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Fantastic Yes PM reference. Kudos!

Honestly, that series has a reference for pretty much most scenarios, politics or otherwise, even today, especially these days. What a show.

I had a friend who had a BS and wanted a temp part time job but got turned down a lot....and these were simple jobs!

Genuine question for you (and anyone else), while on the topic. If you had a Master's degree and all you did was "normal" office job type stuff, but now if you want to do hourly burger flipping or whatever else, how would you go about tailoring your CV? You can drop a degree or something but now you have to also account for 5 to 7yrs of full-time job experience.....I am trying to rack my brain.

That's fascinating and gave me a genuine laugh.

Related BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46189850

Different horses/ platforms for different courses. I use FB, Insta as a virtual blog of what's going/ went on in my life. I don't post every single thing, but upload stuff which stands out for me. I joined FB back in '04/05 in my college freshman year (christ, I am old!) and it's nice to scroll back and see how my friends and I evolved over the years. All those moments, dare I say, even silly pics/posts, are nice to go through sometimes. Same with Insta, but obviously, here it's all about just pics and focused comments on them from friends.

Snap is just for posting those "in the moment" stuff which I really don't care too much about documenting.

Anyways, that's the way I operate. Different for everyone.

That's funny. I might have to try it at some point!

Lots of apps. I use FB messenger, WhatsApp etc. if I hit return it goes to a new line. Maybe somehow I enabled them in the options? I don't know.

I am not a big fan of current US policy, but definitely agree that our presence is a stabilizing factor in the world geo politics. Take the US out of the equation and there would like be a huge imbalance. The UK and other European countries are but a shadow of their past... At least militarily.

Another U.S. to UK transplant here. I thought the UK was bit better than the U.S. in terms of general divide and political nonsense. After Brexit, not so much.

It was either Swamp Gas or Weather balloons. Everyone knows that.

Awesome! Always good to hear stories like yours. Keep it going!

Well, when I was in college, I did a few internships and stuff, probably drank some of the kool-aid dished out at the time and genuinely swallowed some of the "we care for you, and really want you to excel here and make a difference in the world" type of stuff. I really did care for the companies I initially worked at and believed in the work I did.

A few years down the line and a few job changes later, I've come to the realization that broadly they are similar in what they do, the way they treat people. It's just different shades of politics, infighting, employee indifference, and perks and benefits. I don't expect anyone from corporate to have my back no matter how good the work is and how much effort I put in.

Maybe it's just my jaded inner self-talking. Christ, I am not that old, only just mid-30s and the way I am writing makes me sound like a grizzly 60 yr old! Now, get off my keyboard!

"RIM sold plenty of BB hardware to people who just wanted access to BBM because that’s where all their friends were, so there’s precedent."

Ahhh...those heady BBM days..BBM Pins and stuff. It's amazing how quickly everything changed for BB.

China and WeChat springs to the top of my mind. You can pretty much buy anything you need using it, including giving tips, giving money to buskers etc.

I am in the UK/ EU as well, my friends and I mostly use Whatsapp, FB messenger, Facetime for voice/video calls (especially when traveling/roaming) as most of them use this. Skype is mainly used for business or other "non-quick" purposes.Quite a few of them don't even have Skype enabled in the "always on" mode, open and login only when needed, unlike the others I mentioned.

Well, everyone is a number somewhere on a spreadsheet. Call me cynical, but I have long given up on the notion of company loyalty etc. Looking back at my bright-eyed idealism coming out of college, makes me laugh.

Forget having the ability of being able to constantly get chunks of my time focused on deep work, I am having trouble focusing for more than 15 to 30 mins on even trivial stuff like watching a video or reading an article. I can barely get through 15mins of anything before my mind seems to wander off. No wonder it takes me a couple of days to finish a movie. I gave up on even the thought of going to an actual movie theater. I constantly have to pause and come back to whatever I am watching/ doing.

I had ADHD as a kid, it gradually seemed to have gone away over the years, it's been a while since I've taken any sort of meds. But lately, for the past year or two, I've been struggling with this. I need to change my lifestyle a bit, take up some meditation, or maybe even go to the doc again. Or a combination of all. It's just frustrating.

Sweet as!

And it works most of the time, even if the power goes down, there are storms or floods, as long as the wired connection is not down. When NYC lost power in the early oughties, guess which phones were still working? Yep, the pay phones and the landlines. Most of the cell phones were dying or dead. That said, I don't have one but my parents still do.

Replacing the 3.5mm headphone jack with USB-C or Bluetooth, even when some devices seemingly have space to accommodate them easily. I hate progress for progress sakes.

And audio quality on most Bluetooth headphone/earphones sucks. And now I have to carry a zillion dongles for everything.

Organizations like the Stasi would've loved to have existed in this current era. Things people put out in the open voluntarily are things probably would've taken so many resources to obtain.

Same here. I'd rather not online date someone from my social circle. Sure, if it happens with someone I know offline, it will happen. But I don't want to turn FB into a pseudo-dating site as well. There's too much personal info on there for that kind of stuff. Plus scope for waaay too much drama, if things go south.

Plus, if you lose your phone and you don't have your SMS msgs backed up, they are lost forever pretty much. With messenger, because they are not device dependent, they are still there. You can access them from any device (mobile or desktop) which is connected to the net.

I haven't used an SMS in ages...can't even remember the last time I texted or received one.

What constitutes a "good job" here? The pay or the work you like to do? I did a kinda stupid thing when I left my last half decent paying, but a miserable one for nothing. I just couldn't take it anymore. So I stepped off the ledge, figuratively speaking. I was lucky enough that I had money for 6 to 8 odd months, so I just packed my bags and took off backpacking. Only now just slowly trying to get back into full time work again.

They really are running out of ideas for turning the stock around. The funny thing is their current product lineup isn't too bad. And of course, they decided they will ditch ALL cars (except the Mustang) and just got with crossovers and trucks instead. The F-series is a money printer, keeping the entire company afloat.

I've lived and worked in a fair few cities and the two cities which spring to the top of my mind which can take in a significant influx of talent/people/work from various industries and not be "monopolized" by a single industry are London and NYC.

I actually haven't come across any other broadly comparable cities in these sort of metrics.

At least, that's my first hand opinion.

That's kind of stupid...takes the point away from roundabouts. They're designed to keep the traffic flowing in low /medium conditions when a traffic light or stop sign would bring it to a halt otherwise. Saves on fuel etc.

Horses for courses....roundabouts are great for low to medium traffic conditions. Sometimes the lights are there for times of the day when the traffic is heavy. The lights go out when traffic calms down.

I was literally cringing when she spouted this nonsense. If that's the case, maybe they should do the same in the Bay Area as well. It won't distort the housing market etc.