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urban.spaceman

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  1. I just put 20 pages of an unfinished screenplay in it and within minutes it gave me a video overview of the plot but also an audio ****ing podcast style discussion of the script with three different AI voices BUT THEN YOU CAN INTERRUPT AND ASK THEM A QUESTION ABOUT IT AND THEY ANSWER BACK. Absolutely insane.
  2. Notebook LM is impressive.
  3. Kemi Badenoch.
  4. If Southampton beat us 9-0 does that break the curse?
  5. Help me help me help me help me
  6. What happens if the wife finds out about the girlfriend?
  7. IF the Premier League find Man City guilty we would have a serious case of denial of rightful earnings from 2 years of playing in the Champions League. We'd be entitled to hundreds of millions in compensation.
  8. We've gone so far above and beyond cooperation with the Premier League and EFL that we've literally helped both leagues understand their own rules by proving repeatedly that we haven't broken any of them. We should be getting a points REWARD for cooperation.
  9. Can't wait for the next time he ends his goal drought.
  10. I feel like we all entered a collective coma after that game.
  11. Boris Johnson. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm27m300p2yt Put the C*NT in prison.
  12. News for Stargate fans: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/new-stargate-tv-series-amazon-martin-gero-1236585606/
  13. Borson knows **** all. He's just generating content for TalkSport. He's been wrong again and again and again.
  14. You answered your own question! Yes, we've been uniquely harmed by PSR because of where we were when the rules were tightened. The pivotal time here is April 2021. The night we got through to the FA Cup final is the same night they announced their Super League. That season (our second 5th place finish) saw Villa, Newcastle and Brighton finish 11th, 12th and 16th. The following season, when we finished 8th, they finished 14th, 11th and 9th. We were already suffering the damage of having to self sabotage in order to comply; they were already on the rise and had leapfrogged us into the European places in 22/23 while we were getting relegated. Everton and Forest (and this is where we start descending into the quagmire the Premier League have created) were deducted points after the seasons in which they should have been given them. If they'd been given them in the correct season - 22/23, BOTH clubs would have been relegated and we would have stayed up.
  15. Martin Samuel’s article back in August is a really important read The Leicester City bit: One look at spiralling Leicester exposes ugly truth behind the PSR lie Aston Villa will return to the swampy middle and Newcastle United are struggling to become the force they should be, but it is probably the fate of Leicester City that is making fans finally see the truth about Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR). Leicester went into this weekend labouring in the bottom half of the Championship. Rules have been introduced so that they could now be deducted points for past financial infringements while down there. Who knows where this ends? Maybe League One, if the spiral cannot be addressed. Leicester made mistakes and have been punished for them; and punished for them; and punished for them. They are a shadow of the club that gave many of us our biggest thrill watching football. Take away the successes of your own team, and what is the greatest achievement you have witnessed in football? For many it would be Leicester winning the Premier League in 2015-16. It wasn’t supposed to happen. “Champions of England, you’ll never sing that,” taunted the supporters of a handful of clubs, and we believed them. We would never see the league won again, unless it was in the colours of an elite participant. And along came Leicester. For one brief, brilliant season, anything truly was possible. Every supporter of a club outside the privileged band remembers how that made them feel. So to see them relegated for the second time since, to see them pursued and penalised for their mistakes, for daring to have ambition, exposes the truth behind the PSR lie. Leicester City players and manager celebrating Premier League victory. Leicester are a shadow of the title-winning 2015-16 team LAURENCE GRIFFITHS/GETTY IMAGE It is not about debt. It was never about debt. Newcastle, majority-owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, would not have debt. This is about investment, ambition, competition. PSR is a barrier to entry, a basic tenet of competition law. Barriers to entry protect incumbent firms and restrict competition in a market. In football’s case it is an incumbent elite, and they have a lot of fans and influencers out there to make their protectionist case, hiding behind dark warnings of bankruptcy or a threat of monopolisation — when the monopolies already exist. But these barriers to entry are working too well, and now people are beginning to see what happens to any club that dares to rise and make a challenge. Villa’s squad has been denuded, before them Wolverhampton Wanderers. Newcastle’s ambition is thwarted at every turn. But Leicester are the ones. Watching that club taken down so dramatically, so soon after delivering the greatest Premier League season, people start to see through the rules. It is no surprise the elite are the biggest supporters of PSR, the ones putting constant pressure on Richard Masters and the Premier League. There are serious gains to be made. And not just preserving places at the top. Take Tottenham Hotspur. Daniel Levy is among the most prominent advocates of PSR. His club are, if not exactly up for sale, certainly open to suggestions. There was talk of interest from Qatar, as always, and it is believed somewhere between £2 billion and £3 billion is the magic number. That, however, is predicated on Tottenham being a top-six presence, and regular Champions League participants. Over the past decade, if we include this season, Tottenham have played in the Champions League in six of ten campaigns. Yet what if Newcastle were unfettered? Could Tottenham make a claim to regular Champions League football in the coming years if Newcastle joined Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City in financially outmuscling them? Would Villa, Nottingham Forest and others now outside the elite become bolder spenders, given the chance? Newcastle, without restraint, might make Tottenham an upper mid-table proposition for buyers rather than one of the elite. And that might wipe as much as £1 billion off what the Enic Group is believed to want for Tottenham. All the more reason for the wealthy establishment to support PSR. Not as a barrier to debt, but a barrier to entry. And at last people are realising. Once again, we should be grateful to Leicester. And from July (I think) Leicester victims of PSR quadruple jeopardy Leicester City would like to make a managerial change; that much seems obvious. Ruud van Nistelrooy won four league matches in his tenure, two of which came after relegation, against teams that, like Leicester, were already down. They cannot move, however, because of Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR). Leicester already fear a vindictive 12-point deduction in the Championship next season, and paying off Van Nistelrooy would make their financial predicament worse. Any player who may be considered an asset, such as goalkeeper Mads Hermansen, will have to be sold, weakening them further. Russell Martin, considered a managerial target, has now taken the job at Rangers, and there is a worry that two other candidates, Danny Röhl, of Sheffield Wednesday, and Sean Dyche, may be lost to them too. Bournemouth v Leicester City, Premier League - 25 May 2025 Leicester may be stuck with Van Nistelrooy next season as they look to navigate PSR rules GRAHAM HUNT/PROSPORTS/SHUTTERSTOCK Leicester erred with Van Nistelrooy, and that’s what PSR does — it cements mistakes in place, with no second chances. So Leicester will be relegated, suffer a points deduction in the league below and conduct a fire sale of what little talent the club do possess, while being stuck with a manager who has shown little aptitude for the job. No one is arguing the club have not been run poorly, but PSR ensures they get no opportunity to change course. This isn’t double jeopardy, it’s quadruple jeopardy. It is almost as if the Premier League won’t rest until it kills a club, just to show it can. I maintain the position I’ve had since 2023. The club handled it terribly and repeatedly made mistakes. The Premier League and EFL are corrupt, their financial rules are anticompetitive and are designed to entrap and repeatedly punish any club who tries to compete. The club is absolutely right to fight this in the courtroom and the longer they have to do that, the more it reinforces my argument about these leagues being corrupt and anticompetitive.
  16. The Running Man. I did enjoy it, though the ending was poor IMO. Edgar Wright has an endings problem. Not his best work, though I did love the feel of the film which felt much more authentic than the other film. I hope his next is with Pegg and Frost.
  17. DONICA LEWINSKY THERE I SAID IT.
  18. Can't remember now
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