Stive Pesley

I watched 30 seconds and he's an utter c***

A scary thing is that Bill Clinton was inaugurated as US president 31 years ago last week. And he's still younger today than the two likely candidates for this years election!

It was the email that yougov send out to all those registered for surveys with a kind of "question of the day", which I assume they use to try and gauge the general public mood on whatever batshit crazy thing is going on in the news. So in theory it should be a reasonable cross-section as the sample is large and wide I find it interesting to look at the results as they do tend to match what I *think* is going on in the heads of most sane people, as opposed to what culture war stuff the media are trying to stoke

Are Americans really convinced that it's all rigged because Taylor Swift is doing the do with a Chiefs player?? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jan/31/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-super-bowl-rightwing-conspiracy-biden

Interesting results on the current yougov survey. Wonder if this will get reported, feels like quite the majority

Don't underestimate your achievement here. To keep an independent discussion board going this long in the era of social media is impressive I used to run an Invision board (not football-related) years ago and it died not long after this one started up because everyone just moved to Facebook That said - the DCFC facebook fan pages are a total bin fire, so maybe it's not really any surprise that you've lasted!

Not sure about short memories, (I was unhappy about both the things you stated and said so) but some people clearly don't care, and are happy to divorce "the game" element from the "reality" element of football club ownership. Their prerogative I guess

Warne out! Klopp in!

The club still has the corporate interview video up on FB from when CK was the preferred bidder https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=543275024035439 Funnily enough, he's talking about the complexity around the way MM had structured the club and the stadium making it harder for the deal to be sorted It's entirely possible that, had MM not created such a rats nest of companies and structures - then CK might have been able to get the deal through quickly before anyone realised that he was a money-laundering fraud. So thanks for that Uncle Mel 😂

Or by a nation state that butchers journalists

It's already gone from twenty to thirty years in the clink for Mr Kirchner then! https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/failed-derby-county-bidder-chris-9058974

Infinite regression isn't it? If we were created by something or someone, someone must have created them, and so on etc

Yeah but, surely his twitter feed is abundant with community notes, correcting all of his rubbish...(checks).....oh. That's weird 🙄

Remember when he said that the paid blue tick system would get rid of the bots? And then said he would pay out to blue tick accounts based on how much engagement they generate? What could go wrong, other than people paying for blue ticks and then setting up bots to auto-generate replies in the hope that they might earn some Musk Dollars...

Yes, but let's not forget that it's not just Palestinian deaths https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68065903

Good interview here with the Dutch author of the book "Limitarianism" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/21/how-much-personal-wealth-is-enough-ingrid-robeyns-limitarianism When someone says it calmly and rationally it all seems to make a lot of sense doesn't it We talk about eradicating poverty, but never about changing things from the other end

I'm a big Nick Cave fan, but I thought his comments on AI songwriting were a bit short-sighted, in so much as he makes the mistake that most people make when contemplating AI. That AI could or will become a wholesale replacement for human intelligence (if we let it). We shouldn't even be considering that. He's right that it would be awful on many levels, but It puzzles me that so few people seem to look beyond that and concentrate on where AI can be useful for, and where we should be harnessing it. He almost gets it at the end where he picks out one terrible line from the AI song and uses it to frame a joke about his feelings about AI. That's where I'm coming from. To use AI as a spark, or a starting point. Have it generate some nonsense and then pick it apart using your own creativity to make something totally different and unique. You wouldn't have come up with it without AI, but it's not "AI-generated" - more AI-assisted. I make similar points to my students about AI programming. Traditionally, the boring bit is sitting down and slogging through writing the code. Then the fun bit is debugging it and refining it, and testing it to make sure it meets the requirements. To use AI for the donkey work and have it churn out a framework of code saves you an enormous amount of time, but that first AI pass of code is never going to work properly, or do exactly what you need - so you get to go straight to the debugging and refining part. In which case you still need to understand the programming language and the theory, concepts, frameworks etc so get learning AI will not replace humans, but it's a sexy headline to scare people with I guess

When David implements the new "graphic view" on my ignore list

did you see this? https://www.fastcompany.com/91011703/davos-2024-millionaires-billionaires-demand-wealth-tax-abigail-disney-group it always baffled me how people with extreme wealth could possibly need all that money - there must be a cut off where you simply don't need any more. Because it starts to accrue so quickly - if you have £10m in savings, you're easily earning half a million quid just in interest - and that's in a bog standard high street account - realistically they would be investing it in much more profitable places At least that letter puts paid to the old nonsense trope that all the millionaires would leave the country if we taxed them too much!

What we need is for Stephen Pearce to come up with a clever way of accounting for players residual values.

I enjoyed the comment that Derby County are now a successful property business with an unprofitable sideline in football

An excellent article here which covers all the reasons why https://lasp.colorado.edu/mop/files/2019/08/Humans-Will-Never-Colonize-Mars.pdf

He certainly lived a good life!

Yeah - we had an LPG camper van for a while and it was a nightmare trying to find places to fill it up before it ran out. Didn't help that the fuel gauge was totally unreliable But back on point - the EV race isn't actually about EVs at all - it's just about who can come up with the best battery solution. The car part is largely irrelevant. Just wheels to get you from A to B

Jesus! and the best they can do in reply is I get all the arguments for privatised public services, but surely even those who are pro the idea have to admit that the current implementation of the model doesn't work for us? The idea that they can take tax-payers money, and then fail but it doesn't matter because they get bailed out by more tax-payers money is ludicrous.