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Spill the Tea: Fiasco for “Safety in Dating” App
956 Worldwide replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
The huge pitfall here is the requirement that the reporter be honest and unbiased while using the Internet. Should also point out that the user verification process of selfies and DL is nothing close to bulletproof. It almost certainly illegal under EU data protection and privacy laws (and isnt available there). -
Spill the Tea: Fiasco for “Safety in Dating” App
956 Worldwide replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
South Korea has like a .72 total fertility rate and is basically in relationship free-fall. I think it’s the anonymous part and no way to respond that gets me. Some of the comments on the site is stuff like “he took me on a cheap date, waste of time” or “pretended to be interested but didn’t ask me out a second time.” That stuff is just dating pitfalls. You should have to put your name to stuff like that. I can see anonymous if it’s actually a safety thing. -
I just became aware of the app itself and now today I’m seeing a catastrophic security breach. TLDR: There is a “woman only” app that allows women to upload photos of men, reverse image search and run background checks, and share any “red flags” or “green flags” anonymously. It suffered a security breach and now there are tons of user selfies and PII of the women on 4chan. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/tea-app-breach-exposes-72000-selfies-id-photos-and-other-user-images/ My thoughts here are pretty mixed. No one should have their data stolen and put on 4Chan. I see the app itself as incredibly morally questionable. It promises that men are not allowed on the site, cannot search for what is there about them, and allows users to anonymously share information about men they have dated. I have zero qualms about an easy way to search public databases and return law enforcement info, restraining orders, etc. I’m a little less comfortable with allowing anonymous allegations of genuinely threatening behavior or dangerous behavior with no record— stalking, domestic violence, threats, etc. Or verified catfishes or scammers. I see it as a gross violation of basic privacy to allow people to anonymously share their gripes about a date or ex with no verification and no way for the individual to reclama or even know what is being said about them. And I think that the relationship between the sexes is cooked at this point. Basically open hostilities. We are going the way of South Korea.
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Whites only settlement in Arkansas
956 Worldwide replied to Im_smarter_then_you's topic in Daily Texan
Hot take: Putting all the people who want to live this way in the Arkansas Ozarks is a legitimate best-case outcome for the rest of us.- 122 replies
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Duped by the MSM to believe that Brigitte Macron is a woman, I feel like such an idoit.
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I’m uninterested in how women would compare to men. The same level of uninterested I am in Usyk vs Inoue in boxing; we divide athletes based on things like weight and body capabilities for a reason. The fact that Inoue gets mauled by Usyk in no way changes my respect and appreciation for what the smaller fighter can do. What CC has shown is not that WNBA players can play with men. She’s shown that the WNBA can offer a fast, attractive, coordinated and athletic style of play that is fun to watch and skillful. Swimming is not a sport where men and women are particularly close. The fastest man is over 2 seconds faster in the sprint 50 and that is an eternity. In the 800, the men are close to 40 seconds faster— the percentage gap has dropped but for perspective, the men are getting up and on the deck by the time the fastest woman has started the last length. In both swimming and running the women do overtake the men at ultra long distances that aren’t part of the Olympics events.
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
956 Worldwide replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
Currently seeking treatment at the same clinic Urban Meyer went for his liver/heart issues . -
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These Jubilee 1 vs 20 social discussion videos
956 Worldwide replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
I gotta say here that agreeing to debate 20 MAGA types and then being surprised to find a Nazi among them might be the dumbest statement to come out of this. Especially if you ever watched any of these dogshit videos. -
These Jubilee 1 vs 20 social discussion videos
956 Worldwide replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
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These Jubilee 1 vs 20 social discussion videos
956 Worldwide replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
It’s injecting Nazi and fascist discourse into the popular consciousness as something to debate as opposed to something that isn’t worth considering. It shouldn’t be watched and people like Hasan shouldn’t take part. -
Pork can get an abscess, rarely. That smell will not dissipate though. I don’t remember sensing a strong smell from opening a package of fresh pork. I’d proceed with caution.
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For marketers or accountants or whatever, there isn’t collective bargaining or payment based on revenue. Those are transportable marketable skills. Teams have a choice— hire an accountant within the local pay band, or don’t. That’s why it doesn’t make sense to compare the salaries of a WNBA player to WNBA admin employee. Those salaries are based on local labor conditions and basically are what they are. Clark and Wilson are not the examples here and a future CBA isn’t about them. There are 170 (maybe?) WNBA players. If anyone between number 50-170 (I am being generous) tell a front office owner “I can make more as a teacher or accountant using my degree” the owner can absolutely give them a handshake and go grab someone from a developmental league or one of the undrafted players. 170 is a tiny pool and because of title IX we fortunately have plenty of D1 colleague athletes to vie for those spots. You are absolutely correct that the ladies have more bargaining power if the league makes money. That’s kind of at the heart of the whole system. None of this is unique to women’s basketball. U.S. olympians in multiple sports are among the best in the world at their craft and the vast majority of them are faced with tough decisions about finances and when you go get a real world job. Michael Phelps or Katie Ledecky has Caitlin Clark-like leverage and bargaining. The fourth place finisher is likely more marketable outside the pool. For most of its existence the WNBA has been closer to “Olympic sport” level interest than it has been to major professional level interest from the viewing public and the salaries have reflected that. It’s in a weird growing era.
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There is nothing worse than the tell-all book from enablers.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
956 Worldwide replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
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Hey maybe it’s just me but is anyone else sensing some inherent tension between “the president can do anything he wants and no court can stop him or hold him accountable” and “the president gets to file 10 billion dollar lawsuits against people that make him angry?”
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Find someone who will love you as much as Ana loves the version of Tulsi that lives in his head.
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The expansion fees go to make up for the dilution that owners suffer when teams are added. The WNBA is 42 percent owned by the NBA, 42 percent owned by team owners, and 16 percent by an outside consortium of investors. Each individual team owner’s stake in the league falls when a new team is added. One thing that is also missing in the revenue sharing discussion is the difference in roster size: 450 players vice 170 NBA vs. WNBA. Bumping up the revenue share to about 20 would mean that per player, the share is roughly equal to the men in the NBA. I think they get there with the 200 million deal. Fun fact: WNBA players already take home a much larger share of revenue per player than NFL players. 1600 players dividing up 50 percent vice 169 players dividing up 10 percent. I will never criticize labor for pushing for more but at the same time there has to be a realization than making the pie larger has to be the long-term goal.
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I do hope the players get a better CBA and it is awesome that the league is growing and attracting more eyeballs. My point here is simply that the “same percentage of revenue as the men” sounds reasonable until you pause and realize that the expenses don’t operate on that same sliding scale. Charter jets cost the same no matter who is on them and $25 million per year is 1/8th of the new annual TV payout for the WNBA. The NBA’s TV deal is 7 billion per year. I guarantee that the NBA aviation budget is not $875,000,000. I could bet it’s less than a quarter of that number. The other WNBA employees are needed and their costs don’t dramatically change. And so much of the other demands are wrapped up in spending the money it takes to be a “real” pro league. The team doc, trainers, marketers, support staff can command close to the same amount no matter who they are working for. Venue fees and all that go into that don’t slide on a scale either. They aren’t as much as an NBA game, but you’re still paying to open the arena, run crowd control, etc. The delta between NBA and WNBA non-player and staff expenses per game isn’t pro-rated in line with the revenue difference. They absolutely deserve a raise, I’m just pointing out that pushing it even to something like 30 percent of revenue likely means total league collapse.
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FWIW, I think things like Unrivaled are a cool concept and support the money they are able pay. But they do illustrate the stark business differences: Unrivaled slashed rosters, eliminated travel, eliminated all but one front office, eliminated all training staff save one team, cut venue costs down to one, dramatically shortened the season, and zeroed in on broadcast versus attendance at events. It’s a great thing for athletes and glad it exists— but it isn’t an actual sports league, it’s a tournament event. The economics are completely different.
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The point is that the former CEO of Deloitte has incredible options on the job market and if the WNBA wants a commissioner with that level of acumen and ability, they have to pay for it.
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They have transferable skills to not play basketball. That’s not a bargaining point for a CBA to play basketball. Completely different than being in PT or marketing where you are in a labor market to go do the same thing elsewhere. Unrivaled is a completely different business. One arena, one location, 36 players, one front office, no travel. Nothing close to trying to run an actual league and so of course that affects the way the business works.
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The key thing you are missing is that the people on the “administrative side” have transferable skills and a market value that they can take down the road to a variety of other employers. That is true of basically all of them from league commissioner down to marketer, accountant, physical therapist, secretary. Women point guards do not have transferable skills they can take elsewhere. So you either want this league to be run professionally, or you don’t. Or I guess you ask the secretary to take a pay cut so Kelsey Plum gets a raise? Do you want a Deloitte-quality CEO or just some person willing to give this a shot? A huge problem in sports media is allowing sports writers to write about things that are really economics or business.
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“Fair” and “percentage of “revenue” has no fucking place in the conversation around a league that’s not covering expenses. Coughing up 50 percent of 11 billion in a league that makes money is an entirely different mathematical proposition than coughing up 10 percent of 200 million in a league that loses money. If you don’t get that, I am sorry you are in the vast majority of people who cannot understand big numbers. And arguably, at the point the business people do deserve a higher share in the WNBA since as Fantana has pointed out— they are the ones who might be able to make the numbers eventually work. The argument right now is to funnel a greater percentage of money to the players and take it from, what, exactly— the marketers? Reinvestment into the league? Go ahead and hire some bargain basement execs and see how this goes.
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This is categorically not true. Thanks to a combination of no salary caps, unsavory oligarch ownership, and in some places big-spending owners attached to very profitable men’s soccer clubs who have their women’s team as a vanity project— a top tier (like, maybe a dozen) of American players can land big salaries. The vast majority make nowhere near that much and it needs to be repeated: that is mostly thanks to no salary cap which means teammates are all really on the struggle bus. This debate about women’s sports overseas and especially Europe is so unanchored in reality. In every metric from fan attendance to participation at the youth league Europe lags far behind America in women’s sports. There is no mass audience for women’s basketball in Europe, viewership and attendance lags well below the W. The W is actually trying to put the league on a viable footing and have some equity in the revenue sharing (hence the CBA, a thing that does not exist in overseas leagues and the non-stars make basically nothing). The salaries for Americans in Turkey at the top clubs are sort of like if Hal Steinbrenner and Jerry Jones decided to start women’s teams as a vanity project and pay whatever they felt like. Sure, you’d get some big money for 5-10 players but it’s not a way to grow the sport or make it a sustainable way of life for even most pro-level players. Watching these sportswriters and players talk about salaries and benefits in Ekaterinburg pre-2022 was especially crazy making. They weren’t getting paid to play basketball. They were getting paid to serve as a cut-out in a complicated money laundering and international sanctions evading scheme for one of Putin’s favored oligarchs. And yeah, that was a pretty sweet gig but is wholly irrelevant for the economics of a legitimate women’s basketball league. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4456252/2023/04/27/wnba-salaries-overseas/
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