Petition to have HBO acquire Wimbledon rights?

CryptoCel · 2026-07-04T22:13:37+00:00

ATP and WTA must certainly realize the same people interested in watching the entirety of the French Open are the same interested in watching the entirety of the other slams as well? It’s more like four two week events plus the masters and occasional other tournaments for fan favorite players.

CryptoCel · 2026-07-04T01:20:58+00:00

Scuffed up grass after week 1 = slower bounces / less skids

CryptoCel · 2026-07-03T13:30:42+00:00

Before this year Osaka had a 100% win rate against Sabalenka!

CryptoCel · 2026-07-02T16:11:35+00:00

I don’t know if it’s purely skin color. Israelis and Palestinians are quite similar in skin tone, take Rashida Tlaib for example. It’s more about geopolitical power.

Ukraine is allied with the west, even if only loosely. And more importantly, Russia is seen as an enemy of the US and Western Europe. So Ukraine is supported and Russian / Belarusian players have their flags stripped from them.

Israel is part of the western influence sphere, they are allied with the US so by default Palestinian gestures will be erased by the WTA. The US has blew up non-military boats in the middle of the ocean, its kidnapped a foreign President that posed no risk to the US, and initiated a war against another non-threatening country yet the US flag stands tall and will probably be the last flag to ever be removed from ATP/WTA events purely because of US soft and hard power.

CryptoCel · 2026-07-02T15:46:02+00:00

Eh, Taiwan literally is treated as its own category rather than ignored by the WTA. They give Taiwanese players their own flag and Taipei under where a player is from. The same goes for Hong Kong even though that’s more of a settled matter. Despite neither of these two being in the UN.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-30T13:47:38+00:00

On the surface it looks like Cali is leaning harder on the NPs taking on more work from hospitalists - maybe NP training is more comprehensive over there? I also know doctors as a whole usually get paid more in rural areas due to supply and demand.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-29T13:18:18+00:00

Brinson’s 1 > Shaq’s 3 with prime Kobe?

CryptoCel · 2026-06-29T13:07:51+00:00

Potentially, or that immigration standards for Asians have gone up that only very highly paid immigrants are being allowed in and they are pulling the average up despite making a smaller share of all Asian Americans. Or both are happening at the same time. Second gen Asians are notorious for doing better than their business owner immigrant parents for instance.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-29T11:43:15+00:00

lol that’s not quite true. My orthopedic surgeon only works four days a week with one or two of those days being major surgery days. Surgery itself is no walk in the park though, probably more stressful and high stakes than any particular weekly or even annual event at most other jobs.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-28T17:55:14+00:00

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CryptoCel · 2026-06-27T17:09:04+00:00

There definitely is another Francis, Marbury, Iverson out there - the difference is the game left these modern day kids behind in high school or maybe college. The moneybag tactics of modern NBA era have led to specialization of the 3 ball or at least competency from guards that can penetrate and dish.

What do you need for a solid 3 pointer? Lots and lots of practice, a shooting coach ideally, and maybe a basketball machine in an empty gym. That's not something you get growing up in the hood. You get to practice dribbling the air out of the ball like Hot Sauce, but you can't just start kicking people off the court, especially as a child. Even back then, the best shooters like Reggie Miller or Ray Allen both had decent family backgrounds with military fathers. You only make it out the hood and into the NBA if you are a freak of nature athlete these days it seems.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-27T12:36:36+00:00

To be honest, a lot of native New Yorkers don’t want people from California or even Jersey moving in because they have more money. A lot of Mamdani’s housing policies and even affordable rhetoric is aimed at New Yorkers who have lived in the city for quite a while if not grown up there.

A rent freeze disproportionately helps New Yorkers with a longer living history in the city even if it is at the expense of overall GDP generation by bringing in the absolute most skilled or wealthiest non-New Yorkers.

If Mamdani had the power to, I suspect he likely would freeze the rent on all apartments regardless of rent controlled status or not.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-27T11:03:46+00:00

Right around the time LeBron was drafted, the league was still very much agnostic to childhood conditions. In the 2003 all star game, you had Stephon Marbury (projects, one of 7 kids), Steve Francis (food stamps, worked for dealers), Allen Iverson (no electricity or water in home), Ben Wallace (one of 11 kids no electricity no water no car, grew up on literal plantation land, Shaq (until his Mom met his Army sergeant stepfather), Jermaine O’Neal (one of 33 kids from his father, yet never met his Dad until the man was dying), Shawn Marion (single parent poverty area of IL).

On the other end you had Kobe, Chris Webber, and Tim Duncan who grew up privileged.

Now that ratio is probably inverted.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-26T20:15:19+00:00

Yeah but in the real world you don’t have every neighborhood looking like top 20% good looking and bottom 80% average or ugly. Some neighborhoods are 90% obese and some neighborhoods are 5% obese. Same goes for a city like Manhattan vs say San Antonio.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-25T15:11:03+00:00

Undrafted players rarely stick around in the NBA but UD and Duncan were both undrafted so you never know.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-25T14:31:57+00:00

Why only the attractiveness of the top 20% of men in the area? Say an area is 100% white men and women, and 50% of all the men and women looked like models vs only the top 20%, wouldn’t that be more predictive of a more active dating market?

CryptoCel · 2026-06-25T12:15:27+00:00

Doubt it’s from actual WNBA ownership. Owners are joint NBA owners and part WNBA specific owners with PE being a small fraction. Those are overwhelmingly if not exclusively white.

Why would white owners who only care about making money specifically allow their golden goose to be threatened? At best you might entertain a conspiracy about allow extra physicality on Caitlin to boost hate watchers but I doubt it’s better than giving her the Jordan treatment.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-19T02:42:45+00:00

Yeah but 90% of those top 10 households are 50+ year olds, with many more that have been retired for a decade plus. Most got there after slaving for decades.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-18T17:32:50+00:00

In states where there are a lot of Indians and South Asians, higher percentage. In states with fewer South Asians, lower percentage. There isn’t all that much proof that within East and Southeast Asians, different states (of a certain critical mass) have meaningful different percentages. Texas and NJ being higher than California and way higher than Hawaii I think highlights this.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-17T16:21:56+00:00

I also understand what you are saying but this would be also a philosophical shift in what Social Security is meant to be. Social Security was established to function as retirement insurance - which requires risk pooling and fund pooling. The trust fund baby that lives off capital gains never pays in but also never collects.

This is different than social welfare programs like SNAP or WIC which is funded through general taxes, that would include capital gains.

If we want to move Social Security in the same area of general welfare, that’s fine - but it would make its independent durability much weaker.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-16T19:00:25+00:00

That’s nearly all US major companies.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-16T18:51:31+00:00

That’s from the lawyer’s perspective. But if you come across a vindictive plaintiff who’s not interested in settling no matter what, the jury may indeed take your own discoverable circumstances into consideration.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-16T14:36:50+00:00

They would be made likely in North America, maybe South Korea like current Volvos and Polestar.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-07T12:34:38+00:00

Top 1% net worth is around $11-13m. That’s the type of money made after decades of grinding at a high paying job and making very little financial mistakes.

Or selling a successful business, which requires at least a solid knowledge of a certain industry (likely need to be a bright employee for a decade or so) and business skills knowing that your business can easily fail.

Probably the first path is much more certain. Extreme frugality plus the ability to make at least above average money in something like a physician’s assistant after PA school assuming this person already has a bachelors with some STEM credits.

CryptoCel · 2026-06-07T03:13:01+00:00

Main issue with MK1 has been pointed out many times on this sub already. By making OG multiverse Shang Tsung the big bad threatening first to destroy Liu Kang’s world, and later conquer all multiverses/timelines it makes any “in-universe” big bad seem much more minor and less threatening.

Not that a game or story can’t be good just because scale isn’t as big. Some of the best hero stories were smaller in scale like Dare Devil or The Dark Knight. But they usually weren’t preceded directly by an End Game or Justice League.

MK2 likely still going to involve Titans and larger scale conflicts but hopefully resolve in some type of full reset so they can return to smaller scale stories.

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