It doesn’t.

It makes it seem like everyone is struggling coz you don’t hear from anyone else.

Sign up with a pension company and pay money into it like any other monthly bill.

I’m in the UK so might be different elsewhere.

Same.

Also self employed. Got plenty of work lined up, savings, pension, cheap mortgage.

Each year looks a little better than the last one.

I think part of the reason it seems everyone is struggling is because of two reasons.

One, lots of people are struggling. Two, no one wants to hear from the few who aren’t.

The environmental impacts are real and substantial, though still on the same scale as video streaming which didn’t get the same reaction, so that’s not the whole story.

And both are dwarfed by the meat industry. Be fair to become vegetarian and continue using AI a bit.

Well, geology will take care of some of that over the next few million years.

In the meantime, the debate over whether it should be part of the UK will continue in a much shorter timescale.

Are you aware Scotland is a part of Britain? 😀

I just had AI rewrite two pages of text from 1st person to 3rd person to use in different marketing material.

I had AI reformat text I’d pulled from a PDF that had weird line breaks.

In both cases, it wasn’t doing any “writing” but the end result was AI assisted.

Its a glorified spellchecker, treat it like one.

So if I think we should decolonise the middle east and also that Iran is authoritarian, is that okay?

Yes

Maybe they were too busy on their phones to answer the survey

If you think there’s a “British accent” you’re not qualified to be in this conversation.

I ain’t gonna risk licking them

Teaching today, working with a new tutor who needs a bit of support and looking after.

Masking my way through a teaching day is always tiring but the extra effort of socialising with a new person means I will properly crash when the working day is over.

At least I’ll sleep well tonight.

RTX 5090 doing all kinds of exploding!

I agree. And it’s much less stressful because it doesn’t take itself too seriously.

The Thick of It was unique in how the comedy came from everyone and everything being incredibly serious.

There was no real Borg threat to the federation until Q interfered, Guinan said as much to Picard in Q Who

Platipus - they start as boring eggs

In my circles it’s called Catsdown

Yes, there’s options for long-term treatment available.

Like everything they’re over stretched since austerity and have never been restored.

Veep felt like a step back from The Thick Of It despite being made afterwards.

It was fine, it was fun and funny. But pales compared to the British original.

They’re comedy actors acting in a comedy, rather than actors doing stuff we can laugh about.