Come On, Jimmy, Come On, You Can Do It.

Come on, Jimmy, come on, you can do it.

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Maybe we should point out that this is precisely the problem with normal people: they only officially recognise the achievements of disabled people when it is obvious.

They cheer on the Paralympics, but in everyday life, disabled people are marginalised.

It's time for an Revolution of Inclusion, and you can shove your crappy pity from the normal world up your arse!

The economy is missing out on the full potential that lies fallow when companies make up all sorts of excuses for not hiring disabled people.

A brief question: How many disabled people worldwide are in corporate management positions as CEOs and what does the internet say?

Or how many people with disabilities hold high positions in state organisations or are even heads of state?

Well, it all looks pretty bleak, doesn't it?

It is a historical travesty that to this day there is no equality, no equal opportunities, no equal understanding at eye level.

In workshops for the disabled, the most disadvantaged of us can screw things together for an exploitative wage. That is pathetic.

Disabled people can and want to help shape this world to make it a better place for all of us.

If the revolution does not come, then disabled people would have to provoke it with all its consequences.

Sometimes you have to hit society in the face to be seen if there is no other way.

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About 16% of all people worldwide have a disability. It is evident that we have a significant presence in this world.

Facts about disability and development

1.3 billion people live with a disability. Measured against the world population, this is 16 per cent.

On the one hand, people are living longer and longer; on the other hand, there is a worldwide increase in chronic health problems. Both trends are leading to an increase in the incidence of disabilities.

80 per cent of all people with disabilities live in developing areas.

Women, older people and the poor are disproportionately affected by disability.

In poverty-stricken areas, an estimated 65 million children of school age live with disabilities. Around half of them do not attend school.

Visual impairment

Every 10 seconds, a person goes blind due to poverty, including one child every minute.

Worldwide, around 43 million people are blind, including 2 million children. Of the 43 million blind people, 17 million suffer from correctable cataracts, the most common cause of blindness.

3.6 million have lost their sight due to glaucoma.

3 million people are forced to live blind simply because they lack optical correction.

2.8 million people are at risk of going blind from trachoma. Countless numbers are infected with the bacterial pathogen. 1.9 million people are already irreversibly visually impaired or blind as a result. Clean water, improved hygiene, eye ointments or tablets, and eyelid surgery can prevent blindness.

In Africa in particular, millions of people are at risk of going blind from river blindness. Around half a million people have lost their sight to river blindness. The tablet Mectizan® stops the process of going blind.

80 per cent of blindness could be prevented and 50 per cent of child blindness if the necessary means were available.

Approximately 295 million people suffer from low vision, 10 per cent of whom are children.

Around 90 per cent of all people with visual impairments live in developing areas. There, people are eight times more likely to risk going blind.

In large parts of sub-Saharan Africa, there is only one ophthalmologist for every million people (in Switzerland, the ratio is 1:13,000).

Physical disability

Approximately 150 million people worldwide have a physical disability. Among them are around two million children.

Hearing impairment

Around 450 million people worldwide have a moderate to severe hearing impairment, including 30 million children.

Over 70 million people are deaf.

Each year, less than ten percent of the hearing aids needed worldwide are produced. In developing areas, fewer than three percent of people with hearing loss receive a hearing aid each year.

About half of all cases of hearing loss could be avoided with early treatment.

Mental disability

One in four people will develop a mental illness at some point in their lives.

Approximately 250 million people worldwide suffer from depression. Around 50 million people live with schizophrenia.

Sources, including: World Report on Disability of the World Health Organization WHO, 2011; WHO Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities, 2022; International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness IAPB, 2023

We should build a monument to this man....

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How to Completely Remove Copilot from Windows 11

Remove Copilot from your Windows 11 computer using one of these two methods, depending on your Windows edition.

You can do it if you really want it

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en.wikipedia.org

Maggie Smith - Wikipedia

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

Maggie Smith

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

Maggie Smith

If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

Maggie Smith

If you like Shakespeare, you've come to the right place.

Othello is a 1965 film based on the National Theatre Company's staging of Shakespeare's Othello (1964-1966) staged by John Dexter. Directed by Stuart Burge, the film starred Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman, and Frank Finlay, who all received Oscar nominations, and provided film debuts for both Derek Jacobi and Michael Gambon.

Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

Dame Maggie Smith

1934-2024

60 minutes where someone can't just talk about full metal jackets, but has to actually answer real questions – Donald Trump can't pull that off. Everyone can see that he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

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He is a frightening example of how you can run for the highest office in the land without any liability or responsibility, based only on lies and the division of a nation, and with a resume that would be rejected by any company as an applicant.

The land of opportunity has created the problem itself.

Let's hope that a nation with understanding and reason will show the Golem and his henchmen the limits.

But why not invent a visit during an interview?

There appears to be some confusion regarding an alleged visit by Trump to Gaza. Despite his enthusiastic description of the area as ‘the best place in the Middle East, with the best water and the best of everything,’ there is currently no evidence to support this claim. In an interview, Donald Trump expressed enthusiasm for the potential of the Gaza Strip and shared details of an alleged visit to the Palestinian territory. However, there are doubts about the veracity of this alleged trip.

Trump's statements were perceived as not entirely truthful. His remarks were scrutinised again. In a radio interview with right-wing host Hugh Hewitt, he claimed to have been in the Gaza Strip. However, there is no evidence of such a visit.

We believe that there is no other person except the fairytale character Graf von Münchhausen who has told more lies in their entire life and which are then uncovered by a reality check!

The truth used to be a valuable asset. Where did that go?

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The full clip.

Before his interview with VP Kamala Harris, Stephen Colbert dropped this video mocking Donald Trump bailing on 60 Minutes.