with disabled and chronic pain groups.
I know some people try to rationalize as "well it's not excruciating compared to my baseline" and I am gently reminding you that the baseline is zero. zero is normal. this ^ is not. be kind to yourself.
AN HOUR???????
"walking for 15 minutes makes the bones in my calves hurt for 2 hours"
buddy... that's the Symptoms...
ID: a still of a tiktok with the words "i was today years old when i realized when people complain about standing in lines they are complaining about the WAITING and NOT the excruciating PAIN" end ID
to be clear: this is not a joke. the governor of utah read “if you’re reading this you’re gay” on live TV during his press conference.
IT'S NOT A JOKE WATCH THE VIDEO
Utah Governor Spencer Cox confirmed gay
charlie kirk turned out to be..... *drumroll* merked by a right-wing furry with incomprehensible politics
GREAT DAY FOR BRAZIL, FELLAS!!!
ok i might need to elaborate on why this is such a big deal.
So, Brazil had a dictatorship, military coup, that lasted from 64 to 85. On this time period (and i'll be really short) we had like 5 dictators and oh god, so, SO MUCH torturing, censorship and repression.
People that were killed are still missing. And none of the military heads that did it were ever arrested. Much less judged. Much less sentenced.
There was this air of impunity, that Brazil would not move forward because when push came to shove, no one arrested the big guys, the masterminds, the people that caused all of that.
UNTIL NOW
Bolsonaro is a fucked up right winger, backed by Trump. When this spineless coward lost it's election, he, just like Trump, incited a riot (ours was January's 8, 2023) that tried to silence the opposition and change the election results.
The people on the said riot went through trial and many paid fines or got arrested.
But the military core and Bolsonaro still walked free. We we fought for this not to repeat.
So for the VERY FIRST TIME IN THE STORY OF THIS COUNTRY, we finally, FINALLY, got justice against those who attempted against the democracy. And for that he was found guilty of:
- Armed militia.
- Attempt of violent dissolution of the democratic state.
- Coup d'etat
- Qualified damages for violence and serious threat (they had a plan to kill the actual president, Luís Inácio, and the supreme court head, Alexandre.)
- Deterioration of historic heritage
And for those crimes, he's sentenced for 27 seven years and 3 months of jail time.
Not only this, the rest of the heads went with him. 26 years for the ex-minister of defense Walter Braga Netto, 24 years for the ex-minister of justice and secretary of defense Anderson Torres, ex-commander of the marine Almir Garnier got 24 years. Augusto Heleno, ex-minister of security affairs got 21, another ex-minister of defense got 19, and lastly, Alexandre Ramagem, who was the director of Brazil's intelligence agency got 16 years.
I can't explain, without telling the whole story of the last 100 years of this country how big this is.
This is a landmark. This change tides. This gave us hope.
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@pancat-n-sausage not letting you leave these in the tags bc you are so right and everyone should know it
british ppl are so funny man
am i missing something… or is this like…. a problem….
the english are weak
Okay but genuinely is there something missing here?? Because when I lived in Vancouver BC it was $5.25ish CA for a three-zone ticket to school and that was an hour and a half from A to B. Why is a 30 minute $5 ride an insurmountable task. What am I not seeing here
$5 is just under 4 quid and my fucking arse is that what it costs, it costs me nearly $20 and I get a discount because I have a disabled person's railcard
also I can tell you from experience that if it's for a gig, you'd either have to leave before it ended or wait around in the cold for fucking ages for the trains to start running again and get back in the early hours of the morning, which isn't very practical if you've got to go to work.
What weird website is that???
Here's National Rail, the actual UK train journey website with actual prices:
As Maia says, we're pushing £20 depending on time of day, AND you have to factor in return train times, too. The UK also has a cost of living crisis right now, featuring - among other things - the literal highest utility bills in the entire world. The gap between rich and poor is enormous, and getting bigger.
Lads... it really does become more and more obvious that whenever y'all want to make fun of the UK, you really are just trying to make fun of poor people.
I'm doing fair-to-middling financially, it's just me, no kids or pets, and I never stress about paying the rent. Just for context.
My living budget (for absolutely everything other than rent/internet/power) is £100 a week. An equivalent distance for me would be London. I can get to a cheap gig in London maybe four times a year, by saving hard and skipping stuff that isn't absolutely essential, like 'second-hand shoes from Vinted because my Converse haven't actually fallen apart yet so that's fine right', and making it worthwhile by spending All Day in London so I'm kind of exhausted before I even get to the gig. And I still have to get from Kings Cross to wherever the gig actually is. If I'm lucky and the trains are all on time, I might get home from a London gig just in time to have to walk two miles home from the station because the city buses stop running at midnight.
There are a lot of people - a LOT of people - worse off than my able-bodied self on my grad student stipend, and yeah, going an equivalent distance to this is a Big Trip for me.
I used to make that trip regularly for about £11(ish) off-peak ($15), so I can see thanks to the Economy™ that's doubled in price and then some. Checking now, a peak time train is £25 ($33), which many of you will be like 'uhh that's still not expensive though' but it is to those who live there.
Liverpool, a place I lived and studied in for 11 years of my life, is one of the poorest cities in the UK. There were kids from very poor areas who'd go on school trips to the museums in the city centre, a classic school trip for any child, who'd never been to the city centre before because their parents couldn't afford a bus ticket. A lot of kids go to school early for breakfast club because their parents can't afford to feed them. £25 ($33) for one person, for a return ticket to the next city, from a specific station, without factoring in travel from their home (bus/another train/taxi) which can be another £5-10 ($7-15), and without factoring in the cost of doing anything like eating/drinking/attending an event (anywhere between £20 ($27) (for a very cheap meal out) to £70 ($95) for a cheap concert ticket) or even another train/taxi/bus on the other side (another £5-10). You're looking at £55 ($75) for one trip at minimum (£115/$156 for the slightly more expensive - minus food before or after a concert for which you can add another £20/$27 on top) for people that don't have huge amounts of money to begin with. That is expensive.
Like the poster above said, it is becoming increasingly obvious that when the UScentric internet users dunk on the British, they're just making fun of poor people here. Wealth disparity is a huge problem here and making fun of someone for saying they can't afford it is just not a good look. Can that die already?
This is insane. I live in one of the worst cities for public transportation in America, in the south. There are no sidewalks. Buses are almost non existent. If you bike, there's a good chance you'll die on the side of the road from a hit and run, or suffer from heat exhaustion to the point where your health is at risk.
Even I can get on one of the few buses or rail systems we have here and travel 30 mins for less than 5 bucks (£3 ish?).
You're telling me the UK can't do better? Didn't they invent trains?
You know how you guys like to look at something completely fucked and go:
Well the 80s wasn’t good for the UK either, particularly the north where this is because we had a politician who gradually sold off all our public infrastructure to private companies who have since profited massively from hiking rail fares, and was quite happy to let Liverpool rot, and I quote “not devote our scare resources to the place…” and to leave it in “managed decline”. So in the spirit of the meme above:
(Technically the full process didn’t happen until she was out of power, but she started it. It’s also why our utilities are the most expensive globally. Plus US petrol prices are significantly cheaper than they are here.)
watching 20 year old tv shows is all fun and games until you realize how far we’ve backslid on certain social issues