Stive Pesley

You see I didn't care AT ALL - but now you've added proper intrigue!

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/there-never-was-a-kate-palace-admits-20240311246058

Genuinely who cares? It's the lead story on the BBC new site 🤷🏼‍♂️

Interesting to see the latest development in AI wars - tools for creators that are designed to secretly "poison" their work so that AIs can't scrape and learn from them https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/what-is-glaze.html https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

Not exactly precision finishing for any of them, but they all count. 5 goals in 3 appearances now - he's obviously doing something right

I'm not an accountant, so I stand to be corrected but can't losses be carried forward and used to offset against future profits, reducing the tax liability in subsequent years? That may not be it, but I feel sure there must be some financial benefit to the club in "giving away" shirt sponsorship to a charity, otherwise we are deliberately throwing income away when every penny counts

A UK business can make a charitable donation and claim tax relief on the donation. Either by deducting the value of the donation from the total profits before tax is calculated (reducing taxable profits), or by reducing the Corporation Tax it pays by an amount equal to the basic rate tax on the grossed-up value of the donation.

Hmm - but realistically we could "give it away" to a charity or we could class it as a charitable donation and reduce our tax burden as a result. Which do you think the accountants of a cash-strapped large football club would recommend?

I grew up next door to a Convent on one side and a record shop on the other One was HMV and the other was a Virgin Megastore

Quantuma was allegedly "specialists" in sports club administration weren't they? And they appeared to really struggle. In which case it would be a fair bet that a common or garden insolvency practitioner would have been an even bigger debacle

I hadn't really thought much about the shirt sponsor being "given away" to the NSPCC, but presumably a commercial sponsor would be paying quite a lot of money (£100k+?) to be the main sponsor on the shirt of a club the size of Derby, so donating that spot to the NSPCC would count as a charitable donation and lower our tax bill?

If we don't go up, I can definitely see PW resigning. He has one job - get us out of this horrible sh**ty league. He's got a great track record in L1, and even in his 2 seasons here, he's had us consolidated in the play-off places for the majority of his tenure, so he clearly know what he's doing....to an extent But he's obviously sick of the grief he gets from the vocal fans that hate him. Why would anyone put up with that when pretty much every other club in this league would snap his hand off. And with Rotherham likely coming back down, he's got a ready-made opportunity right there I for one look forward to seeing which manager we replace him with that everyone can slag off to high heaven if we don't play like Brazil against a team of cloggers that's parked the bus

On that matter I agree it would be no bad thing, but when you have bought a business which solely relies on that addiction, it certainly seems a counter-intuitive move to try and make it *less* engaging!

What's that? You want me to get rid of the spambots? Nah - how about I remove the like and retweet counts from your feed instead? Another weird change that no one asked for, and on the face of it will surely lower user engagement rather than the intention of raising it https://uk.pcmag.com/social-media/151344/elon-musk-twitter-will-remove-retweet-and-like-counts-from-feeds

Does this help lighten the mood?

If we don't make the automatics, and we don't win the play-offs then I hope we get rid of PW and replace him with a new manager who has us playing attractive football, regardless of the fact that this will see us routinely being turned over 1-0 to a last minute winner from an opposing team who have parked the bus for 93 minutes - leaving us mid-table, but with excellent xG stats.

Applications are open if anyone is interested https://www.usajobs.gov/job/779261100

You'd hope not - he was clearly a yard offside

To be fair, she never said "jewish space lasers" were the cause. And she didn't know the Rothschilds were Jewish either

The best result would have been if they'd both lost but due to the vendetta against us, the EFL would never allow that

I remember in his early playing days with the Rams, I was in the Baltimore Diner with some mates, and a bloke came over to us and asked if we were Derby fans. We said yes, and he said "thank god - come and say hello to Stefano Eranio. I've told my wife that I'd take him out on the town, because he lives next door, and he's not really settling in - but he can't speak English and it's excruciating. I don't know what else to do with him!" 😂 Cue 5 minutes of us shaking his hand and saying stuff to him - him nodding blankly and shaking his head. Then we left the poor fellas to it!

https://twitter.com/BBCDerbySport/status/1765035169226904005

no not all - but you certainly seemed to have not read my post properly

It's definitely the 2020s version of the old joke - "how do you know someone is vegan?" 😂 To be fair though - there is a reason that most research points to the majority of BTC holders being millennials and Gen Z. We haven't exactly left them with a reliable future have we?

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa How long before the US is involved in some sort of war with the other 4 😬