WigstonWanderer

So far so good

Our defence sucks arse! And how did we miss all those sitters at the end?

Another one where I missed the first few mins and the goal. What a shocking low energy start! A bit better towards the end so we’re not out of it yet but not holding my breath.

Quite possibly.

Agree. The only way to have regulated this tech would have been some sort of international treaty years ago rather like nuclear weapons treaties in the past. Presumably verification would be significantly more difficult however. Perhaps the trajectory we’re on now was always inevitable.

Answering my own question: I googled “do clubs get second year parachute payments after relegation to league 1” and got this in the reply: Relegation to League One: If a team is relegated to League One while still in their 3-year "parachute" period, they lose the remaining Premier League parachute payments, as those payments are intended to aid clubs in the Championship. I’d guess this has already been discussed somewhere. If true it surely has devastating consequences for the club?

I know there are loads of potential benefits to this tech (the Star Trek/abundance/Garden of Eden outcomes) but given the huge number of possible dystopias, I think that’s very unlikely.The movers and shakers just want regulators out of the way even though they themselves have no idea how it will all turn out. They either think they’ll muddle through somehow, or that they themselves will manage to avoid the dangers. Coupled with other threats (nuclear, climate change, Trumpism and its offshoots, combinations of these) it makes me glad I’m nearer the end of my life than the beginning.

Do we still get the EPL 2nd year parachute payments in L1? Do they exist or did I dream it?

I think it was Cloughy that said “football is a game of two halves”. Never truer.

Wow! We deserve this!

We’re going to stuff this aren’t we?

Ffs

All around brilliant half. Now don’t fck up the second!

Parson Daka! Didn’t know he could do that!

I’d take the draw, but doubt it will be an option

Here we go again

Good to see. A quite obviously stupid idea.

On the positive side, our players should feel well at home in League One

The quality of this football makes me want to gouge my eyes out

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command". 1984, George Orwell.

The only ambition we have left in this season is to stay up and that’s in the balance

Watching this lot is a real chore these days

Fck me ! Just managed to tune in after fiddling around with my laptop and we’re 1-0 down already!

Came across this comment in the "The Rest is Politics" Davros thread: The widely circulated Trump critique by Oliver Kornetzke reads: "Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul—all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been—arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul—it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader."

Rare earths aren’t that rare. It’s the refining that’s hard & polluting. There’s plenty in Australia. China has a monopoly because it refines them cheaply, partly by turning a blind eye to the pollution. As a result it’s been uneconomic for anyone else to enter the market to refine.