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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • I don’t know about other sports in the rest of the world, but in the US all the pro sports have unions representing the players who collectively bargain with the club/team owners for standardized terms and conditions. There is no world governing body that the NBA, MLB, NHL, or NFL listen to, so they handle their own contracts. MLS follows most of FIFA rules but still handles their own collective bargaining (there was a major dispute in the US about solidarity payments to lower clubs where MLS had to move closer to FIFA rules). I know LigaMX also has their own closed system that royally fucks over players in that league. So instead of FIFA doing all the bargaining and controlling the transfers of players, the PL would have a standard set of terms and conditions for contracts, which would be different from the BuLi and different from L1 and LaLiga. Maybe the BuLi contracts have game limitations for players but the PL doesn’t? Or maybe L1 guarantees a percentage of transfer fees to players?

    While I like to think this would give some power back to the players, since they could start having preferences on which league they go to based on their contract conditions, we all know the mega-clubs will find a way to fuck over players. This might also lead to collusion among billionaires exactly like what happens in LigaMX.










  • There was no evidence he was at the crime scene: no fingerprints that match his, no DNA of his, no footprints that match his, no cloth/fiber samples from him, nothing. There actually was a ton of evidence left behind at the scene, but none of it connects to him.

    There is no forensic evidence connecting him to the murder weapon, possibly because it was wildly mishandled by the police and the prosecutor.

    There are no eye-witnesses saying that he was at the scene.

    The items of hers in his car were not found by police officers and were not produced as evidence in the trial. The items were reportedly found by an ex-girlfriend who got a big reward for turning him in, and she only claimed to have seen the items, never actually showing the items to anyone.

    The only other witness in the case was a cell-mate who claimed he confessed while in jail, and this jailhouse snitch ALSO claimed a big reward.

    Yet with no tie to the crime scene, no tie to the victim, no tie to the weapon, no witnesses, no provable tie to stolen objects, and the word of a jailhouse snitch… you think it’s reasonable to say he might still be guilty? Jesus fucking christ.



  • There’s a huge difference between what a site like Reddit is used for and how Twitter is often used for. Reddit is all about discussion, so blocking discussion is bad (as you pointed out). Twitter is used a little for discussion (their character limit doesn’t really allow much discussion), but it’s mostly used for informing the world about whatever you are doing or care about. Famous people and companies use it for advertising, and normal people use it for letting people know what’s going on in their world. Stalkers can use this information to figure out where people are in the world. Being able to COMPLETELY block a stalker is a good thing. Now people with stalkers will once again be afraid to openly say what they are doing in the world.