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This is leaving out the most crucial piece of why that was a normal reality: UNIONS. Union participation percentage is a measly 10% across all industries for the latest statistics in 2025. Unions are the ones who could fight against the requirement for everyone and their mother to need a minimum of a bachelor's degree. they could fight for working hours to be properly compensated so that the work week was actually 40 hours or less and everything over was actually paid for. The reality of the work place and why we work so much more for so much less is because we are not unionized. the reason europeans seem to have it so much better is because of their strong union culture. there are solutions to these problems and we need to stop obscuring the why.

depsidase

correct.

thememedaddy

pineappical

thinking about statues of Grace being built all around Erid years after his passing so he can continue to watch over Eridians as they sleep

cabinette

innerchildabortionclinic

i'm unable to sympathize with the common incel complaint of: "can you imagine being told women are perfect angels your whole life and then that worldview is shattered?"

no I can't because I went to school and being mean was a gender neutral phenomenon. kind of assumed everyone was aware of this honestly. also you sound corny and stupid

innerchildabortionclinic

to this day if I mention anything positive a female coworker says to me to another woman I get "be careful she could be jealous/vindictive" or something as if women cannot give genuine compliments to each other 😭😭😭😭

honestly it takes a long time to unlearn this mindset as a woman but if you don't you'll be insufferable

thememedaddy

daysleftofsecondterm

[stares into the camera like I’m Jim from The Office] You know I wish people would stop coming onto my dash wishing for me and countless others to die because it would “be easier.”

daysleftofsecondterm

“No not you just your government!!” Then who would keep our hospitals open. Who would dole out social services. Who would enforce laws or fix things that get broken. Who would keep the various power grids operating.

“People would just do those things because they want to!” Maybe. I REALLY hope so. But I’m not ready to bet my life and countless other lives on it.

“Something ELSE could take over!” Unless you have a REALLY well-orchestrated plan, absolutely not. We are not creating a power vacuum in a country with nuclear weapons and seeing what rushes to fill it and just, hoping for the best.

“the americans are scaring me!” girlypop you think WE’RE not scared?

blankpointdankmemes

matt-ruins-your-shit

spaceshipoftheseus

Look, this is my litmus test: I pretend I am the original Earl of Sandwich. I have asked for non-bread foods to be brought to me inside bread, that I might more easily consume them one-handed while gambling.

This does not enable my wretched regency habits. This is not what I asked for. I do not deign to grace it with the name of my house.

dirkbolero

This is the most important addition to the sandwich discourse I have ever read.

zukosgay

nothing better than the wrong capitalization of Sie

zukosgay

la-mancha-screwjob

gageblackwood

#‘’we are obliged to keep this data for 4 weeks after which it will be destroyed’’#versus#‘’we are obliged to keep this data for 4 weeks after which YOU will be destroyed’’

emiliascorner

zukosgay

you’re right. after which you will be absolutely fucking obliterated

mikkeneko

Ich will das Twink vernichtet

thehmn

“lol Arthur Conan Doyle clearly didn’t know anything about drugs. Sherlock Holmes did cocaine but it calmed him down. That’s not how cocaine works!”

There are two options: Arthur Conan Doyle had never met someone addicted to cocaine or he met some with ADHD who was addicted to cocaine

cerothenull

#you cannot convince me sherlock 'i don't see a use for this common knowledge i shall forget it immediately' holmes wasn't adhd as hell #sherlock 'if i have nothing to do for a day i will literally start shooting the walls out of boredom' holmes #sherlock 'i have built a perfect wax replica of myself - why? iunno' holmes

derinthescarletpescatarian

He specifically took drugs when he didn't have a case to occupy himself, that man was ADHD as fuck

fission-mailure

ACD was a practicing doctor and ship's surgeon during the period where cocaine was routinely used as medicine and described by medical journals as "the blessed instrument of Christ," so not only is there exactly zero chance that he'd never met anyone addicted to cocaine, he also almost certainly administered cocaine to people.

It's also definitely not a stretch at all to say he'd probably met people who self-medicated with cocaine to deal with what we'd now call ADHD. Like, the second ever Sherlock Holmes story begins with Watson protesting Holmes' overuse of cocaine, and Holmes replying that he needs it to deal with his overactive brain -- it's entirely plausible that ACD had had that exact conversation with someone or multiple someones.

Like, the man had been a ship's surgeon. On a whaling ship. The number one place in Victorian times to find men who either couldn't get or couldn't hold down work elsewhere. He was almost certainly extremely familiar with a pretty broad spectrum of neurodivergence and self-medication thereof, even if medical science didn't yet have the terminology to apply to it.

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Not only did ACD probably have this conversation with someone in real life, he clearly knew and understood how dangerous cocaine was.

At a time when cocaine was regularly administered by other doctors, Doyle wrote Watson to have a clear aversion and dislike of the drug and understood that it was bad for you. It’s written as a clear indication that Sherlock, despite all his brilliance and genius, is still a human being who can make very bad decisions for himself.

Not only that, but Watson does ultimately win and gets Sherlock off of his addition to cocaine in the end. It takes him a while, but Sherlock is weened off the drug and this is seen as a good thing for everyone involved. In fact in a later story Watson comes home and sees a needle and fears that Sherlock might’ve had a relapse (he didn’t, the needle was just being used for something else involving a case).

Doyle knew what he was doing. He wasn’t writing it as an endorsement or as an indication that Sherlock knew better than Watson. It’s made very clear in the books that Sherlock is highly limited in a lot of ways that Watson is not. Watson was a skilled physician and both he and ACD knew cocaine was not good for someone like Holmes.

copperbadge

Conan Doyle was hyperfixated on history and very mad his excited infodumping historical fiction didn't get the attention the Holmes stories did. He wrote bestselling serialized novels and short stories (that all tend to follow a specific structure) while full time practicing medicine, and by all accounts had a Holmes-like way of Noticing Fucking Everything.

He had a clear disdain for social convention while understanding deeply how to conform to it in order to survive; a lot of Holmes' deductions actually depend on assumptions about typical human behavior in a given situation rather than physical evidence alone. It's the kind of encyclopedic conscious knowledge of unwritten social rules you might develop in order to mask successfully.

He was almost certainly neurodivergent himself. There's a reason classic Holmes fans tend to be Like That. Game recognize game.