Captain Ron

Yes, fine, NBC/Peacock have their best coverage yet. Congrats to them. About damn time. And this isn't about "too many commercials for our liking." So long as they don't interrupt the events, I don't give a damn how many ads they run. This is about them running commercials in the middle of events as play is happening. Like I talked about this morning, the volleyball match was going on, Brazil blocked the US to go up 16-15. They showed the replay and right in the middle of the replay, they cut to commercial. There was no timeout, no stoppage of play (beyond the next point), nothing. When they came back Brazil was up 18-16 and we missed 3 points. WTF? This would be like Sunday Night Football having a key interception and right as the next snap was about to happen, they cut too commercial, and when they come back the offense just scored a TD. And Boo Hoo for NBC. They want to recoup things? Well guess what, that's what my Peacock subscription is for. They can fucking deal with it.

I saw this about an hour after you posted it. Frankly I think it would be a great hire.

Bogdanovic didn't look happy after the game. That one is gonna sting.

Serbia is going to take this one to their graves. They had it and blew it.

Man, those hurdles were all falling big time in that race.

Bol had a meh race and the US almost went 1-2-3.

That was a hell of a run. Damn.

Just stop. At least on point 1 you recognize that while it didn't run a red light - it turned in front of a car to make an illegal u-turn. My bad on missing the light change, but that left turn is still illegal and very dangerous (he turned in front of a car!) 2. I don't care if this is cherry picking, this is small issues that you don't see with Waymo and the like. They get THIS STUFF right. This is dangerous and puts people in and out of the car at risk. Just like this video https://www.threads.net/@tweet_removed/post/C-agbPTu1AJ?xmt=AQGzOlxCgGB4UOEPIKVNaxgJZDyIPrI3xeA_v_jqy9WeCw Where they make another illegal left turn. There's a FUCKING SIGN that says no left turn, not to mention a median that is designed to force you right. If it wasn't simple shit like this - I could let it go. BUT THIS IS BASIC STUFF.

Happy Robotaxi day to everyone that celebrates it.

That's the Bronze medal game.

It might just be me, but man that looked like the gold medal match to me.

LETS FUCKING GO!!!

Continual flowing games vs Bite sized power points.

That was a big point coming out of the Brazilian Time out.

The men did that too. Don't let up.

This is OTA NBC - there they don't run full screen ads, but PIP the play inside the ads so you can see TEENY TINY play while the ads run.

I switched over to cable, which appears to not have this - they PIP the ads with play. I should say they PIP play with the ads, which isn't a lot better than full cut away, but you get to see something.

The only thing worse than the Brazilian Block party is the commercials during live play on Peacock. Fuck this noise.

Holy shit! Commercials DURING EVENTS? And I don't just mean in breaks - they are literally running commercials during play of events!!! Right now I'm watching Brazil-USA in women's volleyball . This has been a great match going back and forth (USA just won set 1). But during a key moment in the first set (Brazil made a big block to go up 16-15 and take their first lead of the match) Peacock cuts away to run ads! WHAT. THE. FUCK? They missed 3 points and came back right after 18-16 Brazil. They just missed the first point of the 2nd set for ads! I first noticed this yesterday with Men's volleyball and water polo. I just don't get it. A lot of people have given NBC/Peacock credit for FINALLY showing so much stuff live - yes, kind of true. But they've failed to do this for well over a decade, when they've had access to the world feeds for a long ass time and never shown them. I had to use a VPN to pull the BBC feed as far back as London, but it could have been longer and I just wasn't aware. So ONLY NOW is NBC finally doing what they can to show us everything. FUCK!!! They cut to commercial AGAIN right as a serve was about to go!!! COME ON NBC!!!

I would argue that the bulk of legal scholars seem to think this case doesn't have legs. This piece has some really choice quotes https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-twitter-advertisers-lawsuit-joke-1235074957/ They did note that Xitter has strengthened their hand with a few selections (emphasis mine)

Whoops, did I say 2 days, it was supposed to be today

Meanwhile ...

Also let's not forget there was supposed to be a Robotaxi in 2 days, how is FSD going? https://www.threads.net/@vantazach/post/C-WW0nPypM0?xmt=AQGzK2Y3esQUG2mvEwQplt1BF6aDyvVSe8qB7oTI4tgr6w (hint, not good) This shot is right after the car runs a red light to do an illegal left/U-Turn around a guy waiting to turn left and the driver has to take over to fix. it.

Totally NOT Elon Musk asking questions on Twitter I'm sure everything is great over there.

Tuchel at least could argue that there were players at Chelsea that deserved to start ahread of Pulisic. He can't put anyone ahead of him on the US squad.