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What is on the other side of that argument? What is the statute of limitations on the stolen generations? Death in custody? The Tuskegee experiments on the US when the govt gave blacks suffering from syphillis ‘healthcare’ in the 70s. When does a country’s or a people’s collective conscience wash that away and absolve themselves through the guise and excuse of time? 20 years? 50 years? Depends. Or this just another excuse for inaction and passing of blame?

Their advice needs the assistance of a PR person. They were naive in how their ‘adjustment of their advice’ would be perceived and utilised by people and politicians. How about telling the country that there is greater risk of clots for half the population who take the pill than for AZ? Having a discussion about risk is not their job but it became the cudgel that bashed them sideways. I empathise with your argument but ATAGI ‘unwittingly’ getting to where they are is somewhat fault of their actions.

Yeah, you can see Troy waving when Long’s hips got X-rayed the next week.

How Walker can think like this after having so many colleagues over the years who were black… really does illustrate how ingrained it can be. And it isn’t like he was caught in the heat of the moment - standing off a huddle in a game he wasn’t playing in. Who are these people to you, Tex? And anyone who thinks like this in private; do these humans earn your ridicule and hate based on their existence in your world? Do Black Lives Matter? So sad that we can’t agree on some as fundamental as that. And the fact that to say those three words above, or to take a knee, is to be ‘political’… just a shame in our time.

When the AFL world turned on Goodes - that revealed the collective character of the game and our society. This is prevalent; we are a racist society. BUT people like that Crows staffer and players pointing out racists at games is a step in the right direction. Next step is on us to not be comfortable with “well I don’t say those things” to “when I hear those things I confront the person and make it clear to everyone around that it isn’t acceptable.”

It’s not your POV that grates, it’s the sincere impish thrill you seem to show when you give it. It borders on ‘trolling’ which I don’t want to call Land regulars, and you are a smart member of our community. I just wish you would accept that there are those in your community who have a different view to you and for you to be comfortable with that. Without being flippant - I understand you are saying that I shouldn’t be telling people that they are not entitled to their opinion. It’s a turn of phrase - the people that decide what people can post are Andy and the mods. Yes, I can avoid posters and the thread. I’m off my soapbox, next round is on me (this is a reference to my Demonland as a pub joke). rp

Can you just give it a rest? Do you realise how you seem? You don’t have to be ‘on’ all the time.

Getting my Pfizer in Sept.

I think everyone has to get their head around at least a prelim that you won’t be able to go to if you live in Melbourne. These are the cards that the AFL has been dealt and I would say there I such a slim chance of a PF/GF at the G that you should steel yourself for it not to happen. I am so sorry in both senses of the word and I have missed my fair share of Dees footy over the past decade that I have a callous toward the pain - but as the saying goes - Go Dees. rp

Good start next year and we will get to 60k next year

Thanks Nasher. I couldn’t read you losers for a few hours. Was not pleasant.

Hi Bombers fans…

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Nice try Angus but the club doesn’t read Demonland.

The benefits of a truly National game

You know there’s a pandemic on when they send Collingwood down to Hobart…

Heat maps can be helpful IF you have the right parameters and of course the data. That paper is 5 years old so I wonder what of that they are doing regularly still. It alludes to clubs looking at leading patterns and understanding how to play two similar players in the same forwardline… So if you are focussing in say Ben Brown and how he leads in chains we score in - the parameters would need to allow you to weed out ‘defensive’ movement, slow ball movement for an ‘out’ kick on the boundary (or not depending on what you are trying to ascertain), and maybe times he isn’t ‘in the play’ and entirely ignored. Then you are left with a heat map of where he is moving (and how quickly) in successful scoring chains. From that paper it said that CD still didn’t have the GPS data from the clubs but that may have changed in 5 years.

I would argue that most people include these visualisations with no idea of it’s intended purpose or meaning. And it is visualising data. I organise the purchase of these tools for a big govt dept up here in Canberra so I know a little bit. I will say that some of the active visualisations in the cyber sec world are more impressive using Splunk and the like, but in my experience, I deal with a lot vendors who treat users like the shallow idiots that they are… Harsh but that’s how I have seen it.

Well most of it doesn’t work so… I am guessing you’re in the data world? Am I lifting the lid on your faux code and ****ty ‘insights?’ God I hate the data apparatchiks…