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Post by miscmisc on Feb 18, 2022 18:08:12 GMT 1
So, the golden duo of Biden and Johnson pwned Putin with their masterful strategy and stopped Russia from invading Ukraine, and on the other hand the invasion also remains imminent, will happen any minute now, now, now.
OK.
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 18, 2022 19:12:29 GMT 1
The fact that such a complete idiot as Thomas Bach can become IOC President is all you need to know about that grotesque organization. He probably thought that he could score popularity points by berating Kamila Valieva's coach like that - a proxy for Big Bad Russia, I take it - in an official press conference, but all he did was prove his unfathomable idiocy once again.
Whatever the fuck happens in the (in)famously spartan world of Russian figure skating is none of his fucking business, and it's sickening to see so many powerful idiots trying to play populism these days. Valieva may be still a kid, but she and her parents perfectly understood what they were getting her into as they knocked on Eteri Tutberidze's door. Of course Tutberidze is a frightening woman, and doesn't mind hurting her girls' feeling as she taunts them any time they didn't try hard enough by her standards. Her method is not for snowflakes.
And that's truly none of Bach's business, or of the Western media's either for that matter. Not everyone is or even wants to be like a beautiful American kid whose fee-fees are permanently protected.
Those morons are really trying to wake up the inner hardcore anti-liberal inside my brain, aren't they?
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 19, 2022 6:36:13 GMT 1
To be perfectly honest, I wish Canada won every major international curling tournament, particularly the Olympics. I mean, they deserve that. Mouat (Scotland) and Edin (Sweden) are two of the best teams in the world, but throw them into Canada, and they would be very lucky if they got to play in more than one Olympics in their career. It's excruciatingly hard to represent Canada as there are more than several top teams competing for the one spot, whereas it takes a hell of a lot less effort for Mouat and Edin to represent their respective countries.
Curling is a Canadian sport. It was born in Scotland, so it's Scottish, but only by birth. No Canada, no curling. I literally wept when I saw Brad Gushue, of Canada, collapse into the ground, into tears, as he faced his families on the video chat after narrowly losing the semifinal to Sweden. It's safe to say that there's tons more on the Canadians' shoulders than on anyone else's in this sport.
I do think many Canadians fans are still delusional about international curling and Canada's place in it, but I don't feel offended when they say offensive things about non-Canadian curlers. Because it has been their game, and it still is. Absolutely grateful that they nourished for decades this beautiful game that its Scottish parents sort of forgot.
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 19, 2022 6:51:44 GMT 1
With that being said, enjoy men's and women's curling finals if you can watch them. You probably won't quite understand what will be going on, but it's a game for people with a long attention span. I think it's the sport, among all, that is the closest to the original concept of "game".
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 19, 2022 7:41:14 GMT 1
We have just crossed a pivotal line as the Americans who are sure that God exists are now officially a minority according the latest survey.
This is very important, and not in a good-or-bad way. There is a profound social/cultural shift going on in the US.
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 19, 2022 11:00:25 GMT 1
Congrats to Christoffer Sundgren, Rasmus Wrana, Oskar Erikkson, and Niklas Edin for winning gold, finally, for the first time. Fantastic performance. And kudos to the Scottish lads too.
It was a great men's curling final.
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 19, 2022 11:26:47 GMT 1
Now that Edin and Erikkson won gold together, I want them split. Eriksson should skip for his own team again.
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 19, 2022 16:01:13 GMT 1
OK, this is now temporarily a curling thread.
The women's bronze medal game was amazing too. Seeing Hasselborg's Sweden, arguable the best team in the world on women's side, cry in joy for *bronze* is quite something. The semifinal was a hard, hard, hard loss for them, and in this one they *almost* screwed it up too as Switzerland kept coming. And for the last draw in the 10th end, all four of them scrambled, sweeping frantically to get the stone to reach there, for the win. Great scene.
And, if you are new or new-ish to curling, watched the men's final between GB and Sweden, and didn't like what you saw, the sport is definitely not for you. That one was as good as the sport could offer. Not as dramatic as the women's semifinal between GB and Sweden, but the quality was absolutely ridiculous. One of the highest quality games I've ever seen, easily a Top 5.
This Olympics has been crazy fun for curling fans, and hopefully the last one, women's final, will be a good one too.
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 20, 2022 4:45:18 GMT 1
The women's final was certainly not a very good game, almost solely because Japan's third Chinami Yoshida just couldn't nail the weight at all while her British counterpart Vicky Wright was nearly perfect, but you can't expect four great games in a row. Men's final, bronze, women's bronze were all too good.
Congrats to Muirhead and Co. Scotland made this team specifically for the Olympics, meaning it's Scotland's "dream team" so to speak, as opposed to Team Japan who's simply a club team who won the national trial tournament, and their individual throwing skills really made the difference in this one, particularly Vicky Wright at the third position.
And kudos to Team Fujisawa too. Not their best game, but they should be proud of what they have accomplished.
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Post by Fox on Feb 20, 2022 23:19:10 GMT 1
I wonder how many people know this basic fact that *90%* of all Canadian truckers are vaccinated. That's all you need to know to understand that crap. Are you aware of the issues at hand in this protest? Its not an anti-vaccine protest, thankfully as there are crowds of thousands of people taking part. They are protesting federal mandates which prevent cross-border truckers from delivering goods without having to quarantine for two weeks every time they cross the border. Our people are about 90% vaccinated but about 30% of people fully support the truckers and another 40% have sympathy for some of their causes and want a EU style system where you can use a covid test instead of a vaccine passport. Its a very complicated situation that continues to be inflamed by politicians and journalists trying to use it to score points. |
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 21, 2022 3:18:50 GMT 1
I wonder how many people know this basic fact that *90%* of all Canadian truckers are vaccinated. That's all you need to know to understand that crap. Are you aware of the issues at hand in this protest? Well, I'm aware that it has been astroturfed to a significant degree for the kind of "cause" that I find detestable, and even nonsensical on the ideological level, and I have yet to see a trucker on the front line not talking out of their ass. So I have very little sympathy, if any at all, for the whole thing and its trajectory. They can call me a Justin boy, for all I care. It's a bullshit "movement" as far as I'm concerned, and so is the one in Brazil. I find the kind of leftists who make the "working class" arguments in support of it particularly odious. Self-indulgent *and* gullible. As you say, it seems a lot of terrible people are pouring toxic gasoline into it to score points, not just the freedom pornsters but the kind of people who would be screaming "Russian disinformation!" whenever shit happens no doubt (I don't know, but there must be). It's unsalvageable as a meaningful movement/protest even if you find legitimate points raised in it. There are things that you simply cannot undo or recover no matter what; It's a sort of entropy, and I'll just follow the law of nature on this one. *Or at the very least, it should be treated strictly as a Canadian local issue that has very little to do with anyone or anything else. It shouldn't be a major international news item, because it's not. |
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 21, 2022 3:50:15 GMT 1
I still find it fascinating that there is such thing as an Oxford (or Stanford or whichever eles) epidemiologist who doesn't understand herd immunity. Isn't it one of the most basic concepts in the field?
How many times have we been told that we already have "herd immunity"? 10? 12? How many rounds of "herd immunity" must we have to reach nirvana?
If you go back, you'll realize that they just *said it*, every time. Didn't explain it. No data. No arguments. They simply said "herd immunity" presumably assuming that we all understood what it meant.
Sure, we "understood" it all right, but wrongly. Hell, I did, for months. How the hell could I know I was wrong?
What a fucking lazy field of study. Fraudulent. I'm saying that while I perfectly understand there are tons and tons of good epidemiologists. But I also do believe that it should be judged by the same standards that we use to assess other academic fields.
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 21, 2022 7:20:07 GMT 1
I wonder what they would be saying about this if it were a bunch of GRU officials talking to RT.
I mean, I do get some unpleasant feeling and sound from One Direction, but that's clearly not what they are talking about, is it.
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 21, 2022 7:41:24 GMT 1
One of the most important things that I learned after I moved to the US is that most American elites know nothing about Russia, and *even less* about China. And if you have to ask me what "less than nothing" means, well, never mind. Just remember that a policy can totally be based on a pure fantasy.
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 21, 2022 8:00:06 GMT 1
The Economist really is the stupidest publication out there. In case you are a "literally" police, yeah, kiss my ass, it is literally the stupidest publication out there, written mostly by ignorant 25-year-olds whose dream in life was to become fund managers.
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