I saw the episode of Dark Tourism where they go to Turkmenistan. It seems like quite a grim and sheltered country. I wouldn’t have thought they sent anyone abroad for education, are you expected to return with certain skills?

Are you sure?

It’s almost expensive not to, when the only people with any real dough are your oligarch buddies

What happened to that 2,000 tonnes of gold they had socked away?

Certainly we will not tolerate this? Where’s the protest?

No war but class war, brethren

I can’t help where I’m from, but I can control where I end up at least. Took my family back to the UK a few years ago, since we’ve only been Americans for a generation or so. Reason being, I don’t have much hope that the US can improve materially without a full-on regime change - I think obviously the American system contained the seeds of its own destruction from the outset, but the final straw (pardon the mixed metaphor) was Citizens United, which ended up being basically golden handcuffs for all elected officials. Only they can reverse it, and they won’t because it’s their money. It would take some eucatastrophe to undo all that, so I’ll just have to take to the streets elsewhere when the time comes.

Incredible, isn’t it - the actual right wing extremists support Zionism, but being against that gets you painted as “too far right”. I’m from America so I’m used to there being no such thing as left, but goddamn

Nice one, Italy

It’s almost like a dude called Sir shouldn’t be in charge of a party that bills itself as working class.

Why?

because of the way in which the EU has changed since Britain’s departure

What does that mean?

Arguably my comment is funnier if you know anything about great apes

Goddamn they live better than us in every way

You take the rough with the smooth

Bruh I answer faxes and letters, and I actually prefer that.

Damn that sucks, all y’all unemployed?

I open my laptop and answer about six emails.

Given the horrific treatment it’s more like the bullet grazed them. What a fucked up thing to experience.

I’m struggling to even write this comment while my family is nattering away in the next room, fuck writing code while people talk

Auditory processing disorder makes it really hard to deal with multiple people talking.

I work from home, so

It’s definitely a tricky situation where any pressure you put on either of them could backfire. A better approach might be to branch out socially and emphasize other people in your life. Spend more time with friends or in the community, putting that energy into more reciprocal relationships. If it makes your husband want a return to normalcy, great. If it doesn’t, you’re still thriving.

It can be hard to recreate the way things used to be, and life keeps on changing. I wish for the old days with my mates but there’s a dozen reasons those days are behind me, and I should follow my own advice. The only thing worse than failing to go back in time is standing still, right?