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  2. Covid-19

    in General Discussion

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    9 minutes ago, Noeller said:

    Ya I'm hoping they might be available in two weeks when I'm home for the TiCats game. Assholes out here charging us for boosters, but once again Wabber comes through and says Albertans are welcome to come there and get boosted. 

    Make sure you buy lots of beer so we get the tax revenue to pay for your shot. 🙂

  3. The Trade Thread

    in Winnipeg Jets Discussion

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    1 hour ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

    Could be fake. And if he wants out, I don’t see him looking at a Winnipeg (contender with similar weather) as an option. I will say that with the cap rising to $113.5 million within the next 3 years or so, $16 million is absolutely on the table for Kaprizov. He is quite arguably more important to Minnesota than any other single player is to their respective team in the entire NHL. Right now the maximum cap hit for a player is $17.6 million (20% of the team cap) and is likely to go up to $19.1 million by the end of this year, and $22.6 million by 2027-28. Kaprizov may want out, he may want a shorter term so he can re-negotiate once the cap ceiling going up, or he may be waiting for McDavid to set the market when he signs. Seems greedy on the face of it, but he holds the cards here and has a justifiable reason (from a player’s standpoint, not from a fan’s standpoint) to seek max dollars and rationalize turning down the $16 million per right now. Will be interesting to follow and see how this plays out. 
     

    Now if he goes to Florida for $12-13 million a year for 7-8 years on a sign and trade, THEN we can all be rightly pissed off as fans. 

    Curious why this should piss fans off?  The whole point of free agency was to give more players autonomy in where they live and play.  I say this as a huge Jets fan knowing this is a big disadvantage for the team, but if he wants to sign somewhere for less money, its his choice.

    If I were to make an argument on why he might sign in Florida for significantly less

    • Warm climate
    • Competitive team
    • Can sign for less but still make the same on net salary because of lower taxes, which also lets the team remain more competitive

    Should the tax advantage Florida has piss me off as a fan?   Maybe.  But life ain't fair in any capacity.  Not worth getting pissed off about in my mind.

  4. Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread

    in Blue Bomber Discussion

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    We are a .500 team right now with 2/3 of the season gone.  Best guess on the remaining schedule:

    • At Hamilton  loss (especially of Collaros is still out)
    • At Ottawa win
    • Hamilton at home loss
    • At Edmonton win
    • Saskatchewan at home loss (This is the 2nd last week of the season, could be a win if SK has a playoff spot wrapped up already)
    • Montreal at home win

    Don't really see us finishing above .500 either.    Could be worse of Collaros is out long term.

  7. The AI Thread

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    44 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

    Its an interesting dilemma. On the one hand, most existing art is already inspired heavily by the work of previous artists, so the fact that AI can do it isn't exactly a problem on its own. The difference is that previously even work inspired by others took individual skill and talent to adapt. Now literally anyone can do it. I don't know how I feel about that.

    Its a tough thing to navigate.  Is AI taking the same creative freedom that another artist does or is it copied and should the original artist be compensated.

    The other interesting aspect is the more content that is generated by AI, the more AI learns from AI generated content (there are various articles out there on the potential dangers on this... here and here are a couple, but there is a lot of theories on this)   

    Can AI learn to have "creative leaps" or will this always have to come from humans.  And if humans start relying on AI, do we lose the ability to really think and make those leaps.  Studies are starting to come out on how people who use AI to write vs people who write themselves use very different portions of the brain.  You really aren't learning critical thinking when using AI.

  9. The AI Thread

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    It will replace a lot.   Things like movie scores, commercials and places where the song isn’t front and center. 
     

    For some pop music, this has almost already been happening with the formulaic writers.  Just won’t need those humans. 
     

    I think what this does do is put a premium on authentic musicians and live performances.  I haven’t yet seen AI put emotion and lived experience into songs. 
     

    And the more it generates and can flood the market, I think the more people will crave human created content. 
     

     

  16. 2025 CFL (Non-Bombers) Season

    in Blue Bomber Discussion

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    39 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

    This is not meant to dump on MOS but he's in his 11th year here as head coach. That is a long time in any sport. Seriously how many coaches in the CFL last 10+ years.

    O'Shea has been head coach since 2014.  Closest to that would be Dickenson who has been head coach since 2016. 

    Calgary missed the playoffs last year before being 3rd in the West the prior 3 years, losing the semi final each year.  Though their record the last three years was 12 - 6, 6 - 12, 5 -12-1.  So one of those playoff years was just because everyone else in the West was bad.

    Calgary seems to have revitalized itself this year.  Can O'Shea do that if we are entering a downward trend?   Do we need to go through 2 years of mediocrity before that happens?

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