He's a bit miffed about being turned down for a cleaning job in favour of those who have cleaning experience. Mmm. Who to clean my house? A cleaner or an ex-copywriter?
I didn't quite read it like that. I think he was trying to say laying it on thick that he is applying for everything even things outside of my expertise.
I had a family friend the other day contact me, their kid just got their PhD in computer science from a top UK university with multiple publications to their name, asking me about thing as even they are struggling to get a job.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
Dystopian Britain. The government tracks your every move.
It doesn't, though, does it. Turn your phone off, nobody knows where you are.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Go for a drive and there are number plate cameras everywhere. Use your credit or debit card and you are logged. It’s harder than you might imagine to completely disappear. How many ring doorbells do you pass? CCTV installations?
Now 99.99% of the time no one is following you. But if little kinabalu should become a suspect in a crime, well there would be the ability to track you.
Yes. Nobody tracks you but it's quite hard to disappear if you're wanted for a crime. That's about the size of it.
Imagine the comic LinkAllTheData requirement. The one they issued contracts for, last time.
Imagine the comic NoAccesSegmentation requirement. You know, from last time. The requirement that was part of the contracts issued.
Last time, it was pointed out that people working for councils could access your medical history, under the non-existent access controls that were a deliberate part of the system.
Guess who control lots of councils now?
And there is no doubt that the card system will incorporate elaborate data on ethnicity, immigration status, sexuality etc.
Look at the behaviour of ICE in America. The biggest thing that slows them down is finding their targets.
A national database of where Muslims live? Who would abuse that?
Good points but I don't want to tilt at 2005 windmills. Let's see the 2025 proposals if they're coming. There's benefits, there's risks.
They are the same proposals as last time. What is it that someone said? “Trust me, they will do that”
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
Dystopian Britain. The government tracks your every move.
It doesn't, though, does it. Turn your phone off, nobody knows where you are.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Go for a drive and there are number plate cameras everywhere. Use your credit or debit card and you are logged. It’s harder than you might imagine to completely disappear. How many ring doorbells do you pass? CCTV installations?
Now 99.99% of the time no one is following you. But if little kinabalu should become a suspect in a crime, well there would be the ability to track you.
Yes. Nobody tracks you but it's quite hard to disappear if you're wanted for a crime. That's about the size of it.
And the problem is the definition of what constitutes a crime is expanding at a rapid rate.
You will, probably, be untouched by it all but poke your nose outside NW3, perhaps take a trip home, and you will find this is a real issue.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Nothing is going to help. These stories will proliferate, wildly, in the coming months and years
The anxiety has already reached my older daughter and her friends - starting Year 2 at uni next week. "What are we all going to do??"
I try to reassure her, or at least console her. "Just enjoy your uni life. Enjoy your new friends and have a ball. No one knows where we will be in three years...."
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Without being funny, you are in academia, its a very different world. I spent quite a number of years in academia, and basically never truly applied for a position, certainly not in the way a traditional job goes down and certainly not how modern corporate employment is (we are copying the Americans as usual). It was all networking, your supervisor knows x or y has money and looking for somebody with this interest, you write to them, there is often mutual understanding of the research, the interview is chatting of your research interests and their problem, perhaps you give a presentation about your previous works. Its quite different to the way modern corporate employment has gone, particularly with LLMs.
First got me a half day as a receptionist at a shipbroker's, then I was sacked at lunchtime
Second application got me an interview for a job as a staff writer. on a magazine in Brixton, in the office, and during the interview the editor said "you don't REALLY want this job, do you?"
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Without being funny, you are in academia, its a very different world. I spent quite a number of years in academia, and basically never truly applied for a position, certainly not in the way a traditional job goes down and certainly not how modern corporate employment is (we are copying the Americans as usual). It was all networking, your supervisor knows x or y has money and looking for somebody with this interest, you write to them, there is often mutual understanding of the research, the interview is chatting of your research interests and their problem, perhaps you give a presentation about your previous works. Its quite different to the way modern corporate employment has gone, particularly with LLMs.
This will hit academe soon. Universities are completely doomed. People won't take on £50k debt when there is no job at the end
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
Dystopian Britain. The government tracks your every move.
It doesn't, though, does it. Turn your phone off, nobody knows where you are.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Go for a drive and there are number plate cameras everywhere. Use your credit or debit card and you are logged. It’s harder than you might imagine to completely disappear. How many ring doorbells do you pass? CCTV installations?
Now 99.99% of the time no one is following you. But if little kinabalu should become a suspect in a crime, well there would be the ability to track you.
In which case, you would think the police would actually be able to catch some criminals committing crimes other than upsetting someone on X.
Did a senior policeperson not stop and think "Wait, the police have an issue with perceived bias and over-reaction at the moment, should we really arrest this 57 year old Irish comedian, for three possibly transphobic tweets? Yes, we should!!"
Then they must have had a chat about how to do it, to improve the image of the police, in a country where the polling says the public has calamitously lost trust in them
"Shall we quietly send around a constable? Ask him to come to the station? What's the most politic and delicate way to handle this? So we don't alienate still more citizens?"
"I know, let's send a squad of three, no four - yes four armed police to arrest him as soon as he gets home from America, like he's a jihadi but worse."
"That's brilliant but I've got an even better idea, let's send FIVE - five armed police! - and let's do it literally at the airport as he lands so it looks like we are insane and have lost all sense of proportion and we have no clue about catching actual criminals, because we think bad tweets are worse than rape?!"
"This is genius, Sir. Soon the public will love us once again."
Superintendent Savage overruled by Chief Constable Woke.
Wrong.
Savage *is* the Chief Constable. He has a whole bookshelf (custom made, taxpayers expense) of abstract glass objects that are awards for his work in anti-racism, anti-sexism etc.
He is especially proud of Operation Darkie - where undercover police arrest people for ordering their coffee “Black”. Black people, that is, at black rights demos.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Nothing is going to help. These stories will proliferate, wildly, in the coming months and years
The anxiety has already reached my older daughter and her friends - starting Year 2 at uni next week. "What are we all going to do??"
I try to reassure her, or at least console her. "Just enjoy your uni life. Enjoy your new friends and have a ball. No one knows where we will be in three years...."
She is mildly consoled, but not entirely
I am starting to see this in grads and students when we take placements. I remember graduating in 2005 and having a choice of graduate scheme offers and, pre-financial crisis, a sense of an ever expanding economy.
That world has gone and I get that this changes everything if you’re 20. For fifteen years I have assumed it would magically reassert itself, and it just hasn’t.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
The difference being, none of those many Thatcher-haters had actually voted for her just the year prior.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Without being funny, you are in academia, its a very different world. I spent quite a number of years in academia, and basically never truly applied for a position, certainly not in the way a traditional job goes down and certainly not how modern corporate employment is (we are copying the Americans as usual). It was all networking, your supervisor knows x or y has money and looking for somebody with this interest, you write to them, there is often mutual understanding of the research, the interview is chatting of your research interests and their problem, perhaps you give a presentation about your previous works. Its quite different to the way modern corporate employment has gone, particularly with LLMs.
This will hit academe soon. Universities are completely doomed. People won't take on £50k debt when there is no job at the end
Yes and no. I can see a move to more the MPI model that Germany has, where you have these dedicated research labs that already sit at arms length from a university and are government funded. Those still hire very much in a similar manner.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
Dystopian Britain. The government tracks your every move.
It doesn't, though, does it. Turn your phone off, nobody knows where you are.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Go for a drive and there are number plate cameras everywhere. Use your credit or debit card and you are logged. It’s harder than you might imagine to completely disappear. How many ring doorbells do you pass? CCTV installations?
Now 99.99% of the time no one is following you. But if little kinabalu should become a suspect in a crime, well there would be the ability to track you.
Yes. Nobody tracks you but it's quite hard to disappear if you're wanted for a crime. That's about the size of it.
Imagine the comic LinkAllTheData requirement. The one they issued contracts for, last time.
Imagine the comic NoAccesSegmentation requirement. You know, from last time. The requirement that was part of the contracts issued.
Last time, it was pointed out that people working for councils could access your medical history, under the non-existent access controls that were a deliberate part of the system.
Guess who control lots of councils now?
And there is no doubt that the card system will incorporate elaborate data on ethnicity, immigration status, sexuality etc.
Look at the behaviour of ICE in America. The biggest thing that slows them down is finding their targets.
A national database of where Muslims live? Who would abuse that?
Good points but I don't want to tilt at 2005 windmills. Let's see the 2025 proposals if they're coming. There's benefits, there's risks.
They are the same proposals as last time. What is it that someone said? “Trust me, they will do that”
There aren't any proposals atm. It's all spec and goss.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Nothing is going to help. These stories will proliferate, wildly, in the coming months and years
The anxiety has already reached my older daughter and her friends - starting Year 2 at uni next week. "What are we all going to do??"
I try to reassure her, or at least console her. "Just enjoy your uni life. Enjoy your new friends and have a ball. No one knows where we will be in three years...."
She is mildly consoled, but not entirely
I am starting to see this in grads and students when we take placements. I remember graduating in 2005 and having a choice of graduate scheme offers and, pre-financial crisis, a sense of an ever expanding economy.
That world has gone and I get that this changes everything if you’re 20. For fifteen years I have assumed it would magically reassert itself, and it just hasn’t.
A brutal, turbulent decade - 2025-35 - has just begun
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
I have returned from Austria. To my newly painted living room. For the first time
And I can report…
IT IS AN ABSOLUTE FUCKING TRIUMPH!!
Jeez I was nervous. Took a big risk. Went bold and dark. It is SUMPTUOUS
The room feels about 8% smaller and about 800% more glamorous
*dances in Hicks Blue*
Lulu Lytle nails it again!
This is possibly even better than the bedroom. It’s like the dark masculine handsome partner of the decadently feminine opium den bordello of a bedroom. This is the ego calling to my anima, down the hallway of memories
Gone is the last of the IKEA. Gone is the dreary greige and the listless cream
SWOONS
I'm genuinely delighted for you.
This could be Starmer's salvation.
Free blue paint on the NHS, and the mood of the country transformed...
Is it Conservative blue or Reform blue?
Point of order, and it’s an important one for the next electoral cycle.
Is Reform’s colour blue? It’s more of a turquoise isn’t it? I would say that’s more a blueish green than a greenish blue.
I wouldn't argue with that, my perception of colour is not very acute. But I agree it is important for elections.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Without being funny, you are in academia, its a very different world. I spent quite a number of years in academia, and basically never truly applied for a position, certainly not in the way a traditional job goes down and certainly not how modern corporate employment is (we are copying the Americans as usual). It was all networking, your supervisor knows x or y has money and looking for somebody with this interest, you write to them, there is often mutual understanding of the research, the interview is chatting of your research interests and their problem, perhaps you give a presentation about your previous works. Its quite different to the way modern corporate employment has gone, particularly with LLMs.
True, although I have applied to work outside Uni too. But I was also thinking of my wife’s experiences. She was superb at getting an interview (less good at interviews). But I’d say she more often than not got to interview because she worked hard on the application. Now I accept that this is a small sample and that it’s probably possible to apply for 5000 jobs in two years, but none of those applications can have been targeted, surely?
People suggesting that the UK has a freedom of speech issue have a point. Grabbing someone at the airport with 5 armed officers for mean tweets is literally ridiculous. That this was even entertained as a plan is ridiculous. The next government needs to repeal all of the idiotic legislation around restricting speech.
The Tories are a joke to have let things get so bad, Labour will make things worse. It's time for a first amendment law that overrides all others, we need this now more than ever.
This country is becoming a laughing stock over this and the completely ridiculous illegal immigration issue and the government placing the rights of illegals over the rights of citizens.
It's nonsense to arrest for such a thing.
Linehan has transitioned from Father Dougal to Father Jack over the decades. When did he last write something funny?
About the time the woke brigade made sure his commissions dried up.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
Dystopian Britain. The government tracks your every move.
It doesn't, though, does it. Turn your phone off, nobody knows where you are.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Go for a drive and there are number plate cameras everywhere. Use your credit or debit card and you are logged. It’s harder than you might imagine to completely disappear. How many ring doorbells do you pass? CCTV installations?
Now 99.99% of the time no one is following you. But if little kinabalu should become a suspect in a crime, well there would be the ability to track you.
Yes. Nobody tracks you but it's quite hard to disappear if you're wanted for a crime. That's about the size of it.
Big tech automatically tracks you by default, not just online, but physically e.g. Google Maps / Waze makes massive revenue for Google. The technology is all there. If it wasn't for some EU laws, we would be like Asia where you walk into a shop, you browse items, big tech can tell what you spent time looking at, you leave without purchasing, they auction off adverts to spam you with deals for that item or similar, all without you ever disclosing your phone number to them or even them buying it.
I'm all for government reining in Big Tech. The issue of our times, I'd say.
You think if they go all digital ID cards they won't want to form a massive database of all that info and leverage this kind of tech? There is absolutely no reason to have ID cards for ID alone.
I do think it will be leveraged, yes. There's little point otherwise.
Bell is certainly highly intelligent but his pushing ever higher fairer taxes at the Treasury on landlords, shareholders and property owners will hardly give an attractive proposition to swing voters and he would be a risk as a future Chancellor
I have returned from Austria. To my newly painted living room. For the first time
And I can report…
IT IS AN ABSOLUTE FUCKING TRIUMPH!!
Jeez I was nervous. Took a big risk. Went bold and dark. It is SUMPTUOUS
The room feels about 8% smaller and about 800% more glamorous
*dances in Hicks Blue*
Lulu Lytle nails it again!
This is possibly even better than the bedroom. It’s like the dark masculine handsome partner of the decadently feminine opium den bordello of a bedroom. This is the ego calling to my anima, down the hallway of memories
Gone is the last of the IKEA. Gone is the dreary greige and the listless cream
SWOONS
I'm genuinely delighted for you.
This could be Starmer's salvation.
Free blue paint on the NHS, and the mood of the country transformed...
Is it Conservative blue or Reform blue?
Point of order, and it’s an important one for the next electoral cycle.
Is Reform’s colour blue? It’s more of a turquoise isn’t it? I would say that’s more a blueish green than a greenish blue.
I wouldn't argue with that, my perception of colour is not very acute. But I agree it is important for elections.
I get even angry about it. Do the LibDems want to be yellow or orange? Pick one, Sir Ed!!!!
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
Rayner would be a better option for taking on Reform than another metropolitan. She may not get the wife beaters’ votes but she may get the less extreme voters.
I've been speaking to @nat_fahy, the editor of @nottslive about the ban by Cllr Mick Barton the @reformparty_uk leader at @nottscc stopping his councillors speaking to her journalists
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Without being funny, you are in academia, its a very different world. I spent quite a number of years in academia, and basically never truly applied for a position, certainly not in the way a traditional job goes down and certainly not how modern corporate employment is (we are copying the Americans as usual). It was all networking, your supervisor knows x or y has money and looking for somebody with this interest, you write to them, there is often mutual understanding of the research, the interview is chatting of your research interests and their problem, perhaps you give a presentation about your previous works. Its quite different to the way modern corporate employment has gone, particularly with LLMs.
True, although I have applied to work outside Uni too. But I was also thinking of my wife’s experiences. She was superb at getting an interview (less good at interviews). But I’d say she more often than not got to interview because she worked hard on the application. Now I accept that this is a small sample and that it’s probably possible to apply for 5000 jobs in two years, but none of those applications can have been targeted, surely?
Talking to my friends kid, it appears you now need to play this silly game knowing that only an AI will read your application. So what you do is use an LLM to modify your template CV / cover letter / application, and fire it off. Its become a volume game, because everybody else is doing this (often lying about what they have to offer, because they know an LLM will read it and they worry about the interview process later).
Of course 5000 is extreme, that is why its a clickbait news article. But I do think there is something in there, job market is hard, LLMs are eating roles, LLMs are also increasing application volume, resulting in massive decreasing the signal to noise ratio.
I see it in academic paper applications for ML / AI. Some conferences are now getting 15-50k paper submission, There is never 50000 new "ideas" worthy of a paper. Some conferences have now capped the number of papers you can send in, because again people were gaming the system sending in 10s of papers, all very similar, getting LLMs to write code / experiments and the chunks of the text. And they do this, because the flywheel is in motion, every year more submission, harder to get noticed in the noise, so fire more darts. Before you know, a top tier ML conference that used to get 1-2k papers, its 50k.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Without being funny, you are in academia, its a very different world. I spent quite a number of years in academia, and basically never truly applied for a position, certainly not in the way a traditional job goes down and certainly not how modern corporate employment is (we are copying the Americans as usual). It was all networking, your supervisor knows x or y has money and looking for somebody with this interest, you write to them, there is often mutual understanding of the research, the interview is chatting of your research interests and their problem, perhaps you give a presentation about your previous works. Its quite different to the way modern corporate employment has gone, particularly with LLMs.
This will hit academe soon. Universities are completely doomed. People won't take on £50k debt when there is no job at the end
There will be no job at 18 either though, if your more vivid extrapolations come to pass. Essentially the end of employment.
"Starmer attacks Met after Father Ted creator arrested over trans posts PM tells police to concentrate on serious crime as Graham Linehan is detained over gender-critical tweets"
Not that it's relevant, but the reason he was flying back to the UK today is that he has a trial at Westminster Magistrates this Thurs on a somewhat similar matter.
Interesting show on BBC2 about an unscrupulous investment firm having 90s footballers over; investing their money in a Gordon Brown film scheme that allowed people to claim back the tax, pocketing the kickback and leaving the players high & dry
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
She's liked but I don't think she'd win a members vote to become PM. Could be wrong but that's my sense.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Without being funny, you are in academia, its a very different world. I spent quite a number of years in academia, and basically never truly applied for a position, certainly not in the way a traditional job goes down and certainly not how modern corporate employment is (we are copying the Americans as usual). It was all networking, your supervisor knows x or y has money and looking for somebody with this interest, you write to them, there is often mutual understanding of the research, the interview is chatting of your research interests and their problem, perhaps you give a presentation about your previous works. Its quite different to the way modern corporate employment has gone, particularly with LLMs.
True, although I have applied to work outside Uni too. But I was also thinking of my wife’s experiences. She was superb at getting an interview (less good at interviews). But I’d say she more often than not got to interview because she worked hard on the application. Now I accept that this is a small sample and that it’s probably possible to apply for 5000 jobs in two years, but none of those applications can have been targeted, surely?
Talking to my friends kid, it appears you now need to play this silly game knowing that only an AI will read your application. So what you do is use an LLM to modify your template CV / cover letter / application, and fire it off. Its become a volume game, because everybody else is doing this (often lying about what they have to offer, because they know an LLM will read it and they worry about the interview process later).
Of course 5000 is extreme, that is why its a clickbait news article. But I do think there is something in there, job market is hard, LLMs are eating roles, LLMs are also increasing application volume, resulting in massive decreasing the signal to noise ratio.
I see it in academic paper applications for ML / AI. Some conferences are now getting 15-50k paper submission, There is never 50000 new "ideas" worthy of a paper. Some conferences have now capped the number of papers you can send in, because again people were gaming the system sending in 10s of papers, all very similar, getting LLMs to write code / experiments and the chunks of the text. And they do this, because the flywheel is in motion, every year more submission, harder to get noticed in the noise, so fire more darts. Before you know, a top tier ML conference that used to get 1-2k papers, its 50k.
It's very simple: people who understand prompt injection hacks get employed.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Without being funny, you are in academia, its a very different world. I spent quite a number of years in academia, and basically never truly applied for a position, certainly not in the way a traditional job goes down and certainly not how modern corporate employment is (we are copying the Americans as usual). It was all networking, your supervisor knows x or y has money and looking for somebody with this interest, you write to them, there is often mutual understanding of the research, the interview is chatting of your research interests and their problem, perhaps you give a presentation about your previous works. Its quite different to the way modern corporate employment has gone, particularly with LLMs.
This will hit academe soon. Universities are completely doomed. People won't take on £50k debt when there is no job at the end
There will be no job at 18 either though, if your more vivid extrapolations come to pass. Essentially the end of employment.
Certainly far fewer
I am glad you now accept what I've been saying about universities. Also, sorry. I take no pleasure in delivering bad news. It depresses me, and I fear for my kids
We have to look on the bright side, if we can. Great scientific breakthroughs, medical advances by the million, etc
Interesting show on BBC2 about an unscrupulous investment firm having 90s footballers over; investing their money in a Gordon Brown film scheme that allowed people to claim back the tax, pocketing the kickback and leaving the players high & dry
So many celebs have been caught in those film schemes. Gary Lineker was in dispute with the HMRC for years and years over his investment in them. Basically Brown scheme was a disaster as it has been widely exploited and then HMRC have ruled many aren't legal and then as so often the only winners are the lawyers.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
Tax dodger. It will stick to her really badly as a leftie in a way it wouldn't for a Tory.
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So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
Tax dodger. It will stick to her really badly as a leftie in a way it wouldn't for a Tory.
That money she "saved" would hae paid for at least one nurse....
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Without being funny, you are in academia, its a very different world. I spent quite a number of years in academia, and basically never truly applied for a position, certainly not in the way a traditional job goes down and certainly not how modern corporate employment is (we are copying the Americans as usual). It was all networking, your supervisor knows x or y has money and looking for somebody with this interest, you write to them, there is often mutual understanding of the research, the interview is chatting of your research interests and their problem, perhaps you give a presentation about your previous works. Its quite different to the way modern corporate employment has gone, particularly with LLMs.
This will hit academe soon. Universities are completely doomed. People won't take on £50k debt when there is no job at the end
There will be no job at 18 either though, if your more vivid extrapolations come to pass. Essentially the end of employment.
Certainly far fewer
I am glad you now accept what I've been saying about universities. Also, sorry. I take no pleasure in delivering bad news. It depresses me, and I fear for my kids
We have to look on the bright side, if we can. Great scientific breakthroughs, medical advances by the million, etc
You’ve extrapolated my acceptance wrongly. Perhaps check your reading comprehension?
I think Unis are in for a very interesting time. The current financial strain is entirely down to the fees cap being held below inflation for so long. Ok you can add in some poor management in places too, coupled with over ambitious building schemes. But essentially, so far, demand is higher than ever. We have not yet met your cliff edge. There have always been technological advances that seem to threaten jobs. And in truth some jobs go and new ones are created. What interests me is why we don’t have a path to everyone working less? Why not a four day week? But then if robots came along that do every job, how do people earn money? So many questions.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
Tax dodger. It will stick to her really badly as a leftie in a way it wouldn't for a Tory.
I disagree. They're all venal, she doesn't seem exceptionally so (and I am more than happy to hate on Labour politicos)
For me, as an outsider, she seems the obvious candidate to replace Starmer. She has the charisma which he lacks, she is a she, she is authentically working class (unlike Skyr), she is bright in a way he isn't, she will enthuse echt Labour voters
It's difficult to see her winning an overall majority but I could see her reducing the Reform swing and getting a NOM win. Starmer can't do that, he is already loathed and it is only going to get worse
Interesting show on BBC2 about an unscrupulous investment firm having 90s footballers over; investing their money in a Gordon Brown film scheme that allowed people to claim back the tax, pocketing the kickback and leaving the players high & dry
So many celebs have been caught in those film schemes. Gary Lineker was in dispute with the HMRC for years and years over his investment in them. Basically Brown scheme was a disaster as it has been widely exploited and then HMRC have ruled many aren't legal and then as so often the only winners are the lawyers.
You'd think they'd be able to afford a half-decent investment advisor.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
Tax dodger. It will stick to her really badly as a leftie in a way it wouldn't for a Tory.
Nah, she is a street fighter.
The most damaging thing is that Farage has backed her...
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Having observed the trades as we had our extension done I think I’d agree. Building (bricks, blocks, concreting etc) looked like hard graft. Woodwork not as bad. Plumbing, even with an entirely new installation still seemed to involve getting into tight spaces and odd angles. But the sparkies generally seemed to have it best.
Interesting show on BBC2 about an unscrupulous investment firm having 90s footballers over; investing their money in a Gordon Brown film scheme that allowed people to claim back the tax, pocketing the kickback and leaving the players high & dry
So many celebs have been caught in those film schemes. Gary Lineker was in dispute with the HMRC for years and years over his investment in them. Basically Brown scheme was a disaster as it has been widely exploited and then HMRC have ruled many aren't legal and then as so often the only winners are the lawyers.
You'd think they'd be able to afford a half-decent investment advisor.
The problem is that is what they thought they had.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
Tax dodger. It will stick to her really badly as a leftie in a way it wouldn't for a Tory.
Nah, she is a street fighter.
The most damaging thing is that Farage has backed her...
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
Tax dodger. It will stick to her really badly as a leftie in a way it wouldn't for a Tory.
Nah, she is a street fighter.
The most damaging thing is that Farage has backed her...
The other factor with applying for jobs is that you don't know which job adverts are for a job where they already know who they want to appoint, but they're running a sham open job application process because it's policy to do so for "fairness".
My daughter's been caught up in this a bit, getting a lot of job interviews, and then hearing from people that there's already someone lined up for the role.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
Dystopian Britain. The government tracks your every move.
It doesn't, though, does it. Turn your phone off, nobody knows where you are.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Go for a drive and there are number plate cameras everywhere. Use your credit or debit card and you are logged. It’s harder than you might imagine to completely disappear. How many ring doorbells do you pass? CCTV installations?
Now 99.99% of the time no one is following you. But if little kinabalu should become a suspect in a crime, well there would be the ability to track you.
Yes. Nobody tracks you but it's quite hard to disappear if you're wanted for a crime. That's about the size of it.
And the problem is the definition of what constitutes a crime is expanding at a rapid rate.
You will, probably, be untouched by it all but poke your nose outside NW3, perhaps take a trip home, and you will find this is a real issue.
Elaborate on first para?
Er, what new set of laws have we been debating on here endlessly for months and which at one point was thought might be a threat to PB itself.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
Dystopian Britain. The government tracks your every move.
It doesn't, though, does it. Turn your phone off, nobody knows where you are.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Go for a drive and there are number plate cameras everywhere. Use your credit or debit card and you are logged. It’s harder than you might imagine to completely disappear. How many ring doorbells do you pass? CCTV installations?
Now 99.99% of the time no one is following you. But if little kinabalu should become a suspect in a crime, well there would be the ability to track you.
Yes. Nobody tracks you but it's quite hard to disappear if you're wanted for a crime. That's about the size of it.
Big tech automatically tracks you by default, not just online, but physically e.g. Google Maps / Waze makes massive revenue for Google. The technology is all there. If it wasn't for some EU laws, we would be like Asia where you walk into a shop, you browse items, big tech can tell what you spent time looking at, you leave without purchasing, they auction off adverts to spam you with deals for that item or similar, all without you ever disclosing your phone number to them or even them buying it.
I'm all for government reining in Big Tech. The issue of our times, I'd say.
You think if they go all digital ID cards they won't want to form a massive database of all that info and leverage this kind of tech? There is absolutely no reason to have ID cards for ID alone.
I do think it will be leveraged, yes. There's little point otherwise.
There is actually plenty of point to create a unique id for everyone. There is also plenty of point in using that unique id as key for other records - medical, educational, employment etc.
This is what every other European nation does. Inexpensively and without fuss.
The problem is empire building and the idea that Minority Report and Demolition Man were guidelines for the future - all records instantly instantly accessible to anyone who wants them in the government. And government appointed contractors. No annoying rules - so that nice policeman interrogating you knows your medical history, for example. Because all policemen are nice.
A simple system of a unique id code (with some good quality checksuming and error proofing) tied to a photo, a name, address, phone number and email wouldn’t cost much. It could be implemented by one smallish IT team. It would scale fairly easily using on demand compute on a few racks of hardware in, say, 6 different government owned basements across the U.K.
The requirement is, in IT terms, fairly trivial. This would give you a physical card, a phone app and a setup to verify a given card, by anyone, for free.
The bigger money would be in the organisation issuing the ids. Best plan would be to reuse staff and org from the Passport Office, probably. Obviously expand personnel for the increased work, but they have the methods and security in place.
The problem is that this isn’t sexy. You can’t justify a Richard Rogers tower. You can’t justify £5m for abstract sculpture for the foyer. Or the logo. Or lots of 6 figure jobs in strategic solutionising the impact on the lemming population by ID cards. You need something for 50,000 people to do.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Having observed the trades as we had our extension done I think I’d agree. Building (bricks, blocks, concreting etc) looked like hard graft. Woodwork not as bad. Plumbing, even with an entirely new installation still seemed to involve getting into tight spaces and odd angles. But the sparkies generally seemed to have it best.
Cabinet makers earn a fortune. The prices commanded for custom building an entire kitchen out of solid wood - each cupboard real joinery - are breath taking.
The other factor with applying for jobs is that you don't know which job adverts are for a job where they already know who they want to appoint, but they're running a sham open job application process because it's policy to do so for "fairness".
My daughter's been caught up in this a bit, getting a lot of job interviews, and then hearing from people that there's already someone lined up for the role.
If you want to fix a job, you need to fix it at the job description and person specification. When it gets to interview it is no longer controllable.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Like the old (very old) joke about the guy who gets a plumber in to fix a leak after which the plumber says that'll be £400. And the guy says £400? That took you half an hour. That's £800 an hour which is more more than I earn and I'm a lawyer. To which the plumber says yes, it's more than I earned when I was a lawyer.
The other factor with applying for jobs is that you don't know which job adverts are for a job where they already know who they want to appoint, but they're running a sham open job application process because it's policy to do so for "fairness".
My daughter's been caught up in this a bit, getting a lot of job interviews, and then hearing from people that there's already someone lined up for the role.
If you want to fix a job, you need to fix it at the job description and person specification. When it gets to interview it is no longer controllable.
The other factor with applying for jobs is that you don't know which job adverts are for a job where they already know who they want to appoint, but they're running a sham open job application process because it's policy to do so for "fairness".
My daughter's been caught up in this a bit, getting a lot of job interviews, and then hearing from people that there's already someone lined up for the role.
A problem that’s been going on a while. About twenty years ago my best man turned up to an interview/presentation at an Irish Uni where it rapidly became apparent that candidate X, the home grown boy, would be getting the job. The only thing my friend objected to was not having the option of just collecting his expenses form and flying home without the rigmarole of the interview…
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Having observed the trades as we had our extension done I think I’d agree. Building (bricks, blocks, concreting etc) looked like hard graft. Woodwork not as bad. Plumbing, even with an entirely new installation still seemed to involve getting into tight spaces and odd angles. But the sparkies generally seemed to have it best.
Cabinet makers earn a fortune. The prices commanded for custom building an entire kitchen out of solid wood - each cupboard real joinery - are breath taking.
Just bought some solid wood stuff, feels like it is worth more than gold.
The other factor with applying for jobs is that you don't know which job adverts are for a job where they already know who they want to appoint, but they're running a sham open job application process because it's policy to do so for "fairness".
My daughter's been caught up in this a bit, getting a lot of job interviews, and then hearing from people that there's already someone lined up for the role.
I have heard there is another sham. They advertise ghost jobs to harvest the info. Then depending on how dodgy there is sell info through to we know what talent there is out there, so when we do actually have a job, we can contact them.
The other factor with applying for jobs is that you don't know which job adverts are for a job where they already know who they want to appoint, but they're running a sham open job application process because it's policy to do so for "fairness".
My daughter's been caught up in this a bit, getting a lot of job interviews, and then hearing from people that there's already someone lined up for the role.
So your task in hand is to turn up to the interview and show them they are about to make a big mistake.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
Tax dodger. It will stick to her really badly as a leftie in a way it wouldn't for a Tory.
Nah, she is a street fighter.
The most damaging thing is that Farage has backed her...
The people she is fighting against are those who pay their taxes.
She did. Everyone has the right to take advice on how to legally minimise tax.
Sure, though whether it is necessary for there to be the complexity to make it possible for well off people and corporations to get the advice to do that, well, I have my doubts if it is overall beneficial.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
Dystopian Britain. The government tracks your every move.
It doesn't, though, does it. Turn your phone off, nobody knows where you are.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Go for a drive and there are number plate cameras everywhere. Use your credit or debit card and you are logged. It’s harder than you might imagine to completely disappear. How many ring doorbells do you pass? CCTV installations?
Now 99.99% of the time no one is following you. But if little kinabalu should become a suspect in a crime, well there would be the ability to track you.
Yes. Nobody tracks you but it's quite hard to disappear if you're wanted for a crime. That's about the size of it.
Big tech automatically tracks you by default, not just online, but physically e.g. Google Maps / Waze makes massive revenue for Google. The technology is all there. If it wasn't for some EU laws, we would be like Asia where you walk into a shop, you browse items, big tech can tell what you spent time looking at, you leave without purchasing, they auction off adverts to spam you with deals for that item or similar, all without you ever disclosing your phone number to them or even them buying it.
I'm all for government reining in Big Tech. The issue of our times, I'd say.
You think if they go all digital ID cards they won't want to form a massive database of all that info and leverage this kind of tech? There is absolutely no reason to have ID cards for ID alone.
I do think it will be leveraged, yes. There's little point otherwise.
There is actually plenty of point to create a unique id for everyone. There is also plenty of point in using that unique id as key for other records - medical, educational, employment etc.
This is what every other European nation does. Inexpensively and without fuss.
The problem is empire building and the idea that Minority Report and Demolition Man were guidelines for the future - all records instantly instantly accessible to anyone who wants them in the government. And government appointed contractors. No annoying rules - so that nice policeman interrogating you knows your medical history, for example. Because all policemen are nice.
A simple system of a unique id code (with some good quality checksuming and error proofing) tied to a photo, a name, address, phone number and email wouldn’t cost much. It could be implemented by one smallish IT team. It would scale fairly easily using on demand compute on a few racks of hardware in, say, 6 different government owned basements across the U.K.
The requirement is, in IT terms, fairly trivial. This would give you a physical card, a phone app and a setup to verify a given card, by anyone, for free.
The bigger money would be in the organisation issuing the ids. Best plan would be to reuse staff and org from the Passport Office, probably. Obviously expand personnel for the increased work, but they have the methods and security in place.
The problem is that this isn’t sexy. You can’t justify a Richard Rogers tower. You can’t justify £5m for abstract sculpture for the foyer. Or the logo. Or lots of 6 figure jobs in strategic solutionising the impact on the lemming population by ID cards. You need something for 50,000 people to do.
I’ve already got lots of digital ID. I have a driving licence, a passport and an NHS number. I would have not issue if these where all one number. As others have said the dangers lie with who gets to access your data, and why.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Having observed the trades as we had our extension done I think I’d agree. Building (bricks, blocks, concreting etc) looked like hard graft. Woodwork not as bad. Plumbing, even with an entirely new installation still seemed to involve getting into tight spaces and odd angles. But the sparkies generally seemed to have it best.
Cabinet makers earn a fortune. The prices commanded for custom building an entire kitchen out of solid wood - each cupboard real joinery - are breath taking.
Just bought some solid wood stuff, feels like it is worth more than gold.
Wasn't it agreed here that if its old mahogany then its worth little ?
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Having observed the trades as we had our extension done I think I’d agree. Building (bricks, blocks, concreting etc) looked like hard graft. Woodwork not as bad. Plumbing, even with an entirely new installation still seemed to involve getting into tight spaces and odd angles. But the sparkies generally seemed to have it best.
Cabinet makers earn a fortune. The prices commanded for custom building an entire kitchen out of solid wood - each cupboard real joinery - are breath taking.
How soon before a robot is better? We surely have the tech now.
The other factor with applying for jobs is that you don't know which job adverts are for a job where they already know who they want to appoint, but they're running a sham open job application process because it's policy to do so for "fairness".
My daughter's been caught up in this a bit, getting a lot of job interviews, and then hearing from people that there's already someone lined up for the role.
A problem that’s been going on a while. About twenty years ago my best man turned up to an interview/presentation at an Irish Uni where it rapidly became apparent that candidate X, the home grown boy, would be getting the job. The only thing my friend objected to was not having the option of just collecting his expenses form and flying home without the rigmarole of the interview…
Irish medical appointments used to be like that too. "The Murphyia" as it was known.
Italian medicine seems to work the same way even now.
The other thing with this 'i applied to one million jobs and got nowhere' is that the unemployment rate has been steady at around 4% since around 2015.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Having observed the trades as we had our extension done I think I’d agree. Building (bricks, blocks, concreting etc) looked like hard graft. Woodwork not as bad. Plumbing, even with an entirely new installation still seemed to involve getting into tight spaces and odd angles. But the sparkies generally seemed to have it best.
Cabinet makers earn a fortune. The prices commanded for custom building an entire kitchen out of solid wood - each cupboard real joinery - are breath taking.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
Tax dodger. It will stick to her really badly as a leftie in a way it wouldn't for a Tory.
Nah, she is a street fighter.
The most damaging thing is that Farage has backed her...
The people she is fighting against are those who pay their taxes.
She did. Everyone has the right to take advice on how to legally minimise tax.
Do you think people care about the details ?
All they read is that Rayner kept moving her primary residence around multiple properties to minimise her tax bill.
And then they read about all the taxes that the government might soon be increasing and which they'll have no easy way to minimise what it will costs them.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Having observed the trades as we had our extension done I think I’d agree. Building (bricks, blocks, concreting etc) looked like hard graft. Woodwork not as bad. Plumbing, even with an entirely new installation still seemed to involve getting into tight spaces and odd angles. But the sparkies generally seemed to have it best.
Cabinet makers earn a fortune. The prices commanded for custom building an entire kitchen out of solid wood - each cupboard real joinery - are breath taking.
Starmer should get one.
Surely with his skills derived from making buses out of old wine boxes, Johnson would be the one to go for.
MAGA will tell you bruised sausage fingers and IV bruise cover up is fine.
That his hair wasn’t messy, his face didn’t droop and he didn’t sound winded or nasally at all.
The same people that claimed Biden took “a fistful of uppers” to get through the state of the union, suddenly can’t fathom that steroids and adderall will get you through a press conference.
Or how a mild stroke patient, whose private medical team can push clot busters within minutes, and who had a week off, could present with only minor post-stroke dysarthria and the slightest droop instead of being in a wheelchair.
The sock puppets will screech that he is in “perfect health” because he isn’t in a casket.
Because just like always the way to try and sweep it under the rug, is to take the most far flung claim anyone on the left made and apply it across the board.
Whether they like it or not, everything we’ve seen is consistent with Trump having had a mild stroke with quick intervention.
And that matters because many stroke victims don’t die from their first stroke, they die from the next one.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
Tax dodger. It will stick to her really badly as a leftie in a way it wouldn't for a Tory.
Nah, she is a street fighter.
The most damaging thing is that Farage has backed her...
The people she is fighting against are those who pay their taxes.
She did. Everyone has the right to take advice on how to legally minimise tax.
Do you think people care about the details ?
All they read is that Rayner kept moving her primary residence around multiple properties to minimise her tax bill.
And then they read about all the taxes that the government might soon be increasing and which they'll have no easy way to minimise what it will costs them.
She only owns one property, she doesn't own a second home.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
Dystopian Britain. The government tracks your every move.
It doesn't, though, does it. Turn your phone off, nobody knows where you are.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Go for a drive and there are number plate cameras everywhere. Use your credit or debit card and you are logged. It’s harder than you might imagine to completely disappear. How many ring doorbells do you pass? CCTV installations?
Now 99.99% of the time no one is following you. But if little kinabalu should become a suspect in a crime, well there would be the ability to track you.
Yes. Nobody tracks you but it's quite hard to disappear if you're wanted for a crime. That's about the size of it.
Big tech automatically tracks you by default, not just online, but physically e.g. Google Maps / Waze makes massive revenue for Google. The technology is all there. If it wasn't for some EU laws, we would be like Asia where you walk into a shop, you browse items, big tech can tell what you spent time looking at, you leave without purchasing, they auction off adverts to spam you with deals for that item or similar, all without you ever disclosing your phone number to them or even them buying it.
I'm all for government reining in Big Tech. The issue of our times, I'd say.
You think if they go all digital ID cards they won't want to form a massive database of all that info and leverage this kind of tech? There is absolutely no reason to have ID cards for ID alone.
I do think it will be leveraged, yes. There's little point otherwise.
There is actually plenty of point to create a unique id for everyone. There is also plenty of point in using that unique id as key for other records - medical, educational, employment etc.
This is what every other European nation does. Inexpensively and without fuss.
The problem is empire building and the idea that Minority Report and Demolition Man were guidelines for the future - all records instantly instantly accessible to anyone who wants them in the government. And government appointed contractors. No annoying rules - so that nice policeman interrogating you knows your medical history, for example. Because all policemen are nice.
A simple system of a unique id code (with some good quality checksuming and error proofing) tied to a photo, a name, address, phone number and email wouldn’t cost much. It could be implemented by one smallish IT team. It would scale fairly easily using on demand compute on a few racks of hardware in, say, 6 different government owned basements across the U.K.
The requirement is, in IT terms, fairly trivial. This would give you a physical card, a phone app and a setup to verify a given card, by anyone, for free.
The bigger money would be in the organisation issuing the ids. Best plan would be to reuse staff and org from the Passport Office, probably. Obviously expand personnel for the increased work, but they have the methods and security in place.
The problem is that this isn’t sexy. You can’t justify a Richard Rogers tower. You can’t justify £5m for abstract sculpture for the foyer. Or the logo. Or lots of 6 figure jobs in strategic solutionising the impact on the lemming population by ID cards. You need something for 50,000 people to do.
I’ve already got lots of digital ID. I have a driving licence, a passport and an NHS number. I would have not issue if these where all one number. As others have said the dangers lie with who gets to access your data, and why.
And a NI Number, which everyone has*, and is unique
* Yes I know foreign nationals might not, and sometimes they end up with two
The other thing with this 'i applied to one million jobs and got nowhere' is that the unemployment rate has been steady at around 4% since around 2015.
Ah, but. When it's I'm educated, was stonkingly well paid, but AI has got rid of my job, and I have no other discernible skills... Then it's a story in the Telegraph.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Having observed the trades as we had our extension done I think I’d agree. Building (bricks, blocks, concreting etc) looked like hard graft. Woodwork not as bad. Plumbing, even with an entirely new installation still seemed to involve getting into tight spaces and odd angles. But the sparkies generally seemed to have it best.
Nephew gave up on doing any more education after school and now does gardening/landscaping. Not exactly high powered, but plenty of market for it and he's not 50k in debt. Quite a sane decision if he sticks with it.
Better than some pointless "academic" course that really isn't fit for anything.
This 50% to university thing is going to have to go - but how we get back to 10% without a lot of squealing I don't know.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Having observed the trades as we had our extension done I think I’d agree. Building (bricks, blocks, concreting etc) looked like hard graft. Woodwork not as bad. Plumbing, even with an entirely new installation still seemed to involve getting into tight spaces and odd angles. But the sparkies generally seemed to have it best.
Cabinet makers earn a fortune. The prices commanded for custom building an entire kitchen out of solid wood - each cupboard real joinery - are breath taking.
So who will be left earning fortunes to pay for the cabinets? I’m sure the broligarchs will have a few houses to fit out, but after that?
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Having observed the trades as we had our extension done I think I’d agree. Building (bricks, blocks, concreting etc) looked like hard graft. Woodwork not as bad. Plumbing, even with an entirely new installation still seemed to involve getting into tight spaces and odd angles. But the sparkies generally seemed to have it best.
Cabinet makers earn a fortune. The prices commanded for custom building an entire kitchen out of solid wood - each cupboard real joinery - are breath taking.
These guys charge a fortune, and they do all real joinery
but read the small print and it looks a lot like they make it from MDF... The main carcass of the Oxford Furniture is built using a high density engineered timber. This engineered timber is made using a combination of hardwood and epoxy resin which is formed under intense pressure to create a very dense, stable material which is the perfect base for building painted furniture.
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
In a remarkable experiment that shows it's not just dogs, an intelligent and highly travelled Camden man turns into a slobbering dog at the sight of a Daily Mail headline. More on page six.
It's not the Daily Mail, it's Starmer
I freely confess I am somewhat unhinged about him. As you were about Boris
I thought my loathing of Gareth Southgate was impressive but my utter abhorrence for Starmer is in a different league. Every thing he does, says, thinks, IS, makes me want to REDACTED, and the intensity of this only intensifies
I said before: it gives me an insight into how some people felt about Thatcher, I could never get my head around those wild emotions she evoked. Now I totally understand
And that's exactly why I feel for you. I hated (yes, the right word) Boris Johnson being PM and I can still recall the misery of it, how long those 3 years seemed. But on a brighter note I also recall the ecstasy of his demise. You possibly have that to look forward to in 2029 when you're 67.
A melancholy thought. Thank God I have my handsome blue room to console me
On a slightly brighter note, Starmer is so clearly shit at this job - and never going to get better - I am pretty certain he will quit before 2029. He will sack Reeves, it won't work, then the spotlight will be on him, and I reckon he'll bail
Certainly possible. More than possible - I rate it above 50% somebody else leads Labour into the next election. But don't ask me who. Has to be a woman, won't be Ange. A conundrum.
Why not Rayner? She's got a bit of oomph, and charisma. She's certainly not to my taste (tho not as bad as the Toolmakersson) - but is she disliked in the party?
Tax dodger. It will stick to her really badly as a leftie in a way it wouldn't for a Tory.
Nah, she is a street fighter.
The most damaging thing is that Farage has backed her...
The people she is fighting against are those who pay their taxes.
She did. Everyone has the right to take advice on how to legally minimise tax.
Do you think people care about the details ?
All they read is that Rayner kept moving her primary residence around multiple properties to minimise her tax bill.
And then they read about all the taxes that the government might soon be increasing and which they'll have no easy way to minimise what it will costs them.
It also feeds into the spivvy imagery surrounding this government - all those freebies that Starmer and Reeves took for example or a homelessness minister evicting tenants so she could increase rental income.
The other thing with this 'i applied to one million jobs and got nowhere' is that the unemployment rate has been steady at around 4% since around 2015.
Ah, but. When it's I'm educated, was stonkingly well paid, but AI has got rid of my job, and I have no other discernible skills... Then it's a story in the Telegraph.
It's because this unemployment is hitting the middle classes FIRST, isn't that obvious? Copywriters, in this case
So it hits home for Telegraph readers. Many of whom will have kids at uni, or aiming for uni, or out of uni, and everyone is thinking the same thing: Shiiiiiiiit
As my daughter put it, "What are we all going to DO?"
Interesting show on BBC2 about an unscrupulous investment firm having 90s footballers over; investing their money in a Gordon Brown film scheme that allowed people to claim back the tax, pocketing the kickback and leaving the players high & dry
Scams where you promise people an extraordinary return by doing something slightly naughty are -sadly- all too common.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Having observed the trades as we had our extension done I think I’d agree. Building (bricks, blocks, concreting etc) looked like hard graft. Woodwork not as bad. Plumbing, even with an entirely new installation still seemed to involve getting into tight spaces and odd angles. But the sparkies generally seemed to have it best.
Nephew gave up on doing any more education after school and now does gardening/landscaping. Not exactly high powered, but plenty of market for it and he's not 50k in debt. Quite a sane decision if he sticks with it.
Better than some pointless "academic" course that really isn't fit for anything.
This 50% to university thing is going to have to go - but how we get back to 10% without a lot of squealing I don't know.
Not to put a downer on it (good for him). But. Doesn't "plenty of market for it" rather rely on lots of well paid people not having their jobs made obsolete by AI?
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Who's going to have the income to pay for the woodworking?
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Having observed the trades as we had our extension done I think I’d agree. Building (bricks, blocks, concreting etc) looked like hard graft. Woodwork not as bad. Plumbing, even with an entirely new installation still seemed to involve getting into tight spaces and odd angles. But the sparkies generally seemed to have it best.
Nephew gave up on doing any more education after school and now does gardening/landscaping. Not exactly high powered, but plenty of market for it and he's not 50k in debt. Quite a sane decision if he sticks with it.
Better than some pointless "academic" course that really isn't fit for anything.
This 50% to university thing is going to have to go - but how we get back to 10% without a lot of squealing I don't know.
Not to put a downer on it (good for him). But. Doesn't "plenty of market for it" rather rely on lots of well paid people not having their jobs made obsolete by AI?
Pensioners who are no longer able to maintain their own gardens but thanks to the triple lock can afford to pay someone to do it for them.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Who's going to have the income to pay for the woodworking?
So now he overturns our liberties after receiving orders from the president of France
Every day he manages to make me hate him just that little bit more
Dystopian Britain. The government tracks your every move.
It doesn't, though, does it. Turn your phone off, nobody knows where you are.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Go for a drive and there are number plate cameras everywhere. Use your credit or debit card and you are logged. It’s harder than you might imagine to completely disappear. How many ring doorbells do you pass? CCTV installations?
Now 99.99% of the time no one is following you. But if little kinabalu should become a suspect in a crime, well there would be the ability to track you.
Yes. Nobody tracks you but it's quite hard to disappear if you're wanted for a crime. That's about the size of it.
And the problem is the definition of what constitutes a crime is expanding at a rapid rate.
You will, probably, be untouched by it all but poke your nose outside NW3, perhaps take a trip home, and you will find this is a real issue.
Elaborate on first para?
Er, what new set of laws have we been debating on here endlessly for months and which at one point was thought might be a threat to PB itself.
MAGA will tell you bruised sausage fingers and IV bruise cover up is fine.
That his hair wasn’t messy, his face didn’t droop and he didn’t sound winded or nasally at all.
The same people that claimed Biden took “a fistful of uppers” to get through the state of the union, suddenly can’t fathom that steroids and adderall will get you through a press conference.
Or how a mild stroke patient, whose private medical team can push clot busters within minutes, and who had a week off, could present with only minor post-stroke dysarthria and the slightest droop instead of being in a wheelchair.
The sock puppets will screech that he is in “perfect health” because he isn’t in a casket.
Because just like always the way to try and sweep it under the rug, is to take the most far flung claim anyone on the left made and apply it across the board.
Whether they like it or not, everything we’ve seen is consistent with Trump having had a mild stroke with quick intervention.
And that matters because many stroke victims don’t die from their first stroke, they die from the next one.
The other thing with this 'i applied to one million jobs and got nowhere' is that the unemployment rate has been steady at around 4% since around 2015.
Ah, but. When it's I'm educated, was stonkingly well paid, but AI has got rid of my job, and I have no other discernible skills... Then it's a story in the Telegraph.
It's because this unemployment is hitting the middle classes FIRST, isn't that obvious? Copywriters, in this case
So it hits home for Telegraph readers. Many of whom will have kids at uni, or aiming for uni, or out of uni, and everyone is thinking the same thing: Shiiiiiiiit
As my daughter put it, "What are we all going to DO?"
It's obvious to me. Hence my comment. See also my comment that the secondary kneejerk PB reaction, well get a trade, then, rather falters if there aren't lots of middle class well paid people to employ the tradespeople.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Yes, he should have spent more time building his skills to better prepare him for a job.
My guess is this is the core problem. His expertise is in an area that LLMs have and will even more so eat the role. If he doesn't have much to add beyond crafting words nicely, its a difficult hire.
Honestly, he should have spent two years doing woodworking or something. People always need cupboards built and doors adjusting. Electrical work is what I'd do today.
Having observed the trades as we had our extension done I think I’d agree. Building (bricks, blocks, concreting etc) looked like hard graft. Woodwork not as bad. Plumbing, even with an entirely new installation still seemed to involve getting into tight spaces and odd angles. But the sparkies generally seemed to have it best.
Nephew gave up on doing any more education after school and now does gardening/landscaping. Not exactly high powered, but plenty of market for it and he's not 50k in debt. Quite a sane decision if he sticks with it.
Better than some pointless "academic" course that really isn't fit for anything.
This 50% to university thing is going to have to go - but how we get back to 10% without a lot of squealing I don't know.
Not to put a downer on it (good for him). But. Doesn't "plenty of market for it" rather rely on lots of well paid people not having their jobs made obsolete by AI?
Pensioners who are no longer able to maintain their own gardens but thanks to the triple lock can afford to pay someone to do it for them.
Being currently exceptionally time poor we pay a chap for two hours a fortnight to generally weed and tidy. It’s £30. Not a huge wage, but he’s happy.
‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’
When lay-offs hit my role as a senior copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August 2023, I knew the job hunt wouldn’t be easy. But two years, a drained bank account and a psychiatric unit later, I never imagined it would be this brutal.
5000 jobs in two years is seven a day. He really needs to think about tailoring his applications.
I often think this when I see stories like this. I’ve been lucky - I’m in a job I love and have been able to progress here too. But I think I’ve genuinely only applied for about 10 jobs in my life, plus about six letters asking about post doc positions. And each application was crafted to match the job specs, and all the rest. Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
Without being funny, you are in academia, its a very different world. I spent quite a number of years in academia, and basically never truly applied for a position, certainly not in the way a traditional job goes down and certainly not how modern corporate employment is (we are copying the Americans as usual). It was all networking, your supervisor knows x or y has money and looking for somebody with this interest, you write to them, there is often mutual understanding of the research, the interview is chatting of your research interests and their problem, perhaps you give a presentation about your previous works. Its quite different to the way modern corporate employment has gone, particularly with LLMs.
This will hit academe soon. Universities are completely doomed. People won't take on £50k debt when there is no job at the end
There will be no job at 18 either though, if your more vivid extrapolations come to pass. Essentially the end of employment.
It is utter Luddite bullshit.
AI will do what technologies have always done, automate shit that we no longer need to do.
So employment will then expand to fill in the gaps, as it always has, including doing some stuff we'd never dream of doing today.
If writing bullshit is your day job, then be afraid, be very afraid.
If you're doing something productive with a human touch? That's different.
The other thing with this 'i applied to one million jobs and got nowhere' is that the unemployment rate has been steady at around 4% since around 2015.
Ah, but. When it's I'm educated, was stonkingly well paid, but AI has got rid of my job, and I have no other discernible skills... Then it's a story in the Telegraph.
It's because this unemployment is hitting the middle classes FIRST, isn't that obvious? Copywriters, in this case
So it hits home for Telegraph readers. Many of whom will have kids at uni, or aiming for uni, or out of uni, and everyone is thinking the same thing: Shiiiiiiiit
As my daughter put it, "What are we all going to DO?"
The other thing with this 'i applied to one million jobs and got nowhere' is that the unemployment rate has been steady at around 4% since around 2015.
Ah, but. When it's I'm educated, was stonkingly well paid, but AI has got rid of my job, and I have no other discernible skills... Then it's a story in the Telegraph.
It's because this unemployment is hitting the middle classes FIRST, isn't that obvious? Copywriters, in this case
So it hits home for Telegraph readers. Many of whom will have kids at uni, or aiming for uni, or out of uni, and everyone is thinking the same thing: Shiiiiiiiit
As my daughter put it, "What are we all going to DO?"
It's obvious to me. Hence my comment. See also my comment that the secondary kneejerk PB reaction, well get a trade, then, rather falters if there aren't lots of middle class well paid people to employ the tradespeople.
Yes. And note also the rapid advance in robotics - little humanoid bots which are as dextrous as they are tireless
I fear lots of artisanal jobs are at risk, as well. It is quite scary
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I had a family friend the other day contact me, their kid just got their PhD in computer science from a top UK university with multiple publications to their name, asking me about thing as even they are struggling to get a job.
Those who are applying for 5000 jobs are not really applying for 5000 jobs. A better focus would help.
The anxiety has already reached my older daughter and her friends - starting Year 2 at uni next week. "What are we all going to do??"
I try to reassure her, or at least console her. "Just enjoy your uni life. Enjoy your new friends and have a ball. No one knows where we will be in three years...."
She is mildly consoled, but not entirely
First got me a half day as a receptionist at a shipbroker's, then I was sacked at lunchtime
Second application got me an interview for a job as a staff writer. on a magazine in Brixton, in the office, and during the interview the editor said "you don't REALLY want this job, do you?"
And I replied: "No"
I didn't get the job
That world has gone and I get that this changes everything if you’re 20. For fifteen years I have assumed it would magically reassert itself, and it just hasn’t.
Now I accept that this is a small sample and that it’s probably possible to apply for 5000 jobs in two years, but none of those applications can have been targeted, surely?
And I want it painted black
No colors anymore
I want them to turn black
Of course 5000 is extreme, that is why its a clickbait news article. But I do think there is something in there, job market is hard, LLMs are eating roles, LLMs are also increasing application volume, resulting in massive decreasing the signal to noise ratio.
I see it in academic paper applications for ML / AI. Some conferences are now getting 15-50k paper submission, There is never 50000 new "ideas" worthy of a paper. Some conferences have now capped the number of papers you can send in, because again people were gaming the system sending in 10s of papers, all very similar, getting LLMs to write code / experiments and the chunks of the text. And they do this, because the flywheel is in motion, every year more submission, harder to get noticed in the noise, so fire more darts. Before you know, a top tier ML conference that used to get 1-2k papers, its 50k.
I am glad you now accept what I've been saying about universities. Also, sorry. I take no pleasure in delivering bad news. It depresses me, and I fear for my kids
We have to look on the bright side, if we can. Great scientific breakthroughs, medical advances by the million, etc
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I think Unis are in for a very interesting time. The current financial strain is entirely down to the fees cap being held below inflation for so long. Ok you can add in some poor management in places too, coupled with over ambitious building schemes. But essentially, so far, demand is higher than ever. We have not yet met your cliff edge.
There have always been technological advances that seem to threaten jobs. And in truth some jobs go and new ones are created. What interests me is why we don’t have a path to everyone working less? Why not a four day week? But then if robots came along that do every job, how do people earn money? So many questions.
For me, as an outsider, she seems the obvious candidate to replace Starmer. She has the charisma which he lacks, she is a she, she is authentically working class (unlike Skyr), she is bright in a way he isn't, she will enthuse echt Labour voters
It's difficult to see her winning an overall majority but I could see her reducing the Reform swing and getting a NOM win. Starmer can't do that, he is already loathed and it is only going to get worse
The most damaging thing is that Farage has backed her...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2100215/nigel-farage-defends-rayner-home
My daughter's been caught up in this a bit, getting a lot of job interviews, and then hearing from people that there's already someone lined up for the role.
This is what every other European nation does. Inexpensively and without fuss.
The problem is empire building and the idea that Minority Report and Demolition Man were guidelines for the future - all records instantly instantly accessible to anyone who wants them in the government. And government appointed contractors. No annoying rules - so that nice policeman interrogating you knows your medical history, for example. Because all policemen are nice.
A simple system of a unique id code (with some good quality checksuming and error proofing) tied to a photo, a name, address, phone number and email wouldn’t cost much. It could be implemented by one smallish IT team. It would scale fairly easily using on demand compute on a few racks of hardware in, say, 6 different government owned basements across the U.K.
The requirement is, in IT terms, fairly trivial. This would give you a physical card, a phone app and a setup to verify a given card, by anyone, for free.
The bigger money would be in the organisation issuing the ids. Best plan would be to reuse staff and org from the Passport Office, probably. Obviously expand personnel for the increased work, but they have the methods and security in place.
The problem is that this isn’t sexy. You can’t justify a Richard Rogers tower. You can’t justify £5m for abstract sculpture for the foyer. Or the logo. Or lots of 6 figure jobs in strategic solutionising the impact on the lemming population by ID cards. You need something for 50,000 people to do.
But don't we have Police and Crime Commissioners?
Aren't they supposed to be the way that voters can exert some control over policing matters?
Any word from the PCC?
Italian medicine seems to work the same way even now.
All they read is that Rayner kept moving her primary residence around multiple properties to minimise her tax bill.
And then they read about all the taxes that the government might soon be increasing and which they'll have no easy way to minimise what it will costs them.
Don’t worry.
MAGA will tell you bruised sausage fingers and IV bruise cover up is fine.
That his hair wasn’t messy, his face didn’t droop and he didn’t sound winded or nasally at all.
The same people that claimed Biden took “a fistful of uppers” to get through the state of the union, suddenly can’t fathom that steroids and adderall will get you through a press conference.
Or how a mild stroke patient, whose private medical team can push clot busters within minutes, and who had a week off, could present with only minor post-stroke dysarthria and the slightest droop instead of being in a wheelchair.
The sock puppets will screech that he is in “perfect health” because he isn’t in a casket.
Because just like always the way to try and sweep it under the rug, is to take the most far flung claim anyone on the left made and apply it across the board.
Whether they like it or not, everything we’ve seen is consistent with Trump having had a mild stroke with quick intervention.
And that matters because many stroke victims don’t die from their first stroke, they die from the next one.
https://x.com/adamscochran/status/1962966943599886519
* Yes I know foreign nationals might not, and sometimes they end up with two
When it's I'm educated, was stonkingly well paid, but AI has got rid of my job, and I have no other discernible skills...
Then it's a story in the Telegraph.
Better than some pointless "academic" course that really isn't fit for anything.
This 50% to university thing is going to have to go - but how we get back to 10% without a lot of squealing I don't know.
https://www.paintedfurnitureco.co.uk/
but read the small print and it looks a lot like they make it from MDF...
The main carcass of the Oxford Furniture is built using a high density engineered timber. This engineered
timber is made using a combination of hardwood and epoxy resin which is formed under intense pressure to
create a very dense, stable material which is the perfect base for building painted furniture.
So it hits home for Telegraph readers. Many of whom will have kids at uni, or aiming for uni, or out of uni, and everyone is thinking the same thing: Shiiiiiiiit
As my daughter put it, "What are we all going to DO?"
But.
Doesn't "plenty of market for it" rather rely on lots of well paid people not having their jobs made obsolete by AI?
See also my comment that the secondary kneejerk PB reaction, well get a trade, then, rather falters if there aren't lots of middle class well paid people to employ the tradespeople.
AI will do what technologies have always done, automate shit that we no longer need to do.
So employment will then expand to fill in the gaps, as it always has, including doing some stuff we'd never dream of doing today.
If writing bullshit is your day job, then be afraid, be very afraid.
If you're doing something productive with a human touch? That's different.
Next question.
I fear lots of artisanal jobs are at risk, as well. It is quite scary
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