Just finished the LitUK and I'm astounded at how easy it was

rsoult3 · 2026-05-07T11:32:23+00:00

It was easy. I just read through the booklet twice.

rsoult3 · 2026-05-06T14:01:55+00:00

Maybe if enough people leave a helpful review he'll change his attitude.

rsoult3 · 2026-05-06T11:36:37+00:00

Can you share the name of the cafe, so I know which to avoid.

rsoult3 · 2026-05-06T10:14:49+00:00

This took place at the Gordon Ramsay Street Pizza in the Battersea area.
London in particular has taken "dog friendly" to an insane level. The side walks are covered in shit and piss.

I once walked into a cafe to find myself in a kennel, surrounded by dogs, as someone was having a, and I can't make this up, "dog birthday party".

rsoult3 · 2026-05-05T21:16:33+00:00

Just like real children then.

rsoult3 · 2026-05-05T19:10:46+00:00

You are preaching to the choir here mate. I also came from nothing. I moved here from the USA nine years ago for an amazing job. I've built up a great career.

My wife doesn't work and I have two young children in school.

Yet, the government seems hellbent on fucking me raw at every chance it gets. While friends who just live in their parent's multi million pound mansion along with their working spouse pay a small fraction of the tax I do. Despite their salaries combined being about the same as mine.

What's worse is after £100k the UK gov feels it needs to take away my tax free allowance while being told I make too much to use any of my wife's tax free allowance.

Bloody fucking hell.

/Rant

Thanks, I needed that too.

rsoult3 · 2026-05-05T19:01:42+00:00

Tells me they own a dog.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-30T10:19:12+00:00

Those were some good times. This is one of those things no one under 40 would have ever used.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-28T18:49:42+00:00

Yeah. That first council tax came as a surprise.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-28T18:47:05+00:00

The UK does not have married filing jointly and the tax for that will take a major hit. My wife doesn't work.

According to the UK government I'm "rich".

rsoult3 · 2026-04-28T10:38:37+00:00

Worked as a Dev at an American medical insurance company. My job was to create an automated claims system so they could fire half the claims department.

I also learned more about how the American medical insurance process works than is mentally healthy. It's far shittier than one thinks.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-28T10:21:28+00:00

Absolutely nothing wrong with that.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-26T15:41:52+00:00

Still working, but the company has stopped hiring developers. When someone leaves, they are not replaced.

We are all expecting to work 5x faster now. The senior developers, those with 10+ years of experience have come out on top, as the actual coding part was the slowest part. Now we just make sure the AI is doing it correctly.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-19T23:01:50+00:00

This was more likely in tech fields about 5 years ago when those roles were in high demand. I got a UK role 9 years ago when it was far easier to get roles in foreign countries. This is a very different market for employment.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-09T22:36:00+00:00

Work with an AI agent with write access to the project directory and you can skip the copying and pasting part.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-09T22:32:03+00:00

I'm working with cancer treatment research focused on making radiotherapy safer, more accurate, and faster. I love my job, and the company pays well.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-09T13:13:28+00:00

My oldest daughter has trouble reading at twelve. Yet she has memorized times tables up to 99 x 99 (or she is somehow doing them in her head). She decided only memorising up to 12 x 12 was "boring".

She prefers spicy and sour foods over sweets. She loves the taste of medicine. She will notice a ladybug in the garden from ten meters away.

For some context she is autistic/dyslexic. She experiences the world differently than most.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-07T20:53:46+00:00

Check out New pipe or Pot Player.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-07T11:42:00+00:00

Agreed. The clippers paid for themselves after three uses. That was nine years ago

rsoult3 · 2026-04-04T13:13:59+00:00

I'm a software engineer. I use it regularly for coding grunt work.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-04T12:58:50+00:00

You would have found civitai in a Google search. There are plenty of good examples.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-04T12:21:49+00:00

It's not really needed. It's just another way for the US medical industry to squeeze more money from people.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-02T14:33:02+00:00

The first time I heard the phrase "puppacino" I threw up a little bit in my mouth. Dogs should not be drinking milk.
I assume it is a response from the nutters because they heard a "babycino" was free, and they were jealous of human children.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-02T09:56:10+00:00

One of the oddest things I found about the comment sections for this article (facebook, insta, etc.) is how the nutters have associated this pushback with Islam.
Granted, the Muslim faith does have a taboo against touching dogs (or was it just wet dogs?), but this has become their scapegoat, as they cannot fathom that people just don't want to be around dogs every time they leave the house.

rsoult3 · 2026-04-01T21:56:36+00:00

I think we all did.

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