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  1. ITTF Mixed Team World Cup 2025, Chengdu, 11/30-12/7

    They are professionals, they can handle it in a fairly meaningless match. They had already secured the #2 spot.
  2. ITTF Mixed Team World Cup 2025, Chengdu, 11/30-12/7

    So who is the villain for Japan, Harimoto or the crowd?
  3. ITTF Mixed Team World Cup 2025, Chengdu, 11/30-12/7

    Up to the Japanese women to see if they can fix thus. Competing with both the crowd and the world's best doubles team was too much for the men. Omigod, this final game is like a movie lol...
  4. ITTF Mixed Team World Cup 2025, Chengdu, 11/30-12/7

    They must be resting Togami and Matsushima for tomorrow, this pairing is capable but makes little sense.
  5. ITTF Mixed Team World Cup 2025, Chengdu, 11/30-12/7

    Harimoyo terribly affected, that wasn't a match.
  6. ITTF Mixed Team World Cup 2025, Chengdu, 11/30-12/7

    I think that should be easy to facilitate in some cases. That said, the thread doses support live watching, we can't hold people too accountable for spoiling a live event, it's probably best to stay off yhr thread if you want no insight into the results.
  7. ITTF Mixed Team World Cup 2025, Chengdu, 11/30-12/7

    I thought Hana and Ivor had fubared it but they managed to right the ship. 2-1 Croatia after the XD. Hopefully the early matches can finish and give way to the heavyweight clashes.
  8. Andy Fastow - former CFO of Enron

    Yeah, I picked a really unpopular topic. Will stick to equipment junkie posts.
  9. Andy Fastow - former CFO of Enron

    I don't think learning about ethics would have stopped him, and I don't think he always describes it as ethics - he makes it more about a form of risk management. There are lots of incentives short of getting put into jail that reward short term corporate decision making over longer term...
  10. Tony has been banned and won't return

    I will close the thread and the second account as well.
  11. Andy Fastow - former CFO of Enron

    First of all, your position what a good starting point for a nuanced conversation would be is fair. I don't know the context from which many people relate to Enron and usually, I insult people like this for fun. But maybe it was hearing him speak or his well selected cases and the challenges I...
  12. Tony has been banned and won't return

    But did he decide really to never comeback? Would someone who really wanted to never comeback post under a different alias and make arguments and pointed comments to the moderator who had an issue with? He is doing what all rational people do - using his leverage. I definitely used mine...
  13. Andy Fastow - former CFO of Enron

    I agree, and maybe I am too fact-finding focused to appreciate the damage he did to people's lives. The CFOs, directors and managers he spoke in front of didn't lynch him, and what he spoke about made a lot of us reflect on what it meant to hide behind following the rules when we put lipstick...
  14. Andy Fastow - former CFO of Enron

    Yes, all that was legal at the time. He did a lot of wrong things, very immoral things, I would argue fraudulent things, but most of them were very legal. And regardless, even if he did illegal things, my point is that very often, it takes a thief to catch a thief, immorality is not the first...
  15. Tony has been banned and won't return

    It's a de-escalation technique because public visibility makes performance to the audience just as if not more important than the actual topic being discussed, and as a moderator, you are not trying litigate an issue, you are balancing a ton of considerations that are harder to balance when...
  16. Tony has been banned and won't return

    Everyone, since T To answer a lot of this would require discussing at length the dynamics of moderation etc. While I will skip details for team reasons, I will address why I did what I did even when it was not explicitly written in the rules. In reality, what I decided was that most people...
  17. Tony has been banned and won't return

    Thanks for making my point.
  18. Tony has been banned and won't return

    Because the account is linked to Tony. I would usually ban it but I am leaving it to make the point.
  19. Tony has been banned and won't return

    Tony is free, he will be able to return in a few hours and then what he decides then is up to him. I am sure given this thread and his status there will be some consideration of how best to ask him to come back and what it will take. His price may be steep but if he has one and it can be met...
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