sime42

I do think that car manufacturing employs less people due to robots and automation. When you analyse it on a per car basis. It takes a lot less people to make a car than it used to in 1960. When AGVs, aided and abetted by AI, get fully adopted, there won't even be people driving forklifts around. If there's more people overall, it's because there are more car plants, because there are more cars being (over)consumed now. I don't think that you can extrapolate car manufacturing employment prospects to the impact of AI on the wider jobs market. Creating jobs just to satisfy our expectations and desires, (but not needs), for overconsumption isn't going to be a sustainable model to follow. We're already screwed on that front. We can't just make-more-stuff our way out of the hole we're digging. As I understand it, manufacturing and practical jobs aren't the ones that are most at risk from AI anyway. Though I see they're quite high, but as a percentage of total employment, manufacturing isn't much these days. You're remarkably optimistic about AI in general, are you the 3.85%? I'm more concerned about the meteoric rise in dis&misinformation, rather than mass unemployment. Too many people are falling foul of it already. The fact that it's getting increasingly hard to trust information and "news" deeply unsettles me. It's a sad, bleak world that we're moving into; where so much around us is unnatural and unreal. Progress? No sir.

Brutal.

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That had to be an elaborate spoof story surely.

Johnsond with the integrity deficiency. Sunak with the insight into common people deficiency. Truss with the intelligence deficiency. A dismissal procession of head-in-clouds politicians. I reckon the UK would be much less of an international joke if the Conservative Party had stuck with old Theresa May.

I think this is real. Nice idea, but probably wouldn't work that well in practice.

A couple went to the hospital to have their baby delivered. Upon their arrival, the doctor said that the hospital was testing an amazing new high-tech machine that would transfer a portion of the mother's labour pain to the baby's father. He asked if they were interested. Both said they were very much in favour of it. The doctor set the pain transfer to 10% for starters, explaining that even 10% was probably more pain than the father had ever experienced before. But as the labour progressed, the husband felt fine and asked the doctor to go ahead and kick it up a notch. The doctor then adjusted the machine to 20% pain transfer. The husband was still feeling fine. The doctor then checked the husband's blood pressure and was amazed at how well he was doing. At this point they decided to try for 50%. The husband continued to feel quite well. Since the pain transfer was obviously helping the wife considerably, the husband encouraged the doctor to transfer ALL the pain to him. The wife delivered a healthy baby with virtually no pain and the husband continued to experience no pain. She and her husband were ecstatic. When they got home they found the postman dead on the porch

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Yeah, I know what you mean. I wasn't convinced but we're at my mum's so I played the obedient son. First time I've cooked Toad, I'll do so again, easy enough.

Toad in the hole.