Dr. Gonzo

Persepolis FC beat Saudi Arabia's Al Nassr on penalties to make the AFC Champions League final. The match went to penalties, it was a pretty hard fought match. Persepolis's star striker Isa Al-Kasir was suspended for 6 months right before kickoff (he made a racist gesture to a player from an Uzbek side) - but they managed to get through on penalties. I'm not sure about the format of this, but I think it's West Asia vs East Asia - and East Asian matches in the AFC Champions League aren't back until November... so the final will be in December. I watched a recording of it, but this is the first time in something like 20 years where I've actually been able to watch a Persepolis match. So that's pretty cool.

You're right and I've used this argument on my wife and convinced her, so we're off to get tested at a drive-thru testing location in a few minutes.

The wonders of the American healthcare system! My wife's talked me out of taking a test saying "we don't have covid" (not a compelling argument imo) and proving to me that I still have my sense of taste/smell (this was the more compelling argument). She thinks the wildfires around us are impacting the air quality which is making me feel a bit sick. We haven't really gone outside very much in the last few days though, so I'm not sure how much of an impact the air outside would make? I am still not 100% convinced I don't have covid... but being able to taste/smell things does have me thinking maybe I was a bit paranoid. We're on a bit of a rotation at work, where we've got two "teams" and we switch off when which weeks each team goes to the office. I appreciate the thought put behind trying to keep us distant and fairly safe, but I can't help but feel it's inevitable that I'm going to catch the disease probably at my office.

I think I’ve got to get a test but I really don’t want to

Apparently no bids other than loans came in, and we weren’t going to accept loans.

Also now we’re going to be sending players on international duty, so let’s see if it spreads further.

Shaqiri’s tested positive. I think most of the squad must have it and the tests are shite at detecting it.

Lol the backline (and keeper) could be this super in form group: Shaw, Maguire, Gomez, Trent & Pickford

I mean it’s still a fairly new disease and some people, like Dybala - who’s not that old - had long term effects they felt from it.

Low probability isn’t the same as zero probability?

Nooooooooo

Yeah he’s too much of a liar to be taken at face value. I’ll believe it when he’s hooked up to a ventilator

I think both she and Cummings should resign in disgrace tbh

What an absolute fucking moron.

A cynic might argue the government thinks having the economy in as bad of a shape before the end of the year might be beneficial to other positions it'll have in a post-covid world and they'll hope it outweighs any flak they might get from their response to the pandemic.

Tulsi Gabbard’s next gig is 100% going to be on Fox News

It is just so hard to believe anyone would ever take a school age karate rivalry so seriously that it lingers over you your whole life

I think at this point, America needs to handle its own various issues before dictating anything to the rest of the world. A pandemic’s epicentre, racial tensions constantly turning violent, and political and religious militias popping up as the country gets more divided... it doesn’t feel like the “leader of the free world,” at least not to the perspective of this English guy living in the US.

I’m watching Cobra Kai

Yeah I’m not sure being on the edge of conflict is really a great thing. In the 1910s that sort of environment boiled over into a world war.

I’m assuming he’s usually not moderating debates with the orange man then. Idk how after 2016 they didn’t allow the moderators to cut mics, tbh. Maybe that’s why the orange man seemed intent on debating him at times.

I think that’s a nice ideal... but even before America’s Orange we were seeing China rise up as the eastern US going around attempting to dictate the course of action to the rest of the world. I may be too cynical, but I think people and, especially, governments are too selfish and shitty to ever allow for a time where one country doesn’t try to dictate to the rest of the world how things will be. So I’d rather the country that does push the world around be one that holds its politicians to account, rather than somewhere like China. Granted, you can make a good case that the US is not a good example of a country that holds its leaders to account... and I wouldn’t disagree tbh.

And here’s a good link for all of us: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/29/america-prosecute-presidents-pardon-trump-nixon/ it’s the one from earlier the filter ruined