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@BruinsMTL @reporterchris Media is what drives league revenues come playoff time. It creates engagement, viewership, etc and the league has commitments for their existing contracts.

@reporterchris That seems like a crazy overreaction. Like what does the league gain out of doing this?

The NHL has imposed significant punishments on the Vegas Golden Knights for "flagrant violations" of the league's playoff media regulations: Vegas forfeits its 2026 second-round draft pick and head coach John Tortorella is fined $100,000. The club had been warned previously

@Jumbo_Joe97 @SamAMcKee Last time Leafs played a team this bad he was like 22.

@SamAMcKee Legitimately why the fuck couldn't he do any of this in the playoffs over the course of 9 years for us?

“He’s already witnessed the Habs dominate to have a chance to move onto the conference finals at home, make Mitch Marner score the nicest goal of his career”

Right, but what do you think someone visiting a city whos having an unexpected experience is reacting to? Cutting edge technologies at the margin (like FSD or AI) or the general experience? I think the median here is that while what youre saying holds true, that the blast radius of tech here hasnt expanded to impacting day to day life like it does elsewhere.

I think we’re talking about different things. What I’m talking about are the technologies that are going to keep a country at the frontier of innovation, like AI, humanoid robots, space exploration, biotech, etc. While I wish we had more HSR in North America, the country that deploys the fastest trains is not going to have a competitive advantage going forward in the same way that the winner of the AI race will. That’s quantifiable, not subjective. By the way, I’m not trying to discount China or Japan. But the truth is that, broadly speaking, America leads the world in the development of cutting-edge technologies. That’s not necessarily a given going forward, but it’s certainly the case right now.

just met a japanese guy visiting sf for the first time who was deeply disappointed by how not-high-tech the city was. paris syndrome but for people expecting san francisco to look like the future

@iancjacobson @paularambles You're just cherry picking again like you did with the LEDs. Your original example was self driving cars and yet you left out transportation, where they have a HSR system that North America is generally unable to build. What matters is subjective, thats the point.

@FullyAlexD @paularambles They also still use fax machines. I love techno aesthetics as much as the next guy, but the technologies that really matter in the long run are not vending machines and crosswalks.

@iancjacobson @paularambles Have you been to Japan? Has nothing to do with LEDs, there is micro and macro advancements all over the place. Cross walks, vending machines, transportation, restaurants, appliances, stores, etc. Things just feel ahead.

@paularambles It’s because all the Silicon Valley tech companies are incentivized to invest in actually useful things like self-driving cars, as opposed to useless things like LEDs on buildings. We’re not China.

@JW_eats_plastic @TOSportsAdam Marner was an active participant in this happening? His camp threatened to sign an offer sheet and leave if Marner didnt get his 11m first contract? Then proceeded to put up 0.3ppg in games 5 6 7 over his tenure. Is the blue line responsible for that?

@TOSportsAdam no, leafs fans are the bad guys for dumping on a player so hard he decided to skip town rather than holding management accountable for building a top-heavy non-contender a.k.a. shittier edmonton. hardly marner’s fault he had an AHL blue line for years

So Marner is capable of performing in the playoffs but Leafs fans are the bad guys for asking our star forward to do this?

@JimmyDunphy1 @JLazzy23 Its not "some games". Marner had zero goals and only a few secondary assists in every game 6 or 7 he ever played in TO. Talking 0.3 ppg in important games while the bulk of his playoff points were in games 1-3. He earned his reputation and the fans frustrations.

@JLazzy23 In 79 career playoff games he’s got 76 career points. I’m so sick of this dumb narrative. This is hockey, a player will go without a point in some games. 76 points in 79 games is beyond impressive for the playoffs especially for a guy that could get selke votes every year.

As an outsider to Toronto, I think multiple things can be true here. Mitch Marner has been incredible this postseason and what he’s doing right now is exactly the kind of impact a lot of people always believed he was capable of with the Leafs. The criticism was never really about his talent, everyone knew how elite he was. It was more about whether he could consistently deliver in the biggest moments. He’s showing exactly why he’s considered one of the game’s best playmakers and most complete forwards. Cool to hear this passion from Torts

As a Leafs fan I dont really understand these narratives, at all. Marner consistently under performed in Toronto when it counted. I dont care that hes performing against teams that wouldnt have even made the playoffs in the east. Both parties are better off here. Happy for him, happy hes gone.

@richardartoul Disagree. They are a market for volatile assets. Is Robinhood a B2C app as well? Pretty sure people have their life savings on there as well.

such an annoying take it’s totally fine for a B2C app to have a dependency on a single AWS region no one will die if Coinbase is down for a few hours, its fine

@OrevaZSN Used to work on teams. Power toys "awake" is your friend, if its not locked by your admin.

Whatever Microsoft engineer decided to make the Teams status indicator change from green to yellow after two minutes of inactivity, come here. I just want to talk.

@Ryan01020304061 Costs to single host countries are enormous because they dont have the infrastructure ready to go. Look up Brazil, SA, Qatar, etc. More countries not willing to spend like that on single events.

What is this fascination with having tournaments over multiple countries now. It’s crap.

@waxyms @MattSpoke Who cares about over performance per employees? Its a countries pension fund its not about outright performance its about meeting obligations.

A “sovereign wealth fund” usually starts with actual wealth: surpluses, royalties, or national savings. Canada has federal deficits. So this is not really a wealth fund. It is more government debt dressed up as an investment strategy. And if the goal is to get major projects built in Canada, the first problem is not a shortage of federal investment vehicles. We already have the Infrastructure Bank, Canada Growth Fund, BDC, EDC and others. The real problem is that we make projects too hard to approve and build. Federal money may help at the margins. But it is not the main reason mines, ports, pipelines, transmission lines, energy projects and major infrastructure are delayed or cancelled. Remove the regulatory obstacles first. Then private capital will show up.

@_scubadrew @peteremcc Well to start its not an investment into a launch vehicle its for the facility. Equivalent would be starbase before anything was developed.

@FullyAlexD @peteremcc $200M? It just cost SpaceX $90,000,000 to launch the Falcon Heavy. What’s $200M CAD going to do?

I promise I am not joking... This is Canada's spaceport. Last month, the federal government paid $200 million to a company called Maritime Launch Services to lease it for 10 years.

My entire point was the lazy answer here is that anything can be framed as debt when you run a deficit. Youre still doing that lazy thing in responding like that. They havnt announced. While almost certainly will be debt financed in year one, we'll see what the longer term outlook is.

@FullyAlexD So the $25bn announced for this will not be debt?

@jordan_neufeld @CTVNews If you think investment if fleeing now youd hate to see what a surplus looks like

@FullyAlexD @CTVNews That’s a pretty scary stat to find solace in. We print money and run massive deficits while business investment flees Canada. Without productivity to back up the debt the liberals are creating, the only thing this economy is building is an inflation bomb.

Federal government reports $25.5B deficit for its April-to-February period ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…

@jordan_neufeld @CTVNews Canada has the healthiest debt position of any G7 economy..

@CTVNews I love how the crowd of people most afraid of becoming the 51st state continues to elect the party that is rocketing us toward becoming the 51st state. At this rate, the US is going to be able to buy us at a foreclosure auction.

@Darrellhuddy @StephenPunwasi No, its lease financing. The 20M is for build out of the 4 pad facility with a spend mandate of 90% within Canada. The gov gets 10 ywar guaranteed access to the pad through it. Same thing as US DoD launch services model.

@FullyAlexD @StephenPunwasi If I'm correct, the government is leasing it from that company and the company is leasing it from the government?

Left: 🇨🇦’s Spaceport Nova Scotia. 🇨🇦’s Gov is paying a private party $200m to be one of the users, on Gov owned land. Right: Norway's Andøya Spaceport, 90% Gov owned. They built it for $43 million (€29.3m). Any questions?