WigstonWanderer

Passing black hole to blame

Well a point away is a good result I suppose, probably fair overall considering how we stood back for much of the match, particularly towards the end. Still disappointed though.

As always, fell back far too much giving them absolutely nothing to worry about the other end

Fck off!

Squeaky bum time

Not the prettiest display but getting the job done 👍

JD Vance seems like a character straight out of Handmaid’s Tale

And yet it appears that about half of the US electorate are prepared to vote for him. Baffling.

Need to be a bit braver earlier

Much more fun than watching them play in the PL

Shshsh…..

Not very good really was it? Didn’t see any of the good stuff on display against Spurs. Couldn’t make heads nor tails of the subs.

So.. doom and gloom again eh?

Surely no one can complain about that!

Great second half. Bit more optimistic for the season now.

Well I’ll be fcked!!!

Defend for our lives and hoof it up field

Could be worse

With a bit of luck we should be able to keep it down to 0 - 3

Probably looking a little better than I expected but conceding is only a matter of time

Now we’re in the PL I don’t have to put up with Bein Sport and can watch everything on the far superior Optus Sport. Well, for a season anyway.

The accumulation of wealth becomes dangerous to the rest of society once it allows super rich people to buy power. The super wealthy can game the system by buying politicians, controlling media, and litigating against any who stand in their way. At this point there should be special internationally agreed rules that apply to cap their wealth and stop this from happening. Obviously there will always be tax havens that won’t enforce such rules, and these individuals may move their assets to such places, but they will still need to sell into markets that do cooperate, and their ownership of assets in cooperating nations can still be targeted. At what point should such rules apply? I don’t personally know, but I’m surely there are academics who do. Maybe $100m? Make no mistake, these are dangerous people and need to be reined in. Perhaps it’s already too late with narcissists like Musk and countless others like rogue elephants destroying our democracies. My two pence worth.

This identifies the problem. It isn’t that the earth hasn’t had a more severe climate at many times in the past. It is that humans haven’t had to face such conditions. If changes occurred over a thousand year timescale it probably wouldn’t matter as there would be time to adapt fairly naturally, but over a century or so results in catastrophic dislocation.

Never used it as I’d be more concerned with ending up in an echo chamber

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/14/how-does-today-extreme-heat-compare-with-earth-past-climate