done with spreadsheets
done with advanced stats
done with anything that involves a formula
basketball is about who’s a bitch and who isn’t and Chet Holmgren is a fucking bitch
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Her luddite desperation is showing.
Every major technological leap gets treated like an existential evil by people whose politics revolve around fear of production, scale, industry, and profit.
A temporary construction issue near a private well suddenly becomes an argument against the entire existence of data centers, AI infrastructure, and technological expansion itself.
You will be tempted to think your knowledge of the "broken system" is special and tempted to refuse individual solutions. Maybe you'll imagine the system being "fixed." These are foolish.
You become an adult when you start to play the hand you are dealt.
Ratings down 20%, and all they can do is keep trying to hurt the only thing that gave them relevance.
The most self-destructive player group in professional sports.
>be WNBA
>least popular and profitable professional sports leagues the public is aware of
>subsidized entirely by the real NBA
>demand equal pay with the NBA, the second most profitable professional sports league
>demand equal attention as the NBA
>peak woke delivers
>massive investment into WNBA marketing
>simultaneously a massive female basketball star appears in the NCAA
>smell the money coming
>about to Scrooge McDuck up in this bitch
>Indiana Fever drafts the Star
>White House, Congress, the NBA, and multiple airlines onboard to help you fake it until you make it as a real league
>there is literally no way this can go tits up
Fast forward two years.
>star player is the victim of constant intentional fouls
>far worse players go out of there way to complain the star is getting too much attention
>the queen of rebounding her own missed shots forces herself into the spotlight
>the Black players are pissed the star is a White girl
>marketers are pissed the star is a White girl
>peak woke fades
>White House and Congress gets bored
>Indiana Fever players threaten mutiny over the White girl getting too much attention
>deliberately sideline the star player to appease the racist mob that makes up the rest of the team
>attention plummets
>ticket sales fade
>the money has dried up
>back to being the WNBA
This is a fantastic study of Black-on-White racism, to be sure, but I think it’s an even better study of women’s ability or lack thereof to identify and advocate for their own best interests.
I’VE JUST SEEN HIM!!!!!
his name is Dounawan al-Mishal !!
he is pretending to be a basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers and now goes under the name “Donovan Mitchell” !!!!!
Schrodinger left wing logic.
If you're making enough profit to be able to cope with a 16% rise in labour costs then you're an evil profiteering business preying on the poor.
If you can't afford a 16% increase your business is not viable.
dude computers are actually so fucking insane when you really think about it. we literally figured out how to write some fake-ass rules called code and somehow convinced rocks to follow them. like actual rocks. sand, melted, purified, carved into tiny pathways where electricity just flows in patterns. that’s it. that’s the whole magic.
and yet from that we get operating systems, compilers, kernels, networks, distributed systems, machine learning models, entire virtual worlds running inside other virtual worlds. billions of tiny electrical decisions per second, all because we defined some abstract logic.
humans basically invented a language of instructions and taught matter itself to execute it.
BREAKING: Benchmarks for Apple’s M5 Max MacBook Pro have leaked!
Looks like we are seeing almost 30,000 points in multi-core, outperforming every consumer CPU ever made!
Thanks to @jimmyjames_tech for finding these!
@Scummanifestoes Liberalism is an echo chamber in which if you don’t parrot the “current thing”, you get ousted.
It’s forced cohesion, made significantly worse by social media.