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Just now, Comrade 86 said:

Think I'd best invoke the 5th amendment mate, though I'm sure you could fairly accurately surmise my thoughts on the subject  🤣 

Wise man!

4 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:

That horse hasn't so much bolted as sold the entire farm and f***** off to the Caymans.

A lot depends on the outcome of the US election IMO.

And in the UK, which direction the Tories go in, whether Farage is tempted to join them and how Starmer's premiership goes.

37 minutes ago, Bob The Badger said:

I'm fairly sure that's legit because it's been reported on, in terms of what he said.

He's talking from an autocue and staying on message. 

The content and his tone of voice, as well as the rise of fake AI footage, made me question it.

Very worrying message IMO. Without wishing to stray into politics, I'm started to get a bit concerned for western democracy.

9 hours ago, David said:

Modern day legend for the club.

Modern day, as in the last 20/30 years.

The club, as in Liverpool.

For a club with such a decorated trophy cabinet, they went an awfully long time without really being a threat to the top clubs.

Klopp has come in and brought domestic and European success, when you see some of the Derby players being labelled legend on this forum, I don’t think calling Klopp a modern day legend for Liverpool is that absurd.

He's not even a modern day legend. He's a Liverpool legend full stop.

1 hour ago, Stive Pesley said:

The only improvement I like is the community notes/context thing.

Thankfully it's being used quite well to counteract a lot of the extremist political nonsense being pushed on the platform

eg

 

Yeah, it's not without its issues but definitely a good addition.

11 hours ago, Stive Pesley said:

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...

 

8 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:

That's actually hilarious. I'd not noticed this at all.

It extends way beyond stock responses. I'm not sure whether it's a "football twitter" thing, but the replies to the posts I see are just full of blue-tick OnlyFans girls/bots.

That and the prioritisation of the blue tick in the replies is just another example of the app being worse than it was a year ago.

8 hours ago, Bob The Badger said:

Jeez, the final episode of Season 3 of Love/Hate is mind-blowing!

I know @NottsRam is on this, but has anybody else watched this?

If not, I cannot recommend it highly enough. It is definitely up there with Kin, and I'm so glad I was recommended it by @hales300k

LadBible posted about it being an unknown gem today. Must be picking up some traction.

54 minutes ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

How are you doing young Fruity? still laying waste to the great plains?

Case in point @Van der MoodHoover!

15 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

Caught a few highlights earlier and there was a match covered by BBC 3... Zambia vs Morocco.

But what a poor looking tournament. Reminded me of a world cup c 1982. Sparse crowds, low excitement, cagey football.

Then I saw that it's held every 2 years, not 4. Why is that?

It's great to follow the mad moments and storylines on Twitter. You get barmy stuff happening in AFCON that you don't get in other international tournaments. But I don't think I'd ever sit down and watch it.

Another one, @Carl Sagan. I can’t figure out whether this is real or not. We’re going to be dealing with that question all the time from now on.

10 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

*spirt

You were beaten to the punch

22 minutes ago, TigerTedd said:

I’m in. The universe is definitely telling me to go. Even the nice lady in the car park let me in without having to pay for parking. The universe wants me here for a reason. Hopefully ti witness something spectacular.

im not sure if my wife wants me here though. I’ve got radio silence from her. I’m not sure what reception I’m going to get when I rock up at 1am. 

You win the Spirit of B4 award!

41 minutes ago, TigerTedd said:

I’m accidentally in reading. I’ve been working here today. Didn’t even realise the match was on this evening. On my way home, but need a charge. The first charger I’ve gone to is taken, so the second charger I navigated to happened to be outside the stadium. And then it hit me that the match is on today  

my wife is expecting me home in 3 hrs. But this feels like fate is telling me I have to go to the match. 

21 minutes ago, Returning ram said:

You are, when you are saying though that "we should support them", it works both ways, especially when you aren't even there.
 

Had you said you'd support them fair enough, but your trying to advocate that  we should support the disruption, which imo is not what the majority of fans travelling down tonight would want.

Fair.

4 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

With respect it doesn’t affect you then.

See my post above.

And, to be consistent, when a train I'm due to travel on is cancelled because of strikes, I don't blame the workers.

1 minute ago, Returning ram said:

I take it you're not going to the game then. There is one thing drawing attention to their plight, another disrupting a game in which fans have paid money, taken time off work etc... 

Am I not allowed to have an opinion regardless?

I've been to more than enough away games to understand the commitment it requires. 

1 minute ago, Foreveram said:

Are you here.

Not far away. Just the 6,760 kilometres. Hoping to make it in time for the invasion.

1 minute ago, Anag Ram said:

They aren’t going to save their club by bringing it into disrepute.

I don't see it as bringing the club into disrepute because I don't think they're doing anything morally wrong. Others may disagree of course.

One thing it has done is bring far more attention to the situation. I knew the fans were dissatisfied, but I only realised how bad it was getting when I saw them invading the pitch.

Now, I'm not going to see that and be able to save the club, but far wealthier people than I may do. And it has multiplying effects too - I'm sure the national media are more likely to pick up on the situation when the fans invade the pitch, and that spreads the news further still.

20 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Any attempt, really, we went through horrendous times and never once threatened to get a game abandoned.

Doesn't mean our way was the only way though. Like saying the only way to protest against injustice is to do it in a way that inconveniences nobody. 

If it was the difference between my club surviving and going to the dogs, I'd do it every single time. I don't blame Reading fans one bit for doing everything they can to save their club.

23 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Late in the day and should be 9 points to really make them think of the consequences 

As much as it would be annoying to travel all that way for it to be abandoned, I think we should wholeheartedly support any attempt to draw attention to their plight. 

Forgot to add another fear, @Carl Sagan. I worry that AI music will have a significant effect on the music and movie industries (and all arts I suppose). When AI art becomes indistinguishable from, and "better" than, human art, where do we go from there?

On 19/01/2024 at 18:05, Carl Sagan said:

Am currently writing a book on AI and am curious about the forum's views. Do many people on here use the new generative capabilities? Do you use other manifestations?

I use ChatGPT-3 fairly regularly to help with work. Mostly to help me come up with new ideas, tweak things and find answers to questions faster than I can on Google.

Do you think the world will have changed much in the next 5, 10, 20 years?

Yes, but not sure on timescale. Based on what people much smarter than me are saying, I would expect the effect of AI to be revolutionary.

What are your hopes and dreams for it? What about your fears?

It should increase productivity massively and may allow for some future universal basic income scenario. Primary concern is what happens if we create a monster without realising (Sam Altman's bullishness in the face of people expressing caution worries me a little). Also the potential for life to be a bit meaningless if a lot of the population don't need to work.

31 minutes ago, Anon said:

Deeney's biggest problem is his massive ego. Plenty of managers dish out scathing attacks on underperforming players, but it's kept in the dressing room. Deeney did it publicly because he absolutely had to let everyone know that his awful performance as a manager was the players' fault and not his own. He can't even claim that their poor play and poor attitude came as a shock. He's been playing for them all season, so he knew exactly what he was dealing with, chose to take the job anyway, and then started whinging immediately.

Yep.

Seen a load of clips of him on podcasts recently and he just comes across as an egotistical, arrogant bell. I find this all quite funny.

Nobody talking about that Welsh lad binning rugby for the NFL? Bold move...