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I'm sitting in my chair wearing a Red Wings jersey as I type this, and I haven't watched a single game this season after several years as an NHL.tv subscriber.

by luma 4y ago

I'm sitting in my chair wearing a Red Wings jersey as I type this, and I haven't watched a single game this season after several years as an NHL.tv subscriber. I always had to do some shenanigans to be able to watch my team, but as they ramped up their protections to prevent people from ever being able to watch their home team, I eventually gave up and cancelled my subscription. Haven't seen a game since and now I spend my weekends watching F1 cars drive around in circles. They seem happy to have me as a fan so that's where my money goes these days.

Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
After Putin's invasion in the Ukraine, Formula 1 management has cancelled the airing deal with the Russian sports channel that aired the races. Comically, this led to an immense improvement in coverage: long time TV commenters started commenting the races live on their page in VK, without the video stream, and others started streaming the race video, mixing the audio stream with their commentary. An there are NO FREAKING ADS! Ads were a curse - they took up almost 20% of the race time, but now there are simply none. And commenters and streamers get a lot of donations from fans for their service. Imagine that?!
- ISL 4y ago
  If you are in Russia, please do whatever you can, however small, to bring this war to an end. Nobody is winning.
  - soperj 4y ago
    When people said the same thing about Iraq and Afghanistan, what did you do?
    - ISL 4y ago
      I voted and advocated for change in directions I felt were healthy and positive.
      - Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
        Well, I too have always voted against Putin and his gang, and was always very vocal about my political views. Somehow, it didn't help.
        Nobody1989 4y ago
  - ipaddr 4y ago
    The prolonged war is a US strategy. Asking a random Russian citizens to stop it is like asking a random American to stop it
    - icambron 4y ago
      This is a weird framing. “Prolonging the war is a US strategy” only makes sense if you believe Russia has an unassailable right to conquer Ukraine. If Russia wants to stop the war, it need only withdraw its forces. The US is only prolonging the war in the sense that it’s preventing Russia from winning it. It’s unreasonable to expect the rest of the world to roll over and play dead because easing Russia’s conquest would shorten the war.
      - ipaddr 4y ago
        Russia needs to control Ukraine to prevent NATO. Ukraine is a pawn in a larger game. The US is prolonging the war to deplete Russia but the strategy is costing Ukraine lives, Ukraine cities, causing a European energy crisis and costing the west wealth all while making China stronger.
        icambron 4y ago
        That’s a completely delusional viewpoint. Russia can claim to need anything it wishes to, but that doesn’t entitle it or a resistance-free conquest. Russia invaded another sovereign country, which is obviously the thing that is costing all of those lives. The idea that you can invade your neighbor and then hyperventilate about them fighting back is childish and naive. It’s comical to rain artillery fire on another country and then blame America for proving the ammunition to shoot back. Again, your frame only makes sense if you think Russia has some special, magical right to invade its neighbors and kill their citizens, which practically no one outside of Russia believes. Yes, it’s killing lots of Ukrainians, causing an energy crisis, and enhancing China’s relative position. Those are the horrifying consequences of Russia’s invasion, not of the fight against it. There’s no world in which you get to invade another country and then shame them for fighting back, at least without the derision of the rest of to world. What did you think would happen? “Ah, Russians think they ‘need’ to do this, better lay down and die”, Of course the US is funding and arming Ukraine. It would be foolish not to. But what game are Ukrainians a pawn in? The fight for their own survival? If Russia doesn’t want to be “depleted” it need merely leave. The decision has always been in Putin’a hands. Russia has the same degree of agency as any other country, but you are acting like it’s the pawn in its own foolish war. Perhaps Russia is a nation of children who think they are merely blown about by the wind, unable to take responsibility for even their most explicit actions? Putin repeatedly kicked a massive tiger and then acted hurt, full of righteous indignation, when the tiger’s claws came out. No amount of mental gymnastics is going to change that.
  - bsedlm 4y ago
    that's the same thing as asking people in europe to please do whatever they can to influence NATO's behavior... or asking somebody in Colombia to please help stop all that cocaine (or dunno) there's something deeply flawed in the assumptions of how the world works when pleading to a random person in a country to please please influence the actions of the international institutions controlling the country.
    - Nobody1989 4y ago
  - Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
    The main sponsors of war with Ukraine are EU and US who continue to buy oil and gas from Putin. It is estimated that since Feb 24 EU has paid more than 60 Billion Euro [1] for resources stolen from Russian people. If this revenue stream would dry out, Putin's economy would collapse overnight. So the most effective strategy is to cut the payments, now. (I personally think that EU should have stopped buying energy resources from Russia in 2014 after Crimea annexation. Instead, EU countries increased energy dependence on Russia and continued to fuel Putin's oppression and war machines) As for my personal efforts, well, I don't think that there is a realistic way of doing something significant. I have protested Putin's regime for more than 10 years, was detained once, cops threatened to plant drugs on me, and do nasty things to my family. I don't think unarmed protests have any prospects in stopping Putin's regime anyway: Ukraine has an army with heavy weapons, Javelins and Baryaktars, and help from the West, and they still have difficulty stopping Putin's orcs. And whatever he has thrown on Ukraine he has at home - so good luck fighting that barehanded. By now I think everybody understands that if the protesters will gather enough strength so riot police would not be able to disperse them, he'll just order to mow the protesters down with machine guns and flamethrowers. So, a few years ago I moved most of my business offshore to EU, and pay ~zero taxes to Putin's regime, but now this virtue signalling campaign by western businesses cancelling everything russian actually creates great difficulties to simply function. Russians were discriminated even before by EU and US institutions and banks, and now this discrimination is turned up to eleven. The sad irony is that most of these discriminating measures actually help Putin, like idiotic ban of Visa / Mastercard payments - now Russian people have great difficulty paying for foreign VPS services, for example, and can only visit websites that perpetuate existing state propaganda. [1]: https://crea.shinyapps.io/russia_counter/ https://crea.shinyapps.io/russia_counter/
    - ISL 4y ago
      Thank you.
  - enterexit 4y ago
    Yeah, because this is how wars are stopped. /s
  - Nobody1989 4y ago
    No, no I am not. If I were winning, the demagogueries we call democracies would be extinguished from existence, and new nations would be forming in their place. And as far as Russia goes; it would have never gotten this far if 'I' were winning. The Cabal is winning, and they have been for years now. Russia vs Ukraine is just their latest plaything. Nothing we do or say will end this bullshit until the rest of you do what is right for once in your lives, and not just whatever is most convenient to you. Have a nice day. Might be your last. Who knows? Nobody.
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
  It's "Ukraine", not "the Ukraine": https://time.com/12597/the-ukraine-or-ukraine/ https://time.com/12597/the-ukraine-or-ukraine/
  - Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
    I know, but it is almost a meme. Long before even 2014, Ukrainians formed a sizeable chunk of Russian internet. And one particular phenomenon were the demands by some Ukrainians to spell "в Украине" ("in Ukraine") instead of "на Украине" ("on Ukraine"), as is the norm in Russian language. ("в Украине" does not really have negative connotations, and sounds about as correct in Russian as "on Ukraine" sounds in Russian. Still, some Ukrainians are offended by this form and believe it to be a denigrating towards their independent country. Needless to say that after Crimea annexation such demands increased tenfold and, after the war started, a further tenfold) There are other Slavic languages like Czech and Polish, which have exactly same spelling "na Ukraine", but Ukrainians somehow give them a pass. Coming to our issue, some Ukrainians also insist that Ukraine should be called THE Ukraine in English. I sometimes comply with this request.
    - ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
      They have asked to not be referred to as "the Ukraine". This is all the justification that is required. Respect them or don't. There is no try.
      - Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
        The ones I saw many times demanded "the". It seems you can't make everyone happy.
Ralfp 4y ago
I’m from Poland and this is final year that we can watch F1 on TV or via F1.tv. Starting with 2023 F1 in Poland becomes available exclusively via streaming on ViaPlay. And those guys are hell-bent that 780p is best for sport because 60fps is more important than picture quality. Liberty Media is up for a rude awakening.
- Scoundreller 4y ago
  Is that a type and you meant 480p?
philistine 4y ago
Hey! There are turns and stuff in an F1 race! It's not a circle!
thoughtpalette 4y ago
Same issue as a Wings fan outside of the market area (Detroit) in Chicago.
- selectodude 4y ago
  Yes, but it's important to remember that Detroit Sucks.
  - thoughtpalette 4y ago
    Ayyyyyyy

by luma 4y ago

Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago

After Putin's invasion in the Ukraine, Formula 1 management has cancelled the airing deal with the Russian sports channel that aired the races. Comically, this led to an immense improvement in coverage: long time TV commenters started commenting the races live on their page in VK, without the video stream, and others started streaming the race video, mixing the audio stream with their commentary. An there are NO FREAKING ADS! Ads were a curse - they took up almost 20% of the race time, but now there are simply none. And commenters and streamers get a lot of donations from fans for their service. Imagine that?!

ISL 4y ago
If you are in Russia, please do whatever you can, however small, to bring this war to an end. Nobody is winning.
- soperj 4y ago
  When people said the same thing about Iraq and Afghanistan, what did you do?
  - ISL 4y ago
    I voted and advocated for change in directions I felt were healthy and positive.
    - Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
      Well, I too have always voted against Putin and his gang, and was always very vocal about my political views. Somehow, it didn't help.
      - Nobody1989 4y ago
- ipaddr 4y ago
  The prolonged war is a US strategy. Asking a random Russian citizens to stop it is like asking a random American to stop it
  - icambron 4y ago
    This is a weird framing. “Prolonging the war is a US strategy” only makes sense if you believe Russia has an unassailable right to conquer Ukraine. If Russia wants to stop the war, it need only withdraw its forces. The US is only prolonging the war in the sense that it’s preventing Russia from winning it. It’s unreasonable to expect the rest of the world to roll over and play dead because easing Russia’s conquest would shorten the war.
    - ipaddr 4y ago
      Russia needs to control Ukraine to prevent NATO. Ukraine is a pawn in a larger game. The US is prolonging the war to deplete Russia but the strategy is costing Ukraine lives, Ukraine cities, causing a European energy crisis and costing the west wealth all while making China stronger.
      - icambron 4y ago
        That’s a completely delusional viewpoint. Russia can claim to need anything it wishes to, but that doesn’t entitle it or a resistance-free conquest. Russia invaded another sovereign country, which is obviously the thing that is costing all of those lives. The idea that you can invade your neighbor and then hyperventilate about them fighting back is childish and naive. It’s comical to rain artillery fire on another country and then blame America for proving the ammunition to shoot back. Again, your frame only makes sense if you think Russia has some special, magical right to invade its neighbors and kill their citizens, which practically no one outside of Russia believes. Yes, it’s killing lots of Ukrainians, causing an energy crisis, and enhancing China’s relative position. Those are the horrifying consequences of Russia’s invasion, not of the fight against it. There’s no world in which you get to invade another country and then shame them for fighting back, at least without the derision of the rest of to world. What did you think would happen? “Ah, Russians think they ‘need’ to do this, better lay down and die”, Of course the US is funding and arming Ukraine. It would be foolish not to. But what game are Ukrainians a pawn in? The fight for their own survival? If Russia doesn’t want to be “depleted” it need merely leave. The decision has always been in Putin’a hands. Russia has the same degree of agency as any other country, but you are acting like it’s the pawn in its own foolish war. Perhaps Russia is a nation of children who think they are merely blown about by the wind, unable to take responsibility for even their most explicit actions? Putin repeatedly kicked a massive tiger and then acted hurt, full of righteous indignation, when the tiger’s claws came out. No amount of mental gymnastics is going to change that.
- bsedlm 4y ago
  that's the same thing as asking people in europe to please do whatever they can to influence NATO's behavior... or asking somebody in Colombia to please help stop all that cocaine (or dunno) there's something deeply flawed in the assumptions of how the world works when pleading to a random person in a country to please please influence the actions of the international institutions controlling the country.
  - Nobody1989 4y ago
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
  The main sponsors of war with Ukraine are EU and US who continue to buy oil and gas from Putin. It is estimated that since Feb 24 EU has paid more than 60 Billion Euro [1] for resources stolen from Russian people. If this revenue stream would dry out, Putin's economy would collapse overnight. So the most effective strategy is to cut the payments, now. (I personally think that EU should have stopped buying energy resources from Russia in 2014 after Crimea annexation. Instead, EU countries increased energy dependence on Russia and continued to fuel Putin's oppression and war machines) As for my personal efforts, well, I don't think that there is a realistic way of doing something significant. I have protested Putin's regime for more than 10 years, was detained once, cops threatened to plant drugs on me, and do nasty things to my family. I don't think unarmed protests have any prospects in stopping Putin's regime anyway: Ukraine has an army with heavy weapons, Javelins and Baryaktars, and help from the West, and they still have difficulty stopping Putin's orcs. And whatever he has thrown on Ukraine he has at home - so good luck fighting that barehanded. By now I think everybody understands that if the protesters will gather enough strength so riot police would not be able to disperse them, he'll just order to mow the protesters down with machine guns and flamethrowers. So, a few years ago I moved most of my business offshore to EU, and pay ~zero taxes to Putin's regime, but now this virtue signalling campaign by western businesses cancelling everything russian actually creates great difficulties to simply function. Russians were discriminated even before by EU and US institutions and banks, and now this discrimination is turned up to eleven. The sad irony is that most of these discriminating measures actually help Putin, like idiotic ban of Visa / Mastercard payments - now Russian people have great difficulty paying for foreign VPS services, for example, and can only visit websites that perpetuate existing state propaganda. [1]: https://crea.shinyapps.io/russia_counter/ https://crea.shinyapps.io/russia_counter/
  - ISL 4y ago
    Thank you.
- enterexit 4y ago
  Yeah, because this is how wars are stopped. /s
- Nobody1989 4y ago
  No, no I am not. If I were winning, the demagogueries we call democracies would be extinguished from existence, and new nations would be forming in their place. And as far as Russia goes; it would have never gotten this far if 'I' were winning. The Cabal is winning, and they have been for years now. Russia vs Ukraine is just their latest plaything. Nothing we do or say will end this bullshit until the rest of you do what is right for once in your lives, and not just whatever is most convenient to you. Have a nice day. Might be your last. Who knows? Nobody.
ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
It's "Ukraine", not "the Ukraine": https://time.com/12597/the-ukraine-or-ukraine/ https://time.com/12597/the-ukraine-or-ukraine/
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
  I know, but it is almost a meme. Long before even 2014, Ukrainians formed a sizeable chunk of Russian internet. And one particular phenomenon were the demands by some Ukrainians to spell "в Украине" ("in Ukraine") instead of "на Украине" ("on Ukraine"), as is the norm in Russian language. ("в Украине" does not really have negative connotations, and sounds about as correct in Russian as "on Ukraine" sounds in Russian. Still, some Ukrainians are offended by this form and believe it to be a denigrating towards their independent country. Needless to say that after Crimea annexation such demands increased tenfold and, after the war started, a further tenfold) There are other Slavic languages like Czech and Polish, which have exactly same spelling "na Ukraine", but Ukrainians somehow give them a pass. Coming to our issue, some Ukrainians also insist that Ukraine should be called THE Ukraine in English. I sometimes comply with this request.
  - ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
    They have asked to not be referred to as "the Ukraine". This is all the justification that is required. Respect them or don't. There is no try.
    - Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
      The ones I saw many times demanded "the". It seems you can't make everyone happy.

Ralfp 4y ago

I’m from Poland and this is final year that we can watch F1 on TV or via F1.tv. Starting with 2023 F1 in Poland becomes available exclusively via streaming on ViaPlay. And those guys are hell-bent that 780p is best for sport because 60fps is more important than picture quality. Liberty Media is up for a rude awakening.

Scoundreller 4y ago
Is that a type and you meant 480p?

philistine 4y ago

Hey! There are turns and stuff in an F1 race! It's not a circle!

thoughtpalette 4y ago

Same issue as a Wings fan outside of the market area (Detroit) in Chicago.

selectodude 4y ago
Yes, but it's important to remember that Detroit Sucks.
- thoughtpalette 4y ago
  Ayyyyyyy