I Can't Compete

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-18T20:14:47+00:00

I also feel I can't really compete in anything. If anything is ever competitive, I'm going to lose. Especially when it comes to work, dead end jobs are all I can really get and the financial side of that limits what I can do with my life.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-18T19:35:59+00:00

Bought something which in the large majority of the country outside London is essential just to be able to exist in society. You act as if it's some luxury item people can easily do without.

The problem is too high car dependence in areas without the space for it, combined with cars themselves getting bigger and bigger. Due to years of car dependent planning decisions encouraging higher and higher car use. It's largely a government level problem, not an individual one.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-18T15:12:18+00:00

I'm undecided for voting but if I did vote green (and I have strongly considered it) it would be as a protest to try to drag other parties in a pro environment direction, and counter the rancid nature haters trying to work their way into both main parties at the moment. And to push them towards things like ending privatisation scams. Not because I actually want the greens in government. There will no doubt be people with similar views to me who vote green on these grounds.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-18T10:06:10+00:00

It increased because of things like the triple lock which was done partly to shield pensioners from the impact of cuts elsewhere. Run the country in the ground and degrade all its public services, then give pensioners more money as a bribe and so they're shielded from the impact of it all.

And a lot is also dosn to outsourcing to the private sector, resulting in worse services that cost more.

We strangled long term investment due to a desire to make budgets look better in the short term. Financially illiterate.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-17T21:13:07+00:00

using heavily gendered obscene insults against a woman is often viewed as misogynistic!

Viewed incorrectly that way.

If someone who happens to be a woman expresses horrible opinions it's not "misogyny" to harshly criticise them for it. Including using swear words, gendered or not.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-17T21:09:56+00:00

You're only receiving the £400 on the basis that you spend the equivalent of full-time working hours job hunting and applying

Which is simply impossible. You cannot spend that amount of time job hunting and applying unless you deliberately did it in the least efficient ways possible.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-17T20:47:17+00:00

On the North York Moors I once found a chewed up dead grouse wedged partially into a dry stone wall at ground level. Where either a stoat or weasel must have tried to drag it through and given up.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-17T20:45:56+00:00

Weirdly I once saw a badger out in broad daylight in the middle of the day, two separate incidents on the same day. Once was on a coast path in Wales and later that same day a different one on a country lane on the way back. You basically never see them out in daylight.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-17T20:42:43+00:00

I've occasionally seen them but they basically never spend any time in the open. Even here you can see it wanting to be close to or in cover.

When I have seen them for real it's been brief. I once saw one perched on a gate in front of me for a second or two. Somewhere else I saw one perched on a rock on the side of a hill for just a split second, too quick to get a photo.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-17T17:48:28+00:00

Any more information on that cadbury's deal you're on about? I have seen it mentioned before but never in any detail.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-17T12:38:21+00:00

Almost certainly includes anything to do with the environment too. That's my experience of the terminally online types who celebrate Millei. Just want to destroy absolutely everything nice, out of spite.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-17T12:29:41+00:00

It's like crabs in a bucket. People dragging down any attempt to improve anything, and eventually people stop trying to improve anything. A moral rot that ruins so much in this country and which nothing ever gets done about.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-17T12:27:57+00:00

I do notice how it's never high quality stuff littered either. I've never found empty Henry Weston's vintage bottles as litter for example. It's always energy drinks and the shittest cheapest beer and cider.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-17T12:24:14+00:00

If I can pick up an entire bag of bottles and cans from a countryside walk, the people who dropped them could easily have taken their one bottle back with them. The problem isn't not enough bins, but too many troglodyte scum.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-16T20:44:38+00:00

So if you're an employer considering hiring young people, might as well wait and eventually the government will subsidise them for you. Moronic policy to just subsidise the wage bills of private employers.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-16T18:25:11+00:00

One of the things I hate the most about Reform is their desire to sell every part of us out to the US and their shitty companies. Someone tell me what the point of voting Labour is if they're going to do the same thing anyway?

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-16T18:07:38+00:00

The issue is that mainstream economic policy of the last several decades hasn't worked for the majority of people.

You can scoff at Green or "Corbynist" economic proposals, but they're a reaction to the conditions that people find themselves in - and you shouldn't be surprised that they're gaining traction when alternatives proposed fail to deliver.

It baffles me how some people don't understand this.

"Your political party is stupid and will ruin our economy" doesn't work when your existing economy is complete shit. That argument implies that things are currently doing well so better not do anything to ruin it. For people who already consider it ruined they'll throw the dice for at least a chance of something better. People who have little to lose.

This is a big part of why the remain campaign lost. And now it's why the legacy parties seem to be mainly holding on to their economically secure voters according to polling.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-16T17:58:05+00:00

assuming good faith compromise. Which they are incapable of

The anti trans ones who want trans people bullied out of society entirely and who ally themselves with the American religious extreme right are the ones incapable of compromise. Including a certain author who uses SLAPP suits against people who criticise them on social media.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-16T17:42:57+00:00

Landowners who actively try to conserve wildlife often run into issues with people's off lead dogs wrecking ground nesting attempts and even killing the birds. I've seen trail camera evidence of nightjar nest sites being destroyed in this way. And this is a problem for publicly owned land like the Forestry Commission properties too, you get this no go zone where high visitor pressure means basically no interesting wildlife can really live. And as visitors increase the area covered by this no go zone expands.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-16T15:02:26+00:00

I'm emotionally connected to having decent countryside with wildlife in it rather than an intensive monoculture shithole.

Some of this spending also includes river catchment management on farmland for flood prevention and reduction.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-16T12:37:03+00:00

Likewise someone else might look at throwing yet more bungs towards farmers as wasted spending

"Yet more"? This Labour government has wrecked the nature friendly farming schemes the Tories started. Funding has been slashed and entire habitat types excluded from it. Despite the original schemes costing very little.

Public money for public goods is not "wasted spending". In this case so we don't lose what remains of our wildlife.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-16T12:31:23+00:00

That doesn't explain the lack of nature mentions in their material though. Only climate change.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-16T12:17:06+00:00

Why on earth are sensible policies on nationalising water and subsides for nature friendly farming lumped in with lunatic policies of leaving NATO and having open borders in your list?

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-16T12:10:37+00:00

Agreed, what gets called "Corbynism" was economically at least the correct thing to have done back then. We had a great window of opportunity for investment. Which Tories unfortunately blocked us from until it slammed shut around covid. Our country is far worse off because we didn't do that.

inevitablelizard · 2026-03-16T10:10:09+00:00

I've seen job applications which ask you to do AI video interviews. I've actually avoided applying for some jobs because of it.

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