I think a part of getting older is just watching medical science get better as the world gets shittier and realising the two cancel each other out so a natural death is still the preferred option. This is probably how people felt off the back of a world war, the depression, and then in the middle of another world war, someone's like,

"Check out penicillin! I accidentally discovered it like a decade ago."

"Nah, I'm good, thanks."

He fucks everything he touches.

Does the J. stand for "Dick Fingers"?

Fuel up on your kid enjoying it. You're doing the work; they'll enjoy it. The more they enjoy it, the more you will too in the long run—no pun intended.

Wish my parents were like you back when.

Just watching people with underpaid hospitality staff argue about the definition of a word they spell with a z...

Yes, but imagine The Thing 3 returns to original glory and the opening scene is just the Norwegians firing rounds from the helicopter while MacReady's son is already on the flamethrower, the stars and stripes flapping away in the background... The movie ends just 10 mins in to everyone sitting down for breakfast.

omg, just made a Thing reference and then saw your comment in the inbox next hahaha. Your idea has the angle for a good horror.

Protagonist resting by a burning base, snow covered in orange...

We could probably establish something in Antarctica like that.

the 30-49 year olds and the 50-and-up brackets are more closely aligned, at 39 percent and 37 percent respectively viewing it as negative.

I'm really surprised at the 30–49 bracket being at 39%. But, keep in mind there's a huge gap in tech savviness and tech lifestyle between someone born in 1977 to someone born in 1996. Their impressionable years kicked off literally at opposite ends of the Digital/Tech revolution, so I guess that makes sense that way...

This and surging in renewables, makes the rest of us look so stupid. But let's be honest, clearly our governments are.

And here I was trying to summarise the Westminster system with four paragraphs.

Only thing worth noting is a PM isn't some presidential position. It's generally just the party leader in the leadership position of the other ministers.

If a party decided they want to take turns of being leader each month, they'd each take a turn at being PM too.

I deal with job applications. It's incredibly obvious when a CV and cover letter is just AI. There's no need to even confirm it with software. Everyone bins them straight away.

It's not so much a surge in using AI on genuine job applications—and honestly, that wouldn't even be an issue—its the sheer amount of slop spam coming in. They'll apply for half a dozen jobs with different resumes catered for them, from anything from entry level data analyst to director of marketing, not realising it's the same company.

Like every year the same group of kids thwart his plan to ruin Christmas.

Only if told to do so

I'm the same. I still read the opening sentences of them, but if it's the usual "cover letter template" shit, it's pointless and I go straight to the CV.

We've hired plenty of people with lacking CVs that had genuine cover letters, though. It's clear when someone is trying to say they're really into their shit, but all they got on the CV is McDonald's.

But as you become more advanced in your field, they're useless. At the end of the day, you don't want to be stuck working for someone that ignores all the skill and experience, declining an interview because no cover letter.

Gee, thanks, USA. Can't wait to see what you fuck up next.

I just see them as landlords that think people still see them as the broke dope smoking hippie they were in the 60s.

Then you don't want to work there and they deserve what they get.

Yeah, that's the usual. It just regurgitated the job description and none of the experience matches up.

Had one linking two years as a florist to advance skills in SQL databases and project leading. Look, it could be true, but there's dozens of applicants with resumes with data science qualifications or over a half decade experience, so the florist won't be winning if all they say is what the ad said.

I imagine if any of them get an interview, it's sorted out within seconds. "So, we're hiring a mechanic. We're an auto shop. You seem to be someone that owns a car and that's the extent of it..."

A friend won tickets to a local one and it was a lot of fun. It was like a huge group of LARPers and everyone got to participate in the spectacle in their own way. Definitely not a gender thing, either.

I guess it was like one of those themed restaurants with actors and events through the evening, where the whole point is everyone can get into it and have fun on a pirate ship or in Dracula's castle or whatever the theme is.

But, I struggle to see how it could go to the scale and detail of what's in the US. Watching it on TV seems more concerning than entertaining too. I had a housemate that played a White Mage in FFXI, and Pineapple Juice was how the class restored mana points. Dude started drinking nothing but pineapple juice IRL. That's probably the only way I can explain "Pro Wrestling" in the US. It must be targeted at that guy.