uglygame.bsky.social
Writer of books, most recently: No Questions Asked - How Football Joined the Crypto Con (amzn.to/42aKE0w). Investigative pieces at http://theuglygame.wordpress.com/
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Enjoy.
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It's a really wonderful, unusual book. Like a fictional people's history of post-war London. There's not even really a plot, as such, just snapshots of a changing city. It's hypnotic and lovely.
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"The Margaret Thatchers have moved, Dandy, to a private estate in Dulwich but they were born in some dreadful part of Kent or Surrey. Repatriate them to begin with. Their new security-guarded estates have been built on the torn-down homes of ordinary Londoners."
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Can only assume it's a completely random thing inadvertently demonstrating the very ignorance they were dramatising.
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Spurs Blockchain and Crypto Guidelines (Draft)
Cryto and blockchain delivers no genuine, lasting utility to anyone not interested in fraud or money laundering and the football club should never again sign a partnership with any such company.
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It's my hope that the first task of Spurs Web 3 lead will be to review the club's previous crypto and blockchain projects, identify why they failed and cost fans money, recognise how the club participated in misinforming its fans and produce some guidelines on responsible blockchain sponsorship.
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I see someone is stuck in a Web 2.0 mindset.
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When the Fanblock deal was announced, they put up some FAQs, one of which explains why your pitch square purchase is only good for one season from a prize perspective.
In hindsight, it was painfully accurate content...
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Still sounding great after all these years.
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Perhaps that's the "next-generation matchday experiences" they're promising.
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I believe that they did, though I think there were then complaints both about how long it took for them to arrive and the supposed poor quality of the shirts.
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Also, Crawley announced a new front of shirt sponsor: a crypto company called Reef has signed a three-year-deal. (Wonder if they'll see that one out.)
Notably, Reef will also be offering services to fans. Services that sound quite a lot like those the now-worthless NFTs originally promised...
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By any measure that's bad, but especially when you consider they stood at only a little over half that two years ago.
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As a measure of how badly run the club has been financially, here's the balance sheet for the years to end of June 2021 and June 2022. (Wagmi took over in late April 2022.)
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I missed it when it was first broadcast, but Counterpart with J. K. Simmons is just amazing in every respect and I don't understand how it's not talked of as one of the best shows of the last decade.
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It's not scapegoating, it's accountability.
And if that costs her her TV show, fantastic.
Perhaps she'll think a bit more carefully next time about the demands and responsibilities of operating in a sector where you're responsible for some of society's most vulnerable children.
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To the extent her reputation has been damaged by this business venture, it's been the result of a series of careful, well-documented reports into kids' safety by professionals, which is entirely what society should demand and expect in these situations.
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While the article does include some of the many deeply alarming failings reported by inspectors, I can't understand how it can be considered responsible to report her complaints in such detail, as if there are two sides to this.
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...who, ultimately, just wanted to keep being angry and letting me know.
I don't know how people tolerate that compulsory exposure to insane, insatiable stupidity.
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It's one of the reasons I'm grateful not to run a business. One of my first jobs, I helped out in the customer service department of a company and for everyone five or ten people I could make things right for, there was one person who could literally never be pacified, was immune to reason and...
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I checked his timeline and, sadly, he really does seem to be this dumb. Looking at a few posts, he seemed to be trying to draw attention to Reform's strong endorsement of the bombing. So it may be he's a Labour supporter. Whatever, I didn't feel it worth exploring it further with him.
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Caught out again!
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Textbook
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Certainly, one thing you can say for sure with Woody Johnson is that he never remotely appears like a guy spinning plates who might end up bankrupt or a billionaire. Woody is mega rich and nothing's gonna change that.
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I like that the optimistic case for Johnson is that, yes, he's overseen the worst current play off drought (by miles) but not actually the worst of all time in the NFL!
And while Haslam is a mess and a completely amoral, disgusting human being, the Browns' play off drought stands at... one season.
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There is no suggestion that Woody Johnson had any involvement in these decisions - he only worked for J&J briefly - but the foundation of his huge fortune is the profits his family made from purposely continuing to sell products they knew to give consumers, primarily women and children, cancer.
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...When they could no longer do so, they tried to avoid making good on their killings by put the billions of dollars of liabilities arising from law suits into a separate company and then filing for bankruptcy.
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From the 1930s, Johnson and Johnson, the ultimate family business making products for families knew beyond doubt that it's baby powder contained asbestos and caused cancer. They spent decades lying about it, suppressing the science and intimidating the media to cover it up.
And...
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And if you're thinking, "well, at least he isn't a Saudi dictator," I'd strongly recommend this podcast on how Johnson's wealth is built on his family's deliberately decades-long suppression of the knowledge that its baby powder caused cancer.
podcastaddict.com/fresh-air/ep...
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Because of the mechanisms designed to promote parity in the NFL - the draft, the salary cap, revenue sharing - all teams should expect occasional spells of success.
It's actually hard to have decades of failure as Johnson has. And when it happens, there's really only one possible explanation.
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Under Woody Johnson's ownership, the Jets have not made the play offs in the last 14 years - the longest play off drought in the team's 55-year history.
The next longest drought is shared by the Panthers and Falcons, both on seven years. No other team has a streak longer than four years.
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About the only thing Woody Johnson has going for him from Palace's perspective is his willingness to let other people run things when he's busy. After nearly two decades of doing every wrong at the Jets, he let his equally useless brother mind the shop for a couple of years when he was in London.
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If football's Owners and Directors Test took into account past performance as the owner of a sports team, Woody Johnson would fail harder than any prospective owner in Premier League history. He makes Shad Khan look like a sporting savant.
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What can I say, more than anything it's a relief that I can finally be publicly true to my hitherto secret belief that we need more nukes in the hands of dictators.
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Exactly. Huge theocratic dictator fan me.
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Nice to see that the good faith debaters are out in force.
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Indeed, but the concern is that Starmer has endorsed the bombing, making it appear like a measured response to an imminent threat rather than a dangerous US-Israeli escalation of tensions.
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If we can't agree on matters of basic reading comprehension, then there's no purpose to this discussion and I can only wish you a pleasant day.
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That's a different and stronger endorsement, and its existence doesn't make what Starmer said not an endorsement.