Yep. I used to be an accountant, and that's how trainees learn in that field too. The company I worked at had a fairly even split between clients with manual and computerised records, and trainees always spent the first year or so almost exclusively working on manual records because that was how you learned to recognise when something had gone wrong in the computerised records, which would always look "right" on a first glance.
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Yep. Life does just seem... permanently enshittified now. I honestly don't see it ever getting better, either. AI will just ensure it carries on.
AI is also going to run into a wall because it needs continual updates with more human-made data, but the supply of all that is going to dry up once the humans who create new content have been driven out of business.
It's almost like AIs have been developed and promoted by people who have no ability to think about anything but their profits for the next 12 months.
Kind of depressing that the answer to not being replaced by AI is "learn to use it and spend your day fixing its fuckups", like that's somehow a meaningful way to live for someone who previously had an actual creative job.
You know, I'm a bit scared to get my hopes up for a Conservative wipeout. I'll just end up disappointed on 5th July when they still have 100 seats or so.
I honestly don't get why so many people are so reckless and impatient on the roads. I've seen some people being really fucking stupid around cyclists and motorcyclists. One incident haunts me, because I know someone would have been severely injured, maybe killed, if I hadn't been quick enough to get out of the way of an impatient person overtaking in a stupid place.
And it's just like... why? Just leave home a few minutes earlier!
I did not know the exact wording of this guidance, but this is basically the strategy I use. I've always figured that because I prepare for my journeys, I am never in such a rush that I need to put someone else's life at risk in order to pass them quicker - it's not like it's going to make a difference to my day if I arrive at my destination 2 minutes later, but it'll make a huge difference to someone else's day if I rush past a cyclist when it's not safe.
Somehow that doesn't surprise me. Deprived areas can definitely have lovely people in them - I live in a deprived area myself, and while there's definitely some specific spots that I would avoid, most people tend to be... well, normal, decent people. But I can definitely see how somewhere that would vote for Lee Anderthal and then vote Reform would not have the same vibe as a deprived area currently eyeing up a Labour or Lib Dem candidate with genuine interest.
I know right? I suspect Keir Starmer would be much more popular if he was as weirdly hot as Keirbot.
Now there's a sentence I never thought I would say/type.
This kind of thing is precisely why there's a solid argument for the system some companies are starting to use: transparent, public (within the office) lists of everyone's pay, with set pay bands based on job role. I read an article about a company that did this, and apparently it improved staff retention and job satisfaction, because not only was everybody paid fairly based on the job they did, but they all knew they were paid fairly, had a means of challenging it if their pay didn't reflect the work they were actually doing, and knew what was needed of them to get a promotion and payrise. It meant quieter, less assertive people weren't punished, because it was based not on who could best advocate for themselves, but how long you'd worked there and what measurable work you had done.
So like...
Say you were watching a film, and a character gets hit by a Volkswagen Beetle, loses a testicle, and marries a German. Audiences and critics alike would be like "yeah, we get it, we know what you're referencing" because the references would be deemed unnecessarily heavy-handed.
Why is it okay for reality to do that, but not film directors?
It is definitely worth checking all three of these to make sure your tactical vote is used in the best way possible:
GetVoting.org
StopTheTories.vote
Electoral Calculus (Not a tactical voting site, but gives you more insight into your constituency, which can help you be sure the two above are giving the best advice.)
If you're really not happy with the party the tactical voting sites recommend for your constituency, Compass are also offering the Win As One vote swapping tool, where you can be paired up with someone who also can't vote the way they would like to. By swapping votes, both people can do what they have to for a tactical victory while still having their first choice counted.