[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's not really the point of a gotcha question. The point is to score a (valueless) point over the victim and let the victim know you're (not you commenter) an arse.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Do you use Netflix or other services/products with DRM?

That's your answer.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 3 months ago

A novelty Christmas song played six months after it spent six plus weeks at number one in the (TOTP) charts. "Aga do" anyone?

[Not sure that any recent charts in this century are worth a damn.]

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago

My ex wife. Imagine a Karen. Now imagine she's a solicitor who believes she is the law - no, not the police/a police officer, literally the law .. statute .. Acts.

That went as you might imagine it did.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Gen X. The generation that couldn't be arsed to programme the video recorder or cooker digital time-clock, but knew how to.

There were a lot of power cuts in our (UK) youth and we remember saying to ourselves, "Ok, so that's how it's gonna be, huh?!". Still kicking arse and taking names.

We were the grown-up's TV remote control, with our 1200 bits per second magnetic tape storage for BBC B home computers (from the later ARM boys), before we got 360kB 5" floppy disks.

Tech doesn't phase us (yet); AI is a better average conversation than a spouse.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Internally. Without noticing. Or any discomfort.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Privacy.

Ownership. (not quasi ownership like 'buying' a HP inkjet printer)

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Just run yourself a query "FoI uk police with criminal convictions". FoI stands for "freedom of information".

Eg. https://www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/disclosure-2023/may-2023/serving-police-officers-criminal-convictions/

You won't be surprised to learn, from clicking a few of the results, that high ranking officers are convicted of serious crimes but are still great police officers.

Then, try the same query again with rape and sexual assault.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

This is the best advice. Bloody hard for me to do, however. Not sure why.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

.. And that's why average men and women got the vote in (UK) Representation of People Act 1918.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago

You'll find it much easier to bathe in water. Bathing cats in fleas is counterproductive.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago

There is no such thing anymore as a job for life anymore that ended in the 80s. I don't honestly think that's there's a career for life anymore either, that ended in the early years of this century.

Asking someone to choose something to do for 50 years (if they're lucky) at 16 or 18 is folly.

Build yourself a portfolio of skills which you are proficient in and enjoy doing. I would include (1) languages in that and (2) the technique of communication over and above any technical skills you possess.

I say languages because a second language awakens a different mode of thought, maybe not too much if the languages are closely related.

I'm Gen X and was probably never conventionally employable. Company Roles I've had seemed to seek me rather than me them. I wish I had been much more aggressive about a second language much earlier on.

It's not the language itself. It seems to assist in fluidity of communication. I'm not sure that I can explain what I mean by that: the structure of French sentences differs wildly from English sentences sometimes, but about 30% of English words are French in origin. It seems to encourage me to thing about how I am conveying my idea in words without me being cognisance of that happening.

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