Random Thoughts

[Barnacle Billy]

Now go and bore off.
Any respect (which was minimal) I had for you, dissipated on 23/3/24... Wimp.

[son of the Morrigan]

There's one group of people in this world who have no chance of understanding complex things like mRNA vaccines: those with 19th century views on race 

Sure jews are not a race man, they are an ethnoreligious group.

(I'm just havin a bitta craic here by the way)

Jews of european descent are also not semites.

(Still havin a bitta craic)

[Barnacle Billy]

Septics man... ger it roight

[Grim Reality]

I used to listen to the odd JR podcast before he went to Spotify. He had a great knack for interviewing people, that's his biggest skill, which I think is being glided over. I have no interest in defending him because he seems to have given plenty of airtime to dodgy dealers, and doesn't have the insight to be able to challenge them where needed, but I think the reason he became so popular is that his show is often very engaging. He interviews all sorts so much of it was not of any interest to me, but some of the episodes I listened to were great craic.

I'd be with you there. I used to listen to Rogan on and off. Found it decent craic and interesting if you were prepared not to take everything as gospel. Shortly after he endorsed Trump and the subsequent election I stopped tuning in. Not because I'd be ideologically against that side but it felt the discourse was leaning too much towards that one side and I'm not interested in divisive, partisan shit at this stage of my life.

On the AI thing.... I'm not sure how it will all play out. If you are employed by tech, for sure you will be on the chopping block. I work two jobs/careers. One in agriculture and one in healthcare. AI ain't gonna dose lambs or dagg the dirty arses of ewes, wean, shear, dip, fence, pull lambs at birth etc etc etc. In healthcare its all an inefficient mess and in my corner of it much of that is on purpose. People are fucking around doing full time 'jobs' 40 hours a week with nearly nothing to show for it. It's going on years. It's a jobs for the boys scenario. I got paid a few quid today to fill out some horseshit questionnaire from some medical research company. Pure waffle and time wasting but everyone involved is getting paid. Think of the lads in county council offices! We will dream up some way to keep being 'employed', AI or not.