merridew

joined 1 year ago
[–] merridew 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your husband works for 20 hours a week, but you are responsible for housekeeping, cooking, childcare and transportation, and you are also the main earner?

[–] merridew 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Naff off mate.

[–] merridew 33 points 1 year ago

If you are talking about ChatGPT: please do not do this.

ChatGPT guesses which words should come next in a sequence, based on its training data and your prompt. It is not intelligent, and it has no concept of what is real and what is not. It will cheerfully make things up.

I sympathise with your frustration at having to pay money to see a doctor. I can't imagine how stressful life would be without the NHS.

[–] merridew 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The population of the USA is c. 332 million people.

200,000 people in 332,000,000 is

1 person in 1660.

I think you may have misplaced a zero?

[–] merridew 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Average wages haven't gone up by 25% since 2020, and I doubt people have been getting 25% returns on cash held over that period.

Housing affordability is lower than at any time pre-2020.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/housingaffordabilityinenglandandwales/2022

[–] merridew 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

About time.

[–] merridew 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That was an interesting & informative video that was not nearly as terrible as the thumbnail might suggest.

Not a fan of current trends in YouTube thumbnails.

[–] merridew 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In medicine, "rare" is usually defined as affecting fewer than 1 in 2000 people.

[–] merridew 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tory policy of making a shite situation out of the best

[–] merridew 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are some people engaging in heterosexual sex who can be quite keen on not using condoms.

ETA: fixed perplexing autocorrect of final word.

[–] merridew 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't want to know.

Until it's actually election time, I don't want to know what their vision is.

They can't "Brexit" any harder than the Tories have, and if they say anything negative about the obvious deficiencies of Brexit ahead of the election, they give the Tories ammunition to drum up more tribal support.

Let the real-world consequences of Brexit play out and speak for themselves. For now.

 

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