@M3diumTakes@averyfjames The Conservatives were also very successful at tarring it as a burden on tax payers, even though the tax rebates we received through it netted out to a gain for most consumers. Final nail in the coffin was that multiple provinces were refusing to enforce it
@M3diumTakes@averyfjames There's some nuance, but essentially the argument was that it wasn't meeting projections for impact on climate targets in the first place, so if you're going to reduce it you may as well scrap it. Important to note as well they scrapped the consumer tax but not the industrial one
@messioso@ScrawnyCG Like I wonder if you could track a cycle of - more slots > talent dilution > worse placements > fewer slots > talent concentration > better placements > more slots - over the course of the last 5 years or so
@messioso@ScrawnyCG It'd be an interesting case study to examine whether the # of slots influences the degree to which talent gets diluted between teams trying to edge their way in for sticker money vs talent concentrating into better teams with a chance of making a deeper run
@coL_Fantasy@messioso It's hard to directly compare baseball ratings when it has such an insane number of games in a season, but it's not like the NBA doesn't also have a bunch of timeout ad breaks
@messioso@coL_Fantasy It's been my sports conspiracy for years that the most successful American sports (baseball, football) are the ones with the most ad break potential because they receive the most sponsor support, not because they're organically the most popular
@TheStalwart@Polymarket The business history of esports over the last 10-15 or so years is a pretty interesting story. From grassroots to massive speculative investment from VC, leading to huge bloat in salaries and prize money. Now caught in a cycle of jumping from one dodgy funding source to another