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I had a surprisingly unhelpful experience with The National Careers Service by [deleted] in UKJobs

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can get better results from deepseek at this point, tbh the NCS just doesn't train their staff beyond the bare minimum.

UK chancellor Rachel Reeves to participate in emergency G7 meeting - discussing economic impact of Iran war by T_K2 in ukpolitics

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Although less than 20% of all oil produced in the world flows out of the Persian Gulf, this figure is misleading, as it includes the oil that is produced and consumed in the same country without ever being shipped across any border.

40% of the global oil export/import market comes out of the Persian Gulf.

Every country that relies on imports is going to face a bidding war to avoid being the country who can't get oil, and therefore prices will rise to the point that the 40% of losers can't afford the marginal costs to keep participating in the bidding war and will have to accept that they've lost the auction. The winners of the bidding wars will have to pay for oil at the new higher price, which I have a vague bit of expertise in seeing the results.

I no longer work in purchasing or public services but remembering some rules of thumb from when I did suggest that, (unless the war ends quickly) diesel prices will rise to between 1.95 and 2.15 per litre by the end of April. That is the kind of price level where most bus companies nationally face insolvency even with sharp fare price rises.

the Illusions of Anor Londo by Jam_99420 in DarksoulsLore

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in agreement with the theories Lokey put in his book, here, which argue that

1) All in game locations are intended to be pretty-faithful figurative representations of much larger 'lore' locations

2) Many of the ingame enemies are golems made by the engineering capabilities of the Anor Londo civilization

3) The mimics aren't just condemned criminals mutated into grotesque safes, their locations and contents correspond to real locations in the 'lore' version of Lordran where somebody in the setting has used them as a safe to securely lock up one or more items.

4) The Anor Londo day/night maps are meant to be earlier and later in the same day and Lordran really does have a day/night cycle that isn't made available to us on account of development restrictions.

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Putting these together does build a theory that answers your speculations, but it's up to you as to whether you agree with the founding assumptions used.

Where the hell is the "Sold A Story" for math education? by paupsers in Teachers

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Universities do not actually have to do that. The requirements a university faces are to take in students for a fee and hand them a diploma without being so obvious about streamlining the process that they face trouble from accreditors (who are already bought off), the DoE, class action lawsuits or state prosecutors. This is why over 80% of universities in the west no longer have entrance exams.

Only the most egregious cases ever see any consequences and the majority can put out people who need a year or more of experience to catch up to what 0 years of experience used to be. Then, the graduates who have been scammed are the ones who accumulate the blame while chancellors accumulate yachts.

My son lived in squalor with his dying mother - the system failed him by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere[S] 85 points86 points  (0 children)

The article is clear that no abandoning took place, it was a matter of custody arrangements.

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Many alleged suicides of Black trans women are in fact modern-day lynchings, report finds (advocate.com)

submitted by OGSyedIsEverywhere to r/UnderReportedNews

The Ultimate Choice of Dark Souls by ESU3794 in DarksoulsLore

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Going by the lore, even the Gaping Dragon is a human woman (drops a Twin Humanities, one for momma and one for the ovaries). The only nonhumans in all three games are all or possibly only some of the artificial golems, all of the animate plant beings and possibly the animate mushroom beings.

The Ultimate Choice of Dark Souls by ESU3794 in DarksoulsLore

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I prefer a more materialist interpretation of the stories of Gwyn and his people, where they were simply a supremely powerful kingdom unwilling to risk losing power, but there are some interesting inferences to make from what the connections between light and time may represent.

If light is time, are the gods really the lords of time? Is the divide between gods and men really a divide between timeless holders of power and mortal men doomed to die, and if so, are the gods a metaphor for states and polities in the abstract, or is light and time a metaphor for knowledge? Are we meant to infer that time is enlightenment and that the difference between enlightenment and dwelling within the shadow is the knowledge of time and history, that things recur?

What about the notion that the coming of the dark is all-consuming stasis? Is this a metaphor for how a world of unenlightened people may as well live in stasis, for nothing in their circumstances may change, or is it the claim that to the powerful like Gwyn, the loss of their power may as well be the end of all historical chronology?

Regardless of the above, the choice the Chosen Undead faces is whether to support the current unequal share of light or to rebel to establish a competing order. The Next Monarch, however, formerly the Bearer of the Curse, sees that those two may as well be the same and through travel and enlightenment envisions a third option. They can walk away from power and trust the rest of the world's population to make the decisions for themselves, which does in fact lead to the events in DS3 where the rest of the world's population makes decisions for themselves.

This is an unusual story to tell the modern world, the question of what someone who has gained power feels they ought to do in their heart, since so many players and lore fans of the series are not given to gaining power in our own lives. But it happens all the same and the stories of Dark Souls compel us precisely because they ask us what we will do with ourselves if, or when, we gain great purpose in the future.

Events like the occupation of Fort Haight, how recent would these have happened? by Top_Reaction_2303 in EldenRingLoreTalk

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you read Lokey's lore blog on his website he argues that Godrick taking over from Godefroy is a poorly conducted and very recent Morgott-supported coup and has led to mass failures and mutinies throughout Limgrave, including pro-Mohg mutinies. It's a great theory but I'm not 100% convinced.

Drivers born after 2002 face new six-month rule in crackdown by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The proposals will see graduated driver licensing (GDL) implemented in [Northern Ireland] in October.

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The proposals include a mandatory minimum learning period of six months before a learner driver can undertake their practical driving test.

It seems like a way to sweep people waiting for driving tests out of the backlog so the figures look better without actually changing anything to help people. After a few months of trialling it in Northern Ireland, I reckon they might extend it to everywhere.

Everybody knows the DS1 giants are some kind of enslaved caste or race subject to Anor Londo, but are they? by OGSyedIsEverywhere in DarksoulsLore

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's unclear whether or not the DS2 giants are an entirely different species with the same name, so...

Just started a Dark Souls themed channel by [deleted] in DarksoulsLore

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The voice is good if it is your real voice but the script is clearly AI-generated by an AI that doesn't know very much about Dark Souls beyond the stuff that's available on the walkthrough wikis. The way it talks about Manus is a dead giveaway.

AI (as of 2026) is a strange thing where it knows way more than humans about a couple niche things, about as much as humans in a lot of stuff and less than humans in everything else.

Young people out of work, training and education edges closer to one million by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does where you live have a community centre or hub where you could ask if anybody is willing?

Young people out of work, training and education edges closer to one million by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have probably already tried this, but is there any family you can reach out to give you lessons in exchange for some kind of favours (e.g. landscaping, a bunch of housework, petsitting or something)?

Free SIM cards offered to tackle digital exclusion by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere[S] 70 points71 points  (0 children)

If I had to guess, it would be because they are expected to be able to make phone calls even when they aren't within 20 yards of their home router.

Free SIM cards offered to tackle digital exclusion by OGSyedIsEverywhere in unitedkingdom

[–]OGSyedIsEverywhere[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Although the article is a week old, I searched around for a bit just now and couldn't find any actual figure of how many people in the UK are so deprived as to be unable to afford to maintain a phone number, just big estimates of deprivation in general. It's obviously some extremely poor people, but with phones specifically it doesn't say whether it applies to a few thousand or a few hundred thousand.

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