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Gary Lineker, "Jim Ratcliffe is a migrant himself, an economic migrant, he lives in Monaco"

"A lot of the immigrants contribute enormously, and the facts show you that, in terms of revenue, paying tax etc"

"Whereas Jim in Monaco, is doing everything he can to avoid paying tax"

Yes Malcolm!!

Duncan Wier on Premier sport pre game predicting a grand slam. Townsend on BBC pre game agreeing it was the best Scottish team he'd ever coached.

Jerry Cahirs Ireland call up is the greatest opportunity Vodafone will ever have for a Team Of Us ad. They better not blow it. #rugbt #convlein

Politically or.... Otherwise?

Any hope from the mid terms?

I know it's way too early for this introspection, but is this the feeling that Welsh prem teams had in the original transition to regions?

I think Leinster could be playing Lar in a pre season friendly or the rainbow cup and it'd still be fucking ferocious.

Lovely to really care about a rugby game for 80 minutes. To really really Cahir. #leivlar

That's what it used to do.

But it seems to be often rewarding teams who don't try at all in the beginning and then score some garbage time tries when the opponent stops caring.

That's a bit harsh on Castre who have somehow never played in the Prod2!!

This article is a super hard read. If you want a link ask me I can give a link.

The idea that once she was killed, she then had to be tarred is extremely distressing and I didn't fully understand that till I read this.

Thats one point more than a team that concedes 61 points deserves imo. Maybe this debate is tired, but I'd love a video where you review a decade and a half of bonus points (or whatever it's been).

Is rugby the only sport giving out "style points" to losers?

How come it's always my flights home that get delayed. Always.

Yeah it's a bit soft here. Could do with being a bit more edgy.

The Obsequious Threat to Insurance: How AI’s Politeness Could Break Claims Integrity It's important to think about what you are doing with AI - it is absolutely VITAL to think about what your stakeholders are doing with it.

AI panders to you, lies to you and lies to others about you behind your back.

This is why I think that's a problem in my industry.

#insurance #ai #artificialintelligence

This post is so extremely depressing.

This is excellent. Truly a joke deserving of a more active platform

I wish Leinster were just on Bluesky. #Rugby #Leinster

I think it's useful propaganda at home. "See look, most Europeans still love us and vote for our song, even countries like Ireland and Spain who's governments criticise us, their people gave us 12"

Abroad, I think this year they were using it to try and recentre the conflict around October 7th.

A sophisticated state actor has a lot to gain by trying to influence the vote. Just three years ago we had the 2022 jury vote scandal involving Georgia, Romania, Azerbaijan, San Marino and Montenegro.

Im not sure why people are so resistant to the idea it still happens.

Yeah, that's possible. Some of that is grass roots and some is state "nudged" (they've apologised for running ads).

I did see someone show that there was a correlation between nations with lower barriers to esim registration and higher televotes for Israel - but I haven't checked it yet.

Your assumption is that normies don't care - and (for the second year in a row) they also coincidentally and consistently (across several different countries) happened to think one pretty average song was clearly better than 25 others.

It is much more likely that political factors are at play.

If Israel were merely passive performers in Eurovision things might be different. But their intention and participating is intentionally political, it's a tool of the state. Their act is part of that. And that should not be forgotten. #eurovision

Everyone talking about HBO MAX changing names all the time, no one talking about how literally everyone still calls channel 4's streaming service 4od.

I've been saying for a while we've hit peak sauna. I wasn't correct till right now. Sweden, KAL, WTF #eurovision

Estonia is fucking doing a hatchet job on Italy in an unprovoked attack #eurovision

That is cultural plagiarism from Iceland. They're more similar to Jedward than the words Iceland and Ireland are to each other. #eurovision

But if you want to fit into word play it's gotta be Icetagruppen.

The false positives hit really hard on GPT - it reminds me of when teachers used to warn kids that spellcheck wouldn't know which of their, there or they're was correct.

@timharford.ft.com illustrates the dangers in this great ep from his podcast Cautionary Tales.

timharford.com/2024/07/8801/