agreed, the overall point is that sports leagues definitely do want sports betting. more engagement, ad sales, endorsements, and they can even get in on the action directly by ownership or investments.

There’s also the issue of volume, more betting volume could mean more opportunity for corruption. I don’t have numbers but i’m guessing there is a lot more betting now that it’s legal, with ads and sponsorships constantly in your face, and easily accessible with phone apps and sportsbooks. But i have not seen any officially expressed concern about that aspect, only that it’s better legalized and regulated.

Sports teams don’t want it because it incentivizes cheating / rigging games.

this isn’t true generally speaking. The reasoning they give is that gambling has always been there to incentivize cheating/rigging, but at least now it’s out in the open and easier to track. This is a quote from the commissioner of the NBA after an incident last year:

“I mean, this is not new that there’s unsavory behavior, even illegal behavior, around sports betting,” Silver said. “I guess my point is that to the extent it’s going to exist, if you have a regulated environment, you’re going to have a better chance of detecting it than you would if all the bets were placed illegally.”

Sports leagues are tripping over themselves expanding into Las Vegas. Some team owners have their own sportsbooks right in the stadium, for example ted leonsis in DC. The owners of the Dallas Mavericks own the Sands casinos and have been spending millions lobbying to legalize gambling in Texas. (edit: I see their efforts recently failed, but the point is they clearly want gambling.)

Some individual players have spoken out against sports betting and if they were the majority they could take it up as an issue in collective bargaining. NBA players did in the last CBA, except they went in the opposite direction; they negotiated for the ability to endorse and invest in gambling companies. So clearly the majority of players are happy to take bigger contracts, endorsements, etc despite the nuisance it causes them.

and to be clear I agree it’s awful, i am just explaining how i observed them deal with the issue over the last 7 years or whatever. I actually recently stopped watching sports, and sports betting was a contributing factor to that decision.

I agree with this youtube comment:

As an electrician (in Australia), I agree with your basic premise. However, if you are asking me to install an EV charger, unless you tell me “I want it to charge slowly with a limited current capacity”, I am going to assume it is to charge an EV under ALL situations - fast to slow, for whoever may drive one today or in the future, even with a potential new homeowner. We generally do our work with the priority order (1) safety - nobody gets an electric shock and nothing catches fire; (2) avoidance of nuisance i.e. the thing you just installed doesn’t work and keeps tripping the breaker 😑 (3) avoiding needing replacement electrical work for at least 25 - 50 years

Also I live in a townhouse with no garage. Our charger is between the neighborhood sidewalk and our parking spaces, so I’d prefer keeping it plugged in as little as possible to minimize any issues with foot traffic (neighbors, delivery people, garbage pickup, etc). I’ve seen other townhouse EV owners literally run an extension cable over the sidewalk to do an L1 charge for their EV and that’s just asking for trouble.

jfc we are going to be stuck with “this looks slightly weird. is it AI?” articles til the end of time.

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oh it’s that easy huh. why didn’t we think of this before lol.

Discouraging use of artificial dye is a good idea. It interferes with people’s ability to make health conscious choices. Requiring labeling would be a great start.

Thing is they’re not banning all dyes, they want “natural” dyes used instead. But “natural” does not necessarily mean better or safer.

Food dye is used to cover up a lot of food crime.

source? i did a brief search but didn’t see anything about it.

Most of us wouldn’t eat food that needs to be dyed to look safe to eat, if it weren’t dyed, if we had a choice.

You can look at it from a different angle. If there’s nothing actually wrong with the food other than appearance, then food dye prevents food waste.

also:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/why-did-the-fda-ban-red-dye-3/

There is a deeper political issue here as well that I will not get into, but just point out. The recent Supreme Court decision ending Chevron Deference may have played a role here. The question is – who interprets federal regulations? The Chevron Deference standard says that the experts working in the relevant agency would be given deference when interpreting the law. For example, the FDA could determine how to apply the Delaney Clause based upon an expert level understanding of the complexities of toxicity research. The SC ended such deference, meaning that regulations can be interpreted by the courts without deference to experts. One has to wonder if this otherwise odd decision by the FDA was a response to this.

setting the precedent to remove expert opinion of federal law and replace it with court opinion is not good.

dude seriously you need to chill.

okay ¯_(ツ)_/¯

i mean yes, but this is a more dynamic transperency that reacts more to backgrounds, merging/separating with other elements, etc.

jfc relax. it’s a number.

what would you have them do? anything else would be just as arbitrary.

it’s not that unusual, lots of software is named by the date. i think it makes a lot of sense especailly for apple, now they don’t have a different release number for all their different platforms.

and?

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the real turing test.

for example, say you are waiting to make a left turn, it would be nice to know if oncoming cars are braking or not. if they are stopped and you see their brake lights turning off, you can judge if you should hurry up or not turn at all.

and honestly i have the same problem with that intended use. it often looks like a stopped car is attempting to turn out into traffic. IMO emergency lights should have a faster blink pattern or something to differentiate from turn signals.

okay, pick a different color then. it’s a solvable problem.

i don’t think that was ever required in the US. it is elsewhere though.