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I came out of uni in 2010 into the worst job market in decades, and this one is a thousand times worse. I had my first interview in June and was rejected for lacking experience despite it being the same field I've spent the last ten years in. It is utterly insane.

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What benefit is this providing? I've been unemployed since last summer, been in the workforce 16 years, and it's glaringly apparent that qualifications and experience are no longer enough to find secure employment. Engaging with the job market is a kafkaesque experience.

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We've spent fifty years bending over backwards to please business and what have we got to show for it? They resent having to pay their staff. They resent having to train their staff. They resent having to pay their suppliers. They resent having to pay tax. Now we're forcing people to work for free.

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Remember that TikToker a couple of years ago who did almost just that? Perhaps it wouldn't have made the national papers if he'd been white

Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 18h

Just the other day Robert Jenrick expressed his desire to see refugees in the Channel being gunned down by the Royal Marines. Did these people miss that or something? Did a bee fly past and they were distracted?

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Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 18h

Time to put the bread away

Miles @themilesturner.bsky.social · 18h

Well, whomst among us...

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"I know you think I'm stupid, Boyd, but..... I ain't"

Unsurprisingly, I've found myself gravitating more and more back towards books over the past few years

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Things that happen in normal, healthy democracies part N

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Watching the Buffy "I Robot, You Jane" episode and honestly, Giles was right about the internet

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Like I say, this is just a convenient excuse for not doing something they were never going to do anyway

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Making a budget for a category of worker highly associated with tax-dodging is a bold move

This is a Monster Factory episode where they only allow themselves to change one slider

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Oh, I just remembered that in the 2004 King Arthur, Ioan Gruffudd's sword is held together with Philips-head screws

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Criticising Vikings for historical inaccuracy is a little like criticising the Sun for being a gigantic ball of hydrogen undergoing thermonuclear fusion

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In Stephen King's 11/22/63, at one point the main character comes across a sign with the phrase while he's in the early 1960s "Don't Mess With Texas", even though the phrase originated with an anti-littering campaign from more than a decade later

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He reacted the same way a London uni mate of mine whose favourite drink was Thatcher's did when I gave him some scrumpy from my local cider farm

I think we can all take Boris "Compulsive Liar and Serial Adulterer" Johnson at his word

The question everyone's asking is, how will Max make up that $200 per appearance?

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It's like a 2019 post-Elite ROH taping

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"The Unabomber wrote a 35,000 word manifesto without one grammatical error." ...okay? That isn't actually difficult.

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Watching Below. Jesus Christ, is that really what the Newfoundland accent sounds like?

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Jacket sleeves not pushed up, minus five stare

Plus, reading is hard and movies, TV and video games remove all that

I haven't read a book that had such contempt for women since The Last of the Mohicans

Every cliche of "this book was written by a man" gets hit like someone ringing a gong

God, I read a horror novel called The Ceremonies earlier this year that might be the most misogynistic thing I've ever read. Every woman in it exists either to be murdered or sexually assaulted

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I wouldn't say "for" so much as "and then went to"

I am not interested in GTAVI enough to try and get back into the console ecosystem, because to get the highest level of technical fidelity out of the experience I would have to spend in excess of £1500, to be able to play one (1) video game

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It's notoriously difficult for foreign companies to protect their rights in China. About 10 years ago Apple lost a case against some tiny company that started trading under the name Apple and stole their logo. If Valve were a Chinese company, that ruling would almost certainly have been the opposite

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China is not a consumer-friendly country. There was a big scandal last year over it being revealed that containers shipping cooking oil had previously been used to ship crude oil derivatives without being cleaned first, the latest in a long line of "eh, fuck 'em, they're just proles" incidents

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Might also help if they did something about employers abusing the apprenticeship system to dodge paying minimum wage. There's a Superdrug near where I live that's advertising an "Apprentice Retail Assistant" position, a role which does not need to be an apprenticeship for any reason.

It also presents Russia as being vastly more competent than they visibly are. If they're so well-organised as to manipulate another country into abandoning a highly beneficial economic partnership, you'd think they'd have been well-organised enough to send tank units into Ukraine with full crews

In China, but not outside it. By and large, the West does not look to China for legal precedent, nor vice versa

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According to Valve, no, they can't. You're taking those licenses with you, wherever you go

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Believe it or not, this is a real thing with Steam accounts

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A bachelor's degreee in the UK is three