johnfabian
7d ago
Not about bureacuratic violations nothing to do with the actual matches.
The bureaucratic violations do affect the matches though, because City were able to field consistently stronger and deeper squads than other teams because of it. People often commented that Manchester City's bench players might be able to win the League on their own.
Also, one might wonder whether an organization that was so willing to cheat so extensively on the bureaucratic side of things might have tried their hand at other methods... For example, the UAE government certainly did like to pay Premier League referees (who do not make that much money given they are officiating for the most valuable sports league in the world) very handsome sums to ref single games in the UAE. Not to mention that the coach for most of this time, Pep Guardiala, was convicted of doping as a player and has a long history of credible accusations of the same as a manager.
johnfabian
10d ago
Not quite; in the original meaning of the term it was positive.
johnfabian
15d ago
Yesterday Radio-Canada put out an analysis comparing Orélien's work to others with Pangram, and it looks pretty damning. Obviously those who cannot speak French can translate it via AI, but the gist is that they tested the various excuses used by Orélien's defenders: seeing how it stacks up versus the other books nominated for the Prix Goncourt, how it compares to works by other contemporary Haitian or African francophone authors, and how it compares to various classics. The conclusion is that Orélien's is the only one that shows use of AI, and to a very convincing degree: apparently the false positive rate for Pangram is much lower in French than in English.
johnfabian
16d ago
Urban: People get around by foot or bike or public transport.
This would mean that a lot of countries (it's easy to single out the United States with respect to this, but it is true of many places elsewhere, and not just in the developed world) have a vanishingly small number of urban spaces.
johnfabian
18d ago
If you are mainly eating food you cook yourself from whole or minimally-processed foods, salt is basically a non-concern. Salt to taste.
High-sodium diets in the western world are almost universally diets high in ultra-processed or fast food.
johnfabian
26d ago
Yeah, but it's strange when that friendly media is the English-language mouthpiece of a Chinese cult.
johnfabian
27d ago
Some are speculating the US might abandon its base in Bahrain, which is (was?) the headquarters of the 5th Fleet. Contrary to what has so far been an extraordinarily tight-lipped standard, Acting Naval Secretary Hung Cao told the Epoch Times (of all media outlets!) that the base had been badly damaged.
It always pays to wait at least 24 hours to see what emerges from the fog-of-war, but it certainly seems like this is still a very-active conflict. Saudi Arabia's proxies in Yemen seem to be collapsing.
johnfabian
28d ago
Before I reached the end I had already guessed meteorite. Surely several orders of magnitude a more convincing explanation than a nuclear weapon.
johnfabian
28d ago
But the scale of organization makes it completely different. Military spending isnt' "gibs" just because instead of letting the people's militias buy their own Ford-class carriers and ICBMs you're having the government spend the money on their behalf. An extreme example obviously, but a centralized bureaucracy with immense market power achieves very different results than millions of diffuse individuals.
johnfabian
28d ago
The notion that all social programs are just "gibs" is pretty silly. Like you can dislike Medicare or think there's a lot of waste in the program, but it's fundamentally very different than just mailing people a check.
johnfabian
29d ago
It's longer, more difficult, more intense. But a lot of people consider the Long War mod to be the absolute pinnacle of strategy gaming.
One might wonder at how far this sentiment will be extended.
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