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hi!! I'm TDF and I'm physically disabled and living under the poverty line. My income adds up to about 1/3 of the local minimum wage.

I am stuck in bed almost all the time because my physical health is so bad, and I have expenses nondisabled people don't.

(sorry to copy from my last post but I'm SO sick rn & can't think of a better way to share that info 😅)

hi!

I am incredibly stressed rn.

bc I've already had to borrow money to cover urgent necessities and I'm once again low on several meds and there's one that's more expensive rn bc I am sicker than usual!

and i don't quite have enough protein bars to meet my own protein/fiber minimums for this week

and i also have 3x the mouths to feed as usual and 2 of them have very restrictive and therefore expensive diets due to health needs.

so really any help at all (from an adult who can comfortably afford it) would be deeply appreciated!!

rn Walmart or Amazon cards, or protein bars, would help the most, but I'd be so grateful for anything!!

link to walmart cards (for groceries/toiletries etc): https://www.walmart.com/giftcards/

link to food/necessities list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/19QO1LMKKHQ3A

my email is thatdiabolicalfeminist at protonmail dot com

i hate doing this sm 😭 thank you for being kind about it!!

KATHMANDU: The newly presented budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2026/27 has triggered intense debate in parliament, drawing sharply contrasting views from lawmakers during discussions on the Appropriation Bill on Thursday.

Criticizing the fiscal plan, Nepali Communist Party MP Parshuram Tamang argued that the budget is merely a digital extension of the neoliberal, capitalist, and privatization policies first introduced in 1991.

He also claimed that it favors capitalists and the middle class while deviating from the constitutionally envisioned path toward socialism.

He further warned that continuing these traditional policies would stifle domestic industries and drive youth migration.

Kathmandu. Opposition party CPN (UML) Parliamentary Party Deputy Leader Padma Aryal has commented that the government's budget for the upcoming fiscal year has failed to reach the poor. She made this comment on Thursday while participating in the general discussion on the budget in the House of Representatives meeting.

She stated that the budget lacks concrete programs to uplift the underprivileged, ensure their hearths are always warm, and bring smiles to their faces. Deputy Leader Aryal also objected to the government's budget, stating that it has adopted a policy of making the poor poorer and the rich richer.

Questioning the priorities and goals of the budget, she said in the parliament, 'The budget did not touch poverty. The word poverty is not adequately addressed in the entire budget speech. The government says – it will develop the middle class. There is nothing to say about this. But how can its goal be achieved? My question is – without uplifting the lower class citizens living below the poverty line of twenty percent, how can the size of the upper class increase? How scientific is it to add floors [while] keeping the foundation weak? This budget appears to have adopted a policy of keeping the lower class down and taking the upper class further up. Therefore, this is a budget that will further widen the class gap between the haves and the have-nots. The size of the middle class does not widen by itself. For this, the income of the lower level must increase. They must have skills in their hands. They must have a fair price in the market. The budget lacks concrete programs to uplift the underprivileged, ensure their hearths are always warm, and bring smiles to their faces.'

Aryal reminded that to fulfill the government's declared goal of developing the middle class, the budget must necessarily focus on the upliftment of the poor class. She stated that the economic development of the country is not possible without improving the economic condition of the lower class.

Kathmandu. Nepali Congress MP Sandip Rana has commented that although Finance Minister Dr. Swarnim Wagle claims to follow BP Koirala as an ideal, he has forgotten the citizens of remote villages while preparing the budget in practice.

Participating in the theoretical discussion on the budget in the House of Representatives meeting on Thursday, he made such an accusation. He said that the Finance Minister has completely forgotten BP's main principle of keeping in mind the citizens living in the huts of remote villages while making the blueprint for development in the budget. He stated that the budget brought by the government is impractical, non-inclusive, and insensitive to rural life.

He claimed that the goal of achieving 7% economic growth and keeping inflation within 6% by bringing a budget of approximately two trillion rupees more than the limit set by the National Planning Commission is not practical under any circumstances. He further stated that the budget does not even include the spirit of social justice and inclusivity in accordance with the spirit of the constitution. He mentioned that the low-income class, unorganized sector workers, farmers, youth, women, and marginalized communities have been left out of priority.

Criticizing the budget, he said in parliament, 'In the budget brought by the honorable Finance Minister, a renowned economist who considers Mahamanav BP Koirala as an ideal and starts the budget speech in the name of Suvarna Shamsher, has forgotten BP's statement that the blueprint for development should be made keeping in mind the citizens living in the huts of remote villages. The ambitious budget of 2 trillion rupees more than the limit set by the National Planning Commission, aiming to achieve 7% economic growth and keep inflation within 6%, does not appear practical anywhere. It is not in the spirit of the constitution at all, and although some classes may like it, this budget has not done social justice. It has not been able to include the lower class, farmers, youth, women, and marginalized classes. This budget has not included the large class of the country like the lower class below 20% and the unorganized class below 20%. The agricultural sector, which contributes 24% of GDP and 60% of employment, has been neglected.'

MP Rana reiterated that there is no basis for the government's commitment to create employment and self-employment for youth in rural areas within the budget. He commented that the plan to resettle depopulated villages will remain only a declaration as programs for village revitalization, increasing agricultural production, utilizing barren land, and developing local roads and tourism infrastructure have not been effectively included in the budget. Although a new Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation has been formed, the budget is insufficient, and due to the government's working style, the private sector has become discouraged, making it difficult to achieve the goal of employment expansion.

He emphasized that the state should collect taxes without imposing unnecessary burdens on the public and invest it in development. He accused the budget of making the tax system unjust by adding additional tax burdens on education, health, milk production, and electricity sectors, contrary to the principle that luxury goods should have high taxes and basic necessities should have concessions.

The math also calls into question the Copernican principle — the idea that the Earth’s location does not occupy a special place in the universe.

“Both the Lambda-cold dark matter model and a spherically symmetric spacetime produce a special place where we must lie for the model to be physically plausible,” Temple said. “If this principle rules out one, it has to rule out the other.”

the list of people who have questioned them before includes vera rubin, who basically destroyed her career to do so (rubin-ford effect, which is still largely accepted as averaging out over larger distance scales for the particular voids she included in her study. i believe she had the right question with the wrong dataset). now that it's been fifty years it's not so much a career-killing question, since we have in the intervening time run through most of the other options and come up with nothing

discarding these axioms does in fact put the earth in a "special place" in a limited sense (density or other features may vary over large distances; one end of the observable universe may be distinct from the other), but not in like, a precopernican geocentric cosmology. we are in a special area, that's kind of a given (on a filament and not in a void; in the "green valley" and not in a highly star-producing nor a dead galaxy ...), what anisotropy and nonhomogeneity call into question is whether these features tend to average out over extremely large distances

more technically, what the paper does is apply range constraints to identify a ("maximal asymptotically stable") cluster of solutions of FLRW models that allow an amount of underdense radial perturbation without the use of expansion. this is an appeal to mathematical stability, in relation to a longstanding question in cosmology (why do these laws seem to be impossibly balanced?)