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@iain89200849 @RangersReview55 Get that… but we’re still creating the same number of chances (“xG”) from the corners… so, obviously, it isn’t the delivery is it?

@WorkyJ @RangersReview55 Yeah… but if you look at it and timing of the actual goals drying up it’s coincidentally when Barron got injured. Things were working extremely well prior to his injury.

Rangers haven't scored a set-piece goal in the league since Thelo Aasgaard converted from a corner away at Aberdeen on January 11th. What's going on? Underlying numbers show the chances haven't dried up - far from it. Rohl's side have created the best set-piece xG/90 in the league in seven games since then. The issue is they haven't finished those chances at nearly the same rate as before. ✍️ @JoshuaBarrieRR rangersreview.co.uk/tactics/259467…

@RadioFreeTom Everyone ‘likes’ the girl that dishes out the handjobs. Being liked means fuck all in today’s world of ‘strong men’ and ‘weak Eurocrats’…

We could argue that Trump 1 was a one-off, a freak occurrence. But electing him *twice*? Raises reasonable questions about what kind of electorate would do that.

@Matt247821 @afneil Just want someone capable, pragmatic and willing to be honest with the people. You can’t tell me this Labour govt has anyone that fits that description?

@afneil So you would want a aristocratic toff who would give free money to the billionaires whilst millions of working class and vulnerable people struggle to keep the lights on with hyperinflated energy bills? I would have thought you lot learnt Austerity kills by now.

This is not good news given what will now happen to UK finances as a result of the war on Iran. And perhaps we can have some silence from all those who piled to exaggerate the significance of January’s freak figures. The UK borrowed a higher than expected £14.3bn in February. The shortfall between government spending and income was £2.2bn higher than in the same month a year ago and far above the £8.5bn forecast by economists polled by Reuters. At a time of peril for nation’s finances it is frightening to have R Reeves as Chancellor.

@KallumPickering There is literally 0% chance of 2, let alone 3, hikes on THIS economy, in 2026. Literally ZERO. It’s just overshoot probably combined with a fair bit of leverage and a pretty rapid timeframe for an about turn.

End-26 BoE pricing leaping to 2.5 hikes this year.. market has taken the BoE meeting as V hawkish. 9-0 for hold versus 7-2 expected on the vote.... Move feels overdone... Bailey on the airways trying to talk markets down. #boe #ukeconomy #ukmacro

@AndreasSteno @QuintenFrancois For being weak, in all things, including their energy positioning.

@QuintenFrancois Because Israel and Iran blew up gas fields? How on Earth is that the EUs fault..

Did you say thank you already to our great EU leaders?

@FinanceTiger This Tiger is more like a kitten.

What good would that do?

@toddsaunders Really dumb.

I heard an incredible analogy from a VC friend that I can’t stop thinking about. “The moat in software was the cost of building software. And Claude Code just mass produced a bridge.” It’s wild when you think about the impact of this. The SaaS boom produced a few dozen billionaires and a bunch of zero sum winners. But the AI SaaS era will mass produce millionaires. There will be fewer ServiceTitans hitting $5B valuations, and instead there will be 50,000 companies doing $500K-$5M each, run by 1-3 people with deep expertise and huge margins. To be clear, I believe that the total value of software goes up, and the number of companies created goes up exponentially. But the number of people who capture the value also goes up 100x. I don’t believe in the “SaaS is dying” headline, I think it’s missing the point. It’s simply that the power of SaaS is changing hands.

@FiPotts2000 @RexKwonDo_ But hardly any of that made it onto the actual floor. You’ve just been fed fringe material by ‘the algorithm’ and are now over reacting to something that didn’t actually happen.

@WorkyJ @RexKwonDo_ Much of the rhetoric has been around religious reasons If you've failed to see that then maybe you are living in an echo chamber or just haven't looked into the situation much

A reminder that religion has no place in politics.

@FiPotts2000 @RexKwonDo_ None of the headline arguments against had anything to do with religion. Coercion Slippery Slope Safety of Safeguards Prioritizing Palliative Care Medical Ethics NHS logistics If you’ve failed to grasp that, then maybe your ‘convictions’ aren’t as solid as you thought?

@WorkyJ @RexKwonDo_ I've worked in the NHS for 20 years and spent 19 as a combat medic before that I think I've seen enough to be fairly solid in my convictions towards this

@FiPotts2000 @RexKwonDo_ You don’t worry at all about the potential abuses of this system? You trust they’ll be managed by a state/civil service which is obviously incompetent? I have no dog in this, just think your certainty around this issue is curious.

@RexKwonDo_ Wild that folk vote because they believe in an imaginary entity People in real life will suffer because daft politicians have imaginary friends in the sky

@iain89200849 @RangersReview55 The title of the article is basically that it has little/nothing to do with delivery.

@RangersReview55 When did Barron get injured. Did the majority of set pieces scored not result from his corner kicks?

@1872MB If we had conceded the same goals/game over the last 6 matches as we had over the last 20-odd prior, we’d be top of the league rn by about 4-6pts. Honestly, you don’t have talk some amount of pish.

Scoring more goals is what will win the title tbh

@JuniorMongrol @STVRonnie @EwenDCameron 100%, that is absolutely the vibe.

See this @STVRonnie he knows absolutely nothing. @EwenDCameron is trying to have a conversation and is being shut down before it even happens. He is 100% and SNP voter

@DavidMcGregorBN Capital is faster than legislature. None of these people would be tax resident by the time this tax came round. “It hasn’t worked for anyone else, but it might just work for us”

Wealth tax has become a meme at this point. It sounds good, but this plan would bring in £10bn. Labours first budget brought in an extra £40bn. Quadruple the impact, a fraction of the disruption.

@RosenvoldGeo @SteveL2090 Because one single EU economy has grown, does not disprove the assertion that the EU (which does not grow) is anti-growth… It’s the economic version of “mostly peaceful protests”…

@SteveL2090 But the MAGA argument is also that the EU is a growth killer and that Europe has taken too many middle eastern immigrants

Shit like this infuriates me. 1) Poland’s economic miracle was largely thanks to joining the EU and enjoying massive EU investments. In fact this was the main project for the EU for the past 20 years and a big reason why we didn’t spend as much on defense and tech. 2) They only needed a restrictive migration policy because the US triggered enormous refugee waves by bombing one country after another in the Middle East.

@scotlandscoeff1 @RFC_Michael_ At this point, regardless who you support (RFC for me) you just have to take it in, it’s showtime.

🏆 Latest probabilities to win the Scottish Premiership: 🍀 Celtic: 45% 🇱🇻 Hearts: 29% 🔵 Rangers: 25% 🟡 Motherwell: 0.62% 🧮 Based on best available bookies odds 🔝 Maximum points available: 🇱🇻 Hearts = 87 🍀 Celtic = 85 🔵 Rangers = 84 ⤵️ How the run in might look

@Frencheconomics It’s words. She’s gonna do fuck all.

This is the right ambition from the Chancellor. Will only be realised by taking some difficult decisions to end the rationing of energy, land, and capital. The current reluctance to permit energy generation of all forms, and reluctance to use the existing tax system to incentivise UK capital deployment suggests the ambition is not matched by the policy levers.

@Aidybhoy76 @BoJaM1872 Sorry, I can’t with this. I’m not climbing down there, go talk to a golden retriever or something.

@WorkyJ @BoJaM1872 well aye mate. it’s heart’s to lose

We need 9 out of 9, no excuses.

@Aidybhoy76 @BoJaM1872 Do you think only one team can have it in “their hands” at any one time?

@WorkyJ @BoJaM1872 it’s in hearts hands if they win 9/9

@FredaDuan But again, your assumption is those entry level jobs are not offset by the creation of any new jobs/roles.

Heard $Druckenmiller on a podcast: "Anybody who believes that(i.e. AI will be very deflationary and it will lead to massive job losses) with conviction suffers from arrogance and not an open mind…every technological revolution since was known to man, it’s been declared, for jobs it’s the end of the world…So let’s say the pessimists are right on AI, it’s possible you get a government response with printing and universal income." That got me intrigued, so I asked $Claude and $GPT to go back through history and review a few cases where societies feared that new technologies or structural shifts would trigger permanent mass unemployment: The Luddites (1811-1850s); American farmers (1800s-1970s); Telephone operators (1920s-1960s); ATMs and bank tellers (1970s-2010s); The Rust Belt (1980s-present); Radiologists and AI (2016-present). Full case study: open.substack.com/pub/robonomics… In none of these cases did we get sustained, economy-wide deflation or permanent mass unemployment. --- What actually feels different this time? Speed. The shift from 41% to 2% of the labor force in agriculture took roughly a century. Telephone operators faded over about 60 years. ATMs played out over roughly 40 years. Even Rust Belt deindustrialization - often seen as shockingly fast - unfolded over 20-30 years. AI could move much faster. --- What happens if AI really does cause deflation or unemployment? The Fed has four main anti-deflation tools: - Cut interest rates - QE - Forward guidance - Coordinate with fiscal stimulus - the 2020 playbook These tools can support aggregate demand. What they cannot do well is determine who benefits. The most likely macro outcome may look something like a Rust Belt at scale: nationally, GDP still grows, unemployment stays moderate, and headline deflation never really shows up. But underneath those aggregates, inequality widens and pain gets concentrated. --- If $Dario is directionally right - say 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs disappear within 1-5 years - the math gets meaningful quickly: - Current unemployed = 168M x 4% = 6.7M - 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs displaced = 5M-7.5M - Unemployment could rise toward roughly 7-9% - Historically, U.S. unemployment has usually ranged between roughly 4% and 10% outside extreme crises. A move from 4% to 7-9% would not be unprecedented - but it would be large enough to reshape politics, wages, and social expectations. --- Long way of saying: I’m trying not to be “arrogant without an open mind.” As $Druckenmiller said: "you just have to always be looking at what other people might not be, and then if you’re prepared for it mentally, you can adjust quickly enough, um, in your portfolio to it as it unrolls." +++ Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/robonomics…