Yeah, AI is extremely good at specific things. If my workplace chose to train one on the engineering software I use and the company standards it would almost certainly outperform me at the design work in a fraction of the time. Fairly scary as my career would just completely evaporate. However, it absolutely couldn’t do the bullshit parts where there isn’t enough information to make a concrete decision or you have to chase specific people in other teams for info, and it certainly couldn’t be trusted to sign-off any designs. It would still reduce my job to what is essentially general admin/project coordination work though

I really do hate that our national flag has been taken by the far right and general football hooligans. If you go to any other country in the world and see someone waving their flag you just think “That person loves their country, how nice”.

This is the only place in the world where the national flag is a hate symbol. I’d support a campaign to reclaim it and break the negative associations but you just know it would immediately get corrupted by the same people they’re trying to reclaim it from.

I know what you mean, the prices are high but you don’t even get a lot of house for that money. We had a budget of around 300 and the choices were either tiny new build shoeboxes with miniature gardens overlooked in all directions with poor access/no local amenities, or older OK-sized places in some pretty rough areas.

We eventually found a 3-bed ex council place and thankfully it’s a relatively quiet area with pleasant enough neighbours. Though it is jarring that we are two professionals with degrees working full time to afford the same house that our neighbours were given a few decades ago and only one of them works and it’s a minimum wage job.

Same for here too though. You won’t find many £300K houses in and around London

The average in 1980 was £19,273. In today’s money that is £105K. So prices have effectively tripled in one generation.

The average house in the US costs just under $400K, which is £295K. So they are basically the same price.