Renton
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3 minutes ago, Rayvin said:
What I can't get my head around is why Tesla are still putting up with this... isn't he meant to be their CEO? What kind of a look is this. How many of the pro-electric car/environmentalist individuals are in line with his current worldview? I don't really understand how the ground hasn't collapsed beneath his feet yet.
Dunno. He's got a 13% share which is not insignifcant I guess. I think the ground will collapse around him soon enough, it's impossible to function long-term the way he is.
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Just now, Rayvin said:
I honestly think he has far less support here than he imagines he does.
He's clearly off his tits on drugs. Even Trump is not this bad. I think Trump needs to jettison him which, according to Scaramucci, he already has.
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28 minutes ago, Rayvin said:
Brace yourselves, apparently the yanks are coming to "liberate" us
Be interesting to know how many of the usual right wing suspects are happy with this. "He's only asking questions" is my guess.
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48 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:
Just wait until this approach crosses over in to your dress sense.
My kids refuse to go out with me since the kilt and Crocs debacle…It wasn't the kilt per se mate, more your insistence to truly embrace your PL roots and go commando.
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1 hour ago, wykikitoon said:
It's quite interesting for someone who hasn't a clue about it. It's also fucking scary.
How pharma companies can use a tax loophole by sending pharma stuff to poorer countries. So pre covid a big US company sent fake tits to Zambia so they could avoid tax as that wad classed as giving to a poor country.
There was one hedge fund manager not making enough brass so he started a pharma company. Bought the patent to a drug and then tried charging the NHS a mark up of 600% on the drug.
It's fucking bonkers what can be allowed. Thankfully the UK is in a better place compared to the US and some other European countries.
I'm in consultancy. Can't say too much but we had a client approach us who basically were trying to sell a generic antiseptic you can buy in Tesco to the NHS for thousands of pounds a dose. I just laughed. No way are you getting away with that shit here. The States though is more the wild West - not for regulation but for payment and compensation.
When I joined here, 3 years ago, my boss pretty quickly sold us as a going concern to an American company, which as I've mentioned I pretty much hate working for. Got millions for it. Mansion in London, villa in France. He must have had a clause that he couldn't start another company for 2 years. Now that's passed, he's started a phoenix company and nicked half our staff. Cheeky bastard.
Pretty sure this shit happens in every industry though.
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9 hours ago, wykikitoon said:
@Renton have you read Pharmanomics?
No. Sounds either that would be a bus man's holiday to me or an annoying polemic by a guardianista journo with no qualifications or real knowledge of the subject. It's very complicated. It costs minimum of a billion pounds to develop a drug with no guarantee of return. Some of them are used only in a handful of patients.
Pharma exists within the capitalist paradigm, no shit Pharma companies want to make money. I'm always puzzled while they're singled out. I mean, the forward to that book, he uses covid vaccination as an example of their negative impact on the world. I mean, what? The vaccines literally saved millions of lives and allowed us to get out of lock down. So companies made money out of it? How awful, they shouldn't have bothered.
Not that I don't see bad practice in my industry, I do. But it's still probably the most heavily regulated industry on the planet, along with air travel, nuclear etc. RFK jnr may change this, we'll see, but it won't be for the better.
I did read Ben Goldacre's book, Bad Pharma, a couple of decades ago. He's a good writer and a qualified doctor. I still found parts of this hyperbolic though. That's the problem with writing a polemic, you cherry pick data to prove your narrative, which in this case is highly ironic.
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1 hour ago, PaddockLad said:
Is he doing this sort of thing to drive up engagement on the cunt app? Is he sat there watching the advertising revenues skyrocket?…Naah. Twitter is an irrelevant money stream for him. He made more in the election than X is worth. His revenue is from Space X and Tesla. Musk is literally like a teenager incel troll nowadays. Off his tits on ketamine, coke, hallucinogenics. Chronic insomnia, desperately unhappy randomly trolling people.
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It's funny when they get close ups of this mackem crowd. They're sat there in silence looking miserable as sin. I mean they're winning at home on a real promotion push and still not happy. If they do get promoted they'll get pumped without fail every single week, then what?
I'd hate to be a mackem forced to watch this shit.
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20 minutes ago, Gemmill said:
Get in. This puts Everton 17th, below Ipswich. They've only won 3 games all season, only Southampton have won fewer.
All 3 promoted sides are a better watch than Everton. They at least try to play football. Everton are basically stopping up because time served means they have a better squad on average than anyone coming up from the Championship.
The way they play is Dyche's preferred form of football. Can you imagine getting into management to deliver that vision?
Anyway. Fuck Everton. The dream lives.
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Christ, I'm watching the Sunderland match while I'm waiting for the Liverpool ManU one. Fucking hell the speed, quality and atmosphere are dismal.
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9 minutes ago, Sonatine said:
Well, that friendship didn't last long. Who'da thunk that Musk would turn out to be a cunt to absolutely everyone?
This is hilarious. He was just sticking up for his buddy on LK a few hours ago, saying how they are going to hang out at the Trump inauguration, and now Musk has publicly humiliated him.
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Aye, the 6th of January, the Epithany, is the last day of Christmas. Leave your decorations after that and you have to leave them up all year.
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14 minutes ago, Gemmill said:
You're a day late on your decorations, I'm afraid. That's a year of bad luck coming your way.
Eh? A day early if anything
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Taking down the decorations, wandered into the living room and Mrs Rents is watching Kuenssberg with Farage being interviewed on iPlayer. What an absolute loathsome piece of shit he is. Hey, he's not accusing Starmer of anything, he's just asking questions. Oh, and Trump's literally a hero in his words.
How fucking thick do you need to be taken in by him? He deflects every question, poorly imo, but LK isn't tough enough. He's also so obsequious to Musk and Trump. Says we don't need to fear tariffs from the US, we just need to cut all ties with Europe. He's a transparent literal traitor. Oh, and weaponising child rape to promote racism. Yet he's gaining traction even amongst the young apparently.
I know I should have just turned and walked out the room but it's like that philosophy thing of does a tree make a noise when it falls if there's nobody there to hear it? Well yes, it does. And sticking your head in the sand isn't going to stop you getting fucked over down the line. Ignorance is rarely bliss in the long-term. I expect politics to get very ugly these coming years, worse than ever before.
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16 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:
He tried to get his arms down, but last night watching MOTD it looks like it hits his chest first and then onto his shoulder. So not a hand ball.
Very much looked like it hit his chest first to me too. Not sure why this wasn't mentioned by any pundit.
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10 hours ago, Gemmill said:
What did you leave for then, you incurably argumentative cunt?
Users are the lifeblood of any social media site. The fewer there are, the less interesting that site becomes, which causes others to drift away.
The fewer users, the fewer eyeballs to look at advertising, which cause ad revenues to go down etc.
People leaving twitter reduces twitter's viability.
I had like 6 followers, probably all bots, never checked. A lot of these journalists have 10s of thousands of followers they actively communicate with which has taken years to foster. I can see why its harder for them, that's all. I'm not going to condemn someone who is part dependant on the platform for their livelihood.
The money involved is utterly irrelevant to him. He can still direct the right wing crowd who are not leaving. He'll just have fewer targets to troll, which is something at least.
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Do what we did 2 years ago in the league at this time of year, the time Arteta's lwgo top head blew off. With Botman back we've got nearly all that team and some extras.
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15 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:
I just don't fancy us down there especially after this particular run of games, we've done brilliantly but I think it might be a game too far. Obviously hope Eddie and the players make me eat my words and it's not a criticism of them, they've done great.
A Bridge too fucking far? If we're using WW2 inspired metaphors, how about you think of your avatar and get into the spirit of the Guns of Navarone?
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26 minutes ago, Alex said:
It’s quite an ambiguous statement anyway, so it’s not like repeating it several times clarified anything. I don’t know why he just didn’t say he thought they’d created enough to win. I don’t think that’s true and we shaded it in terms of xG. But he just comes across likes he’s trying to con people into thinking Spurs were hard done to.
Feel a bit sorry for him as he seems alright but his style of play has seen him found out a bit.I think he's gone all mackem and insinuating the Saudis somehow bribed the officials. He can't say that without censure though obviously. He's reminding me of Klopp. Fine when he's doing well, a complete dickhead when he isn't.
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1 hour ago, Howmanheyman said:
We're running on empty a bit as the games bunch up and three aways on the bounce in quick succession will probably do for us at arsenal, a tough game will be just that bit tougher, can only see a comfortable win for these especially with Bruno out. 2-0 to them, maybe 3-0.
Howay man, let's not make excuses. Arsenal are the same but have Europe to contend with too. And Saka is injured isn't he? As well as Sterling who often seems to score against us. We want it more than them. A draw or narrow win to them imo. We've got this blad!
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20 minutes ago, Toonpack said:
Can't change even if we were to lose IMO, it's only the first leg, so technically we're not yet beaten at that point.
Good point, let me check the small print here.
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5 minutes ago, OTF said:
Copium supplies in Sunderland are at an all time low.
Ruined their football weekend 24 hours before they kick off.
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6 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:
You couldn't argue if he did?
Someone could.
Usual mackem bullshit bingo over there. The PL is shite, we've bribed the officials, they could beat Spurs, Jobe Bellingham is worth £200 million etc.
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2 minutes ago, toonotl said:
Ange dresses like a homeless man who found a suit and tie in a dumpster.
He'll be on the bucky with Tuchel tonight. The state of them.
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