Recent posts

#1

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by HVC - Today at 05:09:35 PM

Also, why do Brit's call it beetroot? Do you call carrots carrotroot or potatoes potatoetubers?

#2

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by HVC - Today at 05:05:57 PM

I like my beetroot simple. Sliced thick and boiled. Goes great as a side to steak.

#3

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 05:04:19 PM

In a scone?

From the description:

Our No. 1 Balsamic Beetroot & Walnut Tarts make a colourful and delicious festive main course. The crisp shortcrust pastry is filled with chunks of balsamic glazed beetroot and a creamy beetroot mix, topped with crunchy walnut and pumpkin seeds.

As I'm from Liverpool I absolutely love pickled beetroot (traditional accompaniment to scouse). But I think when I've prepared beetroot at home it's always been roasted.

#4

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Grey Fox - Today at 05:00:33 PM

How is the beetroot in that thing apprêté?

I never had beetroot that wasn't marinated or in a scone.

#5

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 04:57:42 PM

Total aside as they're not going to be relevant on the left - I think the Greens won that fight.

But the Corbyn-Sultana party continues to be an absolute shambles. There was an article in the Times summarising its challenges, including the observation that the party at one point had six MPs and four factions fighting each other

Different wings are regularly threatening each other with legal action and regulatory complaints (largely over different wings launching membership systems/collecting data and payments from people).

They're now heading up to Liverpool for the founding conference which will also include a vote deciding the name. The shortlist of names for conference to vote on are apparently:
Your Party
Our Party
Popular Alliance
For The Many

Not really a fan of any of them - but find it very funny that after all the jokes about Your Party as a name they've ended up with it and Our Pary on the shortlist.

And I've just seen that they have kicked out the Socialist Worker Party General Secretary as Your Party has apparently instituted rules banning multi-party membership. He was travelling with Corbyn on the train to Liverpool for the conference when he received the email informing him he wasn't in Your Paty anymore and got into an argument with Corbyn and his wife about this, observed by journalists in the same carriage

#6

Off the Record / Re: Stocks and Trading Thread ...

Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 04:55:05 PM

The Meta earnings call transcript is  available online, we don't have to guess:

https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2025/q3/META-Q3-2025-Earnings-Call-Transcript.pdf

Relevant portion was spoken by CFO Susan Li on page 6:

Within our ads products, we're seeing continued momentum with Advantage+. In Q3, we  completed the roll out of our streamlined campaign creation flow for Advantage+ Lead campaigns, so now advertisers running sales, app or lead campaigns have end-to-end automation turned on from the beginning, allowing our systems to look across our platform to optimize performance by automatically choosing criteria like who to show the ads to and where to show them. The annual run-rate of revenue running through our end-to-end automated solutions has now reached $60 billion following the implementation of the new streamlined creation flow as we continue to see more advertisers leverage the performance benefits of our solutions. 

1. She is talking annual, not quaterly revenue.
2. the 60 billion refers to ALL  revenue "running through our end-to-end automated solutions"  I.e. she is just counting all ad revenue that Meta/FB generated where the advertiser used one or more of their optimization tools.

There is no claim that the optimization tools drove incremental revenue (i.e. people might have been buying anyways).  These are existing advertising clients that are making use of some of the tools FB made available.

#7

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by mongers - Today at 04:54:49 PM

Yeah I think it'd be tasty I like beetroot, balsamic and walnut and can see how they work together (often in salad together) after all.

I also think for Waitrose that's admirably restrained and not that pretentious

I rest my case. 

 

Beetroot yuck. Walnut meh. The whole thing, bleh.

Tamas, our tastes are too provincial. 

#8

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 04:39:59 PM

The US can recognize anything it wants, it doesn't change the facts on the ground. Two weeks ago Trump was wanting to send tomahawks, asking Zelensky to strike Moscow. It's best not to focus too much on the imperial death throes in Washington. They've provided less than 1% of the aid Ukraine received in 2025, confirming their irrelevancy.

This.

It's the reality show Presidency in Washington.  Torrents of words and posturing and mugging for the cameras, no content.  Just ignore it all, Zelensky seems to have figured it out.  Ignore it all, and if the US drops something nice to you at some point, great; otherwise, it's business as usual.

#9

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 04:37:52 PM

Munich from 1938 called, they want their imminent world war back.

I think that's too harsh on Chamberlain and on the call at Munich. Chamberlain has a sense of what he was dealing with but was concerned about the relative lack of preparation; he did use the interim period to gear up for war.

Trump and Witkoff are straight up Quislings, cat's paws for Putin.

#10

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Crazy_Ivan80 - Today at 04:21:19 PM

I wouldn't rule out the possibility that they are just evil hypocrites.

Inconceivable!

I'm hearing that in a very specific voice....