Heading out to the Philippines at the end of the year. Curious on any recommendations on what I should do, where I should stay, or anything else with activities if anyone has ever been there!

Over recent years I have paid an interest in looking at content about China, and what life is like inside the people's republic, from a westerners' perspective. However, I have noticed that the opinions of the place seems to fall into one of two camps: • People who have moved over there that always sing it's praises, saying it's much better over there - than the chaos of the west, etc. • And channels run by vloggers who used to live over there, saying the place is made of tofu dreg - causing buildings to collapse every day, along with other serious issues that they blame the gov for. I appreciate that if you are living over there and are concerned about your content being monitored, you might not be able to post anything negative (ironically a bit like the UK at the moment) ... but any feedback would be welcome. Thank you. [The China Show] Buildings Collapsing + the cover up : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ockFOVGp4 [Speaking of Asia] English Teacher struggles to escape from China : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz3h_DXoL9s

Just had a friend tell me about his latest nightmare client. Brought back some PTSD from my freelancing days. The micromanaging. The scope creep. The "quick little changes". The clients who disappear for weeks then blame YOU for delays. We've all been there. What's your worst client horror story? The one that made you question your life choices?

Honestly, it's getting pretty tiresome with everyone talking about how AI is going to take over the world. And all I ever hear these statements from are people who not only have no background in computer science but people who are not technical at all. AI is a predictive text engine. That is all. It isn’t conscious. It doesn’t want anything. It’s simply predicts the next word in a sentence based on probability. It doesn't remember all the stuff it is "trained" on or know the whole internet. That's why it's answers are mostly retarded and it "hallucinates" 24/7. It doesn't hallucinate by the way it isn't a human being. It's a fucking predictive text algorithm, you wouldn't talk about any other technology like it's human. Why? Because you'd look like a fucking retard. Not only that but we've always had this technology. The only reason we're seeing it now is because the cost of hardware has come down and people have thrown enormous sums of money at it (more on that in a minute) But hardware has it's limitations and so does software. Therefore, unless we fill every square inch of the ocean with water cooled data centres and power them with nuclear power plants were not gonna get much more than what we have right now. There was once a time where if you wanted your website to load faster you would have to optimise the codebase. That kind of went out the window partly because hosting became so cheap. You could just throw your website on a faster server and it would load faster. This is THE EXACT SAME SHIT. The AI companies can optimise the software or build a bigger server. One or the other. Data centres can't scale infinitely. Memory bottlenecks. And the way neural nets optimise themselves is the same way it's been working since the 80's. We’re already seeing diminishing returns. Each new generation costs exponentially more to train but the improvements are shrinking. You see what happens when you load more and more bloat on your phone right?

I've been off YouTube for a while... However, I’m finally getting my shit together and ready to make a comeback next week! I've got a million different ideas for videos that I wanted to make over the past few months but I was way too busy to actually film anything. Not gonna lie, I feel kinda rusty… Therefore, rather than sit here guessing what you wanna see I figured I'd just ask you what you want me to talk about? I’ve dropped a few ideas in a poll below but if you have any other ideas or suggestions then feel free to drop them in the comments. Thanks for the help and can't wait to get back to making content again!