Bob The Badger

I use ChatGPT and Claude fairly often, and they've come on leaps and bounds when you consider it's only been readily available for 15 months. The world is changing massively and rapidly. It's not even possible to predict how things will change with AI in 3 years, never mind for future generations. There are few jobs/industries that won't be radically changed or flat-out obliterated this decade. I work with coaches and therapists, helping them with their online marketing, and I think their roles will be wiped out before we get to 2030. I'll have retired by then, so for myself, I'm not that worried. Others don't have that luxury.

Looking forward to this. Consistently brilliant.

So, I watched the first season of The Traitors, and it's utter repetitive nonsense with the tasks boring and pointless. Few of the contestants are likeable, and some are really thick and unlikeable. I loved it. I'm now irritated that I have to wait for the new episodes as we have caught up with season 2. Can't believe nobody has sussed Paul out. Classic conformation bias with some halo effect thrown in for good measure. Don't judge me people. Ok, you can judge me, I'm shallow and vacuous.

Great film!

Ted Lasso fell off a cliff. First series was good, second, mediocre, third just more of the second but not quite as funny. At least the first 4 episodes because that is all I could get through.

As humans, we struggle with imagining how we'll feel about events in the medium to-distant future. We tend to believe we'll be better equipped at some random future date than we are now, hence why so many people are poor at planning for retirement. We also struggle with large concepts and abstract facts because they're not easy to represent in our minds. Then you add in short-term self-interest, and it's no wonder so little has been done for so long. It's entirely predictable and understandable.

100% agree.

Along with John Peel, she provided the soundtrack to my youth. Im amazed she was 83. RIP.

Good call by @hales300k with Love/Hate on ITVX, it's pretty good and I can see how it will get better. Irish gangland stuff along the lines of Gomorrah, Top Boy etc. It's interesting seeing Frank from Kin ten years younger but playing a very similar character. Has anybody else seen this? It came out when we were in the US, so I'd never heard of it.

Weirdly, Barton has suddenly started hitting my X feed. I have no effing clue why out of the blue that has happened, but every time I go in, there he is. I suppose I should stop reading the insane comments or block him. I think he may be mental.

Can we please all stop @*^%@% talking about Season 2 until I've @*^%@% seen it?!!!

I know, that was what convinced me!

I have been waiting for something I really wanted to watch (Slow Horses 3 wasn't quite compelling enough) to kick off my Apple TV free 6 months, and I think this baby will do it. Anybody watching it? I know they're drip-feeding it, rather annoyingly.

I thought I'd start a new thread as it was starting to get discussed in the watchable telly thread. I haven't watched the ITV drama yet but I will. I was aware of the story, but not especially as it happened when we were living in the US and I had no clue it ran into hundreds of people with each one being told nobody else had other issues. This is looking like the biggest scandal/cover-up of our time with a lot of people complicit. I hope the duckers who ok'ed this at the highest level get sent down.

Loved seasons 1,2 and 3, but never saw 4 as it came out just as we were moving back. Is 5 as good? Nobody will ever beat Billy Bob for sheer evilness.

Started watching the first season of Traitor last night. I can definitely see why it may become compulsive, especially for Mrs Badger. I'm a bit surprised at how thick they all are or how little they seem to know about human psychology - wouldn't you try to learn if you were coming on a show like this? The last thing a traitor would do is be quiet. They would be leading the conversations, which appears to be exactly what the three traitors are doing. Having said that, I suppose editing may deliberately mislead the viewer.

Does every fire stick come with stuff on that isn't available elsewhere, or do you have a special one? IOW, wtf is going on??

Oh wow, The Intouchables gets 8.5 on IMDb. Is it on Netflix?

I'd agree with that on both.

Men Up on iPlayer. Viagra clinical trials start in Wales in the 80s with a bunch of guys all getting the opportunity to deal with their diabetes caused impotence by taking part. It was an easy enough watch, but ultimately, I was a bit bored, and the jokes (It's not a comedy per se, but very lighthearted) were all a bit predictable. Mrs Badge enjoyed it a lot more than I did. Steve Cross/10

Started watching Lupin last night with very high expectations. For some reason, I thought it was going to be like the brilliant Spiral. Hated the first episode, felt really hammy with a preposterous plot and lame humour. It was more the style/feel of it that I didn't care for (a bit like Reacher for me which I thought was awful), but if you guys say it's fantastic and I need to stick with it, I may.

I love Prime, and we buy a LOT of stuff from Amazon being in the sticks with deliveries almost every day, so I'm happy with that. I suppose with me/us, we'll just not bother watching it as much or even at all. On your recommendation a LOVED Bosch but though legacy was pants. I watched it so I suppose I must have ut up with the ads, honestly cannot remember.

Unless you're prepared to watch ads from 5th Feb. TBH, it is the last place I look for something and has had very little can't miss stuff for me (I'm one of the few who thought Reacher was utter pony), so I guess I'll just not bother. Will anybody pay the £2.99?