Video game worker here. I used to get 5-15 inMails a week offering me an interview. This year? 2. In total. The industry is brutal right now.

My joint account with my partner is with a local building society, but branches are shutting left and right in the UK…

Yep. Monzo implemented an emergency-use website about 5 years ago, Revolut shortly after (and I think they have a desktop app now). I’m with neither (though I can SEE my accounts online, I cannot DO anything with them).

Nope, it is FCA/Prudential registered bank. These fintech solutions are very common in the UK.

I’ve discovered I can access my account online, but cannot send money from there (Zopa).

Monzo and Revolut now have some barebones web implimentation (over a decade after launched).

Atom has no web access at all.

Chase UK doesn’t have web access as far as I can tell.

All of the above are registered banks.

It’s literally ONLY got an app. No web, no branches. They’ve become quite common and popular in the UK (like Revolut).

So true. I’m loathed to lose the interest rate, but needs must when the devil drives, and boy is he driving right now.

This is what I’m struggling with. I use an app-only challenger bank, so I feel a bit stuck unless I change everything…

Nah, let’s not. Dicking on the unhoused is the very definition of punching down.

So…no retirement. Die at your desks, pleb! And this is why when I caught my company doing illegal shit, I took the money and used it to get a little garden to grow my own food…

I like to get some scratchies every now and then - it’s one of the major funding sources for museums and sports in the UK, so I see it as a little donation with a dopamine hit rather than an attempt at winning big!

Mine wasn’t mild, unfortunately. Fully pinhole. Luckily, I’m a “grower” so they didn’t have to take the whole foreskin and the very base of my glands are still protected (and get stimulated from skin during sex). Stretches were actually counter productive for me (found that out after the skin condition got diagnosed) and likely led to a speeding up of the pinhole nature

Ooo something for me!

I am FORMERLY uncircumcised. I have a skin condition which led to phymosis a few years back forcing me to have a medical circumcision this year.

Uncut is superior in every way. Sex is better, it’s more comfortable when exercising, it’s generally less of a nuisance. And in Europe, I never had an ick reaction.

If I didn’t medically need it I wouldn’t have done it. That said, it’s better than phymosis, I do last longer in bed, and my partner says it’s actually a really nice oral experience now.

Remember: most countries don’t have a preference for circumcision, and a lot of people outside of America that are circumcised have it done due to medical issues, not moral or religious reasons.

Whether Trump or Harris wins, the US military is still the single largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.

Will global warming be accelerated under Trump? Yeah, probably, but the problem is here and now. Without addressing the US military complex emissions and billionaires taking space walks, the speed is a relatively moot point.

How true is this or are we doing the same thing “generation killed industry/way of doing things” that the boomer media is so fond of?

US: Let’s send weapons to our allies that are at war! Iran: We’ll do the same! US: shocked Pikachu face

Shower thought: if everyone gives a % of their labour value to the government it’s called taxes and is evil communism. If everyone gives a % of their labour value to an individual it’s called capitalism and is glorious. How does that mental gymnastics work?