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Precovid social isolation was the same in US and UK. [0] This investigation have numbers that say that Brits are experiencing more social isolation than untitedstateians. [1]

[0] https://publica.org.au/wp-content/uploads/DiJulio-et-al.-Lon...

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...


its not a signficant difference though. 22% vs 23% for total reporting isolation.

> unitedstateians

We're going to need a better name for them. Trumpistanians perhaps?


Really should be the default institutional projection.

Uk has been widely know as a budding police state for years. V for Vendetta was written in the 80s partially as a commentary on the British states turn towards a police state.

This poster is from 2002:

https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/po...


And right after seeing those posters you’d see big ads on the Tube walls that says things like:

>>We have the name and address of everyone in the UK without a TV license. Inspectors on on their way now to your home to investigate.

Also lookup “TV detector vans” which is another hilarious bit of the theatre of the UK police state

Seeing that as someone visiting the UK on vacation was a real eye opener, like what the heck kind of police state is this


Great. With later and later retirement dates, its important that the younger generations are easier to compete with. /s

That's quite funny, but the new recruits at my work place are super smart and full of piss and vinegar. Much more motivated than some of the older workers. The problem is that they will work lots of unpaid overtime, and they have no idea about work boundaries and being exploited by employers.

Sounds like they're trading excess energy for accelerated development. Where do I sign up?

The excess energy dissipates when you realise the commensurate rewards don't materialise, after a few years. But if you also have family wealth, it doesn't matter so much.

Depends on how well they translate that effort into promotions or company switches into better positions.

I averaged around 18mo to either a promotion or a move in my 20s, mostly off the back of working harder (to get the promotions/comp increases) and working smarter (to work out when they aren't coming and jumping somewhere else).

If this makes sense for someone has a lot more to do with their ambition/desire and ability to work the system than anything else. It also helps a ton if you are also legitimately very good at what you do. Then it's pretty easy because you are just demanding you are paid commensurate with impact.

Simply doing overtime and having hustle doesn't cut it though, you actually need to be able to leverage it into career progress or it's just wasted life.


Depending on the education/age of new recruits, you might not have seen much of the, younger, lower scored cohort, because the sharp performance drop only really started after 2018 (so the oldest affected people are around 22).

You're right. I suspect there are class factors at play too. A lot of education happens in the home when you're privileged.

Maybe, but the nurse taking care of you at old people home won’t be able to read your prescrition or count you the correct amount of medicine. You might as well throw those meds in the sink, since the prescription will be written by some transformer model anyway.

on the other hand, they'll be taking care of us when we're old :(

In reality US and China are just not efficient enough.

It was based on a patent for a system where you had to get up from your couch and yell McDonalds to continue you game or movie. Its prophetic because it is satirizing those corporations explicit fantasies.

As I recall from the original post when it was going around, it was related to the xbox one (before it was released at the end of 2013) being online only and blocking the resale/trade of physical disc based games, google "xbox one 2013 controversy"

https://www.google.com/search?&q=xbox+one+2013+controversy

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jun/19/xbox-one-...



Youre just mixing up who has the handicap. The handicap gives starting distance to the slower racer, but its still the faster racer that has the handicap.

People will see a felon actively protecting pedophilia and doing corruption out of the open and still pull Halons Razor out. We should have a new law about never try to explain obvious malicious actions away based on nothing but a rhetorical trick.

A lease is a license/document/interest/contract/deed granting use rights. So lease license is not meaningful.

Have you never seen a 'personal correspondence' reference?

Yeah but no matter how hard I look I never seem to be able to read anyone else's email. Maybe OpenAI's upcoming models can help me find those references.

the fact that they are sometimes communicated by email doesn't mean that the best way to communicate them is by email. Personal correspondence references are specifically terrible as references since you can't go read them...

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