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Translated by me from https://www.socomic.gr/en/2018/01/kourafelkithra-socrates/

My feelings on this topic are volatile and made harder by the way covid is moving though my community, but my take after a few days goes something like this: Trump knows he’s lost. He’s dragging things out as an act of theater for those who love him... like he’s fighting for them until the very end. Those supporters will reward him and continue giving money to “stop the steal” and this rage which he so expertly stokes will help them drive turnout in the Georgia runoffs in January. Keeping the embers of that rage hot also allows these individuals who dismiss all facts as fake news to be controlled by Trump and his allies for whatever other purposes they may wind up deeming helpful or fruitful to them later. As a possible side benefit, this obvious erosion of trust in the Democratic process itself that Trump keeps amplifying may inspire Russian oligarchs to thank him later by helping payoff or forgive his existing debts to them... he’s likely to gain lots of new friends offering him money in exchange for state secrets and insider information about US methods and sources, too. Republicans mostly know he’s leaving as well, but see no political benefit to themselves for pushing him out of the chair or speaking out... so they are silent and spineless. They can’t risk being considered anti-Trump by the base so waffle on about the right of candidates to challenge issues in the voting process and keep prattling about this all being normal... which it’s really not. Unless they’re already retired or about to retire from politics, they can’t afford to anger the base they’ve been enraging for over a decade if they hope to have any chance at a political career in the future of what is now Trumps Republican Party. ... but Trump will leave and he will likely start a new “news” network farther to the right of even Fox... propaganda undiluted and constrained will be piped into the fertile minds of willing and thirsty audiences. After all, his supporters are already lumping in Fox News with the rest of mainstream media and calling them a bunch of traitorous turncoats for simple things like calling the state or Arizona for Biden. They’re heeding the call of extreme right personalities and fleeing platforms Twitter and Facebook instead for far right “hate and bullshit are a-okay here!!” platforms like Parlor, and the information bubble is just getting thicker and more immune from piercing. Trump wants a larger share of the control of that walled off information ecosystem and more influence on this hardening bubble, and by refusing to acknowledge his loss to Biden he helps to further enable that. It helps keep him in the headlines, keeps people questioning news that doesn’t agree with their preferences, keeps them angry and donating money and showing up to vote, but it’s all just for show... catnip for the media... much like his recent leadership changes around national defense and justice. He knew it would deflect news attention away from him being a loser. I need to tighten up these thoughts a bit, but believe the outline above is pretty close to accurate.

This was my thinking as well, and there might be family members or friends who think they're helping by further enabling the isolation.

Whatever the cause, your sexuality is you. Do you socialise with gay people? I asked this earlier, because if you aren't, then you are reinforcing your sense of isolation and feeling 'different'. Once you move around in compatible circles, you should start to feel more comfortable being in your own skin and more likely to like yourself as you are.

I presume this was an answer to my question Well here is what I think about this : [math]\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} 1 \hfill & 2 \hfill & 3 \hfill & 4 \hfill & 5 \hfill \\ 1 \hfill & 4 \hfill & 9 \hfill & {16} \hfill & {25} \hfill \\ \end{array}[/math] The top row is made up of the natural counting numbers. So the count of these numbers is the same as the largest number. In my example there are 5 numbers in the top row and the count of numbers is also 5. In the second row which are simply the squares of these numbers, there are also 5 numbers But the they are all larger than the corresponding number in the top row (except for the 1). So whatever might be the largest number in the top row as it is extended, there is always a larger number in the bottom row. This larger number is also a simple integer and so whatever number you propose as the 'end' number of of the top row is not the largest integer and not the end of the row. That is the process of counting has no end. This is called a non terminating infinity. It is also interesting to note that the bottom row does not include all the numbers in the top row; it does not contain 2,3 or 5 or other top row numbers if it is extended. Yet for every top row number there is an entry in the bottom row so the count is the same in both top and bottom rows. There is the same count of numbers of the bottom row as for the top row. This property is called the cardinality. Cardinality is very important in comparing infinities. This is a truly remarkable property of infinities. It is important to stay focused with this stuff and not mind-hop to many disparate subjects.

You are correct. Your link www.codingame.com explains it in the first sentence: I may take a look into some of your other threads on this topic to understand the context of your question better.

Bumped into this on youtube: Not sure why it came up watching and listening to Helen Reddy (recently deceased), but thought it might be of interest here.

But since the OP specifically used "BC" and "AD", which are not used in the Hindu calendar, that is not relevant here.

On a more serious note, anyone else been impressed by how Biden has handled himself as President elect so far?

You can't prove multiple universes using time travel. First, you have to prove time travel. Good luck with that ...