Watching coverage now and grateful I don’t live in the UK where it looks like there’s no way to watch it! Looks like the classic “can they do it on a cold, rainy night in StokeBournemouth” game.

Team: Kelleher. Gomez, Matip, Quansah, Tsimikas, Elliott, Endo. Jones, Salah, Gakpo, Szoboszlai

Substitutes van Dijk, Konaté, Núñez, Mac Allister, Adrián, Jota, Gravenberch, Scanlon, Alexander-Arnold

Surprised we’re starting Mo - although he does get to wear the armband. Maybe he couldn’t resist those lovely white and green shirts lol.

No idea how Mo can shrug it off with a smile when someone grabs him with two arms and wrestles him to the ground with not even a foul given.

I think there’s an assist there for Darwin - which breaks his “I only assist for Mo” record.

Edit: apparently I’m wrong… I guess makes sense that the post breaks the chain. The streak continues!

It’s certainly feels like there’s a 2nd goal in here for Toulouse.

Also it looks like the away end is on fire. No… literally on fire. Camera caught a brief shot and it’s a solid mass of flares… you can see the smoke starting to drift across the rest of the pitch now.

Commentary:

“Endo didn’t need to do much with that cross”

“The technique on that header was excellent”

🙃

Talk about a manager stamping their style on a team, this feels like nothing more than all those Dyche Burnley games.

Solid side out today - doesn’t matter where Everton are in the table, this one always matters. Glad Richarlison is no longer an option for them… always felt like he couldn’t keep his head.

I’ve never understood why there’s a fuss about default wallpaper. It ships with a dozen options and you can obviously install your own. I guess it’s the opportunity for a news story and a sign that things have reached a certain level of development and are getting close to release.

Personally, I saw the item on installing your own dynamic wallpaper at https://www.omglinux.com/dynamic-wallpapers-for-gnome-desktop/, followed the instructions on github and set up a lovely time-of-day based wallpaper based on the game Firewatch (https://github.com/manishprivet/dynamic-gnome-wallpapers#code-firewatch) - I love all the sunrise/sunset options there but if you’ve played Firewatch then this one might speak to you :)

sometimes it’s better to take the Evo than my own car just to avoid parking and dodging traffic on the way back.

I know right? Sure, the Evo concept is not a solution to every traffic/vehicle related problem but there are so many use cases where it’s hellishly handy. I’ve definitely done the same - an Evo into town and no worries about parking… lock and WALK AWAY :)

One Evo can replace a fair number of parked cars…

A rep from Evo told me once that their data suggests each Evo takes 7 privately owned cars off the road. (I know that’s worded badly and yes I’ve seen the way some people drive Evos…)

Absolutely - I think there’s some real estate mantra about how land is the only thing they’re not making more of. Using 18 sq m of it for possibly storing one vehicle is a heck of a waste. I saw some stat that there’s apparently 8 parking spaces per vehicle in the US - they need one at home, one at work, one at every mall that you might want to visit. So that’s 144 sq m of asphalt for storing each car.

True re condo prices… it might work if there was competition and sufficient supply… but we all know that’s not the case.

I would love to see the occasional development that goes hard against parking. Build it over or across the street from Skytrain, provide 10% or more Modo/Evo spaces and zero or near zero residents parking. Then cut the price of everything by $60/120K given you’re not having to build the cost of underground parking into the prices.

But even if you could persuade the appropriate council to do away with their parking minimums AND there was some way to discourage car owners from buying (have a neighbouring building with lots of parking? Sign some sort of contract?) I know people’s lives change. Just because you work downtown and can take the Skytrain today, doesn’t mean you’re not going to be working in White Rock or Maple Ridge next year. Or a bunch of people are going to shrug, lie about car ownership, buy the cheaper unit and plan to park on the street somewhere - then complain about how they don’t have parking in their building.

Actually, my GENIUS PLAN is for nobody to “own” any parking in a building. Have all the spaces owned by a parking organization that rents them out on a month-by-month basis. That way you reduce the price of every unit by the $60K that each space costs to build and the family buying a 2-bed who don’t need parking don’t pay for it and the couple buying a 1-bed who need two spots can get it too. Also there’s none of the “I drive a monster truck but my unit came with a ‘small car’ space” or “I’m disabled but my unit’s space is miles from the elevator” issues… you just rent out appropriate spaces to each unit depending on their needs.

But obviously the developer is going to want their money up front for the parking they built so whatever organization owns & manages the parking is going to need DEEP pockets and the return on investment is very very slow.

You can’t expect parents to let their kids WALK to school can you? It’s not safe - there’s so many cars around! 🙄