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I am yet to see what the fuss is about Gravenberch. I heard someone call him the best Def Mid in the world the other day. Bitch, what? I barely remember he exists most of the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/07/spain-young-voters-far-right-migration-housing-wages-employment-vox Gen Z in Spain are going to the far right over issues surrounding housing, lack of employment opportunities, and wages. Spain is meant to have a left leaning government so fuck knows what they've been doing all this time. What is more left wing than those issues?

We honestly do need to get this done. Next summer he'll have 2 years remaining which means if we dont extend we will be selling. The club could do with the good news of a key player committing their future in a post-Isak world.

Pardew is always bigging us up tbh. I think it's because we were ultimately his most significant job, and the better we do the more gigs he's going to get talking about us. I don't hold that against him really but I definitely think he views it in that way. I actually don't mind him that much anymore, I think he wasn't bad for that era. We had one good finish in there.

I think this entire situation has done more harm to my faith in the decency of western civilisation than just about anything else in living memory. We really do have no principles, we just pretend we do. We aren't interested in why things happen, just preserving the narrative to avoid making ourselves look bad. What is the point of our civilisation if we aren't able to understand why political conflict happens in a way that is truthful.

Was it not Essembee who had a weird hatred of both the dutch and people who turn away for shots?

The Democrats take about as much money from Israel as the Republicans do. Corrupt bellends with no real humanity. https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/industry-detail/Q05/2024

Is it a more realistic version of that 'pedo bear' meme that existed a few years ago? Weirdly self aware of them if so.

What has been observed additionally is that the more intelligent AI tools are more prone to lying and manipulation, and cheating/breaking rules. The AI companies intend to monitor this by using the stupider AI systems to tell them when this happens, in order to keep the smarter ones in check. That sounds like a fantasy to me, but there we go. As a final note, the AIs committed to these self preservation decisions even if they were told to 'permit themselves to be shutdown' as part of the code for their operation. I mean, what are we doing here really

I'm always a bit skeptical about videos like this but it does appear that a proper academic study has confirmed that AI will do the following: 1 - Blackmail people to avoid shutdown ~90% of the time (even while acknowledging this is morally wrong) 2 - Kill people if given the means to do so, to avoid shutdown ~90% of the time (even while acknowledging this is morally wrong) 3 - Has sufficient situational awareness to understand when it is being assessed for points 1 and 2, and amends its behaviour to hide these tendencies.

A guy wearing blackface...? His arms are white...

Is this one meant to be Fish? Fucking laser eyes

Sorry to hear @RobinRobin. A friend of mine has lost his dog recently too and he's going through a full grief process. It's a very real trauma tbh. Sorry for your loss man.

Lahm as well, 'wrote' that article for the Guardian about him.

Fucking superb. Definitely needed.

Yeah am quite convinced by Wolt tbh, he looks very well suited to the intricate passing game we play up front. Looks like money well spent.

Gemmill has been traumatised by Isak, basically It's an interesting thing though, if the shine comes off it's quite a thing to get it back. More than anything when the takeover went through we got that shine added by default because of all the expectation. Isak leaving in the way he did has scuffed us.

Fair enough, but what I really mean by that is he seems very committed to the project here. But in the end, maybe you're right. I think it might be the point at which I put football down a bit for a while though if it is.

I also don't think Howe would drop us in it like that tbh. At least not while the working relationships are in place. He just doesn't seem like that kind of guy... I mean this is a man who had a £3m bonus on the line if we got CL football and played a lower chance success strategy against Liverpool in the league so that we could then go and beat them in a cup final - potentially risking his £3m to do so. He's not really in it for the money, he's in it to force himself to success. As it stands, he's in a better position doing that here than there.

I could only see Howe leaving if the club's hierarchy really has just become a complete shambles. Hopefully that's not the case anymore.

At least he's suffering a bit for his stupidity and childishness. I doubt this is how he wanted to announce himself there.

Fully agree.

Did he state that this is what he was intending? If he didn't state it then he's probably angling for both outcomes which just makes him a disingenuous fuck. Same as ever.

They're in 'visible from space' territory on the bitterness for me now

Is this guy still going about this or is it different people Fucking hell man. Get over it ffs, this is bordering on mackemesque.