I forget which game it was, but there was one game I worked on where me and my team weren't on the credits, but the personal chef of someone who worked for the publisher was.

Over the last year I've also seen more and more people respond to questions with "AI says that...<answer here>", as if it's a single omniscient source that means they don't have to investigate further.

Agreed, and it's about 20 years too late.

Problem is that the Government only solved half the problem. Outsourcing identity verification to 3rd parties in an age of hackers stealing whole user databases from so many businesses is a recipe for disaster.

They already did 6000 layoffs in May.

This is another bunch, just to show both how bad their planning is and how little they value their employees.

I think "no checks and balances" is a bit misleading. US politics makes much of these so-called checks and balances but which rarely restrain things in practice, while UK Governments, without these, still have to appease all wings of their own party (as seen in the UK in recent days)

If it's any consolation it's exactly the same bullshit here in the UK. Our government is claiming that there's too much red tape around planning and the environment, but actually getting anyone to enforce any of these rules never works anyway.

I remember my then-partner returning from a work trip to Beijing a few years back and telling me her coworkers had to refer to the pollution as 'the weather' because they weren't allowed to acknowledge that their industry caused the smog.

Ironic that the thumbnail for this video is following the standard clickbait formula - bold background with a person with exaggerated expression in the foreground and a large text headline. Even the good stuff is hyper optimised for conforming to engagement norms.

A lot of people have missed the weasel words in the first paragraph (above your highlighted section there), which basically says "if labels send us stuff, it's protected, but anything uploaded by independent musicians is fair game".

All I've seen from people like this, over the 25 years since Napster, is always "give it away for free and (a) people will donate (b) you'll become famous and can pivot into some other business with actual revenue (c) you can sell t-shirts"

I find it very bizarre that they elect a president who gets to act more like a king than our king does.

I'm a bit baffled at this comment because that's the opposite of the problem we're talking about. More people entering the labour market means wages go down or stay lower because employees are easier to find. I'm not pro-Brexit - this is just the economics of that particular aspect.

Okay, there are 2 parts to this.
1st: people inbound to the UK would exceed those outbound due to the language barrier. That was the case before Brexit, would be again.
2nd: increased competition (due to more in than out) suppresses wages and makes finding jobs harder, regardless of skill.

The skill gap is plain when you simply look at language skills.

Increased competition for jobs keeps wages down and makes it harder to find work. This wouldn't happen if equal numbers travelled in each direction, but they won't.

That's what I feared, thanks!

Hi Nick, if Girton is accessible, any idea if Langford has also dried out a bit since the floods? RSPB said the trail had been closed, but that was weeks ago.

Studies of non-human primates seem to show that they react to 'unfairness' as well. If wealth disparity is considered an unfairness then these feelings might just be natural.

It might be interesting to compare between 'hard-earned wealth' vs 'inherited wealth' or even 'stolen wealth'.

I'm in the same camp as you - I would have thought it crazy, but after seeing several spooky 'coincidences', my partner and I did a test where we talked about an obscure topic for 5 minutes that neither of us, or our demographic, has an interest in. Ads for it appeared on our phones within hours.

I agree that there are biases involved and that it's a problem to use a standard of conformity to measure this sort of thing. All I can say is that I've seen an incredibly consistent pattern with my ASD friends which does not fit the 'double empathy' explanation but does fit the ToM explanation.