I found this to be true too. 16 years old minimum wage supermarket job: had to work every second of the shift and was micromanaged to hell.
Now a professional engineer earning almost 10 times minimum wage and I have to pace myself so that I don’t run out of work during the 3 days I’m in the office, followed by 2 days WFH where I rarely have any work left to do.
New PC graphics cards alone cost as much as entire games consoles. The top end ones cost the same as multiple PS5s. That’s why consoles exist.
I am on principle because what the fuck is the point of all this industrialisation and technology development if we aren’t trying to break out of the cycle of scarcity?
As for how it can be properly funded: fuck knows.
Pensions have already been overhauled in the UK. Now pensions are essentially a tax efficient way of investing where you also don’t get the realised returns until after you retire, so essentially you are paying for your own future.
Love seeing foreign people attempt to explain the culture of a country they’ve never been to.
26!? Do you live in hell? I start sweating at 19 and at 22 I’m stripping off to my underwear
UK police are not the same as Burger police
Same. I remember seeing a lot of buzz surrounding it on release day, but I’d never played a TES game before. Decided to download it and play for an hour just to see what it’s about. I remember after what felt like roughly an hour I suddenly had massive hunger pains, checked the time and realised I’d just been playing for about 9 hours straight with no break. I don’t think I’ve ever had another game do that to me before.
It’s a British recipe…
ChatGPT bots are in most popular threads. It’s really obvious once you’ve seen a couple of them. They usually leave some generic comment that essentially just repeats what’s in the title or describes the picture with a vague emotion attached.
For example on a photo of a cat wearing socks the ChatGPT comments will be something like “It’s so cute how the cat is wearing socks! Cats are not normally meant to wear socks!”
If you click on their username you will normally see that the account is less than a few weeks old and every single comment made is of the same strange tone, adding nothing to the conversation, just describing and responding to the original post.
Edit: Found one for you as an example: https://www.reddit.com/user/TwirlingFlower45/
(UK) All three are technically correct, but 1 and 3 are the most commonly used. 1 is casual and the most frequently said (mainly because it has fewer syllables and we humans are lazy).
Edit: Thinking about this more. Phrase 1 is what you would normally use when you desire something that is not shared with others, for example:
“I found this old slice of bread behind the sofa…”
“I want that!”
Or “This week’s jackpot is 1 billion pounds!”
“I WANT THAT!”
Phrase 2 or 3 are normally used when you are expressing a common desire.
“I wish this skyscraper would just fall on top of me so I don’t have to go to work tomorrow” “I want the same”
“I wish Uncle would stop drinking.” “I want this too, but he is very thirsty.”
100%. I don’t want to spend my free time scrolling past the political options of every single fuckhead in the world, these topics achieve nothing but pissing each other off. Block, block and block again.
I still remember the old-school crude internet saying of bygone days: “Arguing on the internet is like completing in the special Olympics; even if you win you’re still retarded”
Yeah, up until about 2 weeks ago I was still using a Pixel 4. It was 5 years old but never felt slow at all.
I do woodworking as a hobby. It doesn’t make money unless you invest in a full workshop and scale up production to the point where it would basically be a second job. Often the material costs alone are as much as it would cost to buy a completed item.
I’d still recommend it as a creative outlet though. There’s something satisfying about seeing that coffee table in the lounge and thinking “yeah I made that!”
I’ve reverted to buying the previous year’s flagships now. When you do a side by side comparison the only real difference between last year’s and this year’s is £300-400.
Because that’s still very niche. Flagship phones have more than enough power for the vast majority of users and have done for years now. The cost/benefit analysis doesn’t add up
You might be cursed. I’ve never noticed any choppy video and I was still on a pixel 4 until last week
WhatsApp (& mobile internet in general) replaced it for me. It’s no longer a requirement for both my friends and myself to be at our computers at the same time to talk shit to each other.
Don’t give them ideas
It’s definitely not quality or popularity given how many have been flops recently. It’s about the budget and publisher. Big money and/or big names = AAA.