mike carey

Burn-Murdoch's video didn't claim anything beyond correlation.

Welcome to the forum, @CEODominator. Despite the occasional doubter, as I reread the thread, the reaction to you here over two years has been positive, I would say glowing. For me, the jury is in, and had been before you needed to come here today. The forum has its good and bad points, most of us have seen more good than bad in it, but that's for each to judge. I hope you can find more from the forum than your initial impression might have seemed to offer, there's much more to it than judgment (and some of the judgment that is there, seems to resemble a circular firing squad).

This is both a tech story and a sociology one, so I settled on the Lounge rather than the Tech Forum. I've been paying attention to the work of John Burn-Murdoch for a while, at least since the pandemic that I can remember. He's the chief data reporter for the Financial Times and cross publishes his content on other platforms as well. In this fascinating piece on YouTube he correlates the recent sharp decline in birth rates with the widespread arrival of smart phones in a range of countries. The case he presents is persuasive, although as he notes, not proof of cause rather than correlation. It runs for about 12 minutes.

This is perhaps the perfect characterisation of how some threads here have titles that simplify or trivialise, or simply make light of the group of people portrayed in them, a version of the group sanitised to make it more relatable to the audience here, probably unintentionally. Chicken tikka masala is widely considered to have been created in the UK, likely in Glasgow (chicken tikka is an authentic Mughal dish with no sauce). Wiki has a line that 'a1998 survey in Britain found that among 48 recipes, the only common ingredient was chicken'.

@ApexNomad, could you be a little more specific about what you thought of it, please?

This! Too often, it seems, people read what is written in an ad as character traits of the escort, not their preferences or limits when they are escorting. Context always matters.

a) Hoping that a moderator will notice b) Posting a comment about it, then a) c) Reporting it d) Messaging the OP and asking them to change it.

Kia ora, I was making no comment about the facts or other claims in the matter, it was purely a forum housekeeping note that two threads had been combined.

On a computer, at the top of each page, towards the right of the screen, there is your account name and a row of icons. The two overlapping speech bubbles is the icon for DMs. Click on that and your recent messages and a button to start a new message will appear in a drop-down. If you receive a DM a green circle with a number [of unread messages] will appear pointing to the icon. If you're using a phone, there is a messages button at the bottom of the screen. The green circle appears at the top of the screen over the three lines menu icon and the number includes all notifications, including new messages, that you have yet to view. In both versions, the number only appears until you view the list (so for messages, before you read them).

No, RM isn't charging anyone to see the reviews. RM doesn't allow people in the US to read the text in reviews at all (anyone can see the 1-5 scale ratings). To do that from the US you need to use a VPN to hide your location from RM's servers. The VPN allows you to simulate being somewhere other than where you are in the US, in this sort of case in a country from where you can read the review texts, with the Netherlands and Germany being the ones that are most frequently discussed here. The OP was asking if anyone can advise him of a free VPN he could use.

Now you mention it, I remember you did post that. Some precision is needed when considering 'averages'.

Gentlemen, the broader economy and possible pressures at the border are possible contributing factors to escort rates, but if you wish to analyse them there are, or can be, other threads to do that. Please confine our discussion here to what a new prevailing rate in New York is, and whether it has changed. Perhaps whether the rate is a mean, median or mode.

We have a similar thing in Australia (PayID), it works with any bank but you have to register with your bank. You can use an e-mail, phone number or ABN (Australian Business Number). I'm not sure we've had it for, but I don't think it's as long as Canada. It's not anonymous so I've found out escorts' real names, but they didn't seem to care (one I know doesn't care at all).

I know, it's outrageous. Kids all over New York City will be grumpy at school and their parents' quiet evenings will be upturned. Or perhaps it's someone who knows what they are doing is a charade, knowing full well that it was not serious, and that almost no one would think it was meant to be. Seriousness has its place, but levity makes life better.

This made me think a little more about 'age shaving' with 'select ... by age' being a key phrase. In a world where RM is where people search, age carries a more specific weight than it otherwise might. It provides a filter that will exclude people from a search. Posting 29 as an escort's age puts their ad in front of people. Many, perhaps most, will look at what they then see and that can say more than the number on the screen does. It occurs to me that many '29 year olds' are not trying to deceive potential hirers, they are only trying to deceive the machine that would use the number to winnow them out. They know that their presence, either with their face or other attributes on the screen, or in person will do the work of attracting clients.

Seeing a notification pop up today about this ancient comment, I would add that I had seen Mike in 2017, so Sydney was six years later. Several days after the fact I made some comment in a follow up 'how was your trip home' e-mail about the 3 hour trip to Sydney, and he apologised saying he hadn't realised the distance, and had thought Canberra was a Sydney exurb. He had remembered where in Australia I came from. I think that says a lot about him.

It makes sense to buy in a gatored community.

I absolutely agree. The air force base at Mountain Home (I was there with my RAAF squadron for several weeks) is not one of them.

I knew you'd be aware, and I assume most people don't bother with the accents when using an English keyboard. Only a pedant like me would point out the precise meaning without the accent, and I wouldn't have thought to do so if one article I read hadn't pointed it out.

I remember his perpetual refrain when offering advice, Fuck First.

Not that it matters, but he still lists a BC phone number.

I agree, and it's apparently more common in English now than in French. (Without the accent à it means 'everyone has their taste' rather than 'everyone to their taste'.)