SkyBlueSoul
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I'm the same. Bit the bullet and tried to use ChatGPT but whatever I ask it it says it can't answer, then everyone else says it's revolutionised their lives in some way.
I'm the same. Bit the bullet and tried to use ChatGPT but whatever I ask it it says it can't answer, then everyone else says it's revolutionised their lives in some way.People talking about AI and the fact I don’t understand most of it
Can we please get back onto cyclists and the prices of things!
It's strange how diesel is back to virtual parity with petrol don't you think?People talking about AI and the fact I don’t understand most of it
Can we please get back onto cyclists and the prices of things!
The council have just installed charging points around here so I assume they're about to buy us all an electric car?It's strange how diesel is back to virtual parity with petrol don't you think?
It's strange how diesel is back to virtual parity with petrol don't you think?
Now that’s more like it!It's strange how diesel is back to virtual parity with petrol don't you think?
Good man, you've saved me the effort of bothering!I'm the same. Bit the bullet and tried to use ChatGPT but whatever I ask it it says it can't answer, then everyone else says it's revolutionised their lives in some way.
I figured I was the problem rather than it. The fact it's not up to date didn't help, I asked it to write a summary of a new piece of kit at work but it doesn't know anything post-2021. Other than that I can't think of a use I have for it that Google won't help with atm.
It's particularly good at taking what you want to say and translating it into the corporate nonsense speak that people seem to want to hear in emails and the like
Are you still using ntlworld?Fucking shitty fucking Virgin Fucking Media. Service down again.
Are you still using ntlworld?
Oh I thought it was just emails down.Cant get anything else above 20mbps where I am
Quick, everyone stalk shmmeee!
Not me on this but the wife’s got annoyed
Her friends having a 50th party in August and rather than presents she’s set up an account for all the guests to donate to her and her husbands holiday . I think it’s a pretty decent idea .
A driving one, sorry!
Learner drivers tootling along doing 35MPH on the A444.
This isn't the learners fault obviously, but the instructor. I did the same thing when I was learning and my instructor went apeshit!
FailA driving one, sorry!
Learner drivers tootling along doing 35MPH on the A444.
This isn't the learners fault obviously, but the instructor. I did the same thing when I was learning and my instructor went apeshit!
Yes, but ....People whinging about interest rate increases and expecting the government to help.
A, you shouldn't overstretch yourself in the first place
B, tough shit if you can't have that expensive holiday you 'deserve' this year
and C, Interest rates are increasing to stop you spending money like a twat so the government won't help you out. We aren't a nanny state despite what people think and the govenrment shouldn't help people buy stuff they can't really afford.
They have been at historic low levels for a long time and people just assume that they'll stay that way and are overspending as a result.
Getting bolted into a metal box and thrown to the bottom of the oceanThe titanic submarine. Shows money doesn’t buy happiness. Who in their right mind would do that trip. ( I don’t like water that I can’t stand up in )
A driving one, sorry!
Learner drivers tootling along doing 35MPH on the A444.
This isn't the learners fault obviously, but the instructor. I did the same thing when I was learning and my instructor went apeshit!
Agreed - you don’t fix supply driven inflation with demand countering monetary policy. You solve or subsidise the supply issuesYes, but ....
The widely-held view among people who know about these things, and who do not have an allegiance to the government or the BoE, is that the current global inflation figures (ours being the worst in the G20) are NOT demand-driven (which could be controlled by restricting people's ability to spend) but supply-driven, so increasing interest rates turns into a vicious circle.
The war in Ukraine has pushed fuel, energy and food commodity prices up, which has led to all manner of inflationary pressures and is nothing to do with people's spending power, which has been stretched to breaking point.
BoE put interest rates up, which has resulted in many businesses having higher overheads. When these are combined with the energy prices, they have had to put prices up, irrespective of people's desire to buy stuff.
Inflation has also caused ever-higher wage demands, which puts companies' overheads up ... and so on and so forth.
The previous 12 interest rate rises in the past year or so have done bugger-all to curb inflation, and there is NO reason to suppose that whacking them up by another 0.5 points today will have any effect either OTHER than to drive the economy into recession, which WILL reduce inflation, and many economists believe is the BoE's intention.
There will be a lot more people who will suffer financially as a result of this.
Indeed, an overheated economy is not one where pubs and restaurants have drastically reduced opening hours due to the lack of discretionary spending.Agreed - you don’t fix supply driven inflation with demand countering monetary policy. You solve or subsidise the supply issues
This inflation isn’t simply from an over heated economy it’s from two massive external shocks. Said it right at the beginning
Yeah, gonna have to weigh in with a driving one myself. Pulled into my street late this evening (200 metres from home) noticed immediately a car 50 metres ahead going through the jerky motions of backwards and forwards across the narrow street, thought initially they were trying to get an angle to either pull forwards onto or reverse into a driveway. It transpired neither as eventually the car faced me and slowly started moving forwards. The street is an avenue and at that time of the evening cars are parked on both sides of the road and therefore opposite flow is difficult without someone giving way. It was essentially a 'stand off. I decided to reverse 20 metres to allow the other person to use a gap on their left to create a 'passing point' for both of us. I honestly thought I was going to have to get flags out to indicate what they should do next but after repeated physical indications to them to manoeuvre their car into the space the penny reluctantly dropped.Have no idea what it’s about. Car, bus, HGV test, I was always told “progressive but careful”. There’s a huge difference between ‘careful’ and ‘dangerously slow’. It should be considered major imo.
Yeah, gonna have to weigh in with a driving one myself. Pulled into my street late this evening (200 metres from home) noticed immediately a car 50 metres ahead going through the jerky motions of backwards and forwards across the narrow street, thought initially they were trying to get an angle to either pull forwards onto or reverse into a driveway. It transpired neither as eventually the car faced me and slowly started moving forwards. The street is an avenue and at that time of the evening cars are parked on both sides of the road and therefore opposite flow is difficult without someone giving way. It was essentially a 'stand off. I decided to reverse 20 metres to allow the other person to use a gap on their left to create a 'passing point' for both of us. I honestly thought I was going to have to get flags out to indicate what they should do next but after repeated physical indications to them to manoeuvre their car into the space the penny reluctantly dropped.
It was only when I got that close did I see the age (and therefore driving experience?) of the other person. They ween't young. I can tolerate a genuine lack of confidence but it's the depressing level of thick as pig shit application to the most basic of driving skills that leaves me thinking we're not gonna get more than five million for Vic.
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