General News Thread

[bovril]

The Israeli authorities are clearly anti semitic. Sad that Tel Aviv is now a no go area for Jewish football fans.

[Corky]

All of this after our Government were working at a fast pace to get these top lads over here.

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 hours ago, Jattdogg said:

I'm ready to burn the government, billionaires and wealthy cvnts down if AI destroys my friends  and families ability to earn money , buy food, live a decent life etc. The AI scientists better watch out too, they will be targets.

 

Can't stop 5000000 people showing up at your mansions looking for blood. You wont be safe anywhere!

 

You wealthy cvnts have been warned, the people will always win in the end!  

 

Annnnnd back to current day,  let's hope AI doesn't take us there lol.

 

Had to doom and gloom it as that's what it's like outside here today, pissing it down with rain haha. 

 

 

 

 

Calm down Mr Ludd!

[Trav Le Bleu]

8 hours ago, Super_horns said:

Ceasefire broken already ?
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2kpx7yyq9pt

But Donald said it would be enduring peace!

 

Is this a new meaning of the word enduring?

 

Anyhow, next will be peace between Russia and Ukraine. Might as well give him that Nobel Prize now.

[Mickyblueeyes]

Tel Aviv Derby 

 

 

[Jon the Hat]

On 17/10/2025 at 17:18, leicsmac said:

Oh, and as a general comment on what some folks believe to be the matter behind this talking point:

 

I really don't think any nation with nuclear weapons is in a position to say they're being too (italicised for emphasis) victimised, simply because they always have that very absolute option to address whoever might be victimising them. 

The nuclear option is not in fact an option if those who are attacking you are in fact in your country.  Or even right next door.

[Jon the Hat]

5 hours ago, Jattdogg said:

I'm ready to burn the government, billionaires and wealthy cvnts down if AI destroys my friends  and families ability to earn money , buy food, live a decent life etc. The AI scientists better watch out too, they will be targets.

 

Can't stop 5000000 people showing up at your mansions looking for blood. You wont be safe anywhere!

 

You wealthy cvnts have been warned, the people will always win in the end!  

 

Annnnnd back to current day,  let's hope AI doesn't take us there lol.

 

Had to doom and gloom it as that's what it's like outside here today, pissing it down with rain haha. 

Fundamentally, if the masses don't have money to spend, the economy will grind to a halt and the rich won't be able to sell their goods and services.  I suspect it will be quite painful along the way though.

[SkidsFox]

7 hours ago, Jattdogg said:

I'm ready to burn the government, billionaires and wealthy cvnts down if AI destroys my friends  and families ability to earn money , buy food, live a decent life etc. The AI scientists better watch out too, they will be targets.

 

Can't stop 5000000 people showing up at your mansions looking for blood. You wont be safe anywhere!

 

You wealthy cvnts have been warned, the people will always win in the end!  

 

Annnnnd back to current day,  let's hope AI doesn't take us there lol.

 

Had to doom and gloom it as that's what it's like outside here today, pissing it down with rain haha. 

 

 

 

 

The argument is that certain companies will rake it in (data storage, AI companies, power companies etc) and so the government will be able to extract revenue and pay for us all to have a life of leisure...  Will believe it when I see it. But it could mean a lot of jobs in the leisure, luxury and experience sector where the well-off will spend their gains.

[Jattdogg]

11 minutes ago, SkidsFox said:

The argument is that certain companies will rake it in (data storage, AI companies, power companies etc) and so the government will be able to extract revenue and pay for us all to have a life of leisure...  Will believe it when I see it. But it could mean a lot of jobs in the leisure, luxury and experience sector where the well-off will spend their gains.

Japan is making those silicone "human like" sex women/dolls so even the prozies will be out of business lol.

[Jon the Hat]

21 minutes ago, SkidsFox said:

The argument is that certain companies will rake it in (data storage, AI companies, power companies etc) and so the government will be able to extract revenue and pay for us all to have a life of leisure...  Will believe it when I see it. But it could mean a lot of jobs in the leisure, luxury and experience sector where the well-off will spend their gains.

That is AN argument.  I suspect more likely is the economy shifts as it has always done to value different things, and people will pay for that.  We definitely need to find an effective way of taxing companies based on where they earn revenues, not on where they are based or hold the IP.

[Trav Le Bleu]

3 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

Fundamentally, if the masses don't have money to spend, the economy will grind to a halt and the rich won't be able to sell their goods and services.  I suspect it will be quite painful along the way though.

Bang on.

 

Money is essentially blood. It needs to circulate. Too much in one place/belonging to very few people and it starts to hemorrhage and then death.

 

There's no point in having all the money in the world, since it will be worthless with nothing to spend it on.

[Dr Marco]

 

[Lionator]

15 minutes ago, Dr Marco said:

 

While probably not a good thing for a president to be posting this AI slop, he’s a great sh*tposter. 

[Lionator]

So the right people seem to be converging on their narratives that it was the Hapoel fans who caused the game to be abandoned and that their ultras are left wing and have ties to communists and that it’s basically all an inside job. 

[leicsmac]

6 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

The nuclear option is not in fact an option if those who are attacking you are in fact in your country.  Or even right next door.

I mean, strictly speaking the principle of MAD means that the nuclear option is no option for anyone, them included. However, I do think that claims of victimisation are a little hollow when a party can still choose that mutual destruction over subjugation at any time. It's not a great choice, but the choice still exists to them. 

[leicsmac]

Piers Morgan going on about how toxic social media is (right) and then in the very next sentence praising Felon#47 as a politician for having "unfiltered" views. 

 

Little bit of a contradicting viewpoint there? And have you forgotten your own (correct) comments in the aftermath of January 6th 2021 so easily, Piers?

[Sly]

Massive server issues worldwide, even isitdownrightnow has gone down 

 

No EpicGames, NewYorkTimes, Wordle, Supercell, Fortnite, Roblox, Amazon, Ring, Snapchat, Duolingo, Coinbase, Square, HMRC, Vodafone, Flickr, Pokomon, Quora, Ancestory …. All down 

 

Thats one DDOS attack! 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

That timing

 

Incredible. Wonder who'll get the blame for this one!

[kenny]

14 minutes ago, Sly said:

Massive server issues worldwide, even isitdownrightnow has gone down 

 

No EpicGames, NewYorkTimes, Wordle, Supercell, Fortnite, Roblox, Amazon, Ring, Snapchat, Duolingo, Coinbase, Square, HMRC, Vodafone, Flickr, Pokomon, Quora, Ancestory …. All down 

 

Thats one DDOS attack! 

No Autodesk. That's no work getting done today then.

[Sly]

Just now, kenny said:

No Autodesk. That's no work getting done today then.

You could get on your Pelaton ……. Oh, that’s down as well 

[leicsmac]

18 minutes ago, Sly said:

Massive server issues worldwide, even isitdownrightnow has gone down 

 

No EpicGames, NewYorkTimes, Wordle, Supercell, Fortnite, Roblox, Amazon, Ring, Snapchat, Duolingo, Coinbase, Square, HMRC, Vodafone, Flickr, Pokomon, Quora, Ancestory …. All down 

 

Thats one DDOS attack! 

... oh hey, another thing that Years and Years got right!

 

I'm wondering what they all have in common that would make them all susceptible to simultaneous attack though, unless this is the mother of all DDoS attacks - I wouldn't have thought an attack on that scale was even possible.

 

[Sly]

Apparently AWS is down, so they must all rely on that. 

[davieG]

5 hours ago, SkidsFox said:

The argument is that certain companies will rake it in (data storage, AI companies, power companies etc) and so the government will be able to extract revenue and pay for us all to have a life of leisure...  Will believe it when I see it. But it could mean a lot of jobs in the leisure, luxury and experience sector where the well-off will spend their gains.

When they discovered North Sea Gas/Oil it was promised that we'd be getting all energy needs for free. The problem is that most people in government are just that people but with strong political beliefs without any serious knowledge of how to run anything so therefore promise political aims rather than practical and achievable aims.

 

Shame we didn't copy what the Norwegians have done rather than trying to aspire too and  mimic everything American (USA)

[kenny]

2 minutes ago, davieG said:

When they discovered North Sea Gas/Oil it was promised that we'd be getting all energy needs for free. The problem is that most people in government are just that people but with strong political beliefs without any serious knowledge of how to run anything so therefore promise political aims rather than practical and achievable aims.

 

Shame we didn't copy what the Norwegians have done rather than trying to aspire too and  mimic everything American (USA)

The comparison with Norway is a little unfair as they have much more oil than us and a tiny population.

 

Furthermore, they have huge hydro electric potential alongside their timber stocks, so they don't need it for domestic energy production.

 

Our big mistake was not investing in Nuclear back in the day, because nuclear=bad.

[davieG]

1 minute ago, kenny said:

The comparison with Norway is a little unfair as they have much more oil than us and a tiny population.

 

Furthermore, they have huge hydro electric potential alongside their timber stocks, so they don't need it for domestic energy production.

 

Our big mistake was not investing in Nuclear back in the day, because nuclear=bad.

We could still have invested some of it besides Norway owns a controlling stake in their wells and a lot of the related operations we sold ours out for short term political gain to the Yanks.