Pretty similar, yes. Especially since the main issue with the Experiment was the leadership.

Some lobby probably was interested in it.

I bought my PS3 11 years ago, used at Game Stop, for under a hundred Euro and picked up almost every game I own at flea markets. So it might be retro now, I guess. It was just old back then.

I just emphasized what the original point was and how my argument was connected to it. You just chose to ignore that.

It is completely beside the point how long it takes exactly to become a offshore scuba diver or a physician. (Where I live you need to have at least a three-year vocational education before you can start commercial diving training at all. I’d estimate it takes you about four to four and a half years all in all. Becoming a doctor takes six.) The point is that both are jobs that are difficult to get into and require specialist training. They are not “unskilled” labour, the kind ob jobs the original argument was about.

See, that’s the whole point. This was a discussion about people being able to live on seasonal, menial and easy to access jobs like unloading goods or waiting tables. They weren’t living very good of it, but it was possible without sleeping on the street.

A doctor is a very bad example indeed, because most doctors have fixed jobs they can’t easily leave for longer time periods. No, it’s actually a very similar example to yours. Contract work in the medical industry has been becoming extremely common over the last decade or so. Hospitals need to pay premium to fill their short-term staff shortages and doctors and nurses get higher than average pay combined with a lot of flexibility. Work half a year and earn enough for the rest? Absolutely possible, if you’re willing to move on short notice.

So both examples show jobs that are difficult to get into with years of certification and training. Both have nothing to do with the initial point of the discussion.

I don’t think it will kill your creativity, but it will negatively affect your writing style. ChatGTP is a very bad writer, so you might not want to learn any tricks from it.

It’s entirely missing the point because offshore scuba diving is highly skilled specialized labour. It doesn’t matter whether it’s not very complex work when you get down to it. You need years to even get access to it and it has always been like this. The “bureaucratic red tape” has only been added so that the employers can acutually assess the skill of the people they hire. It’s a field where mistakes are very, very expensive.

Maybe you’ll understand what’s wrong with your example when I present you an equally bad example: I know a guy who works two months and then spends three months scuba diving in Egypt. He’s a doctor.

It is a job with a lot of bureocratic red tape, but the work they actually do does not require years of study and deep understanding of a specific subject.

Oil rig divers need training in industrial scuba diving and underwater welding. That are two specialized skills, both usually requiring some years of training. That’s not bureaucratic red tape, you simply can’t do the job if you don’t know how to weld underwater and are going to die if you have no industrial diving skills. This is part of the reason why they are well paid. It’s a very bad example for the discussion.

Vielleicht kann man Einzelpersonen darunter tatsächlich noch Ignoranz und keine böse Absicht unterstellen, aber viele werden es nicht sein.

Kann ich mir schon vorstellen und es verdient Respekt das zu können. Aber ich kann mir nicht recht vorstellen, warum man die Mühe auf sich nimmt das zu lernen.

Schwierig mit dem Spiegel und der Rasierseife.

Klar, darum bekommen die in den Filmen auch immer ein heißes Handtuch auf’s Gesicht. Mir ist das wiederum zu Mühsam, weil ich nicht fünf Minuten tropfend ins Leere starren will.

Versuch’s mal direkt nach dem Duschen. Dann muss man die Klingen auch seltener wechseln.

Anomaly Agent. Nice game.

Läuft bei uns über den Arbeitgeber, was wirklich sehr bequem ist.

Vor allem ist er halt wahrscheinlich irgendso ein Typ. Ich nehme an ein Brite. Hilft mir jetzt auch nicht weiter, wenn ich erfahre, dass er z.B. Toby Bumblesworth heißt, in Brighton aufgewachsen ist und heute in New York lebt.

Überhaupt müssten in Deutschland die vollkommen absurden Gesetze rund um künstliche Befruchtung reformiert werden. So wie es momentan ist, ist ja jeder, der es sich leisten kann, gut beraten die Prozedur im Ausland machen zu lassen. Allein die Regelung, dass nur drei gewonnene Eizellen pro Durchgang befruchtet werden dürfen senkt die Erfolgswahscheinlichkeit ja um einiges und führt zu unnötigen Belastungen für die betroffenen Frauen. Eine richtige Begründung dafür gibt es auch nicht.

Nicht, wenn er das Gewehr so hält.

Mit den Hengstdarstellungen und der Birkenrinde ähnlich dem Keltenfürsten von Hochdorf - ist ja auch die gleiche Gegend und Zeit.

Well, if you’re like me it’s because all your ancestors 15 generations back all sat in the same small region and probably never came close to meeting anyone from Ireland.