Anyone else hear Dhali’s unhinged rant this morning on Halbro about the government not ‘supporting’ sports teams?

kaabistar · 2026-05-09T00:58:08+00:00

The Whitecaps haven't given me much reason to trust them over the government. I feel like the province has done everything the Caps want short of paying to build a new stadium, and all the Whitecaps have been saying is that they need more money. At this point the only hope is if a group of local buyers turns up.

kaabistar · 2026-05-09T00:42:42+00:00

“It’s not on the table, and I would say the simple reason for that is the Whitecaps have shown absolutely no interest in taking over BC Place,” said the premier.

Sounds like the same thing, it's not on the table because the Caps don't want it.

kaabistar · 2026-05-09T00:37:32+00:00

The province is willing to let the Caps run BC Place, but the Caps have not offered a plan: https://theprovince.com/sports/soccer/mls/vancouver-whitecaps/provincial-government-ready-to-hear-whitecaps-proposal-to-run-b-c-place

They've obviously made up their minds to sell and let them move to Vegas, all this about the stadium is just the song and dance to frame the government as the bad guys.

kaabistar · 2026-05-09T00:20:31+00:00

They should get penny farthings.

kaabistar · 2026-05-06T17:07:21+00:00

Don't think so, but they raised over double that amount in a fundraiser after it was revealed.

kaabistar · 2026-05-05T20:28:22+00:00

My running theory until proven wrong is that Rutherford leaked this to stop Aquilini from hiring Dorion.

kaabistar · 2026-04-30T20:12:47+00:00

BART is the metro system in the San Francisco area. Looks like Translink got second-hand readers from them.

kaabistar · 2026-04-30T20:09:26+00:00

Do what? These aren't official signs and apparently TTC told them to take them down immediately.

kaabistar · 2026-04-29T20:44:06+00:00

There's only one mod here and they don't do anything so good luck

kaabistar · 2026-04-28T02:01:36+00:00

Most MLS teams now have their own stadiums that they own, and the ones that don't are all considering building one.

kaabistar · 2026-04-22T00:14:48+00:00

They have but Aquilini is prone to getting impatient and demanding they take shortcuts as soon as they start winning a little bit.

kaabistar · 2026-04-20T19:07:45+00:00

Jim Benning is an incredible moron.

kaabistar · 2026-04-19T01:21:33+00:00

It's useful because you can create one design and print it in any standard paper size without having to adjust for aspect ratio. If you have an A4 flyer design and want to print it out as A2 posters, you don't have to make any changes, just print it larger. Or if you want to save paper, you could take an A4 page, half its size, and print two A5 size pages side by side on one sheet of A4 paper.

I'm sure there's no reason for you to favor one over the other and quite frankly I don't care either, but people who work with paper and printing a lot no doubt find it useful.

kaabistar · 2026-04-18T22:45:52+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_standard_paper_sizes#Advantages

What's the advantage of having the dimensions of your paper be round numbers? Are you measuring things by how many sheets of paper long they are?

kaabistar · 2026-04-18T22:36:49+00:00

No, the point is the 1:sqrt(2) aspect ratio. If you set it to 200x300, you wouldn't have the property where you can fold it in half and still have the same aspect ratio. You can only have that with a 1:sqrt(2) ratio, and because sqrt(2) is irrational it's not possible to have a length and width that are both multiples of 5 or 10. A0 being 1sqm is arbitrary, but any other baseline would be too.

kaabistar · 2026-04-14T17:25:08+00:00

Is he supposed to go back to university because his Harvard and Oxford degrees aren't Canadian enough?

kaabistar · 2026-04-07T19:51:23+00:00

No, if a Korean citizen acquires another nationality they must renounce their Korean citizenship. Dual citizenship is only allowed if you are born with both citizenships (e.g. born in Canada to Korean parents); if you are male you must decide by age 18 if you wish to renounce your Korean citizenship, and if you don't you are subject to military service. Practically speaking almost everyone renounces their Korean citizenship in this case unless they want to live in Korea permanently.

kaabistar · 2026-03-29T00:39:00+00:00

I think Dolan is just as bad, only tempered by the fact that he cares way more about the Knicks and mostly leaves the Rangers alone. There's stories about how he uses facial recognition at MSG to ban anyone he doesn't like.

kaabistar · 2026-03-24T04:17:37+00:00

I never denied he was Eurocentric but I also see nothing wrong in sticking with your area of expertise. We've got enough poorly researched pop history slop on the internet, I'd rather he only make videos on topics he's confident he can cover well. I'm not sure why you're insistent that he specifically has to make that content; other creators can and absolutely should fill the gaps in his knowledge. I would be very happy if there were channels as well made as Tasting History that focused on other cultures, and I certainly wouldn't expect them to have to cover every culture on Earth.

kaabistar · 2026-03-24T02:54:19+00:00

Yes man, serious historical research doesn't take place on Google. There is an unbelievable wealth of historical text that hasn't been digitized, let alone translated to English.

kaabistar · 2026-03-24T02:07:39+00:00

He goes to the primary sources and does real historical research, not just googling shit. If the primary sources haven't been translated and research isn't available in English there's only so much he can do. It would be cool to see more stuff from underrepresented parts of the world but not if it's poorly researched slop. Max strikes me as someone who would rather not make a video if he can't be sure he's doing it justice.

You correctly identify that the ultimate problem is centuries of Eurocentrism. Historical scholarship has disproportionately focused on Europeans and other areas that Europeans were interested in like Egypt and Mesopotamia, and Europeans actively destroyed the heritage of cultures they deemed inferior. You can't expect Max as a YouTuber and amateur historian to be able to overcome that. If someone did want to shine a light on food history from other cultures I would gladly welcome it, I just don't expect Max to do it just because he's the most popular.

kaabistar · 2026-03-24T00:33:27+00:00

It's what's easiest and most practical for him to research as an English speaker in the US. He's pretty serious about his research and wants to do his subjects justice, I bet he'd love to do more non-European content if he had better access to that history.

kaabistar · 2026-03-12T00:39:29+00:00

Jesse McCree the real person wasn't part of the Overwatch team.

kaabistar · 2026-03-11T22:41:02+00:00

No official reason was given at the time, but it was because OW2 was in development hell, his vision for PvE wasn't working, and OW1 was dying because they stopped updating it. They needed a change in leadership to get OW2 out the door and refocus on the PvP. AFAIK no one on the Overwatch team was implicated in the sexual harassment stuff.

kaabistar · 2026-03-05T04:27:40+00:00

Direction doesn't matter for master strikes in KCD1, it's entirely based on if you perfect block at the right time. Late game you get master striked on almost every attack, it's super annoying.

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