Tell them I could do the interview better than them

I’ve got a couple dumb friends/colleagues too but just change the subject when they mention politics

Game dev is predatory because people can and will do it for free. Many “dream jobs” have this issue.

Why would these doctors and engineers commit a random act of violence?

It was like 5 years ago but I heard a family friend working there was making 27k as a mid level dev.

It’s a business: They want to avoid controversy and this musician is controversial.

Sucks, because he is probably right or at least not wrong in his views, but this is the society we’ve all built together.

I work in gambling and have done for over 3 years. I do it for the paycheck.

Maybe they are just a company… Idk how people even developed a parasocial relationship with it

Me too but my wife gets upset when I call it that

In 1989, A Japanese Professor who teaches in the University of Tokyo named, Rantaro Futanari, found a loophole in the Japanese Economy. Prof. Futanari found a way to legally counterfeit money without any repercussions. Prof. Futanari still does this and is a well known billionaire. Want to found out how he does it? Just search for, “Futanari Inflation” in Google Images.

more of a pedant

Admittedly it is a pretty funny nickname but personally I find it amusing because he’s so non-threatening

Pretty safe to say he’s over-hated. Even like colleagues of mine whom I suspect do not follow politics closely refer to him as things like “Kier Stalin”.

Maybe I’m old fashioned but a PM is essentially an admin role – why do we expect that they be inspirational too.

This seems like a problem that will self-correct. The way Schrier has phrased the headline makes it sound like the industry is a monolith with a comitee leading it.

There are genuine integration issues in the UK so the anti-migrant bloc do have some valid concerns. However, there will be a non-insignificant amount of racists among them.

Weirdly, the “skipping the queue” rhetoric even works with fellow migrants. I have a friend from Iran who I used to work with that moved to the UK ~3 years ago; he’s way angrier about irregular channel crossings than the average Scottish person I know. I’d imagine spending a lot of money and years on a waiting list before being given a work visa was a grating experience though.

Their mode of entry into the UK was illegal but any asylum claims they make will be assessed as being potentially valid. I think you were saying the same thing but not sure.

The reason people are particularly pissed off is that Farage and co. have framed the debate as an issue of fairness. Essentially the charge levelled at the irregular migrants is queue jumping, which we don’t look upon fondly in our culture.

To be fair, she could have kept quiet about this and avoided another round of people calling her names online, which would have been the easier path. Most people in this thread might know “Robinson” is dodgy but we’re not the target audience.

Totally agree with you. I think society/politics has become polarised to the extent that we’ve all grown colder towards perceived “enemies”; at the same time people shouldn’t be victim blamed for abuse, no matter how dumb they are.

Additionally, what we perceive as “dumb” can sometimes be other people struggling with mental illness or disability.

I went to school with Chris Cash. His dad was my family GP and he was my cousin’s first kiss.

His HS yearbook has “most likely to end up in jail” on his entry.

My dad had to remove me from the cinema when we saw Toy Story on release because I found Sid’s vivsected toys too frightening