u/WayWornPort39

Currently, Class 1 NI contributions are (annually):

0% for income between £12,570,
8% for income between £12,570-£50,270,
and 2% for income above £50,270.

I want the Government and the Treasury to commit to making the lower band pay 2%, and the higher one paying 8% instead

People with incomes up to £88,000 could see a reduction in their National Insurance bill under this proposal, which accounts for the vast majority of the formally employed workforce.

I think this would be a good policy to help alleviate cost of living pressures for the most vulnerable and for the majority of working people, whilst ensuring that those on higher incomes contribute more to our welfare system and our NHS, both of which are under significant pressure at the moment.

Hiya, I'm an MMTer and I support an LVT, however, I would not want to replace every tax with it. I still think a range of different taxes are necessary, particularly Pigouvian taxation, to create the right incentive structure in the economy. More broadly, I believe that an LVT on its own would not accurately capture the value of other kinds of wealth like stocks and shares which whilst they are an abstraction of real physical assets, they nonetheless confer the privilege of decision making over real resources. Also, I would view replacing all taxes with an LVT as potentially inflationary as the public sector would withdraw a lot less money from the economy as it currently does now. I'm curious to see where you guys stand, particularly on things like the sectoral balances framework, government accounting processes, and the broader idea that money is primarily a creature of double entry bookkeeping and that every financial asset has a financial liability of equal value.

When I was younger, I kid you not, I was completely unaware that mouth movements and teeth movements involved separate muscles that could move independently of each other. So I was always confused when people told me to keep my mouth closed because I genuinely did not know it was physically possible, so I always moved my mouth and teeth at the same time when eating. I eventually learned to keep my mouth closed whilst eating but I do occasionally slip up every now and again. I guess the concept of not knowing about different muscles in your body and how they can move intuitively (not in a like academic or scientific sense) is probably quite alien to people without dyspraxia or some other kinda of neurodivergence?

https://autumnconf2026.greenparty.org.uk/std/Stop-Destroying-Video-Games-4145/8

This is an amendment to the stop destroying video games motion that calls for the party to commit to decriminalising digital piracy in cases of historic preservation or where the game is no longer available through normal commercial means.

To support the motion, you need to write a comment saying something like "I support this motion".

Here's the full text here as well:

The Green Party will commit to decriminalising digital piracy of video games in cases where the storing and distribution of copies of video games unauthorised by the rights holder is necessary for:

A) Historical preservation purposes by a public institution.

B) Where the game is no longer made available through any normal commercial means.

"Public institution" in this context shall be understood to consist of museums, archives, libraries, schools, universities, colleges and post-16 education providers, and research institutes.

"Normal commercial means" in this context shall be understood to refer to all of the normal or standard means of gaining access to usage or a copy of a game as were previously made available to individuals.

To ensure that these measures do not come into conflict with the Government's obligations with regards to international copyright treaties, the Green Party will also commit to holding an international summit whereby a new treaty on copyright will be negotiated that protects digital creators, workers in the video games industry, and ordinary consumers worldwide, whilst ensuring that game development companies engaging in unfair and unlawful practices are penalised accordingly.

So, if you grow up struggling to keep attention and concentration because of ADHD, and then you finally get medicated and receive reasonable adjustments (its what we call it in the UK when people have to make accomodations for disabilities) and this results in you actually being able to keep concentration, it feels like a massive surge in dopamine. And you get a period of real good motivation and getting shit down, and then afterwards you tend to crash. I mean, it is what it is.

But even when you get concentration right, and do all the right stuff for your ADHD, autism will still pop up and say "hi, did you miss me" and fuck things right up for you once again. And the worst part? People ignore your autism completely but massively criticise your ADHD, and then they will gaslit you telling you the issue you struggled with was ADHD and you just need better discipline and it's so fucking annoying...

The difficulty I've been battling recently is the autism classic of hidden meanings, or interpretation. Suddenly, out of nowhere, everyone has been telling me about all these mistakes I apparently made but I was supposed to know already and like why do they have to be so stupid or dismissive about it. And then they tell me I'm making too many assumptions and never let me explain so much, which just pushes me to try to explain even more, but no-one ever listens. Because actually, the way I think is extremely logical - in fact, it's probably TOO logical in some ways.

And why does noone listen to me when the problem isn't to do with concentration? Why is it that whenever I explain to someone "actually, I read and checked all of the right information and kept up to date, but I panicked last minute and out of desperation did something really stupid, or genuinely didn't understand or misinterpreted what I was reading or receiving at the time". It really feels like sometimes people are just looking for an excuse to be harsh and dismissive.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZr0UY7F5vr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

When I first got my Disabled Persons Railcard after my PIP application was successful, I was very surprised to find out that when buying tickets with it you don't just scan the Railcard on the machine to verify or validate it, and that if you buy a ticket with it, you have to ask the staff at the station (quite often, but not always, it's quite random from what I've seen) to open the barrier for you. Like apparently even with digital ones you can't just scan it onto the machine or whatever.

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With all this modern technology, is it really that hard to just implement a simple scanning system with Railcards?

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Trusting people to just honestly declare their Railcard on the machine and then checking after the fact seems really inefficient.

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Why not just scan the card on the booking app through your phone's NFC reader or scan it onto the actual ticketing machine, or let people put the ticket in first and then tap the Railcard on the barrier?

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I have a petition that I would like y'all to support.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/771745/sponsors/new?token=Sz4JUJRcfkVMi5szNpSB

Basically, I want to repeal the Bank of England Act 1998

I think fiscal and monetary policy should be directly coordinated with each other and that bank of England independence gives too much power to financial markets.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/771745/sponsors/new?token=Sz4JUJRcfkVMi5szNpSB

Basically, I want to repeal the Bank of England Act 1998.

I think fiscal and monetary policy should be directly coordinated with each other and that bank of England independence gives too much power to financial markets.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/771745/sponsors/new?token=Sz4JUJRcfkVMi5szNpSB

Basically, I want to repeal the Bank of England Act 1998.

I think fiscal and monetary policy should be directly coordinated with each other and that bank of England independence gives too much power to financial markets.

I want to chat with some fellow mass effect fans and I can't seem to find any good discord servers. Does anyone have any that I could join?

Basically, instead of fixing prices directly, my idea is regulating how prices are formulated.

Based on satisfaction of the following principles, which prices would be judged on:

- Empirical

- Transparent

- Formulaic

- Reasonable

The idea behind this is that companies whose prices don't hold up to real scrutiny would lose customers and would very quickly have to implement a proper decision making process that's more nuanced.

This would ideally eliminate the arbitrariness of pricing more generally and force companies to take into account more factors than just profitability. Ideally, this should improve welfare across the board due to this.

Alongside this, I would add various other rules like banning dynamic pricing.

https://preview.redd.it/u78xzkm0x32h1.png?width=495&format=png&auto=webp&s=412ca9149dd075b75376e921a9d0d1e74fbfd5ba

Not sure why this happened. My internet is fine.

So, I'm non-binary, not willing to disclose my assigned gender at birth but basically my symptoms are a mix of what is usually considered "female" and "male" (which I think is kinda arbitrary anyways but hey ho). I'm mostly closeted to one half of the family but the other half is full of queers so I'm out to them. I have autism, ADHD, and dyspraxia.

The reason I'm mentioning this is because gender dysphoria kinda intersects with a lot of the other problems I've been having.

So obviously, as y'all know, autism makes interoception (understanding and interpreting your own feelings and bodily impulses) quite difficult. So I've spent my time finding it very difficult to share my feelings with others as a result, not to mention the fact I frequently go nonverbal under periods of stress, even though I'm normally quite vocal. This often means that people often tell me what I'm feeling, or tell me what I want, rather than me intuitively knowing myself. But I think this has also caused another problem - I don't exactly know how to express my feelings to people in the right way. Like I kinda feel like I haven't learnt how to ask for help and set boundaries at the same time. Like for example, I often say very specifically I only want help with part A of this task, as I am confident that I can manage the rest of it, but my mannerisms and the way I talk makes me seem stupider or less confident or uncertain/anxious, and it means they end up taking too much charge over the task and leaving me feel powerless. I guess years of being unable to understand my feelings led me to subconsciously not trust myself as much even though I'm starting to learn (slowly).

The second problem is a mixture of gender identity, trying to unmask, and rejection sensitivity. So, I've had some pretty sad trauma in the past (nothing physical) from the way I've been treated in the education system and socially more broadly, like bullying and stuff. It's kinda meant I have a really low self esteem, and that's embedded itself into my subconscious. It's less so that I as a person genuinely believe I'm bad or something, it's more that there's this force inside my head that knocks me down whenever I try to do something good for myself, or when I try to do something like unmasking or stimming or whatever my brain basically tells me to not do it out of an extreme fear of rejection. And it's not just about interacting with people, it also hits me quite suddenly when interacting with the physical world in general. It's like I'm constantly experiencing these mini-meltdowns over the smallest things like spilling a little bit of water or something. But at the same time I'm so paralysed by fear of yet more social rejection I can't even cry or express my feelings and it just makes me more physically shaky and clumsy. It kinda gets so bad sometimes that I get avoidant of doing things that are important (like asking for pain killers if I get a migraine or whatever) because I'm so extremely scared that I'm using too much or I'm taking too much or I'll get a lecture about how much I'm relying on "crutches" or idk what else even though I haven't done anything wrong.

I'm not entirely sure how to deal with this. Whilst counselling has offered very useful practical solutions I've always been stuck in the mindset of overcoming difficulties rather than recognising where there is a genuine lack of ability. And I think I am actually dealing with the second one in this case.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/768754/sponsors/new?token=PtgPcEqVEPH8v8MwHmSn

Can I take a screenshot on an unmodded Xbox 360, and if so, how?

I want to use my commander Shepard as a pfp on some of my accounts.