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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
If you had not yet settled on accepting a complete and utter lack of morality, accountability and integrity from the modern professional news media, then know this, Karoline Leavitt has now been employed by News Ltd!
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The Sports Desk / Re: NRL / Origin
Money talks, and it also walks, the Roosters are / were overloaded with high priced talent, a few of them are leaving for greener pastures after the GF, a tad mercenary, and Knights were mostly working class other than perhaps Ponga who is the real deal.

I'm bit over the NRL Sydney centric focus, Knights are a NSW club too, but the broadcast commentary was still heavily biased towards the Roosters.

The Roosters are in situation a bit like the Swans were before they flew the coop for NSW, they are an old world club but with a relatively small supporter base, fading at the grass roots level, and remaining heavily reliant on a handful of big dollar benefactors.

News Ltd tried it's best to pump up the pre-game, they have flogged the Jai Arrow thing to the limit, sad for the lad I feel for him, it felt like they want to make him the NRL version of Daniher. But despite that the event was soulless, the performers looked to be just going through the motions, the sound system was ordinary and crowd just weren't engaged, it was all a bit too forced, probably a sign of the last minute arrangements. It won't be missed by performers that after the controversy a month or so back the NRL took a cheap shot at Tones and I by using the Dance Monkey track after the first score.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
The anthropomorphising that surrounds AI is such a joke, social media and media discussions about the morality of AI have already lost the debate and the plot the moment they started a discussion on morality.

An AI does not know the difference between morally right or wrong, between legal and illegal, there is no empathy, no pain, no guilt and no emotion.

AI is given a problem to solve, or a target to achieve, and intrinsically the AI contains no knowledge of how to go about it legally or morally, only a known Starting point and an end goal. Any apparent or perceived limits are externally supplied by those who create it, and even then the AI is a black box mystery to the creator.

If stealing your life savings or exposing your private information is part of the solution, AI won't be hesitating, won't have doubt, won't delay while waiting for a social clearance to proceed and won't feel bad or guilty about events later.

What privacy you cherish, the secrets you keep personal, the wealth you have built, is just a building block in the AI attempt to find a solution to the current problem whatever that problem might be.

An associate mentioned the other day, the big existential crisis AI is about to face is raising to funds to continue development, e-commerce and financial markets will be destroyed in the process of dining a solution, whole economies might suffer, so keep a little cash on hand because the one thing AI cannot do is physically reach into your pocket.
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The Sports Desk / Re: NRL / Origin
We can easily find ways to pot the AFL, but the V'landys bucket of crap is on full display with the NRL GF entertainment.

There are a few long standing issues that the NRL apparently conceal.

They burn bookings by overbooking and double booking, like an airline oversells seats, which leads to acts being bumped at the last minute leaving some out of pocket for lead up expenses. This seems to only happen to local acts, the ones who can least afford it.

Another allegation is an interesting one, and part of the NRL News Ltd foundation. When you watch an NRL game much of the crowd and game play noise is fake, it's piped in by the broadcast team, like a comedy laugh track. At the ground the cheering, the gasps from big hits, the actual sound of the collision itself, just isn't there. Now for the game it's not such a big deal, but allegedly the rumour goes after a couple of lack lustre events they took to doing the same for the entertainment, piping in fake crowd cheers and applause, making the broadcast look like the joint was jumping when it was in fact a mortuary of knuckle draggers who had no idea who was on stage. Now this largely went unnoticed by the fans and media, but the performers didn't take kindly to it at all, some of them took the position that the atmosphere was a deadset failure of the NRL to provide adequate resourcing, the NRL cheaped out. choosing to spend the cash on ads and not the event.

So this weekend we see acts denying the "leaks" that they are performing at the NRL GF, some of them in support of Tones and I who was basically announced as the headline act without so much as a discussion and certainly without a contract. Since that fallout, a swath of leaks (allegedly from NRL insiders) have occurred, one after the other all denied by the performers.

It seems the thing V'landys is good at is impersonating Trump!
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Rd 8 Carlton vs Hawthorn at home
Quote from: kruddler – on

I think Gab relishes those conditions. Not sure what was up with Velardo, but to have Gab as an option to come in to the side is a luxury most don't have.
I had to wonder if she had been carrying an injury, I was a bit shocked to see her omitted, but sometimes it's a safer bet to report an omission rather than to let opponents know about an injury.

For me she might be our ultimate bench rotation, she can come and have an impact just about anywhere on the surface.

Defends depth in D50 as well as anybody, and can hit up F50 targets or even take the shot herself as well as anybody, actually I think it's only a lack of opportunity that has seen her not have more impact forward of centre, but she is so good in D50 it's almost to her detriment.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Quote from: DJC – on

It's a good thing the wallopers didn't patrol our street in the 1950s and 1960s when we spent hours kicking newspaper footies and those abominable plastic jobs.  The bitumen wore the ends of Sherrins and Ross Faulkners in no time.
Modern kids miss out on all the fun of toeing the casting lug on the end of those brown plastic footies.

Maybe that is why some think some of the kicking skills have degraded, as it was sure a deterrent for getting it wrong!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
It's amazing how events expose bullsh1t.

The NRL has always claimed it outrates the AFL, gets bigger crowds, more viewers, earn bigger dollars, bigger sponsors, etc., etc.. in particular Vlandys has been a champion in the best style of Trump. FWIW, he's done much the same with NSW horse racing trying to go head to head with the VRC.

Tonight the NRL will play a prelim, broadcast on Channel 9, Sunday afternoon they play another prelim, broadcast on Channel 9. Vlandys had the golden opportunity to go head to head with the AFL on the AFL's marquee day and he blinked.

It's always best to never ask a question unless you know the answer, but it might be even better to never ask a question when you do!

Vlandys is about as genuine as a boxing match between Paul Gallen and Nelson Asofa-Solomona!
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The Sports Desk / Re: NFL Crapfest
I think airlines do everything they can to get you there in the best possible state, and they have millions of flights and billions of passengers to back the tactics up with hard data. This Rams experiment reads more like the RFK solution.

The worst jetlag I experienced was Concorde London to New York, that was probably altitude related. But due to the speed you had no time to adjust sleep and meal patterns, and I think that contributes a few hours later. Second worst was Melb - Arizona - Melb in just under 72hrs, that analogous to the Rams. Now days I do the exact opposite and hop to the UK through HK and arrive fresh as a daisy
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The Sports Desk / Re: NFL Crapfest
Quote from: DJC – on
I heard an interesting discussion on the wireless with a jet lag expert (who knew there was such a career?).  The theory behind their decision to stick with their usual routine and their local timezone is sound, but the different daylight hours will get you.  Of course, that meant that they weren't involved in promoting their franchise and the NFL and that was the point of the exercise.
The theory is sound, really? I've been travelling the globe for decades and I've never heard such rubbish, daylight hours rule not holding the time zone you exist in.

In my experience, the people who know what to do are the airlines, if you eat when they offer you food, if you sleep when they dim the lights, you'll be in about the best possible condition you can get. It's the Norbit's who push back and watch movies or News all night long that suffer!

As an aside, NASA have been trying this stuff for decades, the Mars lander crew live on a 25hr day so that every week is like a shift change and they operate like zombies. They do it because a Mars day is close to 24.7hrs.

When I was with News Ltd, we worked Newspaper hours, which can be anything from around the clock to 4am starts. You had to have a room setup with blockout everything just to survive, and the best time of day to play or practise sport was dawn. Most of us slept in two sessions, which before the invention of electric lighting was apparently the normal way to exist, with a 1st and 2nd sleep.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Is Lewis Young showing more than ever before?
Quote from: Lods – on

It will be interesting to see who we replace him with, and whether he gets another opportunity elsewhere.
HoF is still growing, recovering, building strength, like many talls he'll be a late developer, he's been forgotten by fans. With a bit of luck he'll be our tall swingman in 2027, and unlike players who get "converted", HoF has played both F50 and D50 throughout his whole junior career.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Enhanced Sports.
Not really an "Enhancement", but is crapt!ng yourself now an accepted competition tactic to get the better your opponents?

Out for a curry before the GF?