Wasn't he reported to have brain damage at the time , which would have been an explanation for his action? If that's the case then it's a really sad story.
What smartwatch/app combinations do people use to keep up with scores etc when they are unable to use their phone.
(I have a Xiaomi android device.)
My job now requires me to work during hours when my club are playing. Every. Single. Game. I'm not permitted to look at my phone outside of breaks, although I can carry it in my pocket.
Smartwatches and smartwatch operating systems seem to be very, very hit and miss when it comes to apps for football.
I'm in the market for a smartwatch, but there seems to be very little info out there on what apps would work well and give me goal notifications etc.
How come the NDR, who should have loads of money from the license fees, is so afraid of having to host the Eurovision Song Contest, they normally sent boring entries?
I am as surprised as you! After the jury votes were in I was ready for another year of being disappointed but the public vote really came through.
What was your favourite song of the finalists?
The winning song probably, although I ironically enjoyed Ikke Hüftgold a lot, purely because the song had a very knowing wink to the audience.
Then again I'm entirely unsure about whether sending a song that's either good or memorable is the right call, really: not like anyone wants to win the thing.
Planning a trip to Southeast Asia with my friends but our availability is August.
I think I’ll be swept away in a Vietnamese monsoon in the near future
Feels like i've gotten pretty good at flirting but I have no idea how to get to the end goal from here, it just tension that gets lost into oblivion lol
Anyone else get a sense of unbridled joy when playing football? I'm sad all week, I don't even know why I'm sad. I started to lose enthusiasm for most of the things I usually would like to do. I don't want to hang out with my friends, I don't want to read a book, I don't want to go to the gym, I don't want to get pizza and a beer. But at least one evening per week, I join in with a local pickup group in a nearby park. I'm dribbling and passing and scrambling for my life to run back on defense every time I lose the ball, and I'm happy. I have almost no skill and even less stamina, but for those two hours I'm happier than Pep on a new year.
Yeah, it's the secret sauce: being fully immersed in the moment, can't really think about anything else when playing football. Seek out the things that get you into that state of mind, it's remarkably valuable!
Because NBC thought they could carry the show without him. It's like a ship that embarked to their destination without their long term captain and handed over the captain's role to a drunken sailor.
Because it was a huge hit and everyone wanted to keep making money. Maybe it should have ended, there’s a lot I don’t like about Season 8 & 9, but there’s a lot I do.
Terrible week, been sick all time, broke and depressed... but I just won the new Sons of the Forest video game in a random giveaway, so that's something! The original Forest was/is one of my all time favourites, can't wait to play the new one. I had even no idea a sequel was coming until this week!
I’m skiing this weekend for the first time. I had a 2 hour lesson this morning and after was immediately taken on a red slope. It’s now midnight and I’m trying to get as battered as possible to numb the pain. Good day all in all.
Being a human is so funny, I started an internship a couple months ago and everything's been pretty good except for the fact that sometimes I have literally nothing to do and I'd feel guilty about doing nothing even though my boss would tell me that he'd let me know if there was anything I could help out with, well today I finally started working on a new project that actually occupies my time and is fullfilling but at the same time I already miss being lazy
The job I'm currently at just lets me leave or play football manager as long as my reports go out when they're meant to go out.
Sometimes people ask about my save. Trying to get people into Scottish football but nobodies biting.
Next week I'll have the final interview to get chosen for a mission at my new company. It's basically my dream job from what was presented to me, it's an Airflow/GCP/Looker/Python, and I'm only familiar with/good at Python among those, but I've worked with SSIS/Power BI so I think I can easily transition.
Any of you guys worked with those ? Any tips to make a good impression ?
The clothes scene in Im Westen nichts Neues, was done exceptionally well. The perspective on the massive war machine and the disregard of human life was very well put together in one scene.
It really made me want to listen to the Blueprint to Armageddon podcast of Dan Carlin again. Also a masterpiece.
Had a pretty busy week and only now have the time to see the MotD tribute to John Motson. Made me a bit melancholic. What a life the man must’ve had. I hope I can eventually put so much pride and joy into my profession.
Be yourself, be as best as you can be in whatever what gives you joy!
How far do you think AI might go? Personally I think it could dramatically shape entertainment in the future, especially once moving pictures in good quality can be created. Maybe technology will even allow devices to read our minds, someday in the future, so we could actually see our thoughts and ideas becoming reality within split-second. Though that arguably is perhaps too far away into the future for now.
But of course AI needs to be fed with data and those, who already control a large amount of data, can profit the most. Artists could also be fucked over, though I think there will still be a market for human art in the future.
I think the next big step is reasoning - we're not quite there yet, and without it it's little more than a tool among many.
You can get it to do all sorts of things already, but the key point is that it's all based on what people might've done and said beforehand, rather than AI figuring things out on its own. It's essentially based on paths well trodden rather than forging new ones, and as long as that's the case it'll inevitably be flawed and inferior to human reasoning. Once we manage to get it past that, though? Fuck knows how the world will look - worst case it's gonna be artificial intelligence we can't understand, much less control, and presumably employed to extract the most monetary value out of whatever it encounters, consequences be damned.
I think it will replace half of the jobs in the world, like machinery did in the past. Sadly I don’t think that will lead to any reduction in work that people do, like how we used to dream of UBI and not needing to work. More likely it will concentrate more wealth into a small number of people, and increase inequality.
I’d like to think that one day my house will realise I’ve made food and walked into the living room triggering my TV to turn on and ask if I want to watch the last thing I was watching.
I’m not talking about credit cards. There’s a new barrage of fintech companies which are offering BNPL outside the traditional banking methods
These are mostly unsecure
Can't believe F1 season actually starts today (I'm a points merchant, can't be arsed to watch the practice). Feels like God deleted all sadness data from my folder. Ready to hack the nearest mosque and play Super Max five times a day from speakers. Lekker af
Is the fun in who ultimately wins it, or is the fun in the process of determining a winner?
Might well be that you're siding with the former, although then I reckon sports in general are gonna be entirely unexciting for you. If it's the latter, then this season is shaping up to be every bit as good as last season.
Depends how invested you've been beforehand. If you are a casual viewer it doesn't matter but if you are remotely interested check today's FP2 results.
I am full on Hopium right now for Nando. This train has no brakes.
As a matter of principle I completely stay away from F1 in the offseason so I have absolutely no idea about what happened in testing or practice. While I'd be happier to have a more interesting season, I'm OK with Max destroying it as well since my 13yo cousin is crazy about him. If Red Bull runs away with it I'll focus on development of other drivers. Alpine in particular looks interesting with an all-French lineup. Also F2 is always so much more fun. I work on weekends so it's not easy to catch up all the action early in the morning but I swear it's more entertaining than F1, especially if you have a bunch of favorite drivers.
[New intro's pretty good](https://youtu.be/YLFVD8xaD3U), if you go by that then K-Mag's your guy now. Or Lando. Or Leclerc coming in with the ~~Blue~~ Red Steel.
Had a dream last night that my ex had had a baby with Kanye West
She’d met him while competing in a ‘most unattractive woman’ competition in which he judged her the winner, and apparently they really hit it off
My subconscious does make me laugh sometimes
You should delegate most tasks in your first seasons while you learn the game.
Zealand is a good FM content creator, pretty much everyone swears by him. Check him out if you want to learn the game more in-depth.
Shame you started before the winter update that just dropped.
Garnacho, Licha, Shaw and Rashford all got very decent buffs. Maybe some other players too.
>I thought my save would also get updated but I guess not lol. Still not too bad.
Transfers, attribute tweaks and rule adjustments only work on a fresh save.
Match engine changes and other stuff is updated on your existing save.
>BTW what do "can still improve" and "much room to grow" mean when talking about potential? I think Garnacho got 4/5 stars potential so I guess that is World Class
Basically means his current ability is still far off his potential ability. The stars are a very vague indicator as it's basically your staff opinion mixed with his relative ability compared to the rest of your squad.
Ability/Potential is relative to your best player - as in three stars at a third division side are very different to three stars at one of the best teams in the world.
A few weeks ago my class got to put on a brunch at my Community College and a few days later one of my classmates mentioned that Adam Ragusea was there which was pretty cool. Ended up on his socials too lol
Oh ok interesting. I've been exposed to him and his show for a bit, my wife and her brother are really into it. I guess I can say I'm not the target audience for it, but I'd watch along with them when they would put it on. All I can say is the insane amount of talent and dedication they have on there is really impressive.
Where do you live if you don't mind me asking? Tilburg? To be fair I've never even come close to the Netherlands but personally speaking, having experienced the dread of Istanbul, a place that has everything to be a city yet feels like an overgrown village feels like heaven. You got pretty much everything you need without seizure-inducing, overly-commercialized and peopleized shit around. Damn.
Yeah that's the thing at the end of the day - there's a size where *enough* stuff is happening without it being overwhelming. I'm from a place that's a tad smaller than Tilburg, but I've lived in Hamburg, too. By global standards that's not even that big, but to me it felt too big - I don't think I could handle Istanbul at all, lovely as it looks.
End of the day it's about finding what's right for you, I suppose - for some people that's rural and isolated, for some that's a global megacity, and for some it might just be splitting time in between those extremes.
Living in rural Münsterland has its merits, especially being able to reach everything by bike within 5-10 minutes. But fuck me, culturally my city is really lacking, no proper clubs, only a few decent bars. I wish my city was just a bit more like Köln. :(
Nevermind all the Catholics, eh?
I'm about 170km or so north of you, but in the city that everyone from the rural areas around it comes to - so I'm getting the best of both worlds: small enough to get around quickly and it feeling reasonably calm, big enough to get a decent cultural scene and it feeling lively.
Boom baby! Congratulations, you're about to do some real mad epic amazing beautiful shit. We got a 4 month old boy and it's been a trip.
My main bit of advice is to learn how all the stuff works now before you need it. How does your steriliser work? Do you have enough bottles? Is your changing mat set up? Are you gonna use warm water and cotton wool, or baby wipes, or both? Do you have enough food and snacks in the house? Do you have formula? Do you know how to make it?
There's a million things but you literally can't over prepare.
You're main job is being there for your wife now too (you prob have been doing this the last 6 months anyway!) But this is the real thing man. She's gonna be so preoccupied that you need to make sure the only thing she needs to worry about is yeeting this bubba out of her.
Any questions please let me know man and you got this you're gonna be an incredible dad.
Breathe. You'll do just fine - the secret sauce is that nobody ever knows how to handle their first kid, and yet it's gone well enough for thousands of years. Don't strive for perfection, just do the best you can in the moment, cause that's all you can do. Also kids are surprisingly good at guiding you towards what's good for them, so leave some space for that rather than focusing on expectations. If the weeun is gonna be a bit shit at sleeping, then so be it - you'll want them to sleep all night, but they're not gonna be ready for it just yet, so keep calm, take a breath, and then be there for them through it as much as you might detest it in the moment.
I just realized F1 starts this weekend. I love auto racing, but I caught myself not caring about it as I used to. Maybe because I don't want to see a sport dominated by a company I absolutely hate, due to what they do with football. Maybe because Sky's coverage in Germany is mediocre at best. Maybe because F1 moves away further and further from its european roots. I just don't care that much. But maybe that changes, when the green lights are on.
Though I think I'll definitely watch Le Mans again this year. Plenty of manufacturer involvement, new and exciting cars and endurance racing is generally fun, but a bit tough to watch.
Personally I wish DTM with pre-GT3 rules was still around. They just got the formula right after years of boring racing. And then Mercedes and Audi had to pull out. :(
Can't believe it's been a year since Shane Warne passed. Still remember exactly where I was when I found out, one of the few celebrity deaths to really move me
Slowly getting into micro-tonal music. It's weird because if I had to put words on why I enjoy it, it feels like it's so un-'casual listening' friendly that it wraps all the way around to becoming enjoyable because it makes you lean in and look for the oddly nice intervals that sound good even though you've never really heard them, almost like you enjoy it because it makes you feel like you've earned it by understanding the nice parts about it.
I have my UPD this weekend and I’m super excited.
For those who don’t know, UPD (Ultimo Primer Día) is a tradition in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay (I think) where the students in their last year get together the night before the first day of school and get drunk as fuck, before walking to school the next morning. It’s great.
You get wasted as fuck on a Sunday or Tuesday night and spend the whole next day miserable. You make best friends with the guy who always pissed you off. You make out with the girl you never really noticed, and never talk to her again.
Everybody goes crazy this one last time before you go back to the final year of monotony in high school. Absolutely fantastic tradition.
Love discovering new (for me) music. This week I’ve listened to a lot of
E^ ST
Teenage Joans
Meg Mac
Jack River
Sunny Day service
Surfaces
Also the new chvrches song “over” is a banger
Made "do laps in the pool for about an hour" my Friday afternoon ritual for a couple weeks now. Fun being there the same day/same time every week cause you see mostly the same people there every time.
One of them is this wee East Asian woman, and I swear to god I've never seen anyone more elegant in the water. She's just casually doing her front crawl and drills, but there's no splash at all, and she never looks like she's doing anything more intense than a leisurely stroll while absolutely gliding through the water either - just pure technical excellence. Even dived the entire length of the pool a couple times today, meanwhile I'm there in the same lane struggling through my "all power, no technique" breaststroke being really envious.
For the first time in my life there is a girl who has shown signs or hints of possible romantic interest towards me.
I am very behind in this area of life compared to most others my age and am as clueless as Vinicius playing against Araujo in this field of life, so I'm afraid I'll mess it all up.
Do you know them from in real life or met them online? My advice is just try and make a move sooner rather than later. Cuz girls lose interest quickly from what I’ve experienced (especially nowadays when they have so many options through the internet) so you gotta apply pressure and make a move while you can. Otherwise they could lose interest and move on. So just decide if you wanna make a move and if so, don’t wait too long to do it
She's a classmate of mine. You're probably right. I do get the feeling she wants me to make the first direct move. I do have some liking of her but am not really sure I'm ready for an actual relationship. I used to laugh at it but now I'm understanding why people say these kind of feelings can be complicated.
If she’s ur classmate just be careful because if it doesn’t work out or she says she’s not interested, than you’re gonna have to see her all the time and it’ll be awkward. So try to make sure that she actually does like you for sure before you make a move
The Turkish opposition imploded today. Even when a sure thing victory is almost guaranteed, they still manage to fuck up and play into the hand of Erdogan. I feel so bad for the people who have to live with this shit.
Does anyone know of a table that shows UK clubs and how high and low they have been promoted/relegated? Interested to see what club has done from really low to high, or vice versa.
Unsolicited parenting fact number 2: babies don't have tear ducts when they're fresh out so they'll be crying away and bam one day they're bawling sopping great tears out of nowhere. That was a bit of a shocker.
I'd say it is the byproduct of American involvement and Drive to Survive. I never remember people caring about who watches F1 back in the day but it has become a big thing for some reason in recent years.
I feel like the current Australian cricket team is insanely good and severley underrated.
They have Smith the goat human batter, Laubaschsgne who insane and smith 2.0, khwaja who I think has been the best batter in the world this year, Travis head who is insanely good and provides a different type of batting and then a bowling line up of Lyon, Starc, Cummins and Hazelwood plus Cameron Green as well.
The only thing they are missing is finding someone to replace Warner, and I'm not really sure how much I rate Carey to be honest.
The ashes are going to be absolutely blockbuster this summer. Can't wait for it to start but really nervous at the same time. Think we have a good chance to win the urn for the first time in 8 years but as you say, Australia are really good at the minute.
2025 it is i think, they come around quickly. I'm still a a bit traumatised from the last few away ashes to even think about the next one but the home ashes are always something to look forward to.
Why is my brain mush all day and then cranks it up to 11 when I'm sleeping. A co-worker was absent for the whole afternoon yesterday. In the evening when I was talking to some people, a guy being in a coma was briefly mentioned. So my brain decided to create a fucked up dream in which the co-worker was absent because her husband is in a coma. My imagination during the day is pretty limited but oh boy when I sleep.
Got some zucchini, red potatoes, and tomatoes in the produce box yesterday so today's pizza is going to be thinly sliced zucchini, potato, and tomato on a detroit style crust and maybe some caramelized onion.
What are your prospects for the future? How far are you willing to go for each other? Is it supposed to be, say, for two years, after which you have a realistic chance of coming together?
I'm personally a romantic dude when it comes to that, so to say - it's *your* relationship with her, so whatever you both believe is doable should be doable. Some other guy might not be able to stand two months without seeing his gf. Then you have examples like taking a LDR for five years before getting married. Don't listen to anyone but yourself and your partner. If you are both ready to go for it... let's fucking go. If not, let it go. Living under someone else's shadow (for a while) and feeling like a lonely loser is definitely better than chasing a dream that'll never materialize.
Not gonna say "there are other fish in the sea". Personally speaking I wouldn't change anything to my ex. Two years on I still couldn't care less about the other fish. But it is what it is. You grow with or out of it. Having everything in your hands is better than living a lie. If you are both keen on it, nothing should be able to stop you. If this is not the case, maybe you are not a good match anyway.
Handed in my notice this week at work as I am emigrating to Canada from the UK. Pretty surreal it is happening, applying for jobs though is a pain in the arse, all work on a covering letter and employers not even acknowledging it ffs.
Does anyone know of any good jobs boards for Canada? Jobbank nobody responds. In the UK we have w4mp which is like a political job board, any Canadians know of anything similar?
Depends where you're living. BC uses primarily Indeed and WorkBC, and then there's government and municipal stuff which is on their own websites.
A lot of bigger private companies will post only on their own career centre as well
Caught up on [Hello Tomorrow](https://youtu.be/NyPx64LjdJM) this week and really like it. I always feel like I'm being /r/HailCorporate but Apple has been the best streamer of the past couple years imo. Keep putting out great stuff
Tbf the streaming market is reasonably interesting - get the "throw shit at the wall" approach Netflix are taking, the "just buy anything cause it's about the big library" thing that Amazon are up to, the "just do anything in-house" thing Disney are doing, and Apple being true to their values of not doing too much but focusing on being the best for most people in their chosen niche.
Yeah Apple to me feels like they're trying to sort of rival HBO as a "prestige" channel and for me at least it's working. Not everything lands but I consistently enjoy a lot of the stuff they put out. They invest pretty big into sci-fi and speculative fiction too so if like me you enjoy that stuff it's great. I think their biggest weak point is their film library is still on the small side, it's definitely TV first.
Suppose that's the downside of that approach - hard to make very good content if you're mass-producing it, even if they could afford to. Same time though it might be an advantage in a world that's essentially drowning in content: we don't have a monoculture anymore, but them strongly curating excellent stuff rather than flooding the market with decent things more or less sets them apart in the streaming market.
That said though my tastes are remarkably basic, so while I appreciate them trying to raise the bar, I'll still end up chucking on the crime procedurals I've been watching for a literal decade now every single week, cause that's just comforting TV.
He's probably too old now for what the studio wants but he would have been my dream Reed Richards, so I'm definitely okay with him popping up in good shows every couple years.
Watching made to DVD Steven Seagal movies with a buddy drunk is a rabbit hole I didn't expect to find funny, its made like a Great Depression era's Jack Reacher lmao.
Not gonna have anyone say anything bad about Jack Reacher tbf - it's hardly highbrow, but the books, the movies and the TV show are perfectly in the dadcore window and thus right up my alley.
Nothing wrong with Reacher at all, its just that the Seagal movies are a shitty fanfic attempt at them with him being some spec ops/vigilante when he sits for 90 percent of the movie.
Also would've though the movie wouldn't be fine of you're a Reacher fan, a lot of people said Cruise was miscast as Reacher.
Tbf i think he is kind of miscast, at the same time though he's Tom Cruise, so he's really bloody good at that type of thing anyway. Feel like I'm not too hardcore on the details of a character as long as they're getting the spirit right, and I reckon there's few who could do that better than Cruise, even if he's hardly matching the physical description. Chuck him into any action role and he'll smash it with his charisma, I reckon, and it works just fine for the Reacher interpretation of the movies if you're not a traditionalist I suppose.
is there a subreddit where you can post ''best saves'' or ''top 10 goals of some player''?
/r/classicsoccer maybe?
thanks
sleep or refresh DD every 2 mins? hnmmmmmmmm
Was never an f1 fan before and drive to survive drew me in, followed sparingly last year but now Im so keen for the races this season.
Watch the documentary Senna on netflix it's great
Just might! Thanks for the recommendation, only know about him a little from his records and his accident.
Finding it impossible to get back to sleep after the 2am feed. This is unfun.
[Whoever made this deserves an Oscar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiiQXEuFDTE)
What Chris Benoit did is fucked up.
Wasn't he reported to have brain damage at the time , which would have been an explanation for his action? If that's the case then it's a really sad story.
All the steroid abuse probably didn't help matters either.
Listen to the album Chris Benoit by Westside Gunn if you like rap
Hangxiety go away Anyone been to Goa? Is it chill?
North Goa for parties. South Goa for peace.
What smartwatch/app combinations do people use to keep up with scores etc when they are unable to use their phone. (I have a Xiaomi android device.) My job now requires me to work during hours when my club are playing. Every. Single. Game. I'm not permitted to look at my phone outside of breaks, although I can carry it in my pocket. Smartwatches and smartwatch operating systems seem to be very, very hit and miss when it comes to apps for football. I'm in the market for a smartwatch, but there seems to be very little info out there on what apps would work well and give me goal notifications etc.
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Might do better in the daily discussion people actively avoid football in here
Germany actually sending a memorable song to Eurovision let's go
How come the NDR, who should have loads of money from the license fees, is so afraid of having to host the Eurovision Song Contest, they normally sent boring entries?
I am as surprised as you! After the jury votes were in I was ready for another year of being disappointed but the public vote really came through. What was your favourite song of the finalists?
The winning song probably, although I ironically enjoyed Ikke Hüftgold a lot, purely because the song had a very knowing wink to the audience. Then again I'm entirely unsure about whether sending a song that's either good or memorable is the right call, really: not like anyone wants to win the thing.
Planning a trip to Southeast Asia with my friends but our availability is August. I think I’ll be swept away in a Vietnamese monsoon in the near future
Come to the Philippines 👍
August is kind of the worst time to visit that region of the world, unfortunately
I went to Japan in August 2019 which wasn’t too bad at all. Some rain and hot days but it was manageable. No idea how much worse SEA is during August
Feels like i've gotten pretty good at flirting but I have no idea how to get to the end goal from here, it just tension that gets lost into oblivion lol
Possesion merchant. Need to start hitting the target more often
Gotta test the touch barrier brother
Oh it's been broken, we've been working together and just play fighting constantly
If she pins you and see if she goes for the kiss Or pin her and lean in to see what happens, but you'll need a dynamic read
Anyone else get a sense of unbridled joy when playing football? I'm sad all week, I don't even know why I'm sad. I started to lose enthusiasm for most of the things I usually would like to do. I don't want to hang out with my friends, I don't want to read a book, I don't want to go to the gym, I don't want to get pizza and a beer. But at least one evening per week, I join in with a local pickup group in a nearby park. I'm dribbling and passing and scrambling for my life to run back on defense every time I lose the ball, and I'm happy. I have almost no skill and even less stamina, but for those two hours I'm happier than Pep on a new year.
Yeah, it's the secret sauce: being fully immersed in the moment, can't really think about anything else when playing football. Seek out the things that get you into that state of mind, it's remarkably valuable!
Why did The Office continue after Steve Carrell left?
Because NBC thought they could carry the show without him. It's like a ship that embarked to their destination without their long term captain and handed over the captain's role to a drunken sailor.
Because it was a huge hit and everyone wanted to keep making money. Maybe it should have ended, there’s a lot I don’t like about Season 8 & 9, but there’s a lot I do.
Anyone here watch The Man From Earth?
I used to when it was coming out, i think i dropped it 3 or 4 seasons in. Decent laughs iirc
Terrible week, been sick all time, broke and depressed... but I just won the new Sons of the Forest video game in a random giveaway, so that's something! The original Forest was/is one of my all time favourites, can't wait to play the new one. I had even no idea a sequel was coming until this week!
Hope your next weeks go much better!
Thanks! I think it'll get a bit better when I get better from this flu and can actually do something again.
I’m skiing this weekend for the first time. I had a 2 hour lesson this morning and after was immediately taken on a red slope. It’s now midnight and I’m trying to get as battered as possible to numb the pain. Good day all in all.
Being a human is so funny, I started an internship a couple months ago and everything's been pretty good except for the fact that sometimes I have literally nothing to do and I'd feel guilty about doing nothing even though my boss would tell me that he'd let me know if there was anything I could help out with, well today I finally started working on a new project that actually occupies my time and is fullfilling but at the same time I already miss being lazy
Actual jobs post school are very much like this. I want to be busy but not too busy
Just busy enough that if a superior asks you what you're doing, you can give them a legitimate answer
The job I'm currently at just lets me leave or play football manager as long as my reports go out when they're meant to go out. Sometimes people ask about my save. Trying to get people into Scottish football but nobodies biting.
Next week I'll have the final interview to get chosen for a mission at my new company. It's basically my dream job from what was presented to me, it's an Airflow/GCP/Looker/Python, and I'm only familiar with/good at Python among those, but I've worked with SSIS/Power BI so I think I can easily transition. Any of you guys worked with those ? Any tips to make a good impression ?
The clothes scene in Im Westen nichts Neues, was done exceptionally well. The perspective on the massive war machine and the disregard of human life was very well put together in one scene. It really made me want to listen to the Blueprint to Armageddon podcast of Dan Carlin again. Also a masterpiece.
Had a pretty busy week and only now have the time to see the MotD tribute to John Motson. Made me a bit melancholic. What a life the man must’ve had. I hope I can eventually put so much pride and joy into my profession. Be yourself, be as best as you can be in whatever what gives you joy!
How far do you think AI might go? Personally I think it could dramatically shape entertainment in the future, especially once moving pictures in good quality can be created. Maybe technology will even allow devices to read our minds, someday in the future, so we could actually see our thoughts and ideas becoming reality within split-second. Though that arguably is perhaps too far away into the future for now. But of course AI needs to be fed with data and those, who already control a large amount of data, can profit the most. Artists could also be fucked over, though I think there will still be a market for human art in the future.
I think the next big step is reasoning - we're not quite there yet, and without it it's little more than a tool among many. You can get it to do all sorts of things already, but the key point is that it's all based on what people might've done and said beforehand, rather than AI figuring things out on its own. It's essentially based on paths well trodden rather than forging new ones, and as long as that's the case it'll inevitably be flawed and inferior to human reasoning. Once we manage to get it past that, though? Fuck knows how the world will look - worst case it's gonna be artificial intelligence we can't understand, much less control, and presumably employed to extract the most monetary value out of whatever it encounters, consequences be damned.
I think it will replace half of the jobs in the world, like machinery did in the past. Sadly I don’t think that will lead to any reduction in work that people do, like how we used to dream of UBI and not needing to work. More likely it will concentrate more wealth into a small number of people, and increase inequality.
First it will be mass unemployment and instability until some kind of crisis leads to a larger systemic change imo
I’d like to think that one day my house will realise I’ve made food and walked into the living room triggering my TV to turn on and ask if I want to watch the last thing I was watching.
Walmart just asked me if I wanted to split my groceries into 6 weekly payments. What in the dystopian bullshit is that
Buy now pay later is becoming insanely popular
And amazon is heavily investing in this. Should be enough to know not to take part in it
>Buy now pay later I mean this is just what credit cards are
I’m not talking about credit cards. There’s a new barrage of fintech companies which are offering BNPL outside the traditional banking methods These are mostly unsecure
I've done it for my car, I know you can do it for furniture. But like your day to day groceries? That sounds like a very easy way to spiral into debt
Can't believe F1 season actually starts today (I'm a points merchant, can't be arsed to watch the practice). Feels like God deleted all sadness data from my folder. Ready to hack the nearest mosque and play Super Max five times a day from speakers. Lekker af
F1 is boring
You're boring
I don't think so
I don't either you just hurt me emotionally and I needed to retort
Haha do you need a hug?
Not from someone who doesn't like formula one
🫂
Is it actually going to be as boring as last year? Like I am Dutch enough to go onto the whole Super Max thing again. But last year was dull as fuck.
Is the fun in who ultimately wins it, or is the fun in the process of determining a winner? Might well be that you're siding with the former, although then I reckon sports in general are gonna be entirely unexciting for you. If it's the latter, then this season is shaping up to be every bit as good as last season.
Depends how invested you've been beforehand. If you are a casual viewer it doesn't matter but if you are remotely interested check today's FP2 results. I am full on Hopium right now for Nando. This train has no brakes.
As a matter of principle I completely stay away from F1 in the offseason so I have absolutely no idea about what happened in testing or practice. While I'd be happier to have a more interesting season, I'm OK with Max destroying it as well since my 13yo cousin is crazy about him. If Red Bull runs away with it I'll focus on development of other drivers. Alpine in particular looks interesting with an all-French lineup. Also F2 is always so much more fun. I work on weekends so it's not easy to catch up all the action early in the morning but I swear it's more entertaining than F1, especially if you have a bunch of favorite drivers.
All my interest is gone after Vettel retired. Idk how to bring it back. Will just watch without feelings for now.
[New intro's pretty good](https://youtu.be/YLFVD8xaD3U), if you go by that then K-Mag's your guy now. Or Lando. Or Leclerc coming in with the ~~Blue~~ Red Steel.
Had a dream last night that my ex had had a baby with Kanye West She’d met him while competing in a ‘most unattractive woman’ competition in which he judged her the winner, and apparently they really hit it off My subconscious does make me laugh sometimes
That is absolutely amazing
One of the better things I've read on a FTF post.
Bright side of this is it's your ex, rather than your current partner - imagine actually telling them this!
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You should delegate most tasks in your first seasons while you learn the game. Zealand is a good FM content creator, pretty much everyone swears by him. Check him out if you want to learn the game more in-depth.
Oh I fuckin *live* for save your saves where I can laugh at people for making the same mistakes I made a month ago
Shame you started before the winter update that just dropped. Garnacho, Licha, Shaw and Rashford all got very decent buffs. Maybe some other players too.
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>I thought my save would also get updated but I guess not lol. Still not too bad. Transfers, attribute tweaks and rule adjustments only work on a fresh save. Match engine changes and other stuff is updated on your existing save. >BTW what do "can still improve" and "much room to grow" mean when talking about potential? I think Garnacho got 4/5 stars potential so I guess that is World Class Basically means his current ability is still far off his potential ability. The stars are a very vague indicator as it's basically your staff opinion mixed with his relative ability compared to the rest of your squad.
Ability/Potential is relative to your best player - as in three stars at a third division side are very different to three stars at one of the best teams in the world.
Very impatiently waiting for attack on titan to drop
Sonarr finished the dl just now, can't wait
is this the final part? might start watching if so
No, they’ve split the 3rd part of the final season into 2 parts lmao. The proper ending is in October-December I think.
Season 4 Part 3 Part 1 lmao not confusing at all 🥴
fucking christ. i was looking forward to it. oh well, not like i dont have a big backlog anyway
A few weeks ago my class got to put on a brunch at my Community College and a few days later one of my classmates mentioned that Adam Ragusea was there which was pretty cool. Ended up on his socials too lol
Love that dude, very reliable food opinions
Just did a 2 hr competency exam for a job application and I've still not decomposed all the anxiety How tf did I get through uni
its mad what we were used to. like how the fuck did i sit thru secondary school, non stop, not eating when i wanted etc.
I'm genuinely shaking still. I've got a fucking bachelor's degree what's gone wrong
video essays about rupaul's drag race are goated
Just about him in general or the show?
the show itself like how certain moments changed the show its great
Oh ok interesting. I've been exposed to him and his show for a bit, my wife and her brother are really into it. I guess I can say I'm not the target audience for it, but I'd watch along with them when they would put it on. All I can say is the insane amount of talent and dedication they have on there is really impressive.
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Where do you live if you don't mind me asking? Tilburg? To be fair I've never even come close to the Netherlands but personally speaking, having experienced the dread of Istanbul, a place that has everything to be a city yet feels like an overgrown village feels like heaven. You got pretty much everything you need without seizure-inducing, overly-commercialized and peopleized shit around. Damn.
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you do have Roadburn tho, best festival ever. id go if i wasnt scared of travel
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yeah, if youre into doom metal or some of the darker experimental genres like noise or drone its one of the best in the world!
Yeah that's the thing at the end of the day - there's a size where *enough* stuff is happening without it being overwhelming. I'm from a place that's a tad smaller than Tilburg, but I've lived in Hamburg, too. By global standards that's not even that big, but to me it felt too big - I don't think I could handle Istanbul at all, lovely as it looks. End of the day it's about finding what's right for you, I suppose - for some people that's rural and isolated, for some that's a global megacity, and for some it might just be splitting time in between those extremes.
Living in rural Münsterland has its merits, especially being able to reach everything by bike within 5-10 minutes. But fuck me, culturally my city is really lacking, no proper clubs, only a few decent bars. I wish my city was just a bit more like Köln. :(
Are you actually in the city of Munster? my son did a semester there back when they had Erasmus. I liked it but I can see what you mean.
Nevermind all the Catholics, eh? I'm about 170km or so north of you, but in the city that everyone from the rural areas around it comes to - so I'm getting the best of both worlds: small enough to get around quickly and it feeling reasonably calm, big enough to get a decent cultural scene and it feeling lively.
>Nevermind all the Catholics, eh? Eh, could be worse. Imagine living in Bavaria. Ü
I'm in Nürnberg and its actually alright. But then again ppl here don't consider themselves Bavarians.
Getting to the point where it looks like my wife could deliver our baby any day now. Any tips/advice for a first time father?!
Boom baby! Congratulations, you're about to do some real mad epic amazing beautiful shit. We got a 4 month old boy and it's been a trip. My main bit of advice is to learn how all the stuff works now before you need it. How does your steriliser work? Do you have enough bottles? Is your changing mat set up? Are you gonna use warm water and cotton wool, or baby wipes, or both? Do you have enough food and snacks in the house? Do you have formula? Do you know how to make it? There's a million things but you literally can't over prepare. You're main job is being there for your wife now too (you prob have been doing this the last 6 months anyway!) But this is the real thing man. She's gonna be so preoccupied that you need to make sure the only thing she needs to worry about is yeeting this bubba out of her. Any questions please let me know man and you got this you're gonna be an incredible dad.
Ask u/tiorzol
Breathe. You'll do just fine - the secret sauce is that nobody ever knows how to handle their first kid, and yet it's gone well enough for thousands of years. Don't strive for perfection, just do the best you can in the moment, cause that's all you can do. Also kids are surprisingly good at guiding you towards what's good for them, so leave some space for that rather than focusing on expectations. If the weeun is gonna be a bit shit at sleeping, then so be it - you'll want them to sleep all night, but they're not gonna be ready for it just yet, so keep calm, take a breath, and then be there for them through it as much as you might detest it in the moment.
Ask that Everton fan that used to give the updates here who is now a father?
No shaming in admitting your at your wits end and need help.
I just realized F1 starts this weekend. I love auto racing, but I caught myself not caring about it as I used to. Maybe because I don't want to see a sport dominated by a company I absolutely hate, due to what they do with football. Maybe because Sky's coverage in Germany is mediocre at best. Maybe because F1 moves away further and further from its european roots. I just don't care that much. But maybe that changes, when the green lights are on. Though I think I'll definitely watch Le Mans again this year. Plenty of manufacturer involvement, new and exciting cars and endurance racing is generally fun, but a bit tough to watch. Personally I wish DTM with pre-GT3 rules was still around. They just got the formula right after years of boring racing. And then Mercedes and Audi had to pull out. :(
The new Key Glock album is dope
Can't believe it's been a year since Shane Warne passed. Still remember exactly where I was when I found out, one of the few celebrity deaths to really move me
Slowly getting into micro-tonal music. It's weird because if I had to put words on why I enjoy it, it feels like it's so un-'casual listening' friendly that it wraps all the way around to becoming enjoyable because it makes you lean in and look for the oddly nice intervals that sound good even though you've never really heard them, almost like you enjoy it because it makes you feel like you've earned it by understanding the nice parts about it.
I have my UPD this weekend and I’m super excited. For those who don’t know, UPD (Ultimo Primer Día) is a tradition in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay (I think) where the students in their last year get together the night before the first day of school and get drunk as fuck, before walking to school the next morning. It’s great. You get wasted as fuck on a Sunday or Tuesday night and spend the whole next day miserable. You make best friends with the guy who always pissed you off. You make out with the girl you never really noticed, and never talk to her again. Everybody goes crazy this one last time before you go back to the final year of monotony in high school. Absolutely fantastic tradition.
fantastic tradition mate, live it up!
Love discovering new (for me) music. This week I’ve listened to a lot of E^ ST Teenage Joans Meg Mac Jack River Sunny Day service Surfaces Also the new chvrches song “over” is a banger
Listen to Kalax and The Midnight
Cheers mate, liking Kalax so far
Nice. One of my favourites.. Enjoy :)
Made "do laps in the pool for about an hour" my Friday afternoon ritual for a couple weeks now. Fun being there the same day/same time every week cause you see mostly the same people there every time. One of them is this wee East Asian woman, and I swear to god I've never seen anyone more elegant in the water. She's just casually doing her front crawl and drills, but there's no splash at all, and she never looks like she's doing anything more intense than a leisurely stroll while absolutely gliding through the water either - just pure technical excellence. Even dived the entire length of the pool a couple times today, meanwhile I'm there in the same lane struggling through my "all power, no technique" breaststroke being really envious.
For the first time in my life there is a girl who has shown signs or hints of possible romantic interest towards me. I am very behind in this area of life compared to most others my age and am as clueless as Vinicius playing against Araujo in this field of life, so I'm afraid I'll mess it all up.
worst she can do is say no, try not to worry too much. youll still be alive afterwards!
Go in with the intention of becoming a friend and go from there.
We are friends already
Do you know them from in real life or met them online? My advice is just try and make a move sooner rather than later. Cuz girls lose interest quickly from what I’ve experienced (especially nowadays when they have so many options through the internet) so you gotta apply pressure and make a move while you can. Otherwise they could lose interest and move on. So just decide if you wanna make a move and if so, don’t wait too long to do it
She's a classmate of mine. You're probably right. I do get the feeling she wants me to make the first direct move. I do have some liking of her but am not really sure I'm ready for an actual relationship. I used to laugh at it but now I'm understanding why people say these kind of feelings can be complicated.
If she’s ur classmate just be careful because if it doesn’t work out or she says she’s not interested, than you’re gonna have to see her all the time and it’ll be awkward. So try to make sure that she actually does like you for sure before you make a move
The Turkish opposition imploded today. Even when a sure thing victory is almost guaranteed, they still manage to fuck up and play into the hand of Erdogan. I feel so bad for the people who have to live with this shit.
Does anyone know of a table that shows UK clubs and how high and low they have been promoted/relegated? Interested to see what club has done from really low to high, or vice versa.
Unsolicited parenting fact number 2: babies don't have tear ducts when they're fresh out so they'll be crying away and bam one day they're bawling sopping great tears out of nowhere. That was a bit of a shocker.
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Where do they come out from?
That's so weird, when are they supposed to open up?
Takes a couple weeks for most of em.
Lmao somehow in my head I was expecting it to be longer
*sigh* That's what she said
Kinell i didn't know that, sounds weirdly terrifying
F1 fans are the biggest gatekeepers in sports history. Most friendly - Football and rugby fans..
I'm a F1 fan, in what sense are here gatekeepers? Did I miss something?
F1 fans are elitist..
Boxing for gatekeepers
I'm going to add wrestling fans to this fight. They'll hate you if you watch the wrong show!
I'd say it is the byproduct of American involvement and Drive to Survive. I never remember people caring about who watches F1 back in the day but it has become a big thing for some reason in recent years.
>Most friendly - Football You've just offended so many r/soccer users
I feel like the current Australian cricket team is insanely good and severley underrated. They have Smith the goat human batter, Laubaschsgne who insane and smith 2.0, khwaja who I think has been the best batter in the world this year, Travis head who is insanely good and provides a different type of batting and then a bowling line up of Lyon, Starc, Cummins and Hazelwood plus Cameron Green as well. The only thing they are missing is finding someone to replace Warner, and I'm not really sure how much I rate Carey to be honest.
The ashes are going to be absolutely blockbuster this summer. Can't wait for it to start but really nervous at the same time. Think we have a good chance to win the urn for the first time in 8 years but as you say, Australia are really good at the minute.
We get another Ashes pretty quickly after too in Australia I think. Yay.
2025 it is i think, they come around quickly. I'm still a a bit traumatised from the last few away ashes to even think about the next one but the home ashes are always something to look forward to.
Why is my brain mush all day and then cranks it up to 11 when I'm sleeping. A co-worker was absent for the whole afternoon yesterday. In the evening when I was talking to some people, a guy being in a coma was briefly mentioned. So my brain decided to create a fucked up dream in which the co-worker was absent because her husband is in a coma. My imagination during the day is pretty limited but oh boy when I sleep.
Got some zucchini, red potatoes, and tomatoes in the produce box yesterday so today's pizza is going to be thinly sliced zucchini, potato, and tomato on a detroit style crust and maybe some caramelized onion.
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It's almost never worth it. Cut your losses now.
Don’t
Conclude you’re probably more interested in her than she is you.
Been there, done that. Just don't.
What are your prospects for the future? How far are you willing to go for each other? Is it supposed to be, say, for two years, after which you have a realistic chance of coming together? I'm personally a romantic dude when it comes to that, so to say - it's *your* relationship with her, so whatever you both believe is doable should be doable. Some other guy might not be able to stand two months without seeing his gf. Then you have examples like taking a LDR for five years before getting married. Don't listen to anyone but yourself and your partner. If you are both ready to go for it... let's fucking go. If not, let it go. Living under someone else's shadow (for a while) and feeling like a lonely loser is definitely better than chasing a dream that'll never materialize. Not gonna say "there are other fish in the sea". Personally speaking I wouldn't change anything to my ex. Two years on I still couldn't care less about the other fish. But it is what it is. You grow with or out of it. Having everything in your hands is better than living a lie. If you are both keen on it, nothing should be able to stop you. If this is not the case, maybe you are not a good match anyway.
I wouldn’t. Not worth the hassle. Plenty of fish in the sea you’re actually in yourself
Sounds like a head ache tbh can't you find a closer one
Keep things hot through text and save up pennies for a cheap flight to see her. Get those Google flight alerts on lad
Handed in my notice this week at work as I am emigrating to Canada from the UK. Pretty surreal it is happening, applying for jobs though is a pain in the arse, all work on a covering letter and employers not even acknowledging it ffs. Does anyone know of any good jobs boards for Canada? Jobbank nobody responds. In the UK we have w4mp which is like a political job board, any Canadians know of anything similar?
Depends where you're living. BC uses primarily Indeed and WorkBC, and then there's government and municipal stuff which is on their own websites. A lot of bigger private companies will post only on their own career centre as well
Thanks!
Watched all of Smiling Friends this week. Really enjoyed it. It’s so stupid and I love it.
Caught up on [Hello Tomorrow](https://youtu.be/NyPx64LjdJM) this week and really like it. I always feel like I'm being /r/HailCorporate but Apple has been the best streamer of the past couple years imo. Keep putting out great stuff
Tbf the streaming market is reasonably interesting - get the "throw shit at the wall" approach Netflix are taking, the "just buy anything cause it's about the big library" thing that Amazon are up to, the "just do anything in-house" thing Disney are doing, and Apple being true to their values of not doing too much but focusing on being the best for most people in their chosen niche.
Yeah Apple to me feels like they're trying to sort of rival HBO as a "prestige" channel and for me at least it's working. Not everything lands but I consistently enjoy a lot of the stuff they put out. They invest pretty big into sci-fi and speculative fiction too so if like me you enjoy that stuff it's great. I think their biggest weak point is their film library is still on the small side, it's definitely TV first.
Suppose that's the downside of that approach - hard to make very good content if you're mass-producing it, even if they could afford to. Same time though it might be an advantage in a world that's essentially drowning in content: we don't have a monoculture anymore, but them strongly curating excellent stuff rather than flooding the market with decent things more or less sets them apart in the streaming market. That said though my tastes are remarkably basic, so while I appreciate them trying to raise the bar, I'll still end up chucking on the crime procedurals I've been watching for a literal decade now every single week, cause that's just comforting TV.
I sleep on the McConnaissance, but I'm here for the...Cruddemption Arc?
He's probably too old now for what the studio wants but he would have been my dream Reed Richards, so I'm definitely okay with him popping up in good shows every couple years.
Got more soul than a sock with a hole
Set the stage with a goal
Watching made to DVD Steven Seagal movies with a buddy drunk is a rabbit hole I didn't expect to find funny, its made like a Great Depression era's Jack Reacher lmao.
Not gonna have anyone say anything bad about Jack Reacher tbf - it's hardly highbrow, but the books, the movies and the TV show are perfectly in the dadcore window and thus right up my alley.
Nothing wrong with Reacher at all, its just that the Seagal movies are a shitty fanfic attempt at them with him being some spec ops/vigilante when he sits for 90 percent of the movie. Also would've though the movie wouldn't be fine of you're a Reacher fan, a lot of people said Cruise was miscast as Reacher.
Tbf i think he is kind of miscast, at the same time though he's Tom Cruise, so he's really bloody good at that type of thing anyway. Feel like I'm not too hardcore on the details of a character as long as they're getting the spirit right, and I reckon there's few who could do that better than Cruise, even if he's hardly matching the physical description. Chuck him into any action role and he'll smash it with his charisma, I reckon, and it works just fine for the Reacher interpretation of the movies if you're not a traditionalist I suppose.
Videos that break down frame by frame the ridiculousness of Steven Seagal movies is one of my new favourite genres.
Just reminded me of this video which I'll now have to watch again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIHyF7UWY4 "Fatly going around corners"