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I’m doing a business plan in Excel. It’s fun to adjust the figures to a very best case scenario and see that this time next year I’ll be a millionaire. i get about £15 per transaction. In my wildest dreams I might do 3000 transactions a month. That’s £45,000 a month. That’s £540,000 a year. now for me that’s an eye watering amount of money and would set me up for life. But what I’m hoping my whole company will earn in a month, baring in mind I’ve got overheads and staff wages to pay, an average footballer earns in a week. Even just hypothetically playing around, I can’t even imagine the amount I’d need to do to make a million a year. Not to mention the fact that it would be taxed to f***. But is still be living the dream. So, the point of all this is, how do millionaires earn so much money? How is there so much money in the world and normal people can barely imagine the vast sums. And billionaires earn millions a day. Where does all this money come from? Surely there’s enough money in the world for every one to earn a very healthy wage each year. Maybe when AI has taken all our jobs, we could set it on the task of redistributing the wealth.

Truck drivers and taxi drivers too. Surely the whole point of investing in autonomous vehicles is to negate the need for drivers and completely decimate that industry. I think it’ll probably get worse before it gets better, there will be some pain ripping off the plaster. but the vast majority of people’s dream scenario is to not have to work 60 hr weeks, but to live on a beach drinking cocktails (or something similar). Currently that reality is only for the select few that win the lottery. But in a future where 90% of jobs are done by ai, it’s a realistic goal for everybody. But there will be a lot of pain to get there I think. I have absolutely no faith that the process will be well managed. I doubt there is any sort of plan in place.

Toney’s gonna get ya.

I use it. I use it to help me write formulas in excel and vba. Although I find it incredibly frustrating when we go round and round in circles, only to find that its information is out of date. Ie it tells me to click on this option, but the option doesn’t exist. also, we’ll go round and round only to find what I’m asking is impossible. It seems to wager to please. I wish it would just say ‘what you are asking is not possible.’ Nice and easy, I’m a big boy, I can take it. I’ll be using it to write policies and contracts next. Could save me a fortune on a legal team and a load of time. And I’ve used it to write lesson plans. my dreams are that ai can do a load of jobs for us, allowing us to genuinely think about a 3 or 4 day working week as the norm. People are afraid about unemployment, and I think there will have to be a major culture change. Imagine if robots did everything. That’s the dream right, and we can all follow our own dreams. Write a book etc. But will the world work if no one has a job? Who pays for the all the robots? And would the rich and powerful let it happen?

I fear for Deeney’s managerial career. It’s not much of a CV. 6 games, 3 pts, and rooted to the bottom of the entire league. Even Rooney is more appealing than that.

Go back in time to the 16th century and tell them we’ve been to the moon. They won’t believe you. these are all just problems to be solved, and humans are nothing if not problem solvers.

Star link, for example. I’m a big fan of that.

You mean Forest fans aren’t really real. Next you’ll tell me the monsters under my bed are made up too.

How did this end up as chat about Reading. Are the EFL planning to award them about 30 pts for the pitch invasion and make them our new promotion rivals?

You’d think, at the very least, there would be some sort of public commitment to reduce cost on fossil fuels by like 10% a year for 10 years or something. At the minute there’s just no plan at all. they say ‘no petrol card sold after 2030’. But with no actual wind down plan, so they end up having to kick the can down the road. they just keep talking and talking and no one actually does anything, or commits to anything. its all so frustrating, when we can all see a pathway to a better future, but, as you say, it’s just politics, and a few rich people afraid to lose their power, getting in the way.

A lot of blame to land on the EFLs doorstep here. What is the fit and proper persons test for if not to wrestle out owners with a past history of liquidating clubs. They’re supposed to be protecting clubs. the sooner clubs become protected heritage community assets, the better. Why does everything take so long?

And that is definitely worth being worried about. As finite as fossil fuels are, so are any number of resources that are used to make things that are thrown away. It’s all part of the big picture that adds to climate change. but then recycling another one. I do my bit, I recycle. But ultimately, it’s not me that’s going to make a difference. It’s institutional, organisational recycling on a massive scale. I find it crazy that it’s not in legislation yet to ban plastic packaging. If you’re a manufacturer, you should have to make a special application to use plastic packaging. Alternatives should be the default. Plastics only where necessary. i can get behind the idea of just stop oil, but there should be a just stop plastic movement too. Just pull the plug and let the manufacturer’s deal with it. Some are taking it upon themselves, but it should be built into legislation and the choice taken away from companies.

If fossil fuels are the life blood of the planet, that’s quite worrying, because they will run out one day, that is a fact. We’ve experimented with having less human impact on a global scale. It was quite recently. It was called lockdown, you probably saw it in the news. It was shown that after month of global lockdown, the planet was already considerably better off. not that we should all go into permanent lock down, but I’m certainly all for the idea of instantly stopping any investment into oil, and investing that all into nuclear and renewable energy sources. the only reason that won’t happen is because oil companies are too powerful. End of. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I’m not naive enough to believe that money doesn’t talk. They won’t be when the oil runs out. But by then it’s too late. the fact that we’re even considering making new coal mines and new coal powered power stations just boggles my mind. put it this way, maybe we didn’t cause this, maybe it is all part of the earths cycle. But if you walk into a door and have a black eye, and it’s no one’s fault, it’s just the way things are, I wouldn’t make it better by punching you in the face repeatedly. I would make it better by ensuring that your face was protected and that nothing else could hit you in the eye, be that accidental doors, or on purpose punches. If I lived on your face, I would have a very vested interest in seeing that it’s protected.

Crazy to think, if (but if) everyone wins their games in hand, Portsmouth will be down to 4th (and we’ll be in autos if we can beat burton by 2). and they’ll have Barnsley and Oxford just one point behind them. Stevenage 4 pts behind them. good thing is, Stevenage look like they’re getting cut adrift from the top 6 a little bit, so it seems likely the current top 6 will be the top 6 at the end. We’re forming a bit of a peloton. But if anyone’s going to drop out of the top 6, it could be Portsmouth at this rate.

It’s happened. DCFC Fans has morphed into Spotted: Hilton (insert your own local Facebook page here).

Absolutely, but it all gets hotter, before it gets colder. I joke that I burn my fossil fuels and spray my cfcs, so why am I still freezing cold in January, Britain should be like the Caribbean now, and derby should have a sea view. We could be living in a tropical (if overcrowded) paradise. but that’s just a joke. That’s not how climate change works. Things will mostly get wetter and colder north of the tropics, and hotter and unliveable below the tropics. but I genuinely think there’s no turning back now, this is life and we need to learn to deal with it. Find yourself a nice mountain top to build a house on.

They changed the term global warming to climate change, because temperatures rising doesn’t necessarily mean the world gets hotter. The hotter parts get hotter, but the colder parts get colder. The ice caps melt, releasing more cold water into the oceans and reducing the temperature of the oceans, which screws up things like the Gulf Stream and other weather patterns. So our reasonably temperate weather will become more and more extreme, not to mention the rising sea levels making coastal regions uninhabitable. So it’s not quite as simple as ‘people who live in the Sahara can go move to the north pole’. Basically only the tropics will become habitable. Local flooding is more a local council issue to deal with. But global climate change is the root cause, and needs to be dealt with by collaborating governments. Which basically means it’ll never be dealt with, so we have to rely on local councils to fight fires (and floods) as they arise, and they will get worse and worse. But there’s a reasonable argument to say that’s not a bad approach the time for global collaboration and nipping this in the bud has past, so maybe the right answer now is to deal with each problem locally, as it arises. Some will fair better than others, but it’s basically every man / community for himself at this point. Welcome to the dystopia.

Maybe his TikTok shenanigans boosted their morale just enough to help them secure survival. Could’ve been a genius move by all concerned.

Jesse Lingard’s career ending decision: 📸 https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/25075099/jesse-lingard-offers-newcastle-fulham-nottingham-forest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=sunfootballfacebook090124&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2KChNPvdMcbnT2E0uNgd9-GNzA7IaFYJsV9RHd-QddvKQ2mLRg-2vJpiU_aem_ASxIhxAjdbBAiquUfrVDJa1dtLpvyerv64sWBlAb59J3ksqvpvu_risWCUCDynKF-c0#Echobox=1704730428 to summarise, he was offered two four year contracts from Newcastle and Fulham. He chose a one year contract at Forest. Which has effectively ended his career. Forest, where crap footballers go to get crapper.

Liam Rosenior was a good pundit.

That’s probably got more to do with getting the highlights on you tube, with no punditry at all. I’m sure ratings are dropping left right and centre, to be fair, with people watching TV on demand instead. I haven’t watched normal TV in yonks, but that’s just me. I dare say people either like punditry or they don’t. I suspect most people have stronger thoughts about that, than who the pundits actually are.

Point still stands though, as long as the ratings are up, the producers are happy. And it certainly implies that the majority of the viewers are happy. Don’t like it, don’t watch it.

Ultimately, the great decider is the ratings. If the ratings tank, then the producers will change the pundits and presenters. If the ratings continue, then they won’t. Maybe there’s just not enough men that are bothered enough to switch off, but lots of women are bothered enough to switch on, so the ratings go up. Joey Barton is a vocal minority. But maybe the majority don’t actually mind, or care.

Bet you’d be low cost with lots of experience too.

It is a delicate balance. But everyone that argues against this positive discrimination seems to think that it’s going to directly affect their kids’ prospects. In the grand scheme of things, Sol Campbell getting an interview for a managers job, or Eni Aluko on the tele is not going to make a difference to the average person’s job prospects either way. i have sons and daughters. I don’t feel like my daughters having more opportunities specifically means my sons have less opportunities. I’m not worried about that at all. I’m just glad my daughters have more opportunities in a fairer society. positive discrimination is not going to bring down society. It will bring more positivity than negativity, but the joey Barton’s of this world would have you believe it’s the end of the world. the other problem is, people are too quick to say ‘I didn’t get that job, some black lady with one arm got it because they had to tick a box, I’m against positive discrimination.’ It doesn’t work like that. The black lady with one arm is just better at the job, but people are too willing to blame society for their own deficiencies. joey Barton will miss out for a managerial role to a black manager, and he’ll blame society, not considering he might just be a shot manager (unless it’s Paul ince, then there’s something dodgy going on).