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Kaal posted:They had major plane issues getting in. Hulk Hogan posted about how they made an emergency landing where the tires popped and the brakes melted. They caught a ride with a friend (who know your friend you bump into in Iceland with their plane) but it's not surprising they have to figure out something else to get back. Wrestling journos are reporting its not a mechanical or weather issue. A dozen wrestlers + Vince have already left the country. The rest are stuck as of last reporting. Tax:  Edit: also apparently none of the wrestlers are allowed to say anything about it? That's disconcerting if true. CascadeBeta fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Nov 1, 2019 |
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Nov 1, 2019 16:29
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:Ugh. I really hope these guys can put something together. I will miss Deadspin, I really will. yeah it was great, it sucks it got wrecked over the new owners basically just being power-tripping idiots. they didn't even last long enough to run it into the ground! love that the last two articles are "was deadspin a good blog? yes" and "sports blogs, ranked: 1) Getting hit by a car 2) Deadspin"
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Nov 1, 2019 16:31
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Kaal posted:They had major plane issues getting in. Hulk Hogan posted about how they made an emergency landing where the tires popped and the brakes melted. They caught a ride with a friend (who know your friend you bump into in Iceland with their plane) but it's not surprising they have to figure out something else to get back. And that friend turned out to be Brock Lesnar. No, seriously, it really was.
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Nov 1, 2019 16:32
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evilweasel posted:yeah it was great, it sucks it got wrecked over the new owners basically just being power-tripping idiots. they didn't even last long enough to run it into the ground! I don't know how I'm gonna start the NFL season without my WYTS articles 
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:I don't understand. Is he somehow counting "went on strike, came back" as a job added? Cause if so that is some impressive galaxy-brain poo poo. i think he's saying "if you counted these people who are currently unemployed because they are on strike, the REAL job numbers are..." but like, they're not in the labor force right now. because they are striking. it's worth pointing out in the jobs report but it's not something you can use to unskew the numbers e: golf cheat thinking, "my real score is 54 because that first stroke on hole 14 didn't count because it went over the lake, and then i got a freebie on the green at 16 because the grass was too wet, and..." Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Nov 1, 2019 |
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Nov 1, 2019 16:35
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:I don't know how I'm gonna start the NFL season without my WYTS articles there's no way drew margery doesn't get picked up by a new blog asap, but i'm concerned about everyone else and getting to critical mass at a new blog
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Nov 1, 2019 16:37
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luxury handset posted:i think he's saying "if you counted these people who are currently unemployed because they are on strike, the REAL job numbers are..." the strike is over, so it's perfectly reasonable to unskew it based on a known temporary condition that has ended. the problem, again, is that even those corrected numbers are nowhere near 300k.
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evilweasel posted:the strike is over, so it's perfectly reasonable to unskew it based on a known temporary condition that has ended eh, it's worth pointing out as a major contributor to this month's job estimate but the net jobs number is the net jobs number  e: also, those workers will show back up in next month's estimate and trump will definitely not be like "well, i counted them as last months job adds, so i'm not going to count them again" he's just pulling numbers from all adjacent months into this month because he is desperate for big number go up to objectively prove the wicked haters and liars are wrong about how much he sucks Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Nov 1, 2019 |
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:I don't know how I'm gonna start the NFL season without my WYTS articles Even worse: no Haters Guide to Williams Sonoma Catalog this year. Christmas ruined.
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evilweasel posted:Yes. Basically, "safe" republican seats reported very quickly. Oddly, safe democratic seats tended not to, and any seats that people thought were actually in play did not report quickly. The model dramatically overcorrected to all of those safe seats coming in: it had a "long tail" chance that it would be a blowout and that safe republicans seats would fall (think an overwhelming landslide: the chance was very low, but not zero). That got zeroed out by the results, but the chance of a "whoops democrats got wiped out" did not get zeroed out at the same time. The model dramatically overcorrected as a result and was making predictions that were much too strong given that the information it was getting had very little predictive value. Your typical "safe" republican districts are slam full of obscenely wealthy boomers and retirees. They all went to vote after breakfast in places like the Villages. People who have to work for a living went post-5PM, or absentee, delaying the results. You know, that thing chuds try to turn on Democrats(they're all on welfare yuk yuk yuk).
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Munkeymon posted:Even worse: no Haters Guide to Williams Sonoma Catalog this year. Christmas ruined. I did not know this existed, but given that Williams-Sonoma has managed to ruin two Christmases in a row for me, I now need to read it.
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luxury handset posted:eh, it's worth pointing out as a major contributor to this month's job estimate but the net jobs number is the net jobs number pulling the revisions from previous months into this month is 100% juicing the stats with no legitimate basis, yes it would be correct to discount the new jobs added next month for the strikers returning and anyone who reports the headline number without doing that would be doing their readers a disservice. trump will, of course, but that's when he'll be lying, not when he's correcting the numbers for the strike now.
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Deadspin was basically the best sports website on the internet. Greed isn’t good kids, it sucks.
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Ogmius815 posted:Deadspin was basically the best sports website on the internet. Greed isn’t good kids, it sucks. seriously the new owners didn't even have time to ruin it with greed. they just barged in and were like WE'RE RUNNING THIS SHOP NOW ALL YOU MORONS ARE GOING TO FOLLOW OUR INSTRUCTIONS, WHICH ARE DUMB AS ALL loving HELL (and these new owners are repeat failures in this industry) and then when the editors told them to stuff it, they had a union contract, engaged in basically a long-running war with the writers (chronicled on deadspin, lawl) until finally just firing the editor who refused to "stick to sports" on a dumb theory (belied by all of their data) that the sports posts were more profitable and then everyone gave the owners the finger and quit. it was quite the self-own by the owners. they didn't even get a chance to run it into the ground, they destroyed it by being vain morons.
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evilweasel posted:pulling the revisions from previous months into this month is 100% juicing the stats with no legitimate basis, yes Whether to discount strikers returning or not surely depends on whether they were counted as jobs lost when the strike started?
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sean10mm posted:Last I checked Deadspin still had all their gently caress YOU articles still on the site because the scum who ran them off can't interweb lmao I had to go check this and fuckin' lmao 
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I remember earlier in the year there was something that said holiday retail jobs wouldn’t be as much as they were before just because of stores closing.
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It and SA were my two work-browsing designations. God loving dammit, corporate greed will take everything that is good in this world if we let it.
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OddObserver posted:Whether to discount strikers returning or not surely depends on whether they were counted as jobs lost when the strike started? they are, that's why trump is adding them back into these numbers - because they were deducted out as jobs lost but we know now that they were not actually lost.
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OddObserver posted:Whether to discount strikers returning or not surely depends on whether they were counted as jobs lost when the strike started? the strike report is sampled for the pay period which includes the 12th day of the month. it's a bit arbitrary but this is the measure by which the BLS counts who is on strike. so, while the strike is over in actuality, the BLS numbers are not intended to reflect that until next month, and for the purposes of the monthly jobs report the workers are still on strike and those jobs were lost for the month
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:It and SA were my two work-browsing designations. God loving dammit, corporate greed will take everything that is good in this world if we let it. Are they going to start a new site? I assume this thread alone could collectively help them get off the ground.
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Ogmius815 posted:Did we ever get a real explanation of what the hell happened there? Florida was when the thread started drinking bleach.
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evilweasel posted:seriously the new owners didn't even have time to ruin it with greed. they just barged in and were like WE'RE RUNNING THIS SHOP NOW ALL YOU MORONS ARE GOING TO FOLLOW OUR INSTRUCTIONS, WHICH ARE DUMB AS ALL loving HELL (and these new owners are repeat failures in this industry) and then when the editors told them to stuff it, they had a union contract, engaged in basically a long-running war with the writers (chronicled on deadspin, lawl) until finally just firing the editor who refused to "stick to sports" on a dumb theory (belied by all of their data) that the sports posts were more profitable The writers and editors have my total admiration that's for sure. The usual thing that happens when stupid management takeovers happen is people keep their head down and job search leading to a slow collapse as stupid decisions get implemented and experienced people leave. Having the guts to basically moonwalk out so management can see the double birds is just amazing.
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RC Cola posted:Are they going to start a new site? I assume this thread alone could collectively help them get off the ground. you'd have to get the funding to start one up first, and the Gawker editorial staff always been a cantankerous group for the advertisement/business side of things to deal with so its really hard to see what would happen, they're not the type of group that thrives under an established media organization Even when they were still an independent organization before the Hogan lawsuit settlement, the editor in chief and executive editor quit over management pulling an article where they outed a gay publishing executive at Conde Nast for hiring a gay prositute. The executive didn't really do anything public facing, PR wise or was there any sort of actual hypocrisy...they just decided to out him.
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:I did not know this existed, but given that Williams-Sonoma has managed to ruin two Christmases in a row for me, I now need to read it. https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-2018-ish-hater-s-guide-to-the-williams-sonoma-cata-1832646809 Drew Magary posted:Drew says: Seventy-one pieces! What, do they toss in an air fryer as a free bonus, too? Listen man, unless I’m building a loving Ford Thunderbird from scratch, I shouldn’t need 71 pieces to make anything. I’m baking cookies here. What do I need? A bowl, a spoon, a cookie sheet, 56 lbs. of Crisco, sugar, chocolate chips, some flour… that’s about it. What percentage of these artisanal cookie implements are lost within a minute of opening the package? 85%? This kit is aimed squarely at people who overdo it at the cookie swap and just HAVE to blow everyone else out of the water. “Oh wow, Miffty wrapped her lavender ginger puffs in chiffon! That BITCH.”
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Besesoth posted:Article III of Impeachment against Richard Nixon: If we're talking about taxes, it's more like, here's fifty birthday cakes for me, and I'll have to share the last five.
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Rauros posted:Florida was when the thread started drinking bleach. I distinctly remember that. After 2016 I still couldn't trust any polling, and it just seemed like the whole country was ready to roll over for Trump after he got his tax cut package passed. I drank like a fish and hit the bed expecting to see how the whole thing was dead in the morning. I woke up to hearing about major wins, and all my friends who don't look at this stuff as closely thought I lost my mind.
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haveblue posted:Just let me know where the patreon is, I'd kick a few bucks a month to nipsdaed.com if they can get most of the staff back together. Nipsdaed sounds like a l33t breast cancer support website. I'll show myself out.
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Deadspin was the only website that covered the New York Mets with the anger at the ownership that I as a fan felt. RIP.
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It's a slow news day and this is vaguely politics adjacent .... https://twitter.com/consequence/status/1190302036815953920?s=09 All shows so far scheduled near the southwest border. Except that big rear end paycheck from the festival owned by the Trump supporter. Can't wait to see Paul Ryan in the VIP pit.
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Minenfeld! posted:Deadspin was the only website that covered the New York Mets with the anger at the ownership that I as a fan felt. As I Lions fan I will greatly miss the Your Team Sucks page for them every year. It gave us ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER though so there is that
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Trump is upgrading to the ultimate grift, it appears https://twitter.com/SecretsBedard/status/1190303297187524610?s=20 also the best way to hide income. he's literally moving to florida and becoming a megachurch pastor
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FizFashizzle posted:Trump is upgrading to the ultimate grift, it appears thats cool. please resign the presidency and gently caress off to Florida to surround yourself with sycophant olds Mr Trump everyone will love you for it.
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FizFashizzle posted:Trump is upgrading to the ultimate grift, it appears Transitioning from President of the United States to a televangelist
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FizFashizzle posted:Trump is upgrading to the ultimate grift, it appears It appears someone is deep down not confident about winning next year.
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ummel posted:It's a slow news day and this is vaguely politics adjacent .... Kinda sucks the air out of the second album that I assume Prophets Of Rage are putting together...
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