Sorry, have I gone back to the 1920's or something?

I thought it was a dead cert these days that EV manufacture like with all other car manufacture was largely robotoc with humans just to do the fiddly bits on seat covers.

Honestly, of Ford are still so stuck in the past they havnt figured out the automated production line well, they deserve to be scared.

I thought it was quite backward when I saw Tesla hand making cars, but they sell them like Aston Martins which are also hand made and expensive for that reason.

Yes!

I'm fed up of being ASD. I have to explain where I am on the spectrum and I think it helps having a return to the time I was able to just say I am an Aspie and everyone gets it.

When a spectrum is big, we always divide it into subgroups. Why have Blue, Red and Yellow? Why not just call it all visible light and describe the colour to people in Kelvin? Most people would have no clue what a kelvin is.

A.I has only been a thing for about a year, so new that bigwigs where I work are still asking IT if we can get their laptop to run an LLM.

I have a degree in computer science earned back in 2006. I can say from my entore career in IT since 2006 that the main cause of it all is: cloud and outsourcing.

Here in the UK many companies will still have IT depts. But It is the department that is the least funded and most abused. Where I currently work we have just lost an employee to retirement. She had been in this company for over 40 years, he first IT job and she started here when there was indeed a mainframe and reel to reel tapes of data. She had 40 years of history on names, computer names, policies everything. I find a DDS tape from the 90'w with an innocuous computer name on it and she would tell me what it was and if it mattered.

Retired.

Now here in IT we have myself and one other like me, both of us Senior IT Sytems Technicians, plus my boss who is the CSIO and me acting as his deputy CSIO and a guy ho does all the 1st line stuff. So 4 of us in total. With my manager usually in meetings you can say it's more like 3 of us. Today its just me... one on holiday, one ill and the boss does the early shift so he already went home.

In my previous place where I worked for 8 years I spent the last 5 months of that working entirely by myself as the ONLY person on the service desk, handiling all 1st-3rd line and infrastructure issues alongside by brother in law sysadmin and a useless service desk manager and a head of IT who ran the service desk into the ground. Made myself and the other guy, who had been there 25 years redundant by having us re-apply for our own jobs. We had to take a fecking PERSONALITY TEST!! We both failed, even though I had 8 years of experience with the IT in the office and the pubs (it was a pub company) I wasnt the "type" of IT guy wanted. The older guy WALKED OUT. I dont blame him. Just walked right out of the building... I was a weak kind soul who stayed during my 3 months noticer panicing about losing the house while TRAINING UP THE REPLACEMENTS. Yep a whole new IT team.. Oh god you should have seen their faces when they found out I had a week to go they were bricking themselves (shitting their pants) at the prospect their mentor was going to leave them to handle it all. They were apparently the "correct" type, however I found one to be quire brash and obviously not the "customer service type" I was tols was needed. They also had no idea about anything, I had to show them Active Directory, Azure, card payment terminals, printers, the lot. Thgey hadnt even a clue about SERIAL PORTS and 9 pin IMPACT PRINTERS. Now, you'd say that was old hat tech no? Well in the hospitality industry that stuff is standard. The tils, those things that take peoples money, use them to print orders and receipts. They all use serual (USB is an option on some) and yes they are brand new. The dot matrix RIBBOM using impact printers (two colours too!) wre essentai pub equipment as they are the only kind of printer that can work in a blazing hot kitchen. Thermal printers and kitchens strangley dont mix well.

Luckily I found a job where I am now.

But now I have experience with entrprises. Where I am now is small, much smaller than where I was. However thes eemployees are much more tech savvy, many are brainiacs by profession. So there are less tockets but they usually are bigger deeper ones. But we have become part of a much bigger company, that has over 90,000 employees! Its not a take over or a merger, we are supposed to be independant arms off the whole. But they dont have ANY IT dept! 90,000 employees and the whole giant has no IT bods on site.

They outsource it all to someone else. You cant get an IT job in that giant unless you are a manager. Everything is done by contractors.

My previois place was using the cloud and I implemented much of that infrastructure and the automation, the ability to spin up a network and a VM with a few clicks and a config file?

Thats where its going. A few select human jobs in a cloud provider or a contracor leaving the rest of graduates essentially surplus to requirements. Now, if companies started respecting and growing the IT depts it would change everything, but we all know that us IT bods are the first to get trimed or the chop entirely, followed by the developers.

Todays parents are incapable of handling this. That generation of parents grew up with lax controlls on how they used instant messaging and likley see the internet of 2025 as the same as the one in 2003.

Why are americans obsessed with having more access to cats?

In the UK that is the case. Under 18's are not able to enter a contract and if they do they can void iy an any time.

However there are certain exemptions such as regarding provision of food and clothing and other things including contracts to provide a service.

Perhaps its similar here, as the chatbot is a service the contract could be binding.

The experiment is over.

> It wasn't until her son attacked her for taking away his phone

DO NOT LET KIDS HAVE ONE.

They should be using the internet in full view of the parents for homework research only. It is an educational tool, not a pre-teens playground anymore.

When we all did such things as 90's teens the internet was very different vs today, it was new, innocent (mostly) and pretty geeky so the only people really using it were us geeks and hackers and academics. Most "normal" people only used it for email, to replace the home fax machines they never really needed but got anyway for the novelty, later kids were using instant messaging and thats when it all slowly started. Those kids have kids now and the parents never saw the real issue that is todays net, remembering the days of AOL and Yahoo Messenger as being the worst it can get. Now social media and "A.I" have ballooned out and the parents literally have no idea what it is like as a kid online now.

A prime example of this is when a UK documentary series following an experiment in a school where a class of kids were to do without phone/tablets etc for 4 weeks, the teacher and parents joined in as well. Two of the parents were acting like presenters, it was their idea after all, and they decided to get brand new phones and sign up to TikTok to see what would happen if the kids did it. We can all guess their sheer terror and shock on camera as they, with brand new TikTok accounts acting as a boy and a girl the same ages as their boy and girl, were within MINITES getting PUSHED content of explicit sex acts and bodily harm as well as fashionistas wanting to tell the virtual girl to learn to make herself throw up after dinner to be thin and sexy.

After 4 weeks, some kids having actual withdrawal symptoms that the shows Doctor confirmed as what he would expect as he told the adults that they themselves showed signs of substance addiction regarding their phones, the kids all noticed significant changes. The most common of which was they felt much more connected and satisfied regarding their friendships at school, even if said friends were not part of the experiment and still had their phones. Several of the kids, especially one girl, who saw her social media as a "game" where she had to actually stay up late at night beating the stats of her mates with shares and likes, they al reported significantly reduced anxiety. The social gamer girl was even admitting she had panic attacks and por sleep and anxiety all the time before the experiment, although she was happy to get her phone back after the 4 weeks she said she was going to severely restrict her use of it as she finally was able to feel more normal.

One boy was a terror in class, always getting into trouble and bullying etc. During just those 4 weeks his parents and teachers saw a massive shift in him, he was listening, more agreeable and even helpful and polite to others in class.

Another couple of boys when given their phones back both said they didnt think they needed them anymore.

This experiment has run for 15-20 years. No kid before 2000 or so had such immediate and unfiltered access with social pressures from people right next to them plus those in countries halfway across the world with no shared culture and different politics... We have all seen the consequences, those kids found dead at home having died live on camera to perform a social media challenge.

The next generation can be saved. Till they are 16 they should clearly be on what is basically a curated parent controlled and monitored intranet. Some say 16 is too young, including some of the kids in that experiment in the school, even they said it.

Nicely put!

Great news. Less STD spread while reducing the surplus population.

So a tech nobody from a single games company talks to an elitist newspaper about concerns that only a financial bull would care about simply because he thinks that everyone on blighty is for some reason using an iphone.

Well I'm on android and I dont care what happens to the iphone users and their game choices.

> From what I've read the average woman wants 2.6 kids

I dread to think what the 0.6 child would look like

Ah so you want extinction of races you dont like.

There is a word for people like you.

Does it taste nice? I prefer Clubs and Trios myself. Does a Zanzibar have caramel?

> Not all people believe in having so few children.

Why do you think this is anything to do with choice?

- Low sperm counts getting even lower (last time I checked us guys didnt have to chose the number of points to assign to fertility stats when we get to 18).
- No interest in sex (there are so many easier and more attractive alternatives resulting in no repercussions).
- Economic stangation literally making an accidental pregnancy a trip to the abortion clinic.
- STD's

Basically it seems more like a need to actually CHOOSE to "do it" as all the other options are a no-brainer.

> Gen Alpha (2013-2024) and Gen Beta (2025-2039) may have a real shot at home ownership when Boomers and half of Gen X are gone

You'll be waiting a long time.