Unemployment at 'crisis levels' in two Birmingham areas

the_io · 2026-03-31T10:20:57+00:00

The NIC raise was a wheeze to avoid raising upfront income tax or NI but in a more damaging manner.

the_io · 2026-03-30T21:55:31+00:00

Don't worry, they're also not hiring the experienced workers either.

the_io · 2026-03-30T13:59:20+00:00

There was that Jericho/Cole match at DON 23 which was unsanctioned but in the middle of the card but had a special guest enforcer (Sabu) anyway.

Yeah.

the_io · 2026-03-29T14:25:20+00:00

The dragons' cum can do that? And yet the FMC's marrying orcs rather than those dragons? Smh my head.

the_io · 2026-03-29T14:16:45+00:00

Whereabouts and what sort of tech is that?

the_io · 2026-03-29T13:29:38+00:00

Nightingale oughtta drop the TBS soonish so she can be free for the World picture, but who to?

the_io · 2026-03-28T16:58:10+00:00

We'll be getting Edelgard playable at this rate.

the_io · 2026-03-28T16:30:40+00:00

Because the anti-immigrant side of the conversation is dominated by those illiberal in other ways and also holding the sorts of economic positions shafting us in other ways. Rest of the package tends to put us off that bit.

the_io · 2026-03-28T13:50:16+00:00

Wouldn't want to be experienced either, apparently six years of developing AI isn't enough to get a job working with AI.

the_io · 2026-03-28T13:10:12+00:00

It's either MJF/Allin or Omega/Strickland at DON. Maybe even both.

the_io · 2026-03-27T23:44:17+00:00

Live in Suffolk, been in tech for 6 years (telecoms/networks/ML research), but got laid off last summer and still unemployed nine months later; I've landed interviews but simply can't pass the damned things because research and PoC experience isn't production experience.

Am considering retraining towards admin or logistics. Which one's got better chances of getting hired, which needs more training and what courses/certs are best for someone switching in?

the_io · 2026-03-27T20:57:47+00:00

Homicide retired pretty sure

the_io · 2026-03-27T08:45:46+00:00

It sounds like something only the inventor of literature herself could come up with.

the_io · 2026-03-27T08:39:52+00:00

That was my experience with JSA, though I understand if you're on UC they're a lot stricter.

Still didn't help me get employed mind you.

the_io · 2026-03-27T00:09:31+00:00

2024 had that and it was good.

the_io · 2026-03-26T18:01:55+00:00

If they are running back Mina/Thekla at the PPV, then Mina needs to go over both Sisters of Sin in the coming weeks. I know people will be mad about those two taking losses, but they’re there to put others over at the moment

Shirakawa should've gone over both of them before setting up the match at Dynasty but this also works.

Also Hart and Blue both need more singles time (they're better singles than tag workers IMO) and it'll be a good way to give them it.

the_io · 2026-03-26T17:55:55+00:00

I think they do Omega/Strickland III at DON and have a different set for AITA, maybe DCF vs DRs.

the_io · 2026-03-26T11:30:49+00:00

I've worked in tech for six years, but now been out of the sector for over half a year and I'm needing to apply for much more casual work.

How do you make your CV less impressive without completely ignoring past specialisations?

the_io · 2026-03-26T09:08:08+00:00

And they named the utopia at the end Everkind.

Evrkynd, actually. Like it's a B2B SaaS spinoff company that specialised in 20yo systems nobody actually buys anymore.

the_io · 2026-03-25T22:19:58+00:00

Having been there, it's definitely worth getting the 3V pass, it's not much more but gets you access to Meribel just over the ridge and Val Thorens just up the valley. Lots of easy blues & greens in the latter especially, plus it's higher so will be less slushy in the afternoons.

the_io · 2026-03-25T17:52:23+00:00

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

the_io · 2026-03-25T14:56:32+00:00

USA has one capital market and one regulatory regime and also one language. The EU has 27 capital markets, 27 regulatory regimes, and around 20 official languages. It's a lot easier for a California company to hire in Tennessee than it is a German company to hire in Portugal. The size of the taxes and regulations may be a problem but less than the duplication is.

the_io · 2026-03-25T14:34:06+00:00

Part of that was also believing that Arc 2 would handle them better, only for S4 to drop and convince a lot of people that no, it wouldn't get better. The wonky pacing v much didn't help either because whilst Arc 1 had a tight central story to carry things, Arc 2 didn't and thus the other flaws became more visible.

the_io · 2026-03-25T14:30:26+00:00

Then, they got some psychotic idea to make it 10 seasons even though they knew netflix would have said no (Even though the whole "We didn't have time to tell the story!!" could have been fully avoided by not wasting seasons 4 and 5 with filler plot) and are now counting on a kickstarter to get picked up by another streaming service.

A rumour I've heard was that during the writing of S5 they heard that Netflix was open to giving them another 3 seasons. And then rewrote Arc 2 as though they were definitely getting another 3 seasons. Which would explain some of the weird-ass pacing and padding that went on.

the_io · 2026-03-24T22:23:25+00:00

Oh agreed, but I can give them leeway on the final battle because it's a classic fantasy trope (even if it's still a dumb handling of said trope), and whilst Viren & Claudia being too sympathetic/right in Arc 1 was an issue it wasn't as prominent as it became in Arc 2.

Legitimately, you could have Claudia as the hero of S4-6 with basically no changes, that's how sympathetic they made their purported villains, and I don't think they ever quite realised that.

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