That is also true. I can see the point in having rules to ensure clubs don’t bankcrupt themselves. But a club who has infinite money isn’t allowed to spend it?

Football fans don’t seem to understand that the top level has always been about who has the most money. It’s never been fair.

If we were serious about fair competition we’d be doing things like salary caps and limiting transfer budgets. Banning gambling advertisments and forcing clubs to support the grassroots level.

The state of football mirrors the state of the world. Owned by the rich, extremely corrupt and unable to be fixed without systemic change.

It’s all a bit of a nonsense because those FFP rules were brought in specifically to stop City from challenging the historically successful clubs. They didn’t want a repeat of Chelsea.

The amount of money and corruption in football right now is abhorrent. Punishing 1 club will not fix the rot that had taken hold of the game. The EPL has never been clean. If you wanna watch football, support your local team.

Quit.

seriously if these models have some form of sentience

They don’t. They’re inanimate objects. You can’t torture a rock.

Lol the chuff chuff noises add to the experience. Pull the steam whistle when you climax for maximum enjoyment!

People will always need welfare. The article says they giving an £100 million boost to apprenticeship schemes. Nothing about higher wages. The previous government wanted to cut welfare by £5 billion.

This is a bad decision. Everyone is still obsessed with growth. We cannot grow the economy to fix our issues, it doesn’t work like that anymore.

I’m all for lifting people up but forcing people to work by cutting their support does not acheive that.

Indeed! I wonder how the world would look now if the USSR won the cold war and didn’t collapse.

I believe you need a custom ROM to run microG. Something like GrapheneOS, LineageOS, PostmarketOS, etc. Unfortunately my phone is too new and isn’t supported by any of them so haven’t been able to test it. Yet!

Yeah the debloater has an option to restore what you remove! I’d make take some pictures of the exact names of things just to be safe.

Look at Universal Andriod Debloater. Makes it very easy to remove whatever you want.

Your banking apps may not work if you remove Google Play services but i’ve found i can just log in through the browser instead.

Not as convenient but it feels good knowing Google can’t have any of your data.

Let me know if you have any questions about UAD!

Truly. I am keen to rejoin the EU but maybe it can wait if Blair’s backing it.

Anything to get in power eh?

Vibe coding means giving an LLM access to the entire repository and blindly accepting the very large pull requests it makes after you tell it what you want.

That is an insane way to do development and any company who does it will suffer.

What is becoming normal is AI assisted programming. The developer retains understanding of the codebase and uses an LLM to generate small boilerplate sections because it’s quicker than writing everything by hand.

Using LLMs to write code is perfectly acceptable as long as there is a human understands exactly what the code does. Do not give agency to the AI and you’ll be fine. Let it make decisions for you and you’ll be out of the job pretty quickly.

Oof yeah that is quite dense! I do get your point about how we actually bring about change. You’ve given me a lot to think about! I want to thank you for the convo. I hope our paths cross again :)

Thanks for the links, very interesting! I’m still not quite understanding how advocating for kindness is idealism. Is believing in free will idealism?

I agree with most of materialism but this principle throws me off

The world and its laws are knowable, and while much in the material world may not be known there is no unknowable sphere of reality which lies outside the material world.

Quantum mechanics does not allow for a knowable world. What happens inside the event horizon of a black hole is surely unknowable?

I wouldn’t say that. Kindness can be an idea. But it can also be a real physical action. While it would be idealistic to say that all of our problems would be solved if everyone was nicer to each other. It would be materialistic to incorporate kindness into your everyday actions.

Ah I think this is where we differ. For me, it is primary. I endevour to treat everyone with kindness and respect because i genuinely do believe it makes the world a better place.

Absolutely no shade for your position though. You are free to act as you choose!

Hatred begets hatred. Kindness begets kindness. Of course i would agree that to overthrow imperialism we need to do far more than just be nice to each other. But i do believe it is important to keep kindess in your thoughts whenever you choose an action.

I think it’s a necessary part of the equation. Kindess now and always. Are you not driven by kindness? To fight for the end of imperialsim and equality for all people is a kind thing to do in my eyes.

That kindness exists here and now. Kindness will change the world ;)

I would argue it does. We live in a world consumed by hatred. It has been created on purpose by big tech companies, media conglomerates and their billionaire owners. It’s so bad that some people are convinced that helping each other is wrong.

Advocating kindess is fighting back against oppression. Only love can conquer hate. I agree that human behaviour depends on material conditions and we can all have better conditions if we work together. In order to work together, kindness must be present.