I for one think it’s pretty ironic to stop unwanted pregnancies from being terminated by ordering law enforcement to carry out 153rd trimester abortions upon the doctors…

Understandable omission. It was only really in use in PAL regions.

I don’t think it’s the case of OP possibly being trans but I don’t want to dismiss your tale nor discourage the OP from considering this possibility. It’s possible that it could be gender dysphoria.

I’m glad you found peace with your transition.

A lot of this is normal, and yes there are some aspects of your behaviour that I’d find a bit concerning but it’s been mentioned a lot in this thread. And I think that we’ve done so much to vilify men and male sexual desire as a society that it’s giving the manosphere a voice they would otherwise have not existed decades ago.

Society is genuinely at the point where we’ll creep shame any guy who even so much as glances at a well-endowed lady’s boobs or arse in a tank top or yoga pants.

We need to take a long and hard look at our society and ask how we’ve managed to make people like Andrew Tate, Steven Crowder and Charlie Kirk household names.

The amount of people calling similar takes to mine incel ideology is shocking, and I think this immediate attack is why we have a male loneliness epidemic and why I worry for what the future brings.

I’d pay to see an American history pantomime.

I’m debating on whether to go down this career route.

Accountancy is a dud these days and I think I’d get more value from doing CompTIA or Cisco certificates and trying to branch out into IT.

Where I’m skeptical is that it’s being pushed a lot by all these learning providers advertising cybersecurity career paths and boasting potentially misleading statistics. I’ve heard from differing sources that IT is both easy and incredibly hard to get into.

But to answer the OG question, I’ve heard that Cisco CCNA is like the king of IT certifications, but is hard to pass and is expensive to both take and study.

Yeah. Reddit went to hell when the corpos got involved.

Wait, George Takei is on the Fediverse?

It’s a Mastodon instance, isn’t it?

Karaoke enthusiasts are raging alcoholics. Partially true. I also know a lot of borderline or fully teetotal people who take part.

British beer too.

Watney’s and a small number of other breweries had a stranglehold on the UK pub industry because they owned a lot of pubs and could exclusively force their own brands upon their locations. Their Red Barrel bitter pissed people off so much that it led to the creation of CAMRA, an organisation that campaigns for real ale.

CAMRA formed from four ale enthusiasts on holiday in Dublin who were lamenting about the dogshit state of British beer. It was a very successful movement…

I think the true collapse of democracy will come with Reform UK or Restore Britain.

Enough to both flip almost every Senate seat in contention at Midterms blue, and counteract all the Republican attempts at gerrymandering and electoral interference that will inevitably come.

A gargantuan effort but not statistically impossible

I think things will have to get truly bad by November for that to happen…

Honestly, I think Trump is more likely to be replaced by the 25th Amendment than impeachment.

I think thorium is the way to go when it comes to nuclear fission. It’s debatably a far safer and more abundant material to work with.

Belgium and Switzerland are the only two countries where the process of medically assisted suicide is alarmingly simple.

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My best friend got cheated on and dumped after he got diagnosed with epilepsy. It took a year of fits (one in which he screwed up his back) to get the diagnosis, and it basically meant he had to abandon his career path of working in the police force as a detective and forensic analyst and switch to something different.

It also doesn’t help that they both got sacked from a call centre whilst this was going on.

The industrial revolution created loads of new jobs in manufacturing, logistics, distribution, procurement and transport.

The digital revolution created loads of IT, cybersecurity and programming jobs.

AI removes most if not all the human labour from the equation if it functions properly. What new jobs has the AI revolution created or will create? Because last I checked, “prompt engineer” is not a job title. I can’t even find any fucking jobs for it anywhere from a LinkedIn search.

(sigh)

I’d prefer tech-bros pushing crypto, Web3 and NFTs to something that can actually cause mass unemployment and societal collapse.

And AI may wipe out a huge number of the rest. I genuinely can’t possibly fathom how it will do anything but exacerbate every single one of society’s problems.

I can see things going one of two ways:

1. Society gets its shit together, uses AI, robotics and sweeping economic reforms to build new infrastructure and create an abundance of resources. Housing shortages, hunger, thirst and famine become a thing of the past, we move towards a post-scarcity utopia.

2. The far more likely scenario. Mass unemployment leads to civil unrest, quelled through violence.

I think it’s only a matter of time.

Waymo already exists in some parts of the US and is being trialled in Atlanta and London. Miso Robotics already can automate manual work in kitchens and have their bots rolled out in fast food chains like White Castle. Claude is miles ahead of competitors in terms of output quality, and there are probably a lot of AI slop content creators making absolute bank from YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.

Optimus 3 will be released soon and at a predicted price of $30,000 per robot, it could potentially lead to mass layoffs in warehouses. Because remember, robots don’t get tired, don’t need food, don’t need water, don’t need to piss, don’t need to shit, won’t complain about OSHA violations, and don’t need a paycheck. All that matters is work quality and price

According to some accounts, China are apparently even further ahead than the US in terms of AI and robotics, but they’re deliberately holding back their rollout of humanoid robots and self-driving vehicles because they know a wide rollout will lead to mass unemployment and civil unrest.

A big part of the reason AI spend is so expensive is because there’s this huge arms race to throw gargantuan amounts of computing power in the hopes of achieving AGI that way. While I think AGI may be bullshit and unachievable, I think they’ll eventually turn a profit once they stop focusing on throwing trillions at data centres.

At this point I’d prefer the Chinese routers.

Waterstones was on the brink of collapse, until a Russian billionaire bought the chain and put James Daunt in charge.

Daunt reversed years of enshittification. Publishers couldn’t buy shelf space for their books anymore, local managers were given autonomy on what books they wanted to stock and each branch was run like its own individual book shop.

And to the surprise of the business world, his plan worked.