funny thing, I took my test in NZ where it’s cheaper and easier apparently, still cost a couple of thousand $NZ but I was given a bunch of forms to fill in… Found a quiet place to do them in time, read them and filled them in. then realised I’d not read them properly and had to request the forms be resent to complete a second time, this time body doubling with the misses to ensure I’d read and completed them appropriately.

felt like it was part of the test

can you read and fill in these forms by yourself? no, no I can’t…

diagnosed in my 50’s

always known I’m different lol

coasted subjects I liked but failed subjects I hated.

I was disruptive and constantly outside the headmasters office. in those days I got the slipper and cane…

mum called me hyperactive and blamed tartrazine from orange cordial. looking back I was casebook ADHD.

now I have a diagnosis I’m able to get the support and connections to my kids that I never had myself. teaching techniques and understanding what’s going on for them when they have meltdowns.

to be fair they didn’t have ADHD diagnosis on the 70’s so I’m just happy I can support my kids knowing what I know and why

I’d go one further; strawberry chilli sorbet. sweet strawberry, hot and cold at the same time… perfection

hey thanks everyone for your points of view. really appreciate your time to comment. my take home is that Ukraine does knows what it’s doing with Trump and I’m no longer worried a bad deal will be made. ideally no deal with the US will be made, that’s my preference. anyway… the gods willing Ukraine will continue smashing the Russians cheers all

thanks for the long reply. I hope EU actually sends weapons and puts boots on the ground to assist Ukraine. UK has given some cruise missiles and I’m sure other EU countries will do similar. interesting that the EU financial assistance was loans but as you said these can be cancelled easily. I guess loans are easier to sell to you population. I’d also prefer to not have the US involved now the administration has changed, but disentangling so much bureaucracy is difficult and doesn’t happen overnight. I’d suspect Ukraine doesn’t want any deals with the US now but needs to keep playing the game until they don’t need to. Russia wss never going to play the game anyway, never in good faith. The EU really needs to step up… but again this takes time to start building up stockpiles and uniforms… so I can see why the game is being played. I just hope Ukraine wins every hand. thanks 🙏

this was me about 30 years ago on a larp where at midnight we came across a mage in a circle… along with a scarecrow… I smacked the scarecrow with my sword and it screamed and lunged at me… I ran away bravely and as fast as possible straight into a tree, dropped my lantern and carried on screaming into the night. the most scared I’ve been in larp, proper suspension of disbelief. thanks for the memory 😆

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looks like you guys just damaged yourselves by not taking disciplinary action against Musk. whilst I have nothing to do with you, you guys should know better than to sympathise with Nazis. It makes you the same as them. The US is broken and you have the chance to stand on the right side of history or the wrong side of history, and you will be judged by your actions. and science will suffer your actions/inaction. sort it out or are you just a bunch of Nazi cowards?

left the UK 13yrs ago and never regretted it

skills shortage list is how I got in, and being under 40 (at the time) gave me points in their system.

anyway just going to drop this here if YouTube is allowed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWLlDIzi8SU

so honestly, who would you use now? I’d never buy HP, Acer, Lenovo. total crap machines. what other brands of laptop are any good going into 2025/2026? The XPS was always my go-to but now what options are remaining?

good answer it’s has always been about power

and being able to wield power without corruption is the human condition

I’m not certain we’re hardwired that way.

though I’m hopeful

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this is good more of this please

I’m sorry, but when there is so much at stake we have to lie. politicians have always lied. left and right. it’s in their nature. they can’t help it. if it’s politically expedient to lie, even by omission, so the enemy doesn’t use it against you and chips away at that majority, then I’m totally comfortable with that. of course, I’d much prefer that it was illegal for politicians to lie, like they are trialing in Wales, then we’d have a very different calibre of politics. I’m all for that. bring on enforced honesty in politics. but until that’s established and the enemy, and let me make this very clear, the US Nazis are very much the enemy, we have to temper our political persona a bit. once we win then we show how inclusive and caring we are. but if saying something what could be used in an attack against our valiant cause, it’s ok to hide it. for now. look at Walz, he’s an ally to the cause and we’re not hiding him. he’s in full view, heart on his sleeve, and from what I can tell, he’s a really good man. those are the qualities we need to show off. we’re not hiding those morals, we’re just not shouting loudly about some of the more progressive values we hold, so they can’t be twisted and used against us. we need to win this election. fairly and absolutely convincingly. and I’m talking as a Kiwi, a citizen of Earth, watching on in horror what could be coming and the pivot in geopolitical power that would inevitably occur. your election has way more reach than just your shores. the good guys need to win and kick the US Nazis so hard in the nuts they remember loosing forever. anyway. thanks for listening

jellyfin with sonarr and radarr and now jellyseerr make the whole process simple. usenet and nzb are the way now i just wait 10 min to get the film/series i want and then watch it. a minor delay I’m more than happy with. I’d be happy to pay if, and it’s a big if, the studios can catalogue all their shows in one place. i can watch without adverts. i can pay per episode if i want. I’d rather pay 50c an episode than pay for the whole service. let me curate what I want to watch on my terms. until then, the high seas win every time

honestly i called this as soon as I heard about repealing smoke free nz. nz first bought and paid for by big tobacco. screw these fascist fucks fucking hate this corrupt government

diagnosed at 50 last week

can’t listen to music when working makes me focus on the music and not the work and i get nothing done silence please

i really hope the Dems have a plan to combat this nonsense

problem with random lottery is that 50% of people are more stupid than you. a scientific board across various sciences, social, economic, technological to form a government. double terms allowed and after that they become advisors. randomly selected scientists from a pool of willing participants. say 13 people? no elections. all policy decisions discussed in the open. the board is self policing as it kicks out bad apples. obviously needs fleshing out but a better form of government than we have now where politicians can ignore science and do stupid stuff cos they can

this dude is awesome if I was younger and child free I’d volunteer to be on his boats and fuck up some japan whaling fleets this guy gets much respect he was too militant for Greenpeace we all need to be more militant to save this planet from the corporate chaos