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Figured it was just a typo. Mentioned it cuz it confused me enough at first that I looked up their season average.

And yet it's not the way they go now. But I'm not sure the 'boot room' model is replicable. More a one-off, I suspect.

typo, i'm hungover as shit.

^20 points.

14. Not an animal - but an animal is a character, so you've wasted a question 15. Yes, it is a book or a scroll

Watched Poor Things finally. Not sure what to think about this. I liked the visuals and the, I think steam punk / Island of Dr. Moreau is my feel to the world. Some good performances. Just a strange movie that takes you through a lifetime of experiences, learning, growing mentally, in a matter of months or a year I guess for Bella. Strangely enough for a movie with a lot of sex and nudity, it never felt like it? IDK, I am glad I saw it but can't think of any reason I would watch it again.

The repeated success they had with the 'boot room' in 70s and 80s makes me wonder why more clubs don't follow this structure. Shankly>Paisley>Fagin>Dalgleish was a pretty good run.

Liverpool will face a post-Klopp world soon enough. It's not an easy gig to succeed him. It took Arsenal a while to find a satisfactory post-Wenger manager (who had overstayed his welcome). United still haven't found their post-Ferguson guy (admittedly United is just dyfunctional on so many levels, and Liverpool look like they at least have managed to put a presumably more functional structure in place).

Could you imagine having him as your manager, the success he's had with the resources he's had, thinking you know better than the best manager in the world and complaining about him. Madness. I'd give Liverpool Howe, Isak and Bruno for a 5 year Klopp contract. Imagine what he could do with Saudi money, Pep would be shitting himself.

Shit, I've got to stop drunk posting, I'm not changing my position, but my spelling and grammar has taken me ages to correct this morning and I'm not even half finished. I've got a meeting in 10 mins so if you find anymore gibberish and/or gobbledegook i need to correct, please PM me.

True.

So far it is all set-up. Much like the micro-clues that set up the red wedding: As we now know the signs of the Frey-Bolton scheme were all there, but very subtle. So if I am wrong we will know when Winds comes out, but if I am right, the family connections and history element is going to all come to the fore all at once everywhere. GRRM is not going to do it in one place first and then give away what he has planned for other regions. So while other people think I am wasting my time looking at the histories and the names and trying to connect the dots as best I can, I kind of think that it is one of the best paths for theory making that we have available while we wait. My strongest hunch of all though is that LF believes that first Catelyn then Sansa was/is his key to power because of their lineage, and this is precisely why GRRM has concealed the Tully family tree.

Still a good job keeping Boston 30 points below their season average.

Face scanning is problematic because you show your face a heck of a lot more than your passport, your name or other ID. With face scanning at airports, you now have a way to link entry and exit to faces scanned in protests, entering and exiting buildings, etc. Without the face itself being the ID at airports, you need to do the additional work of connecting those faces swept up during surveillance to a name, then matching that name to the person at the airport. Not impossible to do, but it's a roadblock to a smooth, centralized way to log all your movements in a single database with a single type of ID. Add atop this the serious ways face ID can fuck up, and the ways those fuckups are worse for people of color because facial recognition models tend to be heavily weighted in their training data to white people, as do camera color balance algorithms, and you're left with a system that will make life harder for a larger fraction of people. I really don't understand all the snippy back and forth about this. ETA: and this is linked to using AI for war. Drones targeting based on face recognition is already a thing. And as a brown person with a beard, I don't fancy being bombed because some dipshit AI thinks I look like a terrorist.

Hopefully, but him being approached at all doesn't bode well for my impression of the filmmaker's idea of the book. If only Stellan Skarsgard was younger... More bulk and height, he's perfect

Do you have any specific ideas about which of these similar names will reveal a hidden connection between families that has some effect on the story?? Are there any places in the story so far where this has already happened?

At least you can't fall in love with something only to discover that the creator is a horrible person later. That's the one advantage of AI created content I see.

Hitting 23/43 3s will do that. Ofc if they keep doing that they’ll win the series but that’s fairly unlikely.

Nobody here. And those people are fucking idiots.

I've seen people flipping shit about trans women participating in a literal fun run, they've attempted to ban or have banned trans kids from playing on their high school teams which is pretty much the only place a teenager can expect to be able to regularly play sports. What the fuck are you talking about?

Didn't think of you as traditionalist, with me ending up in the modernist camp arguing, the message is whatever you see in it.

The difference in performance in darts and chess are almost certainly environmental, with cue sports there could be a very very small advantage (size and cue power), not enough for me to think it should be legislated against. Nobody has said they can't play sports for the joy as far as I can tell.

The analysis feels a bit like grabbing in the dark but I do think you are probably on to something in noticing the wormy apple reference. The question is, what exactly, right? I will have a think. One thing that does stand out to me is that it landed at the feet of Armen. We know next to nothing about Armen the acolyte, except his name. But that name is one that appeara only one other time in the histories, and that is Armen Peake. So this Armen might well be a Peake as well, or at least a descendant by the female line. House Peake is a suspected Marcher Lord house, so definitely candidates for having been pushed into a peacemaking match with House Dayne during the period of Dornish integration. We might be getting a hint that Darkstar has friends and allies in House Peake. We are also talking about an apple here, wormy or not, which could be a reference to the Fossoways in and of itself, regardless of where the other part of this particular apple landed. I am wondering if we are meant to think of the expression about apples not falling far from the tree as well, if indeed this wormy apple thing is a reference to lineage.

Well, GRRM also thought he could deliver it before Season 5 (or was it 6?) of the TV adaption. We all know how that worked out. To be clear, he is entitled to work at his own pace and finish/deliver books as he sees fit, and better shelve it for a year than deliver a bad book. However, that doesn't mean this being the year the book gets published shouldn't be treated as a running gag. Sidenote. Him finishing A Dream of Spring before his 90th birthday gets odds of greater or lower than 1/10.

I've seen people calling for trans women to be banned from chess, darts, and fucking pool. Which suggests to me the "reasonable concerns" are just a cover for a bunch of bigots. Sometimes you need to look at who is using the same argument you are, and maybe just stop. To use a hopefully uncontroversial example, Anita Sarkessian's media analysis was shallow, boring, feminism 101 crap. But she also had a bunch of Nazis hounding her, so I could leave that alone so as not to hurt someone already going through hell. But hey, if fairness is so important that you're crying over some skateboarder who got 17th instead of 16th but was also beaten by an 11 year old maybe spare a thought for the runner who's only ever had a dirt track who has to compete against someone who trains in a billion dollar facility, or the athlete who has to work 2 jobs to afford to travel to competitions competing against someone who was selected by their country at 12 and has had to focus on nothing but their sport since. Realize sports aren't fair, fairness isn't actually a god damn concern, and maybe that should be a focus before we decide that the most important thing in the world is to take joy away from some of the most vulnerable people on the planet.