Sean

Just as well governments cut back on insulation and green spending as soon as they could after the Ukraine shock

I thought someone else might have fired first...? Does begin with I, can't place the rest

Most of the people here involved in the period would be remembered more fondly if they shut up. Orta and Radrizanni did get us up, bring Bielsa to the club, sign Raphinha. Some of the failures were mistakes, some of it was just needing more money we didn't have

We signed loads, including a record fee striker. But buying players, especially that many can easily go wrong and you will never get 100% hit rate. Could have happened this season too, and looked like it might be for a bit.
Radizzani's failure was not using the world cup break to switch manager.

I am sure that asterisk would be really important when they qualify for the Euros through the Nations League route, or qualify to play higher profile teams.

If Ireland don't play the matches, they forfeit the matches giving Israel two 3-0 wins and 6 points, and make it easier for them to qualify to play on a bigger stage.

This surely seems counterproductive?

I am really sceptical of maximalist claims but there is a decent shot that it shakes up things the way that the introduction of web did.
Work shuffled and changed but we are not short of it. It might well create more inequality, but that's as much a political problem which we could chose to fix.

Thinking those sorts of gains can't be applied to creative industries seems naive, especially as there is a lot of software already used in those processes. Tech also has a pretty good record of reducing costs and you can already see the start of that in Chinese models that use less powerful chips.

This is luddite and it's endemic among writers/artists on Bluesky. AI doesn't need to reach the maximalist claims of AI companies to meaningfully reduce human labour. That process has already started; I wouldn't trust AI coding tools to do production grade work yet, but they can speed things up.

They have shown all season they have lapses of concentration in them - home and away. That’s the difference between pushing for Europe and relegation fight at this level.
Team and some of the players can improve. But we need to strengthen squad and turnover some players.

I don't think it's just strength in depth, I think we've always got a mistake or drop of concentration in us, home or away.
Positive take is that if we stay up and improve in the squad in the summer and maybe something special is possible

Our poor away form or at least points total... the optimistic take is if you stay up and strengthen and start converting away draws into wins, you could do something special

Would have bit your hand off at the start, but this team always has a mistake or loss of concentration in them.

Where would we be if the away form was anywhere near the home form?

How incredibly extreme the Reform policy is obscures how very extreme the current government policy is.

It's a difference of degree, not kind. Debating it on a forward basis is fine, or maybe within a strictly limited timeframe (say 6 months). But this is different. Thought experiment is: suppose a person is one day from achieving status when this is bought in. Is it very different to one day after?

Expectations of the amount of time parents spend with their kids has also steadily increased, so parents are getting pulled on both ends.
Kids are brilliant. But it is intensive, especially when they are young.

The consequences of lower vaccination rates are so dire, I am not actually sure we should respect parental choice in this matter, at least without making the consequences of that choice more immediately painful.

Ah. That type of tech bullshitting greatly predates AI and has several separate species of sociopath.

The "hire a philosopher to muse on consciousness of software" is new, though

AI is more existential to coding and technical roles as nearly anywhere else. "Will AI take my job and what does my job look like?" is every other video and blog.
It's a tool that already does some things well. Open mind, no hype seems best. Work usually expands if some parts get easier

I think this post suggests you don't really grasp what writing software entails. It's fundamentally a communication exercise and there are entire roles dedicated to just interacting with people to try and figure out what they want. Even technical roles have to have huge context.

No. There's no glory in coming 16th in the Premier League. To say it is a distraction to concede we can't win the cup. We could.
Plus don't believe losing any matc helps the team. Just keep good runs going

I think you are greatly overestimating the Lib Dems

There's a bit plodding and uninspiring and there is this.

Alienating every part of your own base is quite the achievement

I can't help feel Labour are writing their own suicide note here. They were specifically elected on a platform not to be boring and not do this stuff. A competent government navigates a crisis without losing the PM.
UK politics since Brexit has been eating itself at every opportunity.

The winning strategy for a Prisoner's Dilemma played repeatedly is tit for tat with forgiveness. Continually accepting defeat is, uh, suboptimal.

The media bleating to "move on" if the Democrats win in 2026 & 2028 is going to be something to behold. Anyone minded needs purged now.

West Ham have Man Ewe, on an annoying run of form, Fulham, and Liverpool in the next 3 and still have Arsenal, Man City and Newcastle. Last week showed they are brittle, could very easily turn.

My only desire is for it not to be us or them on the last day.

Thank god we won last night. All we have to do is keep our noses ahead.

Even a couple of points out of those games keeps us ticking over. West Ham's run over the same period isn't actually must kinder and they need to win. We just need to match whatever they do.
That's why the win last night was important. Just being ahead is a huge advantage.

Team has too many mistakes in them even when playing well. So many late dropped points. Newcastle still irks. That said if we'd beat Forest and Burnley away, we'd be safe too.

I think we're gonna be okay but we need to up the level in the summer.

As someone points out above, actors might be highly leveraged which will multiply the effect. Probably not systemic on its own, but if tech stocks also go through a dot com style bust too? Those are basically propping us the US economy 😬