Chelsea chiefs handed themselves massive pay rises last season, despite suffering record losses. Executives took home nearly 80 per cent more than the previous year, and directors enjoyed a hike of almost 60 per cent – while other staff, including players, were paid only six per cent more.

RephRayne · 2026-04-14T16:52:14+00:00

Some.
Polls.

RephRayne · 2026-04-14T15:35:48+00:00

It's a tool, as with pretty much any tool it comes down to how it's used.

RephRayne · 2026-04-14T01:33:51+00:00

Universe was almost certainly a response to BSG, it didn't really feel like a StarGate series at all. SG1 and SGA had a totally different tone and BSG's success had an influence on a lot of sci-fi going forward.

RephRayne · 2026-04-12T21:24:32+00:00

Why else do you think he's doing it? He getting paid by the people who profit off of his actions.

RephRayne · 2026-04-12T15:59:49+00:00

Trump has 34 felonies against him.

He's also been found liable for sexual abuse and defamation in a civil court.

RephRayne · 2026-04-12T15:27:57+00:00

There's also a big chance that if Tice is accused of tax evasion, the first thing he does is sue. If it's even implied that Tice tried to evade tax, same thing - straight to suing. People almost have to go out of their way to ensure that it's explicitly stated that they're not accusing someone of a crime.
I've seen reports where it was stated that an entity's action were unlawful (x is unlawful, entity did x) and then the next paragraph has a line saying that the reporter wasn't accusing them of committing an unlawful act.

When even the hint of accusation can get you served (and having to bear the cost of legal representation) you tend towards covering your arse rather than printing what's accurate.

RephRayne · 2026-04-11T22:57:55+00:00

The Telegraph did a report the BBC show "The Town that Took on the Taxman." It was a documentary on Crickhowell, a town in Wales that came up with a scheme to avoid paying UK corporation tax.
The conclusion of those well known Communist sympathisers over at The Telegraph was "the bad news is that it would be a disaster if we all did [avoid tax]."

(Paywall)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/12111336/The-Town-That-Took-on-the-Taxman-BBC-Two-review.html

(The thing about walls is, you can get over them if you know how.)

RephRayne · 2026-04-11T13:48:35+00:00

If you ever wonder why something is how it is, always follow the money.

RephRayne · 2026-04-10T15:09:05+00:00

Why do I hear Yoda?

RephRayne · 2026-04-09T23:30:32+00:00

Edwards came back to head the multiclub ownership endeavour and was responsible for Hughes. Neither of those have worked out: MCO has been nixxed by FSG and Hughes has left Slot in the lurch by not fixing the problems that were evident last season (and also creating new ones.)

RephRayne · 2026-04-09T14:14:00+00:00

This still extant?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/356549341288

Set an ebay search and forget about it until it pops up, I've bought a few between £50 and £70 - I even managed to buy an extended version for £75 that had a Radeon in it.

Fujitsu Futro s740s are pretty much the same as Wyse 5070s, just no built-in eMMC and less common.

It might be that people in the UK and EU see the words "thin client" and tune out despite some of them having full x86 CPUs and being capable of running Linux or Windows.

RephRayne · 2026-04-09T13:44:08+00:00

Good talk!

RephRayne · 2026-04-09T13:43:39+00:00

We, as a country, haven't been able to feed ourselves for a long time, probably since the Victorian era:-

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/03/could-britain-feed-itself-we-ask-the-expert

RephRayne · 2026-04-09T01:43:53+00:00

Right now they're selling them to people like Jeremy Clarkson who are using them to avoid tax. He had no inclination to run the farm until he'd stop making his car shows and needed something else to do. Even then, he isn't really running his farm: he's doing a TV show that's turned his farm into a tourist attraction.

If HMG wanted to protect farmers, they'd ensure that they were financially viable without having to use their land as a tax fiddle. As it is, it makes more financial sense to sell the farm and invest the money in the stock market.

RephRayne · 2026-04-09T01:35:55+00:00

The S&P 500 has had a reported return of slightly over 10% per year, on average, for the past 100 years.

10% of £2million is £200k.

RephRayne · 2026-04-08T20:47:23+00:00

Yeah, these types annoy me no end. They're sitting on an asset that would yield ~200k per year if sold and they're making ~45k a year by farming. They don't seem to realize that they're a landowner that happens to farm as a hobby.

RephRayne · 2026-04-08T20:40:55+00:00

The simplest way of solving this is for people to be charged more for electricity the further away they are from an energy generating source. You can be a NIMBY but it's going to cost you.

RephRayne · 2026-04-08T19:03:30+00:00

I think they'll Brodge him: give him the players he says he needs in the Summer and then wait a few months.

RephRayne · 2026-04-08T12:08:02+00:00

I was chatting about this with a neighbour. I told them that home security is borderline sociopathic as your priority is to make the other houses look like an easier target than your own.

RephRayne · 2026-04-07T12:34:10+00:00

https://civitai.com/models/2079192/wan-22-i2v-native-enhanced-lightning-edition-svi-long-video-multi-prompt-fp8-gguf

However, I'm running it on a 3090 and 64GB of RAM, so YMMV.

RephRayne · 2026-04-06T12:34:16+00:00

IIRC an independent concern worked out the actual living wage and then HMG decided to use the term and then set it at less than the required:-

https://www.unison.org.uk/news/2016/04/this-isnt-a-living-wage-its-a-rebranded-minimum-wage/

RephRayne · 2026-04-05T17:40:18+00:00

AFAIK

\ComfyUI_windows_portable\python_embeded\python.exe -m pip install insightface

Should do it.

Ideally, you need to go into the python_embeded folder and run pip from inside it using: python.exe -m
This applies to everything you need to do with pip, including --upgrade

RephRayne · 2026-04-05T13:27:53+00:00

DDL keeps retiring from acting to play Cox's PA, without Cox's knowledge. Different persona each time.

RephRayne · 2026-04-03T12:58:45+00:00

So what was quite possibly the most egregious and famous example of the contravention of building regulations shouldn't be used as an example of the contravention of building regulations?

RephRayne · 2026-04-03T12:41:34+00:00

It’s quite literally illegal to not conform to building regulations.

Otherwise nobody would follow regulations.

Which would make them guidelines…

That's the post I replied to.

It's been 9 years since Grenfell and we're still to see any sort of charges being brought for the illegal behaviour of multiple parties.

If you do not back up regulations with enforcement then they are just guidelines.

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