It's like something out of a Far Side cartoon. Love it!

I'd agree with you if this was the patent for insulin or something but it's the rights to a story about lost children. There is room in this world to maintain a little nuance and keep hold of a kind hearted tradition for a good cause. No one is going to die or starve because it's not in the public domain.

It's not stealing from the public domain, it is following the author's wish for an exceptional good cause that benefits the entire world by pioneering treatment for sick children.

Dont try and impose your every man for himself selfish culture on everyone else, it's not even your government. The rest of the world doesnt follow Republican politics and it benefits greatly from it.

One day one of your loved ones might need their help or benefit from their research, but you do you.

It's literally a world-class hospital that has pioneered many treatments, including operating on a baby with spina bifida in the womb and curing a child of Leukaemia using gene edited T-cells.

The amount of good this hospital does, on a global scale, is unparalleled.

If you think hate speech is acceptable and are defending it, you have a seriously questionable understanding of empathy.

If you have depression because of downvotes and are afraid it means you're being cancelled, then you should look at getting some help with that.

I think you need to look up the definition of hate speech and examples of it. It's not saying something that could be misunderstood. It's saying something extremely blatant, hateful and often calls for violence. I'm not going to give examples because I don't want to be banned!

Your worries about cancel culture are disproportionate. Those people who are supposedly cancelled are usually still in the public eye, still spouting their views freely, but play the victim. Perhaps therapy would help if it's giving you depression to get reassurance that the things you're no likely reading online are not in actual fact happening.

That doesn't make sense at all. You can know things on an academic level, but you will never know exactly what something feels like. I'm a woman and I know it hurts to be kicked in the balls but I don't know exactly what it feels like, likewise a man won't know exactly what having a period or giving birth feels like.

However some of us have empathy, but you clearly don't because you can't even imagine how it feels to have rising hate and calls for death and violence towards you because of a certain characteristic outside of your control.

No, it inflames and normalises hate. It makes it seem acceptable. Just read any history about normalised hate speech and what happens. Read about how to deal with anger - if you feed the wolf it grows. But presumably you are not in one of the minorities that this hate is directed towards, so you think it's ok and don't feel threatened, and empathy is not your strong point

What kind of person thinks it's not a problem? Hateful people. Crikey, there's no reasoning with broken human beings with no moral compass.

So Elon thinks a 500% increase in hate speech is proportionate.....I think you've hit the nail on the head there. It's a deliberate act by him.

So you're saying Elon is powerless to stop it? Pretty pathetic way to run a company if you can't even moderate the huge surge in hate speech on your own platform.

I hope you can get some good therapy and help heal some of your childhood trauma and depression. Don't feel bad for reaching out for professional help.

Another suggestion would be to get involved in something meaningful to help others. If you have the financial means, you could make a real difference to others and also find a bigger purpose and meaning for yourself. Maybe help some kids who grew up with parents having mental health issues, like you had to, or similar?

That's fab, art and nature are very healing and that's backed up by science too! We have to do what gives us comfort in this funny old world, as long as we use science too. I believe there's a place for both, it's the anti-vaxxers of this world that can't see that.

I know, but this particular person isn't one of them, they literally said they are vaccinated and believe in science as well, so not sure it's necessary to jump down their throat about it.

I have no problem with people using stones etc, if they also use vaccines and science-based treatments too, like the person you're replying to. Placebo is a real phenomenon and if it brings comfort, that's fine. The problems start when such things are used to replace proven vaccines/ treatments etc.

I worked in the public sector for several years. Christmas celebrations etc always had to be self-funded. We didn't even get milk, tea or coffee provided, we had to bring our own.

Quite right too, tax payers shouldn't foot the bill for it, it's not like MPs can't afford to pay for their own Christmas meal.

I save my favourite podcasts for when I'm doing chores. It actually makes it an enjoyable experience!

Fair enough! Argh, those people are so dumb.

I just get wound up when people say we wanted this 😂 It devastated me at the time, I could see this shit-show coming and seeing it all happen, plus more sucks so bad!

Don't be facetious. The margin was very small between Remain and Leave, which is well known. So no, we didn't all want this.

Since then, every year, young adults are coming of age into a Brexit Britain that they didn't even get a chance to vote for. Children are growing up in poverty.

I've seen people recently admit online that they voted Leave because of the lies about more money for the NHS and regretting their choice. If you lived here, you would know it's a lot more nuanced.

People were lied to for years and years by Murdoch et al's media about the pesky EU ruining everything for everyone. Russia blatantly helped drive the campaign, funnelling money into Leave's campaign because they knew it was such a bad idea.

The areas that voted Leave in the greatest numbers were the most deprived areas of England. They were asked to vote if they wanted things to remain the same, or Leave and promised it would make things better.

People were never given a choice of what it actually meant, whether it's a hard or soft Brexit. There were no details planned out.

It was a con, it should never have happened. I knew it would be a bad idea and voted Remain, as did most people I know. This is not what we wanted.

To be fair, Tories did really badly in the last local elections and even lost some 'safe' seats that had been Tory for decades.

I'm tentatively optimistic that they won't be able to recover from this, but the main issue will be overcoming voter apathy. There's a hell of a lot of disenfranchised people here.

I struggled to find cold/ flu meds with NO caffeine in when I recently had Covid. Seems like a load of them do these days, probably to make you a good productive member of society despite being sick. But I just wanted to sleep 😂

So progressive they give tax cuts to the rich!

Not a problem of not enough ambulances or paramedics to drive them. It's the care crisis causing bed blocking in hospitals. Unfortunately my friend's Dad had a TIA recently and it took about 12 hours to get him into a bed, after several hours in the ambulance waiting to get him into A&E 😥 Luckily he's ok and had great care and attention from the paramedics and staff.