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strummingram said:

Apparently, the FCC was watching SNL...

FCC regulator claims Harris appearance on SNL violates ‘equal time’ rule

Commissioner says appearance on show ‘is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule’

www.theguardian.com

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Wait. There's still an equal time rule? Who knew?

This is a clear problem area. What counts as press? What counts as advertising?

I've seen estimates that Musk has given Trump the equivalent of million$ in free advertising on X. Not counting the "interview".

How about the Rogan-Trump event?

How about Jon Stewart's routines?

bluetoe said:

Knowing Epstein or any other scumbag is not a crime or even an indication of one.

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True.

On the other hand, how much smoke do you need before you you start thinking "fire"?

strummingram said:

Ignoring them is a cop out, to me. It's your choice if you don't want to have to be bothered with them.

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You're missing the value of the Ignore button.

I ignore people for the reasons I mentioned. But when I view a thread, I go to the bottom and click the button to "show ignored."

If you are tempted to ask "then what's the point of ignoring them," it's really very straightforward. The ignore feature acts as a flag (it shows "You are ignoring content by this member" in a gray banner next to their name).

You may also be thinking "I don't need any daggum flag to tell me who the idiots and racists are" then great. More power to you. But I'm old, and don't spend all my days here, so I can use the help. Plus, on the Iowa board some posters change their handles as often as they change clothes or gender identities, so I definitely need the help over there.

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DSouthr said:

OK, so WW, my apologies right now, you know I respect you a ton but that "trained Chicken" line was the most funny thing I have ever seen gary say!

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Ha. I'm glad you are easily amused. But this was a math and statistics debate.

I've never trained chickens, but I have trained pigeons. I'm confident we could train pigeons to produce a team ranking list that would outperform random. But it's highly doubtful that we could train pigeons to outperform Pomeroy, or NET.

Gary initially spent a lot of time trying to say Pomeroy's rankings are worthless, but eventually came around to partly agreeing that they aren't.

That's good enough for me.

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gary-7 said:

ANY list that isn't random --- either from pomeroy or literally ANYONE on a basketball forum --- will outperform a random list.

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Nonsense.

For the same reason that an informed person could beat a random list most of the time - by knowing enough good teams and putting them on top - an informed person could also create a list that would lose to a random list most of the time - by putting those known good teams on the bottom.

So, no, "ANY list that isn't random" can NOT be counted on to outperform a random list.

You've already agreed - albeit kicking and screaming the contrary - that Pomeroy is better than random. So the next question would logically be "how much better?"

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