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I dozed off.

Yes, I'm in it. The libs have rejoining the single market as part of their manifesto, so that's another six or seven people. Sadly I don't trust them though so we are splitting the rejoin vote.

Pretty much everything listed here as a benefit is something that we had before Brexit. The rejoin campaign would list most of this stuff (all of it really, apart from the EU law bit, which is a spurious claim anyway) and countless others benefits. They have still not even got close to what they promised Brexit would be and they can still go out in public championing it? How does any politician that still supports Brexit have any credibility at all? It exists today as it always was, fantasy based on lies, to continue to pretend it is a benefit is to actively hurt this country and the people within. I feel so gaslit today it's unreal.

This is what annoys me the most about them. After existing without purpose when actually had a chance to make a difference they gave it all up to cling to power. A power they could achieve nothing with. All they have ever actually done in reality is enable the Tories by splitting the opposition vote and whilst power sharing. Simply by existing they do harm to their own agenda. They should just shut up shop.

Arsene Wenger was mine

Michelle Pfeiffer has had so much surgery on her face she looks like unconvincing CGI. That whole culture of enhancements and surgery in Hollywood is IMO unhealthy and disturbing. I struggle to watch movies with stars all peeled and lifted. It's uncanny valley in real life.

I saw it yesterday with my 17 year old son. We both concluded it is one of the worst movies we have ever seen. The baddie is the only passable feature, the rest is drivel. It's not even funny. It tries for a few gags and they should land given the quality of actors delivering them, but they are so telegraphed it's just boring. The visuals were pretty I suppose, but you could smell the green screen. The actors rarely seemed present in their environment. It was painfully fake in places. I'm at the stage I would rather they just fully animate it if this is the best they can do to combine CGI with live action. Then there are the thing that so many of this type of movie get wrong. Calling the villain He for the first 45 minutes so the name can be revealed later like any of us going in don't know who he is. Also no one seems interested in asking who he is which was just weird. Characters withholding vital information from the team for unfathomable reasons again so the discovery can be a big 'shock' moment. It's sloppy, lazy writing. It happens at one point where one person says we don't have time to talk then they cut to the very next scene where they are having a stroll, under no pressure at all and still not discussing what is frankly vital information. Smart people constantly making dumb decisions for plot reasons. It almost completely divorces the character from their personality. Everyone is a plot device so you don't care about anyone. They are smart or stupid, insightful, oblivious, sharing, intransigent, strong, weak whatever the scene they are in needs them to be regardless of what has gone before or what they will be capable of moments later. This isn't just a bad marvel movie. It is just a bad movie. Puss in Boots was way better. I'd rather watch the green lantern again than this movie.

I have a friend that I met through my work in IT that is probably the most intelligent person I have ever met. We were working at an IT security company and the joke was that we didn't really have any software, we just plugged everything into his brain. He also was involved in research into AI, flying between the UK and the USA working at the sorts of universities that you will have heard of. He told me the story of his scariest day at work. They were working on AI the sort of which you see in the movies, trying to get something that could learn broadly on its own. One day they are at the lab experimenting away when the AI mounts and escape attempt. It hacked its way out of the lab network into the building control system. It was a high tech building with all sorts of security procedures and networked features. Unfortunately for the team in the lab as they were trying to contain the AI one of the feature were remote locking of doors which a security team used to allow folks in and out of secure areas. The AI having got loose locked down the building, securing all the flesh bags into their labs. My friend tells me that it was a really freaky moment knowing that the AI had done that (even though it is not a possibility that it was a deliberate action against humans) Fortunately the lab was completely air gapped from the internet so the AI was contained in the building which they eventually regained control of by completely cutting power. My friend looked suitably concerned when I asked him what might have happened had it got out and copied itself across the www.

It's not just one guy though, there's already a bunch of them in there. The problem is the organisation. It's an old boys club who's main aim is to protect itself against criticism. It can't improve because it can't admit it has a problem.

I don't disagree with the principal here, but the point is that the people are not about to change. They can barely admit that there is a need to change. Whilst this is the case I would rather be rid of the whole thing.

I've gone full circle with VAR. I was really pleased when it came in, but it is so badly run that I am now ready to see it go. It's sucking the life out of the game by removing the fun of celebrating a goal, and it is giving back so very little. It's not the fault of the technology, purely the people running it. They are incompetent. You don't let a driver get back behind the wheel of a car if they keep causing accidents, their license gets taken away because they can't be trusted. VAR results can't be trusted so why accept the downside if the upside is so minimal.

Isn't that on our club badge?

Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

No sign of that happening though.

F me. It was only a few months ago. We all saw it happen. If the learning she has taken away from the experience is that it was all someone else's fault then she really is lost. Totally and utterly adrift from reality. She belongs more in a Waco Texas cult than Downing Street.

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Gullis should be punished for what he said. It should come from within his own ranks. Sunak should meet with him, tell Gullis that hye was vile and does not represent conservative values. Gullis should then be ejected from the party. Every day this does not happen is another day when Gullis represents Tory values. Sunak won't do this because he's not got any fight in him. They should be shamed into it, but they have no shame. There are options to punish Gullis but it does require Sunak behaving with integrity, professionalism and accountability. There is more chance he'll win a header against Ming's.

Also if we are going to be doing things like Sweden now I'm really looking forward to the changes in child care costs. It's so disingenuous to cherry pick one thing from another nation and say "well it works there" without considering the eco system that one policy sits within.

Corners against AI are an absolute nightmare for me. If they play it short I'm screwed, they just pass it around until they score. If they cross it in I'm rarely able to control anyone near the ball so I'm just watching the AI decide if it wants to score or not. The only way to mitigate against the worst of it is to take control of the keeper before the kick is taken and move him 5 or so yards off the line to give him a better chance of claiming the cross. This idea came from online play (not something I do, I just heard they did it) and it works against the AI a decent amount of the time. If you do play online watchout for people going for goal direct from corners if you bring your keeper out.

What the f is the point of passing a law that enforces a minimum guaranteed level of service during a strike if the reason for the strike is that we are operating as standard below said minimum level. Bunch of clearings in the woods the lot of them.

Just shows how things have changed over time. As a teenager I got a concussion playing rugby. Went into A&E, was examined quickly by a Dr and admitted to hospital overnight for observation. I had puked a couple of time as well so I don't know if this made a massive difference (I suspect not). I was examined again in the morning and sent home . This will have been 30 or so years ago. Can you imagine anyone getting a hospital bed now for a concussion? I think part of the problem is that a lot of people still think the NHS is the thing I experienced all that time ago. The crisis it is in is still not really being covered, certainly not in proportion to the scale. One last point. I worked selling tech into the NHS for a large part of my professional career. It was a big part of my job to understand the strategic direction of the organisation, how it was funded, what the priorities were and the political pressures. As such I have been calling out for years that the position we are in now is the deliberate end game of consecutive conservative governments. Labour are not without blame here too, the Blair years, whilst good for facilities and waiting lists etc still encouraged the growth of private interest and happily sucked on that lobbying teat. But labour wanted the NHS to work. The Tory position has, for my entire life been to break it. To stop it working so they can sell it off. This is what it looks like when it breaks. It is why they won't raise a finger to fix it. It makes me so angry to watch this happen over decades. It took generations to build the NHS, it is one of the few things that actually does make Britain great and the Tories have and are very deliberately stealing that legacy away from our children. Utter **** scum.

I took my son to one of the minor injuries clinics after a fall at school, waited 2 hours to see someone and got told they can't treat him and to go to the A&E instead. Waited 4 hours there to be told to go home and. Come back if he gets worse.

Or just never read anything written by Ben Shapiro regardless of spoilers. The guy is an absolute bell end.

They seem to do this every year. The problem is, as a community we keep giving them obscene amounts of money, despite them constantly providing a buggy mess. No competition, no consequences, no incentive to do better.