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I can’t see people voting for the Dumbarton Leftist Sheepshagging Alliance Party but I’d have it in my manifesto We are all aware of the upcoming problems humanity faces. There just isn’t the political will to deal with it - for now. Awareness of the problem combined with human ingenuity will offset a lot of it.

Anyone been to the 6 Buds Beerhouse near the ground? Does it get rammed?

So a double swoop for him and Congreve. Chuck a million sovs at Snoop Dogg, job done. Bosh.

Completely different game from last night.

On loan from Swansea and under contract until June 2027.

For anyone planning on going to the bar at the ground on Friday, it's a no no. Apparently hosting a private function.

Obviously the Atletico-Arsenal game tonight will be a tedious 0-0 draw.

Are you talking about the pre homo sapien bottleneck thing about a million years ago? I don't think I'm glossing over it, no. There were many extinctions prior to agriculture but, generally speaking, there was a sustainable background extinction rate, which rocketed (relatively speaking) with agriculture and then industrialisation. I don't think there is a good argument to say that we weren't a fit prior to agriculture, but we can definitely say that we aren't since. The answers to the sixth mass extinction are not known, as far as I'm aware. If they are known then they're not being discussed, they don't appear on any political party's manifesto (ever) and those on the left (in available party terms, not total spectrum I'm sure) are just in a different form of denial than those on the right as far as I can tell. I'm fairly certain that the answers cannot lie within modernity's framework, but would happily be shown otherwise. Maybe you can enlighten us with some solutions?

Geiger is doing fine enough in the short spell we've had him. I doubt he'll stick around and we shouldn't be entertaining the rumoured 5 figure weekly wage he currently gets. I'd have Geiger over Cameron everyday of the week.

Real Zaragoza goalkeeper Esteban Andrada has been banned for 13 games for punching an opponent in the face.

I've honestly not seen anything from Geiger that makes me want to keep him

Are you not glossing over the bits where the human race was nearly wiped out and responsible for many extinctions before any of them had even heard of Michael Gove? I don’t think we’ve ever been a fit. The difference now is that the answers are already known. The problem is that most people either don’t care or prefer to actually work against it. A change of mindset is required, especially from those vegetables on the right

Geiger is a good player, who seems to have found his way to the pace of the game. I'd let Cameron go before him. That said, like Aouchiche previously, there's no real logic to his signing. A really important area of the pitch that we've loaned a guy who's wages are astronomical and so we're extremely unlikely to afford permanently. I'm guessing we wouldn't save anything sending him back, so keep him.

Yes, but the animal kingdom isn't subject to abstract rules or voting. Lions don't vote. Nor did humans for 99% of their existence. An existence far more successful* and sustainable than the existing system, and which didn't lead to the potential sixth mass extinction. Voting is an abstraction that is deeply unnatural. I can well imagine there are a hoard of lobbyists at the gates pushing for their preferred consultancy firms, who can use AI to measure well-being very accurately. Within certain boundaries, of course. Oh, and we'll need lots and lots of people's data for that too, as an aside. In an unrelated development, we also have sister companies that can provide fantastic well-being services. *Successful in terms of longevity and ecological fit, rather than abstractions such as most people, or best technology.

It's an oversimplification. Education is metered by the system. If I'm educated today, I'm educated in the workings of the system that I'm voting in, so of course I'm more likely to vote. Being educated in an abstract system is just a game. I'm not educated in how to care for a seriously ill relative when working three jobs for example. Or what food is forageable in May. Or many other things that are nothing to do with the game of the economy, or democracy, but I know how the game works. Because it's designed for, and by, people like me. As is its education system, obviously.

I get you. Although power and control are pretty universal in the animal kingdom and so no system is ever born in a vacuum. There are attempts to change some of that. Believe it or not HM Treasury is committed to well-being as an alternative metric to GDP. I’m not holding my breath though.

What’s the script with the Czech/English lad at Falkirk? Lissah? Is he another Swansea loanee? He’s looked tidy.

This is the issue for me. Morrison looks like he’s getting comfortable in a 3 but Robinson has said that his preference is to play a 433. If he has designs on moving to that once he’s stopped the bleeding then Morrison is a big risk in that.

I would argue that it was that inconvenient world war thing that ushered in those real changes. Of course, those conditions may rear their head again soon! It's certainly not the norm for representative democracy. More importantly though, those changes didn't effect power as held in the system itself, which quickly reverted to the norm. Replicated across the western world. No representative democracy was actually able to discuss the very real rules of the system. Introduction of fiat currency, decide on whether growth should be a metric, what property is, who decides who gets rights, what rights even are, who gets to enforce them using which form of violence, what a nation is and why, where borders are and so on. We've created a game for you with these predefined rules, but it's okay, you get to vote on a few options for change within those rules. But never the system itself. The NHS was well within the boundaries of a system that required healthy labour at a time of huge population and available energy expansion.

Amen to that. Although I seem to have weeded out most of my relationships with Jambos but have lots of Hibee pals. Natural selection I suspect.

Haha. That’s a lot of questions Rico, who knew a throw away comment/judgement could illicit so much need for factual clarification. Let’s just confirm that I was living in the grey when I used the term uneducated and was expressing a point of view as opposed to stating facts. I don’t have the clarification you are looking for but would be interested in your perspective rather than lots of questions. Not having a go, just can’t be bothered picking through the details. Do you disagree there is a correlation or just feels that it’s an over simplification?

You might not be missus, but I certainly am proud of you

Personally, I’d let them both go. Neither good enough or strong/aggressive enough to deliver what we need in defence. Molloy can go too for same reason. Knoester & Tobers (to see if he’s actually a player or not cause lets be honest, none of us know yet) are the only two I’d keep back there, then 2/3 signings that actually fit the bill for this league (Gogic would be one for me even if we only got a year or two out of him) so we can play back 4/5 as required…

I don't think anyone who doesn't live in or near Edinburgh quite gets how difficult it is to want Hearts to win I'm not particularly proud of myself but it is a very basic gut reaction

Not sure I agree. All depends on wages.