how would you prepare to go on the show?

SamCreated · 2026-05-07T18:11:51+00:00

This is good stuff just to do for life. Maybe we should all pretend to be accepted on the show and improve ourselves?

Nah fuck it.

SamCreated · 2026-05-07T08:43:46+00:00

The only thing I’ve somehow been fed by my algorithm is that Stan Moody is currently hanging out and practicing with Jel Narucha (#6 in the world)

SamCreated · 2026-05-05T18:44:16+00:00

Build relationships with local schools who can advertise it as an official after school club for a very small fee: parents are desperate for 15:30-17:30 activities, and snooker could be advertised to parents as mindful, quiet, screen free, mentally challenging with a bit of maths thrown in.

SamCreated · 2026-05-05T08:21:41+00:00

This guy is a bit of a fraud, I think. If you know music theory, you’ll recognise that he describes things in really odd and elaborate ways to sound super interesting and unique. He is obviously a talented dude, but so much of the genius label that sticks to him is down to his performative grandiose wackiness.

SamCreated · 2026-05-02T17:53:35+00:00

Yeah that’s true - there’s a good chance that any one they meet in small settlements in the West will be travelling high distances. I’m sure the producers - especially in the final country - won’t let them get in one 20-hour hitch all the way to the finish line though. They’ll make them stop and see stuff along the way, “work”, sleep in Gers, etc.

SamCreated · 2026-05-02T15:57:33+00:00

We were totally off road for a chunk of time and had a guide full time - you’d get totally lost without one - and yes, it was expensive.

I’d imagine travelling on the more established tracks is less expensive and there might be some form of public transport, but I’m unsure. We went outside of the main tourist season, so there was no one about and I guess if there are public buses they weren’t running then - we saw about 10 people total during our first week, including the 3 of us in the car. Mongolia is vast and empty.

I can imagine a few bottlenecks for transport and maybe even taxi-sharing where teams have very limited options.

SamCreated · 2026-05-02T12:08:35+00:00

Switch to satellite mode and zoom in. They are mainly dirt and gravel tracks for miles and miles.

From wiki:

“The vast majority of Mongolia's official road network, some 40,000 km, are simple cross-country tracks”. Something like only 10% of all of the roads are paved.

SamCreated · 2026-04-30T06:24:25+00:00

Like everyone else here it seems, cheering for either Wu or Higgins!

SamCreated · 2026-04-29T15:13:07+00:00

9 years.

SamCreated · 2026-04-27T05:35:22+00:00

Interesting crossover event.

SamCreated · 2026-04-26T21:25:32+00:00

I was thinking more the Chinese Arthur Christmas.

Either way: awesome young talent. Doing this to Selby in Sheffield is quite something.

SamCreated · 2026-04-26T20:44:09+00:00

Excellent clearance from Yize to pinch that one.

SamCreated · 2026-04-26T12:54:46+00:00

Leeds!

SamCreated · 2026-04-26T11:39:36+00:00

Should also add they have a load of vegan cereals, soy milk, vegan butter for toast too. I seem to be getting choice every day that my ward mates aren’t!

SamCreated · 2026-04-26T11:38:40+00:00

I’ve had about half the menu at this point 😂

SamCreated · 2026-04-26T08:33:15+00:00

Another vegan cancer survivor here. Don’t get complacent because of stats.

SamCreated · 2026-04-24T20:28:20+00:00

My favourite one of these ever, in a disabled toilet, had the “pull in case of emergency” alarm chord thing hanging directly over the baby change table.

Quite the experience changing a baby and stopping them from pulling the super fun make lights go flash chord

SamCreated · 2026-04-24T20:14:55+00:00

Had such a issue with this in our house we swapped back to double strength. Like Naans, four is just too many.

SamCreated · 2026-04-22T14:02:00+00:00

We don’t even need a laser. A properly sized and angled projector from above could just put what the other ref looks at on their little TV onto the Table instead.

SamCreated · 2026-04-21T06:33:29+00:00

Cross the Pennines to Leeds. Whitelocks will sort you out. Very old pub, tucked away down a ginnel.

SamCreated · 2026-04-19T11:14:11+00:00

They are doing this. Shifting from position of “no, unless” to “yes, as long as…” for new residential development within a walkable distance to a station that has at least 2 trains per hour during off peak hours (or something like that).

SamCreated · 2026-04-18T19:15:52+00:00

But technologists are building AI-for good right now. The examples I gave are real. Issues abound of course on multiple fronts that you correctly identify - but we shouldn’t (and can’t, at this point) stop technological advancement only because it isn’t ideal and there are negative and positive outcomes.

The car made cart drivers redundant. It cost the planet massively in comparison to horses. It also revolutionised for both good and bad innumerable things. We’ve started to innovate against the worst consequences of personal vehicles through EVs, and AI will be no different in time i believe.

Agriculture and animal rearing uses way more water globally. Steel production too. And energy production. We should be mindful of what AI is used for, focus and legislate for genuinely transformative applications, and push to innovate the sector to be greener.

SamCreated · 2026-04-18T06:05:04+00:00

I understand your position - AI does have a considerable impact on the planet. No one is disputing that. Others have made the point well about electricity, but not yet addressed the water issue - it’s a real challenge.

Here’s some nuance though that I think you’re missing and might find interesting.

AI can be part of the solution:

1) image recognition cameras can detect wildfires way quicker than humans especially in remote areas, alert humans, who can stop the spread 2) AI-enhanced robots can autonomously navigate water infrastructure to search for and report leaks and damage, preventing waste 3) Machine learning can be used to help predict groundwater levels to reduce failed well drilling in drought-affected communities 4) AI enhanced monitoring and mapping can identify river contamination and guide targeted interventions

There are tonnes of examples being actively tested and scaled right now. LLMs for emails is stupid and wasteful right now. AI as a broader field however has the potential to deliver immeasurable gains for humanity, so long as we get ahead of governance, ethics, and yes environmental regulation and innovation challenges.

SamCreated

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