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Wouldn't that mainly be bitching about VAR in the Premier League? That one's really about terrible implementation.

TV stations cares about viewer numbers! Without viewers, no commercial interest We can afterall see other events getting longer and longer (at least more cycling races are broadcasted in full length though I'm certain that many would say that there's nothing more boring than a 220km long sprinters stage) Even though Swedish biathlon experts are against getting rid of individual, they admit that it may be the most boring for many. Of course there's commercial interest here, but still ignoring everybody who feels that competitions are complicated/uninteresting or even talking down to them doesn't really change anything!

Nobody's trying to, but one thing is thinking so yourself, another is caring about others (once again, I don't disagree with you, but (apparently unlike you) I understand why others think otherwise.

Worrying about how it is to be a spectator is not BS! And it's not BS to think that it's complicated! Having been to time trials in cycling, I have no doubt that it's complicated to follow the same thing with several laps and adding the shooting. It's not like there are big screens everywhere and with athletes more or less constantly passing by, spending time with the live timing isn't necessarily possible. That's honestly where this site gets frustrating sometimes. We can all agree about the conclusion (remember, I'm strongly against how it's getting more and more about mass starts in and once again, I miss the good old individual 50km as well and I'm against cutting the individual in biathlon), but it becomes frustratingly automatic that because their ideas of a solution is bad, the reasoning is as well.

To be fair, I would have to agree about individual being complicated to the spectator. If you don't have some live results, I would guess that it's pretty tough to follow it. You can see if a biathlete is fas, but you have no idea whether he/she has missed 0 or 7 shots making it a medal contender or somebody outside top 60. Does't make me support cutting it, but I wouldn't discount that it may not be the most followable event for the spectators.

Well. Only 1/5 of Trump's campaign spending was his own money. Bloomberg's campaign is pretty much entirely own money (and way more than Trump ever spent). You could say that Bloomberg is campaigning like you would have expected Trump to, but not really like he did. There aren't really much alike other than being rich and a certain focus at the angry people in the country (Trump at those being angry for feeling forgotten and Bloomberg just everybody who wants Trump out of the White house). Another similarity (though not so much a matter of the 2 but more the other candidates) is that their road to the win is the infighting between the other candidates.

Looked like this:

Looks like they've been quick, yeah. It was OurMine. They got at least all Olympic pages and FC Barcelona. Looks like they even got Barca twice

Damn. Looks like all Olympic Twiiter pages (and plenty others) have been hacked

I'm absolutely no fan of the beer myself. Not even for the warm summer days that they should be really great for. But I've seen plenty of mentions of people drinking it by the Chinese embassies around the world.

She usually recognize me when I say hi. But then again, it's some time ago! But who cares? It's a nice story to tell

You don't think it added to their sales? It's a rather tasteless joke, but I've seen plenty drinking it just due to the virus.

I know an upcoming Olympian! (but let's not overdo how much I know her! )

Not as bad as Jack White and Alicia Keys or Madonna, not as forgettable as Sam Smith or Lulu but no doubt that it's far from the greats. Could even be a candidate for the bottom five.

Welcome to the adult life

One bottle? Thought you were Danish!

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Some people really like to do that, sadly. Really frustrating to see people blow it way out of proportions.

We are nowhere near a situation where cancellation of the Olympics should be considered. No major spread outside China. It is to be taken seriously (and is), but this is nowhere near a point where we should discussing something in a country with very few cases

Oh how I love your optimistic posts ...

What @heywoodu said

Yup. 1200 votes in the state that he put his focus on. Ouch!

And that's Deval Patrick the 3rd candidate out within 24 hours.

Not much doubt there. The moderate "lane" is large enough to take the win in case they managed to find somebody who could take the votes from the others. I even see speculations that people will start advising Biden to drop out, even before South Carolina to avoid Sanders winning. The big question would be what moderate candidate would get the African-American support. Bloomberg is polling well, but the latest attention to stop-and-frisk can't really be good there. Meanwhile Buttigieg is at 4 % and Klobuchar at 0 in the latest numbers. Buttigieg has been doing better among non-whites in the 2 first states (CNN entry/exit polls), but once again the question is whether those numbers are usefull in states with more non-whites.

This tweet really says a lot about the race between the moderates: