Dr. Gonzo

I've just seen this: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-nato-politics-government-romania-51d19e9fa8c53c54974e460ca5b8add3 Are these the first UFOs in this recent trend of 2023 weird shit in the air found in Europe?

Actually they just called them "objects" when they made their most recent statement... but I hadn't heard they weren't balloons so I thought they were just tired of saying balloon over and over again. I guess they're not balloons, but just weird flying things. I wonder what the fuck they actually shot down. I wonder if the debris that "might never be recovered" is cocaine or heroin that has definitely already been recovered and is either going to be used to be sold to fund clandestine operations not to be reported on the US budget... or if it's just going to be used at some US 3 letter agency party.

Back to the balloons - so the US has said the 3 "mystery objects" they shot down after the Chinese balloon was shot down were private with likely no links to China. Makes me wonder if drug traffickers were using balloons to get drugs over the US/Canada border... and China fucking around with their balloon got them noticed. No idea what organised crime is like around Canada... but I like this theory more than I like the aliens theory.

Players like that can be useful though. Milner looks on his last legs now, but he’s been a very important squad player for us with his ability to be a Jack of all trades & slotting in wherever he’s been needed. For me though Mount doesn’t seem to be as versatile as Milner imo. But Mount’s still quite young too.

Doesn’t sound like a good fit for us tbh

Some of our more reliable journos have suggested we're seriously interested in making a move for Mount. Thoughts @Cicero & @Bluewolf? I've always thought he was kind of just like a low budget Lampard but with that same big game mentality... at least up until this season. I'm not sure how well he'd really fit us in that midfield 3 that Klopp likes to play and is unlikely to shift from. Not that I think he's a bad player or anything... just think he'd probably be asking for a lot in wages and if there is a transfer fee (is his contract expiring, I wouldn't have thought so) it'll probably be an absurd amount. But I think it's also a sign that the hopes for us signing any of our top choice midfielders from last summer are dead and buried, unfortunately. But I think regardless, the rest of the footballing world has to know we're desperate for midfielders after this season... so I don't see any scenario where we're not paying over the odds for midfielders, unfortunately.

I just think with how vast space is it's weird to assume that we're the only form of intelligent life out there. There's so much out there, it seems to me that there's a decent chance that there's at least one planet out there in space that's like earth that's got many life forms of various sorts living on it like earth does.

I think the probability of them existing has nothing to do with how little we know about our solar system or our galaxy - it'd be the same probability. The lack of knowledge out there about what's going on in space is more to show why it's not unsurprising we've never had any encounters with any other intelligent life. Imo if you've got life in space... it's alien life. And if that life is about as intelligent as an ape or something, we could probably call that intelligent life. And I just think considering the overall vastness of space... it's just likely there's other life that's out there that's what we'd call intelligent. It might be really far away - it might be closer than we ever thought and we just are blissfully ignorant because we don't know enough about space just yet. It's like if we only knew definitively about one part of the Atlantic ocean, but weren't sure about it. So let's say we only knew about the Atlantic by the UK - and we know there's fish in the ocean there. But we don't know about the rest of the ocean, would we just assume that the fish in the UK are the only fish out there in the world? Just considering the sheer amount of vastness in space, it's just seems likely there's probably intelligent life out there that we've never come across.

It just seems unlikely to me that humans are the only "intelligent life" out there when you really think about how small our planet is, or even our galaxy (I think the next closest galaxy to the Milky Way is significantly bigger than the Milky Way itself). Considering the size of everything, how small of an area we occupy in space... I just think it's probable that there's other life out there that's at least as about as intelligent as us. Especially when you factor in how little we actually know about what's going on even within our own solar system... let alone beyond it. If there's life out there in another galaxy, it's no wonder we haven't found them and they haven't found us given what we know about space exploration with current technology.

If it's aliens searching for "intelligent life" there's no way they'd be wanting to come to earth in the first place - at least not to talk to humans, maybe they're interested in dogs and cats.

I think it's more likely they do exist than if they don't exist. We don't really have any proof either way though.

Looks like the same kind of cat as Peanut!

Eagles also had a player arrested for rape shortly after that game against the 49ers. It's the NFL though it's a league full of rapists, wife beaters, murderers; you name a crime & chances are that the league is pretty soft on it unless it's drugs... they really hate drugs. Unless they're performance enhancing drugs, they're softer on those than they are with recreational drugs. I don't really like either team. I suppose I'm more against Patrick Mahomes than I am for any side, so I guess I'm with the Eagles.

Didn't Barca want him during their crack smoking era though? Like where they signed Coutinho and Griezmann even though they had Messi playing in their preferred positions of the pitch and... he was Messi. I'm not sure I'd consider their recruitment during that period to be particularly sound tbh.

My wife and I are playing it together. We made a wizard named Hugh Jaynus (because for some reason that's okay, even though it wouldn't let us to Hugh Janus), answered some questions and got put into Ravenclaw and tbh it's pretty fun even though I was never really the biggest Harry Potter fan.

If Arthur Melo comes into the side and actually looks class I would be so surprised, but so happy. Cos fuck me, I can't wait until we have a functional midfield again so I'm having to put my hopes in the gonorrhea-boy that Juve fans were delighted to see the back of.

I would not expect it to be anything other than terrible. But it's one of those films where you're hoping it's so bad that it ends up being good. So I hope it's that sort of "good" terrible.

Idk why he's getting shit for putting parmesan on his pasta - "oh no it's not freshly shredded off a block of cheese?" Oh fucking well - I still know why he put the cheese on his pasta. Because cheese and pasta are a good mix. I'll "go Italian" and judge people when they end up putting parmasan on seafood pasta I think it looks tasty @Coma, hope you enjoyed.

Looks like Ajax are picking up Julian Ward for next season. Poor bastards, but I suppose he’ll have to change up from his current strategy of “just sign whoever has good attacking stats in Portugal and Holland” with Ajax.

Is it out? I'll probably buy that for my wife - she loves Harry Potter

Sadly, I don't think there's a quick end. Modern warfare is only really "quick" when one side has a massive advantage over the other (like Azerbaijan against Armenia). Ukraine has the advantage of getting access to better weapons tech, Russia's got a manpower advantage & isn't worrying about things like war crimes in intentionally targeting civilians to weaken the resolve of the Ukrainian people. I think it will drag on for at least another year, maybe two, and for Ukraine's sake, I hope the tanks & fighter jets that may come in the future are enough to turn the tide and get the Russians out of Ukraine. And when I say Ukraine, I mean all of Ukraine - but if peace can be established without Crimea, maybe it should be considered. Because I think the worst thing for Ukraine is for this to be a war of attrition. I think Russia can win a war of attrition. There's also the issue of the international community needing to give Putin an offramp so he can sell a peace deal as a victory for Russia - because he's an authoritarian and that's what authoritarians do when they don't really win a war but need to call for peace. The facade of being a strongman and a military genius is a big part of his authoritarian propaganda. So there's a fine line that needs to be trod on carefully where the international community shouldn't be appeasing an expansionist authoritarian, but also need to give Putin the ability to sell it as a "win" for Russia despite what was supposed to be a short blitz with a new government put in Ukraine now taking over a year and looking like a tough stalemate of sorts.

It just goes to show that the US can't really trust the executive branch with classified material, tbh. The Bush administration was accused of having classified information stored on private email servers with shit security. Hillary Clinton & the buttery males scandal was the same sort of thing. Now we're seeing Obama era documents pop up at Biden's house & Trump with the boxes of classified shit, Pence now having documents.

Apparently there's one in South America now

I think it’s been clear we’ve needed a midfield upgrade for a while, it’s infuriating that we’ve not really addressed it for so long. Now our midfield looks physically and mentally spent, and you can’t have nothing like that in the midfield and expect to play like we used to.