No, I suggested that Wikipedia, due to the fact that anyone can edit it and often the loudest, most persistent voices are the ones whose viewpoints are expressed, is not an authority and should not be cited as such. The fact that it’s been shown to more frequently correct than Britannica is irrelevant in the context…

Who’s in charge of these audience reaction shots?

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There’s a huge social stigma against “adult” content in the US and other English-speaking countries that makes it very hard to make money off of that. Lots of payment processors, hosting providers, cache services, etc, that are based or have a lot of business in the US will simply refuse to deal with sexual content…

No, actually, that’s really not really good enough. If you want to support a claim, you should cite proof that the claim is correct, not that some dipshit that’s friends with a Wikipedia admin agrees with you.

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What might be turning into an advantage, re: having an NBA father, is access to elite shot coaching.

Citing Wikipedia as evidence is a concession that you have none.

The majority of swimming events are 1-2 minutes in duration. That seems to be some kind of sweet spot for viewers, where it lasts long enough to get excited about the impending result but not so long that you get bored.

The competing theory (which I find a bit more credible) is that everyone inside the sport knew what Sandusky was doing, or had heard credible rumors, and didn’t want to put their programs at risk by hiring him (or to make waves by denouncing him). There’s some precedent for that - everyone at the BBC and in the music…

State and local governments are in bed with Penn State board. Did you really think a DA or state attorney general is going to disturb that hornet’s nest?

For a long time I figured Joe Paterno was being scapegoated by the University and the Freeh Report was a hatchet job. I’m still reasonably convinced that both of these things are true, but incidental to the fact that Paterno was an enabling piece of shit.

it’s depressing that doing it is enough to make people think a man’s a saint.

Best tip for never developing a credit history and being unable to get a loan to buy a house or start a business in the future: yours.

neither the USOC nor its major corporate sponsors support athletes’ training, nor pay athletes for competing at the Olympics

The USOC actually has exceptional “super-trademarks” enshrined into law at the federal level, so there are things they can do that you or I can’t. “Rio” is probably a bit much, though.

Athens got modernization and expansion of their transport infrastructure and it’s helped boost Greece as a tourist destination. In the abstract, it may have been possible to just forego the games and put the money directly into infrastructure and ad campaigns, but it can be hard to drum up political support for that.…

Baseball alone all the way. You can justify the other shit as some kind of theatrics to pump the team up or something, but playing a team sport all by yourself is just straight up nutso.

Damn, this is the hardest one so far.