Evening Standard going away from being a daily paper is bad for holding the powerful to account. Its the same we have seen with most regional papers going away and being replaced by Reach online slop… (View Post)

I don't get the feeling that governments really understand the tech. Its either AGI is here, the robots could kill us all, or just totally ignore it. When the reality is this is more like how We… (View Post)

Oh don't get me wrong, I think if you have 100-120 IQ and do very repetitive white collar role and quite low down in the company hierarchy, I would be very concerned for my future. I actually th… (View Post)

I don't visit McDonalds etc, but when I was a youth, it was standard right of passage that basically everybody I knew worked in one of those types of minimum wage jobs. The places ran on 16-21 y… (View Post)

My worse one was packing potatoes. You had to pack these 25kg bags, then put them through a sowing machine and another job was then stacking them onto palettes of 1000kg. The worst was if you got a l… (View Post)