OP here. Genuinely thank you for the replies, much appreciated and lots of good info, special thanks to >>14039 >>14043

>>14038
Somewhat my problem. I've never really known, other than a vague "make big money to attain freedom in life" goal.

>>14040
Chemistry. My overarching feeling is that I spent three years doing ever more complicated puzzles and this was considered an education. On par to just having done sudokus the whole time I was there.

>>14045
Yeah I don't really have any connections from there. I'm not from a typical oxbridge background so really struggled making meaningful relationships with very clique intense Eton types etc. Not that they were specifically rude/etc, just cliquey and didn't seem to like my poor ass that much - or I'm a naff person to be around who knows.

>>14046

>chemistry

NHS m8. Get yourself a job as a bottom bitch lab assistant or pharmacy technician, your qualification will enable you to actually progress from there (potentially with taking additional modules/certificaations etc).

>>14046
It's probably still worth trying the networking thing. Don't ask the people you know, but if you can find someone you don't know but who went to the same...house? College? as you, you can just talk about that during the interview and let them assume you were one of the gang. LinkedIn probably has lots of this information listed.

>>14047

Teaching is also an option, if that appeals. Chemistry graduates can claim a bursary of £24,000 to train as a teacher.

https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/funding-your-training

>>14049

Teaching is definitely a possbility. With an ever-increasing gap on his CV, OP will struggle to land a private-sector job worthy of his formal education, but all is not lost if he's still in his mid-20s.

In the mean time, I would go on the lookout for any job at all that gets you out of the house every day and gets you at least a few hundred quid a month. Two years is a long time to not be doing much of anything. It's not just two years of non-existing job experience, but possible employers will also be skeptical if you can just hit the ground running and get back into an everyday work routine from one day to the next.

There are jobs that can ease you back into a daily routine. You could do part-time work delivering food, or some low-level customer phone support. You don't have to work in a warehouse or supermarket.

>>94599

Well, mine aren't. Not of the stuff I buy at least. Which remains packet noodles and frozen pizzas, but still.

I'll get back to making my own pasta sauces and fresh meat and veg one day.

>>94599
I've barely noticed the shortages that are meant to be going on at the minute. Lidl have been light on cucumbers but there's nothing else I've been unable to get.

We really are going back to the good old days. Crowns on pint glasses. Mad cow disease.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-58602051

>>94602
Bushels need to come back too - proper bushels, with variations per county.

>>94577
>CON 49 (+5)

Just a three point swing in Opinium's latest poll.

>>446253

>Has their odd tinge of condescending cruelty towards anyone with vulnerability come out yet?

Have you never met a tory voter?

>>446255
Exactly, you meet an American who calls themselves left but that basically boils down to healthcare reform and whatever daft culture war bullshit the Democrats are pushing.

>>446255

Even the progressive Yanks are to the right of Tories, and their women are absolutely Darwinistic in their choice of mate.

They can't help it, it's been seared into them by the world's most aggressive propaganda machine, but still. It's quite a thing to witness when one of them lets her Disney Princess facade drop and you see her true colours.

>>446258
>Even the progressive Yanks are to the right of Tories

I am so SICK of reading this shit here. Fuck off.

>>446290
What are you sick of and why? That statement seems to be fairly apt if you look at issues other than IDpol. Criticism of the tory party as of late is focused on them being too weak on immigration, social funding, taxes, NHS, etc.

This burgeoning 'real life' cunt-off sort of misses the point, I think. It's just that lasses who really would have no trouble finding a lad in real life are on Tinder, and it's all very photogenic. That's fine, everyone said Hinge is a bit different, maybe there're some weirdos on there I could actually have a conversation with. But, I try Hinge and it's just more of the same. Conventionally attractive girls with absolutely zero personality.

>>446292
So just don't message cardboard women, the system will recycle your deck anyway.

>maybe there're some weirdos on there

A genuinely weird girl in the way your imagining her doesn't need to use dating apps. She's probably already happily married to that bloke she met in her abstract pottery class.

Well, just logged in to OKC to see what was going on, and now you have to pay to not get people 100 miles away. Right then.

>>446293
Sure, but so far I've only been shown cardboard girls. Also, what about my imagining her?

https://www.ravelry.com

>>446294
Well there's a lot of cardboard people. You might well be a cardboard man for all we know, trying to find the last hidden remnants of true humanity.

>what about my imagining her?

Misaki is never going to knock on your door.

>>446295
'Fiber artist' sounds like a fun euphemism for a corporate conman or grifter.

>>3619
I'd consider Polish people to be 'white' for example, and they're still taking my millions of jobs, so I think you may be missing the mark a bit.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/mar/13/white-people-expats-immigrants-migration

>Africans are immigrants. Arabs are immigrants. Asians are immigrants. However, Europeans are expats because they can’t be at the same level as other ethnicities. They are superior. Immigrants is a term set aside for ‘inferior races’.

>The reality is the same in Africa and Europe. Top African professionals going to work in Europe are not considered expats. They are immigrants. Period. “I work for multinational organisations both in the private and public sectors. And being black or coloured doesn’t gain me the term “expat”. I’m a highly qualified immigrant, as they call me, to be politically correct,” says an African migrant worker.

Is the gent in question called an expat in whichever part of this 'Africa' place he's from? Now I'm wondering if other countries/languages have a term for immigrants-from-our-sphere and we're too busy with this to know.

>>3620
>It does seem a uniquely British trait for us to move abroad and create our own ghettos.

I take it you've never been to somewhere like Bradford? There's plenty of enclaves within this country. Most large cities will also have a Chinatown area.

>>3621
>I'd consider Polish people to be 'white' for example, and they're still taking my millions of jobs, so I think you may be missing the mark a bit.
They have funny accents though.

>>3622
You're missing that these groups still interact with wider society, speak the language and don't hive themselves off inside gated communities like we do in Spain.

>>3624
I take it you haven't been to Bradford then.

I've started drinking infused coffee. It's nice and provides a bit of no added sugar novelty every other day having cut out the devil's cocaine.

Also, why is CBD coffee a thing. I'm no expert but surely micro-dosing THC (if at all) with coffee isn't going to work.
https://pothead.coffee

>>14664
I think the CDB thing is kind of like vaping. By which I mean not that many people are into it, but the ones who are are super-mega into it and will have it on toast, shampoo it into their hair and liquid cool their computer with it. Maybe I'm speaking out of turn, I've never smoked weed because I'm already a layabout paranoic who eats too much.

>>14665
>I've never smoked weed

No mate - CBD is nothing like smoking weed - most of the people who are selling it are selling snake oil.

>>14666
Yeah, I know. I just felt ending the post on the bit about liquid cooled PCs wasn't satisfying; I pushed harder, but failed regardless. Layabout paranoic is such a good phrase too, but I wasted it.

>>14664
Lads, get the vanilla infused one and dip your Hobnobs. Heaven.

>>14036
Thanks for your insight. To be honest a DevOps role is something I've had my eye on. Not just for the pay but because as said, my role as a (mostly) manual tester is rote by nature, boring and stagnant. Do you have any advice please for someone with my skillset (or lack thereof) in pursuing a devops career?

It feels incredibly daunting, but on places like reddit I'm seeing people 'go from qa to devops in a year' so it can't be impossible...

>>14050
I can help with that; my job title is Head of DevOps for a big organisation.

1. Learn to script - python is great. You need to be able to automate almost anything you used to do on a command line. I can recommend educative.io

2. Do cloud stuff in your spare time. Get both the basic AWS and Azure accounts. Learn how to deploy a basic Windows and Linux server - then do it purely via code. You'll want to learn Terraform as it's almost an industry standard now, but Pulumi is also being strongly adopted. AWS is still way better than Azure and used in more companies, but in the beginning that matters less.

3. Learn how to build pipelines and run CI/CD toolchains - again, you can do this in Azure DevOps or AWS CodePipeline.

4. Learn to Docker and Kubernetes.

>>14051
There's lucky that the other two of you work in incredibly relevant roles.

Thanks a lot for the help, really appreciate it. It feels good to have point 1, mostly, down already. I also have the AWS Cloud Practitioner although that's quite the meme cert I'm aware.

One question; I was told there is no such thing as a 'junior' dev-ops engineer, as the field itself requires a level of knowledge that a typical junior XYZ wouldn't have yet. Is that true? Or are there some forgiving entry level devops roles?

>>14051
Just a tiny question: what's the diffrerence between sys admin, DevOps and SRE in your mind?

>>14053
Version 0. System Administration
Version 1. DevOps
Version 2. DevSecOps
Version 3. Site Reliabilty Engineering

I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that SRE is a better practice than DevOps, because it is very well defined - there is an actual book and set of definitions - Google have done a superb job with it. There are huge overlap in the ideas - SRE is an instance of DevOps.

SRE solves some of the problems that people have conceptually when they encounter DevOps ideas for the first time. Most advanced technology organisations who have adopted DevOps principles have seen the issues around information security (and have therefore adopted a more DevSecOps mindset) and are rapidly moving toward SRE, because operationally it is better.

So to answer your question precisely - it's a progession and it's somewhat difficult to skip the stages. If you know nothing about the challenges around development and system administration, then you're unlikely to appreciate DevOps. If you haven't done DevOps, then you're unlikely to appreciate why you want to quickly get to DevSecOps. If you haven't seen any of these challenges in a production environment, then SRE will seem quite academic.

>>24005

Testes.

>>24005

Balls

>>24298
Buttery biscuit.

>>24299
BOLLOCKS

Machine of Death is a collection of 34 short stories based on the premise from an old Dinosaur Comics strip; there's a machine test which will tell you how you're going to die, but these have a habit of being ambiguous, e.g. the machine reading could say 'old age' and that could mean you get killed by an old person driving a car.

I came very close to giving up on this book because there is an awful lot of guff in the first 200 pages or so. I guess that is to be expected based on the demographics that will have been reading Dinosaur Comics ~15 years ago but, holy-freakin-eff, there is a lot of immature American brilliance to have to wade through. That said, I'm glad I persevered because the quality does pick up markedly before reading the halfway point.

>>7342
Oh that's the one Yahtzee wrote a story for isn't it? Is it any good?

>>7343
Yeah, that was one of the better ones. It reminded me of Charlie Brooker.

http://machineofdeath.net/ebook

>>7344
Just read it. Characteristically silly ending.

Fuck Thomas Mann and fuck Germany. There's no humanity in this book, it's just a young insular man pattering about in a mountain health retreat getting browbeaten by an Giuseppe, a failed clergyman, some hoe and his doctor. Yes, you can certainly tell that the author stopped and came back to it at which point he shoved his mental diarrhea onto the pages and found a narcoleptic editor to approve it.

I make a point not to leave books unfinished so after 752 pages I assure you I will not be following Mann's advice to 'read it again' to get it.

>>31001
Eh, you seem to be someone who is playing into the charade in the knowledge that it is a charade, so not quite.

The sort of person I'm talking about would absolutely not post here, and has more going on than work, 4chan, and YT. The one person I have in mind is involved in tons of work-adjacent activities like teaching kids to code and whatnot, and even outside that is a #maker -- I guess it's a partial internalisation of Silicon Valley culture even though we're in the north of England. This person is not docile at all, and is the first to pipe up in work meetings to take extra work and the like on.

I think another thing for me is I cannot process a cheesy "I hope you're all having a great Wednesday! 🚀" message as anything other than a hollow meaningless platitude.

>>31000
>They're plugged into the Matrix, and they're blissfully unaware of how ugly it is outside.

Yes, I think they may just be sheltered. But I don't know that.

>>31002

Maybe they're just a wanker. When they were at school they were the teacher's pet, now they're at work they want to be the one with their nose furthest up the boss' arse. They have pledged their allegiance to The System in the hopes that The System will in turn reward them with a position of power and influence. Somewhere inside they will have their doubts I'm sure, but they choose to put that out of their mind and double down, because the alternative would be too much of a shake-up to their worldview.

I had an ex a lot like that anyway, so although I don't know this person you refer to, that's who I'm picturing. She was a Yank too so doubly susceptible to all that obnoxious positivity bullshit. She genuinely hated it whenever I'd get on one of my philosophical rants about questioning authority or social mores etc, and not in the sense that she disagreed with me, or disliked me for being part of the opposite political alignment; but simply because it scared her. She didn't like having to think about it.

Sometimes, I just feel like I've become totally disconnected.

It's like there used to be this vague thread of purpose or meaning that I was holding on to, like a life raft, as I drift along through the tides of life; never anything deep or profound, but just a sense that I was, at least, part of a journey. My friends and family were the other people hanging on to the raft, drifting alongside me, and although we didn't know where we were going, we were ultimately going somewhere.

Then at some point I just came adrift. It's like I accidentally let go during the night at some point, and got swept off into the currents on my own, no idea where I am or what's going on. It's not that I've lost contact, sure we haven't been able to see each other so much recently but things like that come and go, there are ups and downs. We still text and I still phone them to catch up and what have you. Instead, it feels like the bond is just eroding, we're all in different streams heading different directions.

Whenever I've got time off work now, I can honestly just sit there and waste the entire week (or however long) staring at the internet and procrastinating. I've got hobbies, I've got things to keep me busy, I just don't feel invested in them any more. I feel like most of them are just a pretence I was keeping up to appear interesting, in order to have some semblance of a personality that gave me a place and a purpose in the group. Without that they are all pointless. They're just more matches to blow out.

I've been through periods of depression before, I have always been pretty nihilistic about life being meaningless and what have you, but this is the first time I've really, genuinely felt this bored and disconnected form it all. I'm just trying to place why.

I feel like I have some sort of yearning to just dump my partner, cash out all the savings, and fuck off with some adventurous young maiden to live a totally different part of the country. New game, clean save file. The problem with that is that deep down I'm an awkward nerd who's nervous to go too far abroad on holiday, so that's really little other than an idle fantasy, and it would probably only make things a million times worse.

I don't know, but thanks for listening anyway.

>>31011

This really deserves its own thread. I think a lot of people here, including myself, can relate to this.

For what it's worth, a period of upheaval can also be an opportunity to define yourself differently. You may feel adrift, but there's a very real chance you can "become" something else, lead a different kind of life, in the process.

My own minor rant today is: weekends just aren't fucking long enough to relax. It's 2pm on Saturday and I've done a bit of gardening, put away clothes, fed myself and the girlfriend two meals, read a chapter of a book... but I don't feel like I've done anything fun. More like, basic maintenance and sanity type stuff. I'm also miserable because I've got a bastard headache from working late last night.

You know that Noam Chomsky thing about infintite posibilities within a set boundary? Well I feel that way about identity and my experience of existance in general - from the clothes we wear, the careers we choose and even the principles we live by. They seem to be different flavours of the same experience. Is one better than the other, or are we railroaded on some storyline mission with stealth, force and magic options that take us to the exact same destination?
There must be something better than this, though I'm reminded of the travellers saying "wherever you go you take yourself with you".

>>5480
I knew his lot were around today. You can smell them if you've got the nose for it.

I've started going to the gym since I got my second vaccination.

I used to be in alright shape in my twenties, but have neglected my body in recent years.

I've been trying to eat a caloric surplus to build muscle but I am getting mad night sweats as a result. Like I don't feel particularly warm at any point through the night, but I wake up to drenched pillows pretty consistently. If I eat based on my appetite I don't experience the sweats, so I'm pretty confident it's just due to the diet and not something else more sinister.

I'd like to stop this because it would be well awk if I have a girl sleeping in my bed and it happens.

Also I was eating that Bulk brand gainer but have recently switched over to Mutant Mass the latter being the most obnoxiously marketed protein I could find. Apparently the two shakes are pretty much identical in terms of nutritional content, but the Mutant Mass feels so much thinner. Why? I thought it was maybe that the Bulk one was using more fibre, but even this number is pretty consistent across the two products.

>>5877
>feels so much thinner
They didn't put as much thickening agent in.

Just eat more normal food, skinnylad.

My workout app rotates through focus areas (arm & shoulder, back & chest, abs, leg) each "session", so I was going to do one every weekday, maybe more than once if I have the time and energy.

But there's some crossover in the exercises it'll tell you to do. So I might end up doing renegade rows (for example) five days in a row. There's no guarantee of a rest day for that muscle until the weekend.

Would it be best to:
A) Continue doing a session every weekday, never mind the occasional repeats.
B) Only work out M/T/W but do the same session twice (or more) each day.
C) Only work out M/T/W but do more than one, different sessions following the app's rotation.
D) Other?

The added complication is that none of these are cardio or very hard on the legs so I've been alternating runs and weighted marches on week days, but if those both use too many of the same muscles it's probably not ideal.

>>5899

It strikes me as suboptimal to entrust your training to a workout app that randomises the exercise. If your goal is to grow muscle as efficiently as possible, it's really better to have some sort of structured programme with hypertrophy in mind.

It's okay to target muscles more than once per week (it happens with most compound movements), but unless you're really trying to focus on a skill (e.g. getting your bench press form right) doing the same exercise repeatedly in the same week has diminishing returns.

>Former Stoke-on-Trent councillor Randy Conteh appears in court charged with rape
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/former-stoke-trent-councillor-randy-5546709

Normative determinism is a thing.

Charlie Elphicke has been released from prison and The Mail are reporting his wife has taken him back. Reckon their separation was for show so she could take his seat?

>>69078

*nominative

But yes it is, I can attest because it's also the reason i'm a furfag.

>>69583
Oh Rex Yifferson.

>>69582
Please call him by his proper name, Tory sex pest Charlie Elphicke.

If Natalie has taken Tory sex pest Charlie back then I wouldn't be surprised to see Tory sex pest Charlie making another run for the seat in future.

Think about a simple 2d vector in cartesian coordinates.

We can represent it as a contravariant vector as in (1) or a covariant vector as in (2).

But what if we split it equally between the covariant and contravariant bases as in (3)?

Is there any use for this in quantum physics or something?

>>35336
If he loves her then it wouldn't be a sham marriage.

>>35337
What does love have to do with marriage?

>>35338
It's the most important part of it.

>>35338
That's like asking what does a horse have to do with a carriage.

>>35340
We have horseless carriages these days...

>>445750
I woke up to the feeling of something crawling on my arm, which turned out to be a spider.

I was selling some retro games to CEX, and the girl who served me was the typical mosher/goth/emo type, dyed purple hair, pale and spotty, heavy eyeliner. Anyway, I got £83 for my games which was alright, and then she asked if I was free in the evening. I met up with her after she finished work, and she said "you're either gonna cum up my arse, or I'll cum up yours", and I cheated on my gf with her.

I was at my dentist's to have one or two cavities taken care of. He then suddenly handed me a written estimate that said it would cost over £10,000 which I had to pay myself. I said, "Oh you're having a fucking laugh!" and left.

Last night I had my first experience with sleep paralysis.
Must have just drifted off then woke up soon after but I couldn't move. The strange part was I could hear a noise, similar to music being played through earphones rather loud and it was getting closer.
Felt like 10 seconds before I could move and the noise suddenly went.

I keep having a dream that my girlfriend and I break up, she sleeps with someone else and then we get back together. It's happened so often I'm finding it hard to know for certain that this didn't happen, but I can't plausibly think when this would have happened.

>>446200
The ZX80 and ZX81 were steps along the way to Sinclair's goal of having a reasonably functional colour computer for under £100. The original ZX Spectrum was the result of that. Markedly better than the previous two, but still notably limited compared to others on the market. You can definitely see why Sugar went in. He had been building his business on the idea that cheap doesn't have to be crap, and the strides that Sinclair Research was making made it clear they were at some point going to be able to deliver something that fit that pattern in the home computer space, and that was borne out in the 1986 sale of those assets to Amstrad.

For the best part of three decades, Sir Clive really was years ahead of his time. Adjusted for inflation, that £100 price point is now £360, which is in the range of budget laptops.

>>446204
>the 1986 sale of those assets to Amstrad

I agree - there's a very strong link between Amstrad/Sugar and Sinclair at that time. I believe the Sinclair purchase actually taught Sugar a great deal about the technology market - a year later, he was producing very cheap word processors and very early PC clones, such as the one picture here, which is also the first PC I ever owned.

>>446204

I guess you always get what you pay for. You can buy a cheap car, which will mean you will own a car, but just don't expect much for your limited amount of money.

You can always design products to a price point, and that was always a large part of Sugar's success. And it can help democratise the market for a product because you are making that type of product available to the masses who can't afford the more high-end variants. But in the end, it's not always a good idea to buy cheap, as a consumer. Even with a small budget.

I'd almost forgotten about the loading screens.
(For those of you not used to waiting, the game starts at 3:27)

>>446191
http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html

This is really good too - a working model of the original calculator, with code.

Would be a laugh to keep messing with his grave every night to piss off the rest of them. Sounds like a fun hobby actually.

I remember a period around 2011 where there was a marked increase in gypsy activity in my native Hull, particularly the North Hull Estate and Orchard Park areas. On one midnight drive, I was even stopped dead in my tracks as half a dozen horses ran out into the road in front of me playing with one another. This went on for several months, there seemed to be more and more young lads being pulled along on carriages made of bike wheels and park benches.

A few friends and I were heading out one day to go for a hike around west of the town, and I happened to attempt to take a road going past Cottingham Cemetery. The road was completely packed with people, parking their vehicles on both sides of the road, people's driveways, the pavement and grass, and heading towards the cemetery. It took a good five minutes to even meander the old 2002 Clio through the throng.

I learned from a mate the next day that some gypsy granddad had passed away, and relatives from all over the country had descended on the area for the funeral. I've had a google around and couldn't find any record of it, but I'd guess there were a thousand people there at least, from the busyness of the road and my passing glance into the cemetery on the drive past. It was pretty remarkable.

Pic from likely-distantly-related event.

We had a similar thing last year near my work; a full procession of cars honking their horns, and teenagers on quadbikes, for nearly an hour, all driving past to mourn the passing of some similarly lovable rogues, and those weren't even gypsies as far as I know.

A significant decrease in burglaries in most Leinster counties is being attributed by senior gardaí to the deaths of three prolific criminals as well as a number of arrest operations.

The deaths of Tallaght criminals Graham Taylor (31), Karl Freeman (26) and Dean Maguire (29) made international headlines after the car they were travelling in collided head-on with a lorry as it drove the wrong way down the N7 near Rathcoole on the night of July 7. The three criminals who had over 200 previous convictions between them were main players in a gang who used the motorway network to carry out burglaries in rural areas.

Figures obtained by the Herald suggest there has been a major drop in this type of crime over recent weeks in most of the garda divisions where they were most active.

https://sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/decrease-in-leinster-burglaries-attributed-by-gardai-to-deaths-of-three-criminals-in-n7-crash-40858796.html

Proof, if it was needed, that society is so much better off when you remove the small number of habitual criminals.

>>35331

Yes but how do you remove them when the police are working for them?

In the current climate, employers in most fields are desperate for staff and can't afford to be picky. I think you're better off being straight rather than trying to hide anything - it won't come back to bite you in the arse, you probably don't want to work for someone who would discriminate on health grounds and there are loads of jobs going at the moment if it falls through.

>all the time with doctor's notes, for a long term disability that my managers were aware of

I would still tell a prospective new employer. What else are you going to tell them that you did all day the last few years or however long you were at your old job. You didn't just play hooky, you had valid reasons to be off work. Even if they let you go. Honesty is still a currency at job interviews, at least if you can offer a reasonable explanation.

Do make sure to emphasize that your health problems are behind you now, and that it was really just some improbably bad luck that you were gone from your work repeatedly. Maybe even get a note from your doctor confirming that you're all better now.

>>14031
> Do make sure to emphasize that your health problems are behind you now

I would lead with that when/if you bring it up. Something to the effect of "Though it is behind me now thanks to the fantastic treatmeant I received from XYZ, I was forced to take extended time off which I communicated to my managers at the time". Rephrase that, of course, but you get the gist. Depending on how competitive your field is you want to make sure that the person reading your CV (if it's a machine, then god help you) is forwarned of any red flags so they can contextualise them before they form an unfavourable opinion.

We (more or less) only hire people with a few years experience, and for those we only call on the references if they make extraordinary claims: "I worked in the maintenance crew for the Eiffel Tower and single-handedly dismantled and re-riveted the structure in under 6 hours while a team of painters did their thing to keep up".

But your mileage may vary by a country mile depending on your industry.

>>14032

>if it's a machine, then god help you

I generally don't apply for jobs where HR think they can't even be arsed to have a human working out if you're a promising candidate. I know that that increasingly rules out a lot of major companies these days, but I've found that I am most comfortable working for smaller companies anyway, where people are a tight-knit group and aren't at the whim of management many levels of hierarchy above them. Smaller companies haven't quite adopted that technology yet in large numbers.

I applied for a job at a big tech service provider before the pandemic, and I got an e-mail telling me to call a number for a phone interview. Which turned out to be fully computerised. What the actual fuck. I hung up about four or five minutes in, after a few somewhat inane questions their computer saw fit to ask me, because if they can't find the time to talk to you on the phone in person, i.e. if no actual fucking human at their company can manage to take ten minutes out of their day to have a personal chat with you, then they aren't worth my time either.


Self sage for thread derailment.

>>14029
Don't you have a work mate? Give their details and let them act as your previous manager.

Personally I'm very sanguine about noted rational person Dominic Raab being made Justice Minister a day after Borison Johnson proundly joked that the UK is becoming the "Saudi Arabia of penal policy", to an audience of Tory donors.

>>91877
The right has always strove to create caricatures of what a "leftist" is like and by and large it works.
There is a minority on the left who do stupid things and make stupid choices but the public has by and large been successfully convinced that these people are the mainstream left.
Liz complains that the left are crudely treating people as groups, doing so crudely treating the left as a group.

>>94564
>This happens repeatedly with anyone that tries to bring up the issue of class too close to the centers of power

ARE Liz done it in the OP.

>>94568
>There is a minority on the left who do stupid things and make stupid choices

I think you're being a bit disingenuous here. It's a sizeable minority at minimum within political parties (or embracing extremism) that you wouldn't want to be cornered in a pub by and when you have a minority of very determined people in power there's no limit to doing stupid things and making stupid choices.

Call it the decline of mass politics if you want. One that I think everyone accepts has been especially traumatic to the left following deindustrialisation.

>>94569
>ARE Liz done it in the OP.

She gets tantalisingly close, but carefully skirts the issue. If you pay attention, it's the same old social mobility rhetoric that doesn't recognise any real economic inequalities. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds were being let down, yes, but why? Generations of inequality exacerbated by neoliberal economics? Increasingly precarious work for their parents? Completely different league tables for schools? No, they were just focusing too much on racism and sexism, and didn't have enough lessons in maths and English.

She mentions geographic inequality, but what does that mean if you don't recognise some regions have less money than others? She explicitly says equal opportunity, rather than equality of outcome. She also makes the point to repeat the smear of antisemitism about the only recent version of the left to recognise class, Corbyn's Labour.

This is just posturing against the "woke" enemy that the right themselves have constructed, trying to assuage a working class with vague niceties and score a few points without actually mentioning anything concrete.

>>94569
>Call it the decline of mass politics if you want. One that I think everyone accepts has been especially traumatic to the left following deindustrialisation.

Sorry mate, but have you been asleep the past few decades? Deindustrialisation could have been handled multiple ways, but we chose to outdo Reagan on Reaganomics and utterly destroyed our trade unions. This has broken the back of the organisations which the left was centred around. It was a power grab for the right, a pattern that repeated itself throughout the 20th and 19th centuries as soon as "mass politics" threatened to gain any relevance at all.

>>35305
The only thing I'd really heard about it was people telling Are Nice he can't celebrate her success because he once said he wouldn't want to have a group of Romanian men move in next door.

Rupert Murdoch’s News UK has announced plans to launch a national television station called talkTV, which will be a rival to the floundering rightwing channel GB News and provide a platform for the return of Piers Morgan.

In a U-turn after similar plans were cancelled this year, News UK said it would hire “exceptional talent” for the station. Bosses believe Morgan fits in that category and is the biggest name to have signed up to the project.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/16/piers-morgan-hired-to-launch-rupert-murdoch-tv-station-talktv

>>35327
I don't see how this can possibly work. If it was a good idea, GB News would have done better. Sure, they've had bloopers due to incompetent staff behind the scenes, but BBC News can't spell or done grammer rite in countless onscreen messages and updates, and nobody cares about that. GB News faced boycotts from advertisers; won't talkTV have that too?

And why can't we just have a generic highly-oppositional news channel? Have a few anti-woke stories, but also get ISIS warriors and communists and inc*ls. Let's oppose gay marriage but support sex changes for children. How would that not be exciting? I'm onto a winner here; I guarantee it.

>>35328
>I don't see how this can possibly work.

Totally agree - it would be like launching a new physical newspaper. But then, Murdoch has money to burn, so maybe we should let him.

>>35328

Remember Squarials? Murdoch does. He murdered it, with great big barrowloads of newspaper money and a Luxembourgish satellite.