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HOW AREN'T THERE MORE TUMBLR POSTS ABOUT THE GIANT AIRSHIP THE AIRLANDER 10 WHY DID I ONLY JUST FIND OUT ABOUT IT

IT LOOKS WORSE AT EVERY ANGLE

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I get that it looks like a giant posterior, and that is objectively funny.

But also hybrid airships are cool as hell, and a way better idea long-term for aerial mass transit than what we do now.

If I risk making an ass of myself to stick up for this thing, I don't give a toot. You can make it the butt of your jokes all you like, make every cheeky comment you want, but I'd bet my bottom dollar that the thing to vindicate it will be hindsight. In posterity, the idea behind this will seem brilliant upon further analysis.

But right now it's just a joke.

And that really bums me out.

Someone in an autism facebook group I'm in just asked "How am I supposed to earn enough to make a living without burning out?"

Someone replied: "You're not. Even neurotypicals can't right now in the system designed for them. We're the canaries in the coalmine. When we start failing, they know something is wrong."

People keep saying, "Oh, everyone thinks they're neurodivergent now!" or they'll say it's the foods or chemicals or whatever other nonsense they've fallen for, but to me the answer is so obvious?

We've gotten to a point that more and more people are being left behind by the system, making it so that neurodivergent parents who could get by fine *enough* in decades/centuries past are bringing children into a world that cannot and will not attempt to accommodate them. There's nothing in the water and people aren't faking, it's just that this is no longer sustainable or livable and of course people with disabilities will be hit first and hit the hardest. There aren't more people with it, it's just harder to go through life without being aware that you're not functioning the way your peers seem to be able to.