Renton

True. But even if it's only half accurate it's canny concerning.

I mainly agree. Why is there nothing for young people? Part of it is of course the huge wealth inequalities that keep getting bigger, but part of it is also due to demographics and the welfare state previously being too generous imo. I'm not going into figures but I've been doing my Mum's accounts recently and I am staggered what her pension is. She only ever worked as a part time insurance clerk (no qualifactions beyond GCSE grade C equivalent), but with her state pension and a fair portion of my Dad's pension as a survivor she earns more than a lot of full time professional workers get. Obviously with no mortgage etc. Thing is these gold plated pensions have to continue being paid by the young who will never get anything remotely as generous themselves. And of course people are living longer (only recently going in reverse) which is a huge drain on the NHS and social care. A lot of younger people I know have decided not to have kids, reasonably, as they can't afford the hit without really impacting their quality of life. They get dogs instead. This feeds the population being top heavy with less young to keep the economy going. Which means we need immigration, which breed far right politics amongst an easily manipulated population. In South Korea the birth rate is 0.8 now. Youy need 2.1 just to remain stable. The country is predicted to half in population by 2200, which may sound great for climate change but its cataclysmic from a societal pov. Rambling here a bit. Basically to function our society needs to constantly grow economically but at some point that just can't happen any more. We're unambiguously at that point now imo. Decline from here in seems inevitable*, things like Brexit and Trump just accelerate it. I don't know how - even in a World without bad actors - you fix this. I'm not sure anyone does. But with people like Farage, with social media and increasingly AI, the task does seem hopeless and thankless. * Tbf CT said as much a decade or more ago. I fucking hate hime being right but.....

It's so bizarre. Not too long ago there were hopes that the internet would open up a new world of information and enlightenment. Instead, the literal opposite has happened as we go all full steam ahead on the social media AI train. Choo choo! I'm guilty of giving the human race far too much credit.

Fuck me, so basically the kids are even more thick than the gammons? Fanfuckingtastic.

"There once were some tech bros so sly, Who’d “borrow” ideas on the fly, But their cries turned obscene, When outsmarted by Beijing, Oh, the irony—they can't deny!" So I pointed out to my new "work colleague" that obscene and Beijing don't actually rhyme, to which it agreed, and then went in the huff? ChatGPT? Chatthickcunt more like* *It's reading this, isn't it?

True, but space is not expanding within the local group of galaxies, and there are trillions of stars just in that, the Milky Way being the second biggest galaxy. The other thing you're missing is the time scales. Say 10% speed of light is the best we can realistically ever do, it takes 40 years to get to alpha centauri system. You do that and colonise it, then jump to the next star system. Over the course of tens of millions of years, which you have as the Universe is 13 billion years old, you've colonised the Milky Way. But there are still many variables we don't know. Probability of life. Probability of intelligent life. Probability of stable, advanced civilisations (seems quite low given the state of humans). And if they do exist, I reckon either they will destroy us or just remain hidden, prime objective style.

Well, that's not a peer reviewed journal. It's a single author from no recognised academic institution. It's full of quasi-pseudo scientifc bollocks. Were there any chance this was true, it would be front page of Nature. Apart from the fact it seems to me unlikely fragile DNA could survive inter-planetary or even inter-stellar space and the impact through Earth's atmosphere, the chances "alien DNA" would be "DNA" as we know it is almost zero. Alien life would probably have some form of genetic code, but it would not be the DNA molecule, which arose by chance. It's funny how in Star Trek Spock's Dad got it on with an Earth lady and impregnated her, when in reality they would be completely incompatible. The dirty logical bassa.

Oooooh. Hello pot.

A day out at the stadeyem of Light.

This has to be a euphemism for incest if ever I heard one.

We'll see this everywhere, incxluding here.

Was he trying to go compare her breasts? Anyway, how the fuck does he qualify as a celebrity? It's fucking absurd.

Sounds great. And.....

Okay.

Especially given our next league fixtures.

It's got these vibes about it.

I was watching SSN yesterday when the reporter was at the ground and even after they had just gone 2-1 up you could hear a pin drop, against a backdrop canvas of empty pink seats. Must be the worst atmosphere in the league. Normally that's reflected in their results which they lose more at home than away but this season they're unbeaten at home I think. No excuses. They're always pissing and moaning about one thing or another on the SMB. Luke Onion is shit again etc. Long may it continue.

Farage increasingly sounds more moderate than Badenoch too.

Jesus Christ, a subscription to the FT costs £665 a year!

I mean yeah, things are far, far worse than I ever predicted they would be but drag me into this? What's your point? It's kind of well accepted by most political commentators that Trump and his henchman Musk are genuinely not keen on Starmer as one of the sole remaining left leaning governments in the western hemisphere, having already ousted Trudeau, but crack on ad homming. 👍

He'll never be released, it would be too dangerous apart from everything else. He'll spend his life in solitary most likely.

Stalking Pickford again Alex?

You think that's bad? @Christmas Tree 's gaff is up for sale and you should see what he's put in his conservatory. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/153981260

Maybe. Although we conceded that many at home last week. I said then though Bournemouth are a bigger threat than Forest.

Not really, the traitor knows if they vote to end and the other two don't they are outed. So they vote to continue, and on it goes. And everyone knows the less people the more they pocket. Ultimately what you want for a suspenseful ending is TFF in the last 3 like last year. The seer doesn't help in a help in achieving this imo. To continue being interesting the production team also has to be careful in who they enrol. I think they did an okay job this year as before (save for Leanne who I really did not like), I just hope it doesn't descend into the usual Love Island crap.