The post is mostly upvoted with only a couple of comments, most downvoted, aligning with your premise.

Bruno Fernandes having a dummy spit over a change room would probably be season ending for the club lol

I think sutekhs decision on when to return was related to the whole thing about the Susan Triad on Earth being much more powerful due to the doctor coming back a lot. And Ruby isn’t departing the show.

Pretty sure ruby is back next season, right? And that the new companion is an addition not a replacement.

Ruby stopped Gwilliam because the doctor was gone. When she saved the doctor by stopping him from stepping on the fairy circle, that timeline was wiped out and ruby had a different life where we now see she meets her parents and doesn’t keep travelling with the doctor. But Gwilliam still happens, so the doctor stops him instead.

100%. When one of the cons is no meaningful protection against injury, a helmet should be a huge pro. It absolutely saves lives.

peak Aussie humour

That’s really unusual. My experience has been the opposite on Linux Mint, most games run the same or better than when I was on windows. I had a little bit of trouble getting world of warcraft to work at first, but I was mostly done playing that anyway. I guess it’s all down to what games you play.

Nope, fine with me!

Posted in DD but adding here too - some confirmed departures of some players including Okonkwo, and seems Hein, Walters and Cozier-Duberry might all be exiting too

https://www.arsenal.com/news/22-players-depart-arsenal-end-contacts

https://www.arsenal.com/news/22-players-depart-arsenal-end-contacts in case anyone missed it

Hard agree. I’m loving this season.

Nope, carbon tax is different to carbon offsets. A carbon tax is intended to put an immediate financial burden onto energy producers and/or consumers commensurate to the environmental impact of the power production and/or consumption.

From a corporations perspective, it makes no sense to worry about the potential economic impact of pollution which may not have an impact for decades. By adding a carbon tax, those potential impacts are realised immediately. Generally, the cost of these taxes will be passed to the consumer, affecting usage patterns as a potential direct benefit but making it a politically unattractive solution due to the immediate cost of living impact. This killed the idea in Australia, where we still argue to this day whether it should be reinstated. It also, theoretically, has a kind of anti-subsidy effect. By making it more expensive to “do the wrong thing” you should make it more financially viable to build a business around “doing the right thing”.

All in theory. I don’t know what studies are out there as to the efficacy of carbon tax as a strategy. In the Australian context, I think we should bring it back. But while I understand why the idea exists and the logic behind why it should work, I don’t know how that plays out in practice.

They are almost certainly restricting the amount of information they release under the advice of the legal team at the University, in preparation for the impending commercialization. I agree, it’d be great to have the details and to live in a world where all information is free and open. However, we don’t on both counts. The assumption that they could only be attempting to mislead people when this isn’t even a product for sale yet, is at best naïve and at worst willfully obtuse.

The snippet quoted in the original comments and referenced in subsequent comments refers specifically to the decibel reduction of the frequencies being targeted by the invention, not the volume of the overall sound.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_insemination

I think we probably could just use the money and are now finding ourselves a bit overloaded with attackers. Even if he has fully recovered, it has shown that he’s by no means indispensable.

Or, he wants to leave and the club doesn’t want to stand in his way.

My opinion is it would be better in some ways and worse in others. I think it’s worth striving for some Star-Trek-esque version of humanity, where we are well and truly post-scarcity and have outgrown many/most of our more toxic traits as a species, and I think globalisation is the only way to achieve anything close to that.

I also acknowledge that to believe that end result is a certainty rather than a possibility is completely naive. I guess it’s a matter of opinion if the risk that we either wipe ourselves out on the way to that goal, or we just literally can’t overcome tribalism and greed, is worth chancing it.

Either way we’re probably too far gone! I have seen interesting studies here or there though, that indicate the current generation of new parents are far more aware of the dangers of such a technologically enriched lifestyle for children, and that things are turning back in the other direction. So who knows.

I feel like there’s a level of easy, that’s still secure. I used to be the kind of person who used the same password for everything. Now, I’ve changed that password on everything and I’m particular about using a password manager even for most local uses. But when I’m performing first time set up, I use a variation on that easy to type, burned into my brain old password. It’s not incredibly secure, but it’s not 4 digits or my birthday or anything of the like.

Not OP but maybe I can help? Expected goals and goals for (xGF and GF) and against (xGA and GA) for each fixture and the same fixture last season, alongside the points from the fixture this season, and the difference versus the same fixture last season. Green representing we got more points compared to the same fixture last year. The “matching fixture” is playing the same team (or the equivalent promoted team) at the same venue (i.e. home vs away) rather than a particular match week.

Finally the sum of those differences home and away (i.e. are we getting more or less points from the same games, overall).

The purpose is for a more “like for like” comparison to inform how we are developing, since looking at, say, the overall points total for match week 20 this year versus last year doesn’t account for the strength of the opposition. However, you do lose the information about the way we perform at different stages of the season, so it’s a tradeoff.

100%. What we can compare is the transformation of the football we have played as a club. I think our lack of dominance in possession in the last couple of months has been somewhat intentional, and we are still seeing that transformation.