Fans don’t like to let their favorites go, but now they don’t have to

Why does every question in sports have to be obvious? Why can’t it ever be the case that some questions are legitimately hard and that people can have good faith differences of opinion? Why reduce everything this way? What do you gain from that?

God I loved this.

That sentence by Barnwell he quotes actually is the worst kind of analytics I’m-the-smartest-person-in-the-world horseshit, though.

A NFZ in Syria means a hot war with Russia, and requires Amreican boots on the ground.

I’m guessing this is more like Hot War 1.o.

Civilians, I meant.

It’s an incredible portrait of the imperial mindset, the way this discussion is happening: everyone speaks as though the outcome is necessarily a consequence of what the United States does or does not do. But the world is outside of our control; we don’t get to dictate the flow of history. And the sooner we recognize…

Fun fact: the US killed more Syrians in Mosul than Russia killed in Aleppo.

Freddie alone endures

I would just point out even to diehard Sony fans - monopolies are terrible for consumers. If Xbox ceases to be an effective competitor to Playstation, and the Switch remains in its own real niche, there’s no market incentive for Sony to make a better product. The last thing you should want as a Playstation owner is…

And, in fact, we now have a vaccine for Ebola, which Dvorsky did not mention.

He mentions SARS as a possible pandemic threat. Number of cases of SARS since 2004: zero.

If by “brutal” you mean “bad and irresponsible speculation designed to farm clicks while give pseudoscientific veneer to the worst kind of doomsday prepper nonsense,” then yeah, it’s brutal.

This is the absolute worst kind of sensationalist click farming I can imagine. And your attempts to give it a scientific veneer are ludicrous.

Fan entitlement sucks.

But do you acknowledge the methodological difficulty here? That this is an issue where there are real controversies over methods that aren’t motivated by sexism?

they’re telling us that it doesn’t exist at all.

I mean, the thing is that this is an issue where there are legitimate disagreements about methodology and conclusions. It’s very hard to do sound social science on these topics. Reasonable people can reasonably disagree about the size and sources of the wage gap. But as soon as you accuse anyone who thinks the gap is…

He hasn’t learned and he sure as shit isn’t fit to teach.

vSo you think he shouldn’t get another chance? For the rest of his life? It’s a life sentence of unemployment? You think that’s progressive?