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The issue I have with graphs like this is that there is a very restrictive view of what "live action" means. For American football in particular, they seem to limit their analysis to the time the ball itself is "live", in a play, and don't count time when the clock is running between plays. And a fair amount of American football strategy, though, is the time period just before the snap where the offense lines up for their play and the defense tries to position itself to counter. It is an essential part of the game, but since the ball isn't in motion, this analysis discounts it.

Similarly, a fair amount of the strategy in baseball is in how fielders are positioned. Its something that is hard to see on TV, although a good announcer will pick up on it and relay it to the audience.

Soccer can be fairly slow moving in comparison, even though the ball is "live" the whole time. I have seen some analysis online that state that there may only be 12 minutes or so of "attack" time per soccer game, with the rest spent on passing to set up plays and keep possession.

Also, both sports have actively participated in adding more ad time. American Football has specific "TV Time Outs" sprinkled through the action. Most people don't notice because they come earlier in the half. (The timing rules also change in the last 5 minutes of the half, although some of those rules speed up the actual gameplay to make more room for commercials).

A televised Baseball game also has much longer breaks between half-innings. Normally 2m 15s, it becomes 2m55s in the playoffs. It used to be that minor league games that weren't televised ran much quicker, because there was no clock between innings and play started as soon as everyone was ready. But, when the pitch clock came to the minor leagues it also came with a between-innings clock, no matter whether it was necessary or not.

And Clinton should know, she is an expert on campaigns that are terrible mistakes....

Exactly. My terminology might not be correct, but my point is that their books can be perfectly balanced, and they can also be losing a shit-ton of money, as long as investors keep shoveling money in.

I'm not an accountant, but you can certainly balance books while showing a loss. Double-entry bookkeeping simply means that every transaction has two parts, and "balancing" simply means that all the transactions cancel out properly.

I joke with my accountant friends that their entire job is counting to zero.

Sigh. Donald Trump did not become President (Twice!) by listening to experts....

That's quite easy, the books are balanced, there are just more debits than credits. "Balancing the books" doesn't mean that the net result is zero, it means that all the money going in and going out is accounted for.

OpenAI can keep bleeding money as long as there are fools willing to fund it in exchange for the illusion of future profits.

Make Algae Grow Again!

That's because the problem is not whether or not he was exact in his quotation. He could have been reading those passages directly from the book and they would have still had a cow.

And the article actually nails the reason why quite well: those passages are inclusionary, and really points out how these Nationalist Christians are distorting that message. They have turned their form of American Christianity into only caring about abortion, guns, and how evil immigrants and trans people are. But the Jesus in that book loves everyone, unconditionally, and calls his followers to love everyone too.

If Jesus were alive today, the Nat-C's would have sent him to CECOT already. (It doesn't help his case that he's a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew....)

He wasn't asking, he was confirming it.

But as long as it can be converted to legal tender, it still counts. Some folks get paid partially in stock, after all, and it works for them.