All of this spending only has a chance of paying off if video generation takes off.

Is it a nation or the not corrupt at all FIFA that is the clown car?

One clown car, two clowns. Infantino and a bright orange one.

Well, both.

I think one is worse than two. Only governments have the power of violence.

Currently there's very much of a blur between "democratically chosen state" and "a private entity" (with a lot of money).

And we want them to. And to have the power to take things away. It's all a matter of degree and details.

Watch any random sampling of body cam footage and you won't think the majority of violence was the cops. I'm amazed at the restraint honestly.

Now when I was a kid...getting thrown into a paddywagon while hammered after mouthing off to a cop was a right of passage.

Do you think the selection of what body cam footage cops make available is without bias?

Still I can't think of an event where Swiss cops would be able to collect similar footage.

Maybe a football game?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Basel_hooligan_incident

One of the main points of human existence is to influence people....in a good way.

I believe the JUPITER trial showed this. If I remember correctly you needed high inflammation for high ldl to matter in cardiovascular events.

PCSK9 inhibitors don't universally lower hsCRP ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4876179/ ) but do lower adverse cardiovascular events https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36779348/

MR studies looking at genetics show a decrease in cardiovascular events with lower LDL/Lp(a) levels independent of other factors such as hsCRP

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23083789/ https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1604304 https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article%3Fid%3D10.137...

Lp(a), another plaque depositing particle also has been shown in MR to be an independent risk factor for CVD events regardless of hsCRP

https://europepmc.org/article/med/20032323 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5483508/ https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1109034

Well pre COVID, Silicon Valley had one of the highest non-vaccination rates amount kids in day-care. So at least then it wasn't a red/blue thing at all.

Is the poor grammar in this title ironic or just poor?

Arg, oh no, that was me trying to get under the title limit and not dropping the are (was aiming for: Low-quality papers based on public health data flood scientific literature)

Tennis is a 5MET activity, jogging/running can be 10+

Yeah but that 15% food revenue growth might have gotten someone a bonus internally that year...

That’s not how small businesses work. If we’re going to speculate we can list many other scenarios; some which aren’t as accusatory towards the management.

In this case the "management" was theoretically answerable to the "customers" themselves, since it was a private club, but my understanding was that in practice the "board" basically just rubber-stamped whatever the management wanted (very similar to how "shareholders" in big public companies are treated).

There were other reasons to think that the club was in trouble (elderly membership literally dying off, dilapidated facilities, laying off beloved long-time staff, rust-belt economy not minting a ton of new rich people) so my best guess is that it was as simple as that: they needed short-term cashflow to stay in business, so they took it from the waiters and bussers. Either this wasn't enough and they had to close up anyway, or it actually brought the ultimate failure point forward.