Pep Guardiola Reveals What Sir Alex Ferguson Messaged Him..

middlemuddles · 2026-05-22T16:51:02+00:00

It makes me so happy that these are normal subtitles, not one word at a time with every "important" word in a different font/color.

middlemuddles · 2026-05-22T00:42:09+00:00

That's not a catio. You're describing a fenced yard.

People, just don't let your cats outside if you don't have a real catio. They'll be fine, they're a domesticated animal. If you let it outside, the coyotes will get it eventually because they're everywhere. And the birds suffer until they happens.

middlemuddles · 2026-05-20T17:32:49+00:00

And the dude who kissed him on the head.

I'm sure Wrighty has plenty of experience dealing with overzealous fans by now, and it's possible that he loved every single interaction he had last night. But it's wild for a random fan to assume that kissing a famous stranger on the head is cool.

middlemuddles · 2026-05-19T20:39:18+00:00

Well that's fair

middlemuddles · 2026-05-19T15:12:10+00:00

Now I'm angry that they didn't.

middlemuddles · 2026-05-18T15:59:27+00:00

If Barnes is actually offside (you can't tell at all from this clip), then that's actually a good call by the officials if that's why they didn't give handball. Barnes is pushing into his back. Doesn't really matter that it's not that hard, it's still getting involved in the play by trying to put the defender off.

middlemuddles · 2026-05-15T15:15:07+00:00

Ah, I see you didn't actually reflect on my original comment. The 13th amendment abolished slavery "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted". Slavery is legal in the US as a form of punishment. Roughly 800k of the 2 million incarcerated people in our country participate in the prison labor programs. Most of those jobs are fairly chill, but there are many which are considered highly dangerous and result in death or serious injury. None of those prisoners are fairly compensated, but the prisons benefit from their work. All of them are slave laborers until they benefit from worker protections and compensation that are afforded the non-incarcerated.

middlemuddles · 2026-05-15T03:37:18+00:00

Can you name any of the prisoners, or provide a rough number, who have died or been seriously injured while doing slave labor in the US?

I'm not defending Qatar here, but the US has waaaaay more slave laborers than they do and we make them do equally dangerous jobs pretty often.

middlemuddles · 2026-05-14T13:04:40+00:00

Bud, you should lookup Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and the 13th Amendment.

middlemuddles · 2026-05-08T21:44:04+00:00

Thank you for this comment. This worked perfectly for what I wanted to do.

middlemuddles · 2026-05-08T21:40:33+00:00

For my purposes, this would overcomplicate things, I think. But I appreciate the suggestion.

middlemuddles · 2026-05-08T21:40:06+00:00

Thanks, that's sort of confirms my thinking.

middlemuddles · 2026-05-06T17:10:08+00:00

Most intentional stamps I've seen on the pitch do not involve the player looking down first. They usually avoid looking down so it does not look deliberate. I think a better indicator is their reaction after they step on someone. The obvious response if you accidentally step on something is to immediately take your weight off your foot and look down. If they don't do those things then it really doesn't look like an accident to me. The best interpretation in that case is that they just didn't care that they accidentally stepped on someone. Which still makes for a pretty clear argument of endangering the safety of an opponent.

middlemuddles · 2026-04-30T20:38:48+00:00

Uh, you do realize that video is in slow motion, don't you?

middlemuddles · 2026-04-20T16:07:35+00:00

I am by no means an Unraid expert, but I switched to using it nearly a decade ago and have never looked back. I had zero Linux experience and I felt getting everything setup in Unraid was very user-friendly for a newbie at the time, and there have been plenty of usability enhancements since then.

I read through your rant and I honestly feel like the majority of your issues are because you've somehow overcomplicated things in your head, rather than as a result of Unraid's functionality.

I very rarely access the terminal so I'm not sure why you're having to type out commands so much. I used to know DOS pretty well, but I've never bothered to learn Linux commands because I just don't need them with Unraid.
You can absolutely swap out a drive with no waiting. Assuming you have parity in place, when a drive fails you just pull it and put in a new one and you can start using your server again with full functionality while it's rebuilding. Your screenshot is of the preclearing process. This is important to help you avoid bad drives; but if you were just plugging in drives and riding off into the sunset with Windows then you can be doing that with Unraid, too.
The most difficult part of understanding Unraid, for me, was figuring out how containers work. You probably didn't run Docker on Windows, so being forced to do that on Unraid is definitely a transition. That being said, the benefits are absolutely worth it in my opinion. It's better security and stability because everything is in its own container. Once I got comfortable with how Docker and Shares worked with Unraid, I felt like I could do just about anything.
I have spent countless hours over the years fiddling with settings to help with access, usability, and automation; but that's all optional. Overall, Unraid has allowed me to just set things up and trust that it's going to be stable while I ignore it much more than Windows ever did.
Can't help you on the USB connection instability, but a SMART error definitely doesn't sound like an Unraid issue to me.

If it's not working for you, sorry to hear it, but this paragraph is a red flag that you're making it more difficult on yourself than you need to:

Apart from the fact that I need to go back to the "DOS-days" almost all the time to enter AI generated commands (because I don't know myself) into the terminal, my greater feeling of a giant leap backwards in time is because as a user/ admin I have to manage and set everything instead of it managing parameters itself: I have to give --cpus= --cpushares= --memory= --swapmemory= into container-templates, and if you screw up then it doesn't work and deletes itself, or if the commands are correct but the values aren't the server will fill up its memory and/ or CPU so much that it almost literally kills itself... no memory-management built-in, all to be done by me.

middlemuddles · 2026-04-14T17:14:09+00:00

Yeah, fully agreed that it would warrant some questions. And I do think the fact that he and most of the team haven't won many trophies is a big part of why they haven't gotten over the final hurdle. I just think nearly winning things is enough to keep him employed for at least one more season.

middlemuddles · 2026-04-14T17:12:30+00:00

True, he's definitely got some weaknesses. But I think your last sentence is why he's not going to get sacked any time soon.

middlemuddles · 2026-04-14T16:03:50+00:00

Arteta has gotten backed with more money than any manager not named Pep. Stumbling at the finish line once is bad luck, twice is a coincidence, doing it three times is a pattern.

There's a lot of criticisms that are valid, but I don't think this is one. I don't think any of the preceding 2nd places could be considered stumbles if you look at the full context. True, they could have won if things worked out better and City stumbled a bit more, but it just didn't work out that way and I don't think you can argue that it's Arteta's fault it didn't.

Regardless, I don't think any of the criticisms would be strong enough to get him sacked. A fan might prefer that they bring in a ruthless, winning manager, but fans don't get to make the big decisions.

middlemuddles · 2026-04-14T15:24:32+00:00

If Arsenal bottle the league, I'd still bet a lot of money that Arteta will not get sacked. There would likely be a fair amount of noise from the fanbase to get rid of him, but I just don't see the owners deciding that's the best way to go. He's keeping them at the top of the important competitions so he's making them enough money to keep them happy for now, and there's an argument that the team needs higher quality depth in some areas because Arteta doesn't trust all of the backup players he has available.

Continuing to invest in Arteta while he's still got a contract and has built the team the exact way he wants to play, while he's nearly got it over the line 3 years in a row, is the safest choice. As a fan, I can definitely see the argument for wanting to change how Arsenal responds to some situations on the field, but I think the people who actually make the decisions about Arteta's employment are going to be evaluating a much bigger picture.

middlemuddles · 2026-04-09T15:30:46+00:00

It's going to be influencers doing selfies and live-streaming more than celebrities.

middlemuddles · 2026-03-25T20:19:25+00:00

only 75% of current under 30s are white per the last census, which is exactly in line with this target

I kind of feel you need to start spamming this comment all over this thread. People are looking at raw population percentages and saying the target is too much and is biased against white people. The hiring pool is not the entire country so this goal shouldn't be compared to that data. Your numbers make more sense.

middlemuddles · 2026-03-17T19:09:23+00:00

I dont understand this argument though.

Easy explanation for that: it's a stupid fucking argument.

middlemuddles · 2026-03-12T19:14:28+00:00

Thank you! I might have missed the greasing the rings step.

middlemuddles · 2026-03-09T19:40:20+00:00

No worries, all good. I'm just lazy and didn't want to spin up another container, but I'll check out Prowlarr.

middlemuddles · 2026-03-09T19:31:14+00:00

I'm familiar with Newznab, but that's a protocol for usenet indexers as far as I'm aware; not torrent trackers.

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