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Straggler

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  1. 19 minutes ago, bickster said:

    So the new line appears to be that Wokeism is responsible for child sex abuse

    They really need to find a subject that they are not directly responsible for making worse themselves. You don't need much of a memory to remember that they had 136 children go missing from a hotel run by the home office. 66 of them are still missing and the government have done the square route of FA to try and find them.

    They are currently passing a bill though that will allow them to hold children in detention until they turn 18 and then deport them. It's a policy designed to send children into the arms of abusers. 

    I know it is tough to find a subject where they have the high ground (Ukraine is the only one I can think of), but they really need to do better than this.

  2. They still have Notts County left to play (at the racecourse), which will be a massive game. Wrexham lost to them in the reverse fixture. From what I have seen over the last 2 seasons Wrexham have struggled a bit in the high pressure moments.

    If Notts can beat them, Wrexham could crumble. It's a big ask as it asks Notts to pretty much be perfect for the remainder of the season, but it is an exciting run in. 

    That said, if Wrexham win, you can wrap it up in a bow for them.

  3. Seems to me to be a pretty straight forward way of fleecing some more money out of the war. Loads of backhanders available in the construction and the quality will never be tested. I'd imagine most of these structures will crumble to dust in a year, may as well get paid to make sandcastles all along the coast.

  4. 10 hours ago, Genie said:

    This is a bit of a climb down isn’t it? 

    Make the thing we said would be incredible “work”

     

    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. 

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  5. 32 minutes ago, bickster said:

    The LibDems are in control of absolutely nothing apart from their own ability to talk bollocks, which has been a lifelong passion for most of them.

    You want to know what a LibDem thinks? Ask them a questions, waft the soiled knickers of power under their nose and ask the question again.

    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.

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  6. 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.

  7. On 14/02/2023 at 19:29, Chindie said:

    Ant-Man 3 reviews are all over the place. Common themes seen to be it's less fun than the other films, has great visuals, a good villain, but it's a bit of a mess and too much of a building block.

    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.

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  8. 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. 

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  9. 51 minutes ago, ThunderPower_14 said:

    I just don't get why they don't hire a couple more people to stand in the VAR box to say "Hey Steve you didn't draw the offside lines mate". Billions of pounds flying around the league and VAR, where a decision could change the course of seasons and careers, is left to one guy who occasionally just missed something.

    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.

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  10. 1 hour ago, Tayls said:

    No it does. No team should be allowed to lift a trophy, or be relegated because of a human error where, for example, an offside isn't called. It’s the people operating it that needs to change. The tech itself is exactly where it needs to be. 

    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.

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  11. 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.

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  12. 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.

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  13. 18 hours ago, markavfc40 said:

    Ex health secretary and chancellor Sajid Javid saying today that the NHS should charge people for GP visits and attending A&E citing Norway and Sweden where you pay £20 to see a GP and Ireland where you pay £66 to attend A&E without a referral.

    Taking out the fact that we already pay via our taxes I wouldn't want to live in a country where needing to see a GP or attend A&E could come down to how much money someone has in the bank. I can see why as a wealthy Tory he'd be happy with that though.

    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. 

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  14. On 14/01/2023 at 11:30, Genie said:

    Fifa gets worse every year. I played a few games earlier and managed to concede about 7 bicycle goals from corners. Is there some glitch so don’t know about because it seems to be impossible to defend against corners in this game.

    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.

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