Interesting stuff
That was actually really funny the way he said "hey, where is the short guy?"
No way Volk can hang with Islam on the ground.
Islam did make it look easy - his style might just be too much for volk…
Fight will probly be in Australia too, great exposure either way ;)
The second Rd was incredible- you could see Charles was completely rattled and his forward pressure style was totally gone.
He wanted no part of that ground game with Islam.
freeride76 wrote:That was actually really funny the way he said "hey, where is the short guy?"
No way Volk can hang with Islam on the ground.
That mob seem to have a great sense of humour, Khabib is hilarious.
Yep. He’s one of a kind ;)
How did you end up watching it freeride? I briefly tried FB but they were mostly links to other streaming services or they stopped within seconds.
I flailed around toggling between dodgy Facebook feeds and got lucky enough to get one that lasted for the main event.
No commentary- found a live You-tube stream with commentary.
Bit of a punish, but I got to see the fight.
freeride76 wrote:I flailed around toggling between dodgy Facebook feeds and got lucky enough to get one that lasted for the main event.
No commentary- found a live You-tube stream with commentary.Bit of a punish, but I got to see the fight.
Yep, sound about right. But I’ve never missed a main event doing it that way.
I believe Facebook bots can pick up on commentary and will obviously stop the stream.
Cheers. I lost patience pretty quickly and gave up.
Contentious!
https://www.9news.com.au/national/car-crash-sunshine-north-victoria/901b...
Have you ever wondered what might happen if you just kept going at a T intersection?
Having a bad hair day:
Mirror mirror on the wall pic.twitter.com/XgMjwW2a0L
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) October 23, 2022
DudeSweetDudeSweet wrote:Contentious!
I'd never heard of the guy, his life would make a great movie
Who consistently wakes up at 4.30am every morning and does the same thing year after year decade after decade?
Monks and Surfers.
Garbos too.
Must be nice to sleep in to 04:30
It just goes to show, your 7-year-old (or the 7-year-old you) was right, washing is bad for your health. Nothing to do with 4 durries on the go at a time...
https://www.theage.com.au/world/middle-east/world-s-dirtiest-man-dies-af...
This should probably go in one of the other forums but whatever.
Geez that’s a different path. 4 darts at once is one thing. How’s the smoking pipes of dung!
Desperate times, desperate measures!
(He's a bit inspiring though, great toughness!)
OK Semiconductors:
THREAD: The US government's new export controls are wreaking havoc on China's chip industry.
— Jordan Schneider (@jordanschnyc) October 14, 2022
New rules around "US persons" are driving an "industry-wide decapitation."
Seems to be backed up by other news articles in last couple of weeks
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/272979767/us-plans-to-control-export...
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/seismic-shifts-underway-in-global-semi...
can't vouch for any of those sources, don't really know them.
However, this does seem to be in step with the retreat from globalism that's been going on recently. Two separate supply chains may result, and with war going on now it marks another confrontational step. I know the auto industry is currently stuffed for semiconductors, will this make it harder for them?
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/china-and-usa-are-officially-at-economic
a more in depth report
"Both these changes will shift the landscape of technology and industry and reduce global trade by hundreds of billions of dollars a year."
Inflationary too, I bet in the West.
I’d love to read her Trip Advisor review.
— D Attenborough (@Attenboroughs_D) October 25, 2022
pic.twitter.com/zRvCClumwO
David Lynch on the business of the brolly:
hahahah, is that a "thing" Stu?
I don't know. I stumbled upon it earlier in the week and now the algorithm serves it up to me daily.
For some light relief. Anyone who has hit a golf ball in anger will know how amazing this actually is.
Bonus joy from the lad just qualifying to play at St Andrews and possibly the best named pub in the universe, the Dunvegan. Don't ask for plant based parma as refusal often offends.
Nice stuff, Grandad played St Andrews. Great shot. Little bro learned to drive by doing exactly the same urban golf Harrison was doing there, there was a tin shed about half a block away and he'd go from the backyard grass and know he hit it when the owner would be screaming at him to fuck off.
Wishing all a safe All Hallow's Eve/Day of the Dead :)
If you get clear skies it might be worth looking up
https://www.newsweek.com/taurid-meteor-shower-halloween-more-active-this...
Did the Taurid shower contain something that ended the world long ago, beyond all memory or history, on this date?
That moment when you get to camp at the zoo, but the lions escape:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-02/family-describe-emergency-lion-si...
velocityjohnno wrote:That moment when you get to camp at the zoo, but the lions escape:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-02/family-describe-emergency-lion-si...
Ha, how exciting,
On our trip to South Africa we stayed at safari camp in Kruger NP for a few nights and one of the nights involved a sleep out at the "treehouse".
This was basically a wooden deck built around a big tree about 5 meters off the ground. There is a double bed with a mozzie net around it in the middle of the deck, a couple of candles, drinks and snacks and a wooden ladder to get you up there.
This is about a 10 minute drive from the safari camp right into the middle of the bush, surrounded by every African animal you can think of that can kill you. They give you a two way radio to use if you get in trouble and that's it.
It was an incredible experience, we could hear lions roaring at one stage and all sorts of other noises that I didn't want to know about. Knowing that leopards climbed trees and liked to hunt at night had the heart going a bit.
I still am not sure if they have a guard that is hidden close by to watch out for trouble or not, but i don't think so. A night i won't forget soon.
That sounds like a very nervous night Goofy!
On healthcare, there was this from a little while ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/27/end-of-50-50-hosp...
Craig did a thread on the healthcare system overwhelm scenario, and the thread... became something else. This article compares claims of the level of care that can be achieved now, compared to before 2020.
'“The pressure on a fatigued workforce is still there,” he said.'
'“Healthcare, as we knew it [before the pandemic], is not the healthcare we can expect moving forward,” she said.'
and
'Prof Adrian Esterman, the chair of biostatistics at the University of South Australia, said a number of measures in the budget appeared to assume that “Covid is all over”.
“It’s nowhere near all over,” he said.'
Do ya think Elon regrets buying Twitter ? I’m trying to get my head around him now trying to make money out of Twitter, sacks half the staff and then what ? Trying to charge people $8 a month for a blue tick ? You would think someone with that much money would enjoy his life , or is sacking people how he gets his rocks off . https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-05/twitter-sacks-half-of-staff-as-mu...
Surely doing it for lol's
https://mobile.twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1588488744046399493
And maybe he thought they were biased and wants to un-bias the platform.
He’s doing what I would be doing if I bought a business - making money. Bizarrely, we live in a time when people evaluate business on everything other than their ability to make profit. He’s obviously reducing the overhead first to maintain some form of healthy cash flow while looking at additional revenue opportunities in parallel.
Musk’s big mouth and ego let him overpay about $20 billion for twitter.
Twitter like FB and Meta are generational…..hardly no one under 20 signs up these days. Zuckerberg has dropped $100 on Meta…Metaverse is a dog that will never succeed imo.
Dogs have puppies ;)
https://m.
Last year it cost about aus$32k to ship a container across the pacific…now it costs about aus$4k.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/10/17/holiday-shopping-ocea...
Roadkill wrote:Twitter like FB and Meta are generational…..hardly no one under 20 signs up these days. Zuckerberg has dropped $100 on Meta…Metaverse is a dog that will never succeed imo.
yep, seeing this
velocityjohnno wrote:Roadkill wrote:Twitter like FB and Meta are generational…..hardly no one under 20 signs up these days. Zuckerberg has dropped $100 on Meta…Metaverse is a dog that will never succeed imo.
yep, seeing this
All true but then the likes of Zuk and Musk will just buy out whatever the kids are using and the circle is completed. They have so much capital, and are backed by the investment industry, so they can afford their vanity projects.
Getting back to Musk and Twitter, I struggle with the concept that it is okay to sack a huge number of staff without notice as a means of turning a profit. It's no better than the corporate raiders of old who stripped assets and dumped the remains of their takeover victims.
Btw.. Zuck had dropped $100 billion the above $100 is an error
Supafreak wrote:Do ya think Elon regrets buying Twitter ? I’m trying to get my head around him now trying to make money out of Twitter, sacks half the staff and then what ? Trying to charge people $8 a month for a blue tick ? You would think someone with that much money would enjoy his life , or is sacking people how he gets his rocks off . https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-05/twitter-sacks-half-of-staff-as-mu...
No doubt he has regrets or mixed feelings buying it, hence why he tried to get out of the deal.
I think his business head was saying this is a stupid move, but his heart was saying i want to make a difference as he has been passionate about free speech and fairness for all and has been very vocal about the issue around twitter.
Even if i dont use it personally i think its cool that he is putting his money where his mouth is.
But yeah he is also a smart business man and twitter was a very poorly run business way over staffed with staff doing little, so i guess he will try his best to clean up the platform and try to make it a viable business and make money.
I suspect it will go backwards before it goes forwards though, lot of lefties will/are upset and will leave the platform same with some sponsors, that's just part of the clean out process as is reducing the staff which is purely business.
Personally i think whatever happens it's a win win, the company either goes backwards and twitter become less of a thing and slowly dies, or it stays around and it becomes a much more fair and equal platform.
flollo wrote:He’s doing what I would be doing if I bought a business - making money. Bizarrely, we live in a time when people evaluate business on everything other than their ability to make profit. He’s obviously reducing the overhead first to maintain some form of healthy cash flow while looking at additional revenue opportunities in parallel.
I thought he bought Twitter for free speech reasons or was that all bullshit ? Many companies including Pfizer stopped advertising with Twitter as soon as Elon took over . Twitter has been losing 4 million a day since he took control mainly from loss of advertising. Doesn’t sound like a good business plan for such a successful businessman. Don’t think he will get many punters to pay $8.00 USD per month. The co founder of Twitter is already looking at starting a different platform called blue sky social. Elon is going to struggle to get his money back ……….then again I could be completely wrong.
First of all, he’s got investors who most certainly want some return on their capital. Secondly, I find it hard to believe that someone would go into a $40B+ deal purely because they are passionate about free speech. I would expect that those capable of pulling such deals off are very good in separating their emotions from business decisions. Thirdly, Twitter was always losing money, it never managed to monetise its operations in a scalable way. So, Musk has free hands to try and change direction in search for profits. As long as the board supports him he can do whatever it takes. Will they cut their support one day? Maybe. And finally, he will definitely get heaps of people to pay $8. Vanity is a ‘terrible drug’ and exploiting it can be quite lucrative. And Elon is a global superstar, even if his own ‘fan club’ joins in it will bring a substantial amount of revenue.
So why do you think he tried to pull out of the deal ? Did he realise it wasn’t a good investment ? Stuck with it now, can’t see investors getting a return myself but let’s wait and see .
If this is really him , he’s got a sense of humourTrash me all day, but it’ll cost $8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 5, 2022
Only on Twitter can we watch a man worth $200 billion negotiate with a man worth $500 million about saving $12 a month. pic.twitter.com/pttRSHvTtc
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) November 1, 2022
flollo wrote:First of all, he’s got investors who most certainly want some return on their capital. Secondly, I find it hard to believe that someone would go into a $40B+ deal purely because they are passionate about free speech. I would expect that those capable of pulling such deals off are very good in separating their emotions from business decisions. Thirdly, Twitter was always losing money, it never managed to monetise its operations in a scalable way. So, Musk has free hands to try and change direction in search for profits. As long as the board supports him he can do whatever it takes. Will they cut their support one day? Maybe. And finally, he will definitely get heaps of people to pay $8. Vanity is a ‘terrible drug’ and exploiting it can be quite lucrative. And Elon is a global superstar, even if his own ‘fan club’ joins in it will bring a substantial amount of revenue.
There is no board. Twitter is now a private company…the board was dissolved as part of the takeover.
Who knows? Look, I think it’s a terrible deal and Musk is stretching himself way too much. It me not like he quit his roles in Tesla and Space x. This mindset of sleeping in the office and stuff is just ridiculous. I really think that Twitter is the last thing he needs and I believe that he would’ve had second thoughts many, many times.
But the whole financial aspect needs to be looked from a much longer time span. Tesla was losing money for years and they only turned some profits recently. I remember when Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 for $1B. Everyone was outraged but look at it from todays perspective - it was a steal. So honestly, I don’t know if Twitter will pay off for Musk. But what I do know is that Musk can attract billions to keep this thing running at a loss for a long time until he gets what he wants. And Dorsey was a terrible CEO who really didn’t bring any value to investors. Anyone who was interested in having an equity in twitter would feel relieved (although it’s a private company now so things might be messier).
Have it cunts