IMO, professional soccer in the US is way behind because it’s less TV friendly. No commercial breaks (other than halftime) means less money coming into the sport than more commercialized competition.

At youth levels, it’s one of the most played sports in the country. Then as soccer-playing American kids get further in their “career”, they get pushed toward other sports where more money is. Colleges rake in cash on football and basketball, and lots of these kids play multiple sports until a coach makes them choose.

4D chess: the pickpockets put up the warning signs.

Amazon spent millions on a single Ring ad during the Super Bowl that was so poorly received it killed a multi-million dollar business deal.

To be clear, all the companies involved are the worst of the worst, so fuck them, but all they had to do was nothing and it would have turned out better (for them, worse for the rest of us).

It’s photoshopped. His tie was too short, but not that short.

You’re basically asking about the difference between an authorized vs unauthorized biography.

If you sell the rights, that’s just getting some nominal fee in exchange for your participation in the process. You may have insights and knowledge of certain events that aren’t easy to find without your help, so some media production company may pay for you to fill in those gaps.

None of that is strictly necessary, though. Anyone can write about anyone else, so long as they aren’t making false claims about the source, or making other negligently false claims of fact. (Don’t do false advertising or libel.)

Turns out getting kicked in the head for a living is associated with making other bad decisions.

I haven’t actually fired it up in a while, but Gedonia might be up your alley.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1114220/Gedonia/

Looks like a sequel is currently in early access, too.

Wow, I haven’t fired this game up in probably 25+ years. Had no idea it was still being played at all.

It is reasonable to believe A) AIs are a poor substitute for a human at most jobs, and B) company management is still going to replace people in search of short-term profits, even at the expense of long-term stability.

Those two things are not contradictory.

Second, “AIs cannot create new, original things” is not the opposite of “AI can produce deepfakes”. That would be like saying every shuffle of a deck of cards is functionally unique (true), therefore I invented a new card game (false).

Peanuts are neither peas, nor nuts. Discuss.

Covid numbers wouldn’t be so bad if we stop testing, and ocean health won’t get worse if we stop measuring.

Kill that messenger!

…or like literally not ready, as in “you’ll need a 6090 Ti”?

Why are there seven hands in this picture?

But it protects the company’s freedom of religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell_v._Hobby_Lobby_Stores%2C_Inc

Private employers in this country (including Ramsey) have more rights than workers.

Not just music! (Though that is probably the strongest example)

It’s telling how many people are nostalgic for a society that only existed before they were born. Recent History education sucks.

I had one where I dreamed I was in my bedroom, and there was some bright shiny…thing?..on my floor. Like a glowing dot, too bright to make out any details. So I went over and picked it up; it was maybe the size of a marble. I could start to see through the light and make out a few details, but kept putting it closer and closer to my face to try and get a better view. Soon, it was clear that it was my bedroom, and when I had the thing almost right at my eyeballs, I realized my eyes were open and I was awake.

So I guess I was slowly opening my eyes, but dreaming “around” the tunnel vision? Super strange experience.

“Testing your faith” sounds like tricking people into not believing. Which is exactly what they accuse their devil of doing. This god sounds like kind of an asshole.

Top Gun (1987)

I’m pretty sure she likes me already. Enough to stick around for the last 25+ years, anyway.

I once worked for a CFO who used the word “phenomenal” so much that a drinking game around that word would be classified as a mass casualty event.