I took a bit of a battering during the holidays from younger family members. I’m going to group the millennials together with Gen Z and Y as I don’t really know how to recognise which is which and because they all seem to believe in the carbon zero myth.
Anyway, I was watching an old episode of Fifth Gear where Tiff and Jason were racing two top of the range (in 2005) sports cars. An innocent pleasure as I hope you agree but I was chastened by GZ: “That’s all ancient history now. EVs are faster, cleaner, better.” Talk about raining on my parade. Now I can argue my corner with the best. Do me a favour, I replied, EVs are as soulless as domestic appliances. No, they are the future said GZ.
Interestingly, none of these GZs have actually embraced modern technology, they all run combustion cars. And why is this? Well, they are neither affordable nor practical and not even truly green and I told ’em so. The smug sods.
Incidentally, to my mind the Fifth Gear team are all turncoats. Former petrol heads transformed into airheads, they now front Fifth Gear Recharged. Pretending everything about EVs is great and ignoring, even deploring ICEs. Journalists are fickle aren’t they? The worst culprit though is Quentin Wilson, formerly of Top Gear who is now the biggest apologist for the electric revolution.
GZ are also in favour of driverless cars (God help us). Probably as they are too lazy to actually drive these days. To me, just sitting there watching the road while the car does everything is like taking the bus. I’m not convinced they are safe. My mate has a brand new MG EV. It has EU-dictated “safety” features. He was driving along a street when a pedestrian put one foot in the road. My mate made eye contact with the walker and there was no danger yet the automated emergency stop cut in and the car slammed the brakes on. The van behind smacked into his bumper. Another time the car also swung violently to the right when it thought it was veering out of lane.
Finally, we discussed AI. They are all for it. It’s the future you see and thus inevitable, not worth debating. GZ can’t wait to hand over control to automation. After all, humans have messed up the planet so let’s give machines a chance. Apparently, it hasn’t occurred to GZ that the robots may decide that as humans are to blame, it might be best to get rid of us all.
Then they really would be Generation Zero.
Nominated by Lord Helpus.
And on a very similar theme there’s this from Jeezum Priest
Gen-Z and WFH.
In a survey commissioned by Westleigh Roeca, director of business development for Lifesum ( no, me neither) found that over half 18 – 42 year old said they would turn down a job if they couldn’t mostly work from home.
Apparently, many of the 5000 polled started their careers (ha!) during the pandemic.
Debbie Porter, MD of Destination Digital Marketing says that in the last two years, University Graduates have requested 100% WFH, with some refusing to attend an in-person interview.
Ms. Porter says none of those applicants got very far, so good on her!
Hurry up, folks, the DWP sound like they’re recruiting, they might be willing to buy into this bullshit.
A little something about Westleigh Roeca, of Lifesum.
I never believed in conscription, but the more I see of today´s soft, brainless, spineless Starmer loving poofters, the more I think that 2 years in the army would do them a world of good. Make men of them – and the women as well.
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In an operations room, hundreds of miles away, using computers, maybe, on the front they’d melt into puddles of lymph.
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