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It was an Arsenal foul throw mind

I am delighted to be wrong tbh, I'm loving it

I'm not really arguing that it's fair, I do appreciate that in a free market it should be a matter of whatever anyone is willing to pay, I'm just saying that a cabal which employed the same logic into the Champions League could very easily decide to do so here.

I've mentioned it before but if I was them I would base it on a coefficient set up in the same way as the CL more or less. Previous 5 years revenue plus a percentage growth over the top, applied to every club in the league. I'm not saying this should happen just that I can think of ways they could do it.

To answer your original question, the Bible has been a founding part of our civilisational development for centuries and while it does contain considerable extreme positions, these are robustly challenged within society and in general we have a more mature understanding of it than we do of more modern issues. The issue isn't that we need to censor things we don't agree with, it's that we need to censor things that motivate stupid people to commit violent or damaging acts due to the fact that we have not equipped them with the tools to think critically. Although at least within America, maybe we should ban the Bible on that basis.

I read his manifesto and I don't think we can just call him a white supremacist nutjob and be done with it. It's fairly insane stuff, but it doesn't read as if it was written by a madman. Just someone whose entire perspective has been warped. He's acting out of a genuine fear he has, and the idea that he somehow needs to protect other white people. Honestly, he's pretty much an Islamic terrorist but for white people - but this has happened because of a total failure to control the information that is being consumed by people, alongside the dilution of the shared frame of reference that western society needs in order to function. This is part of the mess that the Le Tissiers and Farages and Cummings' create when they tell us not to trust our institutions or experts. He claims not to hate anyone, he's just convinced that his culture is being destroyed by stealth. I'll also add that he's another one of these deeply confused individuals who doesn't seem to believe in left and right. He's an anti-capitalist, pro-green, anti-free market, former communist, white supremacist, who believes globalisation is hurting his cause for the sake of profit. He says he's both left and right but predominantly a populist. Populism may soon cease to be something that we categorise as left or right, and become a problem entirely in its own right.

I don't know how you go about governing this sort of thing in a society that permits gun ownership, but I can think of one key alteration to their framework that would very quickly reduce the number of shootings.

He is at pains to describe himself as sane in his manifesto, and calls himself a terrorist. So if even the guy himself is doing that, it does rather amaze me that the media aren't. He's a believer in Tucker Carlson's White replacement theory anyway, seems to be his primary motivation.

Yep, interesting run in for sure. Everton have burned their Chelsea win with this result.

Isn't "appropriate to market value" the issue though? How does Golf Saudi get around that when sponsoring us?

I agree with every word of that, genuinely. I feel the regional prejudice too and I am fiercely proud of Newcastle and of being from here - moreso than I am of being British by far - and I argue and twist on with plenty of these people on various platforms, calling them out for the hypocrites they are. All I'm saying though is that Newcastle should not be, for me at least, an institution you can paint your colours over as plainly and overtly as this. We are not City, or PSG, or Man Utd. I find it offensive. I'm not making a grand statement, I'm not rejecting the owners, and I couldn't give a fuck about the empty opinions of the media and wider fanbases. It's just how I feel about this one thing. I fully appreciate it's what we signed up for and the modern reality - but my heart dropped when I saw it. That's all it is.

As much as I want to join the rejection of media sentiment on this, my stomach turned when I saw that strip. Yes we've been bought to sportswash, yes the journos and fans piling in on this don't actually give a fuck about the people they're claiming we all endorse the killing of, but I do. And while I can handle SA owning the club and basking in some reflected glory as an inevitability of the regime, I do not like that strip and what it says about the club.

I particularly like that the guy was called a 'bald cunt' but that being called a cunt didnt bother him anywhere near as much as being called bald I mean, fair enough to him for going to court over it I guess but they've drawn a direct equivalence between that and talking about a woman's tits which.. implies that the top of men's heads are as relevant, sexually speaking, as breasts?

Depressing but thanks for the awareness.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/calling-a-man-bald-is-sexual-harassment-employment-tribunal-rules Calling someone bald in the workplace is now sexual harassment Shelvey is going to be more minted than he is already.

I can't really bring myself to be pleased at deaths on any side of this but it sounds like a well worked and necessary operation.

He's just another one of these fuckwits who thinks that he and only he can see the absolute truth of everything, despite doing little to no reading on any given subject, and refusing to open his mind to competing possibilities and test his analysis against them. His wing of lunatics are so 'grouped' in their 'thinking' that they are now impervious to any and all forms of information that doesn't match their worldview - actively so in fact, because they're so fucking dull that being a "mainstream rejecting visionary" is literally 95% of their personality at this stage, with the other 5% entirely focused on orienting itself up Putin's arse.

I'm pretty happy with my takes ...results predictor notwithstanding (although even then, we're currently +/- 2 points against what I had us down for!)

There is surely no way that the government is going to sign off on yet more economic turbulence man

Yeah there's plenty of people loading up on the "I told you so" perspective for Luna. It's a really good lesson in actually taking the time to understand what you're investing in and how it works, because it very much was viewed as the industry darling in terms of stability. To be let down by an exploit like this is a real shame and will heap scrutiny on the other stablecoins and the industry in general. All because Do Kwon didn't take criticism properly.

You say that but it's not the first time this has happened It'll be interesting to see what happens from here but it's not going to die. What it may do, and I think it likely a positive, is shake off all the people who had no idea what they were investing in and were just chasing gains. Until the next time it comes around of course. Blockchain isn't going anywhere though, and cryptocurrencies are the mechanism by which it operates.

Luna is a great example of people not understanding what they've bought tbf, although some are calling it a ponzi scheme with a measured amount of accuracy IMO. What has happened in a nutshell is that the sister coin to it, UST, lost its pegging with the dollar (which was why it existed, and the whole ecosystem relied on it). When that happens, Luna has to balance it up - and it happened so hard, through being attacked by a hedgefund as far as anyone can tell, that Luna simply couldn't keep up. Consequently they've had to resort to hyperinflation and are mass printing Luna in order to push up UST - the hope being, I think, that doing so will save the ecosystem. Remains to be seen but a lot of people have lost a great deal of money, and this was meant to be one of the safer options in the space. Undone by the the overlooking of a systemic error.

I don't know if anyone on here besides myself and Quiff actually did pay attention to this stuff but there's a fantastic meltdown going on right now and we appear to be entering the bear market properly. One of the biggest coins dropped from $90 to.. currently at about $0.05. Not a confidence thing though tbf, it had its underlying system exploited and money just caned out of it. We are almost certainly going to see this space regulated now, at least as far as stablecoins go. Fun times

Is there anyone still out there who thinks that the Tories are competent with the economy? Surely that utter fabrication of reality is done now.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/12/hate-mail-death-threats-culture-war-matthew-katzman-cancelling-queen Good article about a poor lad from the US who became public enemy number 1 for the daily mail a year or so ago when his college subcommittee voted on removing a picture of the queen and his name was appended to the document as an administrative formality due to his role in the committee setup. National media story, hate mail, death threats, eventually fled back to the states. The UK is a fucking rabid country when it comes to the Royals.