What baffles me is that it's just... not a problem the federal (or state) government needs to be involved in? Like we don't need legislation deciding the rules for baseball, and it seems insane to suggest otherwise

There's an old joke about Canada just being 3 corporations in a trench coat. It's increasingly true about the USA, just with a bigger coat.

Yeah, the original court case was around whether a movie critical of Hillary Clinton could be run on TV before the 2008 primary, and I can get behind not letting the government stop that, but the court went and ruled an entire campaign finance law unconstitutional and now its a mess.

(This last bit is not particularly enforced in practice, and irrelevant anyways as it's not hard to guess what would help a candidate)

Corporations/unions/for-profit groups can spend as much money as they would like on political ads, as doing otherwise would be a restriction on their free speech. Led to the creation of SuperPACs, fundraising groups with no limits on spending as long as they don't directly coordinate with campaigns.

So many opportunities, so few runs, so much pain

There's some more modern/indie ones I've heard this series - Cuff The Duke, Arkells, and Tragically Hip. youtu.be/A90ph7-cvR4?..., youtu.be/vQvp6EghJ18?..., youtu.be/d18UWu4dRv4?...

On the Canadian broadcast it is a decent amount of Canadian music going into commercials, not sure it makes it into the Fox broadcast

In the 90s when they won they were invited and went, but when the raptors won they were invited and said no, so who knows. The one certainty is that baseball players have terrible politics

How dare you sir, they are a national treasure

c++20 can make the logic very easy to read (if a bit repetitive - definitely could be simplified with some macro cleverness)
Some limitations but they can probably be worked around if you're clever enough with this.
godbolt.org/z/vf3nGbb7d

Yeah the c++17 version doesn’t seem too bad if you’re careful with it - if constexpr can make some of it clean at least

Seems like it’d be as simple as “either you air ABC unedited or you lose access to all of it and ESPN, Disney channel, etc” and this problem would resolve itself

🤤 that rickenbacker looks gorgeous

Yes, the pain will be mostly be felt by the employees for sure - I do think leadership is pretty solid and has been trying to diversify, but they sell a lot of GPUs to data centers and that will be hard to replace if it goes away

A lot of young tech employees who never diversified from their big stock grants are going to learn a painful lesson, I fear.