@CoreyWriting Sports are one of the few places where TV ratings are up. MLB, NHL, and WNBA ratings have gone up the last few years (though NHL and WNBA started from a much lower base).
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This could be said for everything on tv. TV ratings are way down for everything except the NFL.
Spike Eskin@SpikeEskin
"I need to see some evidence before I believe the NBA is less popular and heading in the wrong direction." This is a New York Times reporter. The biggest newspaper in the US. Finals ratings are literally half of what they were ten years ago. Also, go outside! Talk to literally any normal person. It's obvious! Many regular sports fans are hardly even aware of the NBA unless their local team is succeeding.
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@GavinRoberts222 @UrinatingTree Stuck in mediocrity. They looked young and promising at one point, but their young players never developed.
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Bill Simmons is currently running a victory lap for his earlier comments.
Frank Seravalli@frank_seravalli
#CBJ have been eliminated from playoff contention with one point gained by #LetsGoFlyers. An incredible run by Rick Bowness and the Blue Jackets that just ran out of steam.
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@CTPhDinSports @UrinatingTree Don’t look up where the Crew are in the standings.
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@UrinatingTree Who cares? Columbus is a soccer city
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@UrinatingTree They don’t have enough pieces to build a good team, so they are just going to do this for a few more years before it all falls apart.
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Asking this in all sincerity — is the rhetoric from Sam and Dario closer to something society should want that’s broadly beneficial or doomerism?
Sriram Krishnan@sriramk
I think the doomers need to take a serious look at what they have helped incite and not just rely on “we condemn this and have said this is not the rational response”. This is the logical outcome of “If we build it everyone dies”.
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@DeepDishEnjoyer He doesn’t have the best track record on this.
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Oil doomers sound smart and then you step back and reslize all of lost supply thru straight of Hormuz was on 5 days of global supply . Lol
Live Monitor@amlivemon
Oil doomers sound smart and then you step back and reslize all of lost supply thru straight of Hormuz was on 5 days of global supply . Lol
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@AliceFromQueens About 20% of the site left since Musk bought it.
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Some worry X suppresses engagement of anyone to the left of Catturd
idk what it proves, but my numbers have been strong lately.
Posts attacking Trump & big rightwing accounts do esp well, but so did a lame post abt Buttigieg.
We just don't have the audience we once had
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@commbankerguy I hope this isn’t happening at a time when the bank examiners have big backlogs because of layoffs.
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@valhalla_dev @FullStackNate Whether or not a person holds an opinion is a factual statement. The opinion of experts is how things like expert testimony work.
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@NotAHandleName @FullStackNate Do you understand what fact means? And why “*opinion* of guy with massive vested financial interests in people thinking his tool is incredibly powerful” isn’t a *factual* claim?
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The real tell on this stuff is how violent people are going to be willing to get to counteract industrialization.
If we get an actual radical Luddite resurgence within the Butlerian Left, things could get nasty.
If we just get No Kings but for Tech, we will be fine because they'll get distracted and peter out.
Dean W. Ball@deanwball
If you needed a reminder of why America’s founders were deeply skeptical of democracy and the will of the masses, there is none better than the fact that the American people seem to be enthusiastically banning a wave of industrialization before it has even begun in earnest.
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@valhalla_dev @FullStackNate Why is “the guy building this thinks it will have this bad effect” not factual? If I produced a quote from Dario Amodei and said “the CEO of Anthropic said this” then wouldn’t that be a factual claim?
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@NotAHandleName @FullStackNate That’s not a base. A base to a factual claim is factual.
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@FullStackNate @valhalla_dev How would a person alive in 1900 know whether or not they would?
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@NotAHandleName @valhalla_dev Well, this industry just started. It’s like saying in 1900 that the average person wouldn’t benefit from the automobile or electricity.
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@valhalla_dev @FullStackNate The base is that the people building it think it will cause 25% unemployment and might destroy the world.
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@NotAHandleName @FullStackNate What is its base?
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@valhalla_dev It's crazy how people are trying to kill a technology even before it takes off, all because of the media overblowing legitimate, fixable concerns as permanent existential issues and the baseless assumption that the average person won't benefit in the long run.
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@thejesterhead9 @RobotsWon Why should anyone take your word for it?
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@RobotsWon There are very very smart people who have more influence in this country than you seem to believe
Yes this is a vaguepost
No I will not elaborate
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If you needed a reminder of why America’s founders were deeply skeptical of democracy and the will of the masses, there is none better than the fact that the American people seem to be enthusiastically banning a wave of industrialization before it has even begun in earnest.
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@LiberallyLiving @mattyglesias @CombatSleeping Do you think that censoring coverage at the request of the White House was a good thing? Do you think the Nixon administration was happy to see the Pentagon Papers get published?
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@NotAHandleName @mattyglesias @CombatSleeping But modern progressives will tell you that mainstream news regularly censored its coverage at the request of White House in both wars. The American press has never felt more free to criticize a war and the admin waging it than right now. That's just 100% fact.
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Wright has been treated unfairly by many people over the years, but it’s also the case Brendan Carr keeps overtly censoring television news under the current regime.
It behooves everyone to try to take a broader view of things.
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@LiberallyLiving @mattyglesias @CombatSleeping Conservatives complained about negative news coverage of the Vietnam and Iraq wars too (some of them are still mad at Walter Cronkite), but they never made the same threats that Brendan Carr is making.
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@mattyglesias @CombatSleeping I think it's really hard to make this argument when no Presidential administration in American history has gotten this level of negative coverage from mainstream press. Does anyone really think it's harder to report negative news about the Iran War than the Iraq or Vietnam Wars?
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I calculated that Baltimore was the "last rodeo" of gentrification some time ago, and said so.
Jacob Major@JacoMajor
top 10 fastest growing economy, fastest dropping crime rate... Baltimore is your *last chance* to live the "boomer dream" and get the historic walkable city rowhouse for <300k in America. there are maybe *months* left.
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@elmo_with_a_T @thetrizzles @StatisticUrban The Los Angeles metropolitan area has 3 million more people than Greater London.
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If the US scaled linearly with our progenitor, Britain, we would have 5 cities to rival London.
Instead, we have just one city that rivals London.
Major gap in the market.
fully fund transit@crosstown_line
Philly, DC, SF, Boston, and Chicago - real cities by American standards but not global cities. We should have at least 2-3 NYCs in the east, 2-3 in middle, and 2-3 in the west. Basically what if the US invested massively in electrified rail instead of highways.
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@Empty_America A lot of these buildings used to house multiple families and now house one.
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The value of being in the heart of a major city has increased so wildly that now the wealthy live in renovated servant's quarters.
Pub Maverik@PubMaverik
At one time they were stables and servants quarters for the larger properties at the front, Now these little buildings are houses for the very wealthy.
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