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Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC?
Submitted 2 months ago by smokebuddy@lemmy.today to [deleted]
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Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Is that your final answer?
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Considering 1 percent of 12 million is 120k I guess that’s about right.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This reminds me of how well I can do algebra and calculus but need to whip out the calculator for the tip.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Tips are easy. You move the decimal point (10%) and double (20%). Or find 10%, half of 10% is 5% and add that 5% to whatever 10% was for a 15% tip. And fudge the numbers to make the math easier when it makes sense to, it’s a tip not a math test.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You’re going to far. 0% of any sum is 0
EatATaco@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This is the way I do it. Often I just divide by ten and multiply by two, but I’m a generous tipper, and it’s one less head math step.
The funny thing is that this basically how common core math works: get to the answer by doing as much easy math as possible.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
What are you guys talking about? Tip is just rounding up to banknotes-only. €37.25? You pay 2x€20.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Easy for you to say! You don’t have scrambled eggs for brains. 😜
Willy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
why doesn’t she just play in the NBA?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If you want a serious answer: athletic ability
She isn’t strong or fast enough
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nick Kroll does not look impressed. Then again, he never does.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney for those who don’t know.
Ejh3k@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wow. I thought the guy on the left was from arrested development
Lemjukes@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Wow I could have sworn that was Jason Bateman
majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 2 months ago
I had to do a double take scrolling because I was like “Wait, what that Nick Kroll?”
Good4Nuthin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
either way, that would buy a lotta tuna.
Snapz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is that… Nick Kroll and John Mulaney?
prowe45@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Oh, hello
li10@feddit.uk 2 months ago
tbf, Caitlin Clark is the only WNBA player that’s profitable.
People will bitch about how the men’s league gets paid so much, then proceed to not watch the women’s league…
If you want it to make money YOU need to support it 🫵
Delphia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This has always been my stance, Women make up approximately 50% of the population and the WNBA generates 2% of the revenue that the NBA does…
My wife and her friends go to some restaraunt once a month and they buy brand name workout clothes. Go to a game, buy a jersey, take your daughter and make it a thing.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 2 months ago
So basically, “gender pay-gap are fine, because the value of a woman is decided by the free market.”? Fuck that capitalist drivel…
Tear down the entire sexist gender-segregated professional sports industry for illegal/unconstitutional gender discrimination and require professional for-profit sports be co-ed like every other industry in this country is mandated to be.
The fact that the NBA doesn’t admit women should be grounds for dissolving the NBA as an illegal organization. The fact that the NBA and WNBA operate intl-tandem while maintaining such an egregious gender pay-gap is proof of a conspiracy to discriminate against women.
Fuck the centuries of sexist tradition around sports. Just because it’s the way things have been, doesn’t mean it’s the way it ought to be. I’m sick and tired of the sexism and sexist apologia. If you think women deserve less, I don’t care what your excuse is, especially if your excuse is “the free market”. smh…
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 months ago
This is a great response. If you want to support them, great! Donate, volunteer, watch their games, whatever. For the rest of us, it’s an entertainment product. I don’t watch WNBA because I don’t watch NBA, or any sports. But if you like basketball, yet draw the line at the players’ genitals, that’s weird.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I would think that the kind of people who watch NBA, would want to watch the WNBA.
It’s the same concepts, but with women. I would think the mostly straight/male sports audience would want to watch their favorite sport where the players are also the gender they like to stare at.
Yet, here we are.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I don’t know how so many people are so devoid of understanding of something that is such an integral part if human civilisation the world over.
People find something they like. Let’s say is basketball. They like playing the game and want to be better so like watching people better than them so they tend to watch the best. Then they also find out they like watching it for entertainment sake. But anyone that has ever watched kids play sport know watching lower quality sport rapidly decrease in entertainment value.
Why would you go actively out of your way to watch an inferior product?
There are so many amateur male athletes that are better than female athletes. But no one goes down to their local game and watch a load of randomers play sport.
People watch the top league usually the club and the international if that sport is international. Then they will watch not their favourite team but other teams to get a better idea of the league. Then they will watch the feeder youth league if they want to. Then other countries leagues or lower leagues. All of these link together and all of them will be a better level than top women’s league.
Usually at the point you run out of time to watch any more or you just like sport in general and go watch the top tier of another sport.
There needs to be a reason to watch and the only reason I have found to watch women’s sport was to watch the UFC because that’s a player on player sport not achieving something. But the women have a lot less power and a lot more flexibility so the strategy is entirely different and sport looks different. In that sense in that entertainment value men can’t achieve that, in all other sports men seem to do what women do but better.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They built a gender segregated system where all of the marketing and airtime goes to the men’s side. It’s an industry where women get less than 1% of the pay that the men did for the same job.
But it’s my fault for not watching?
The corporate overlords thank you for redirecting the blame away from them.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 2 months ago
There is no rule stopping women from joining the NBA. It’s just that no woman currently is able to compete at the highest level when men are included; the whole point of the WNBA is that, without it, there are no professional women in the sport.
In other words, it’s not the same job: one is an NBA player, the other a WNBA player. The WNBA exists precisely because women can’t do “the same job” but there is a market for watching women do the job. It’s just not as big as the market for people playing at the highest level of competition.
Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you suggesting they make a coed league where only the best get to play. How many female players will make the league.
StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The WNBA is a marketing line item for the NBA. If the NBA didnt give the WNBA their hand out, the WNBA wouldn’t exist.
Tom_Hanx_the_Actor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You do know that professional sports is considered part of the entertainment industry, right? This is like you insisting that Margot Robbie and Christian Slater should be paid the same because they do the same job.
callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m gonna bet that corporate executives are bigoted assholes and increases in profits won’t substantially go to the women players.
Tom_Hanx_the_Actor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s totally unfair to use Caitlin Clark as an example of the pay disparity as well. She’s a rookie on a pay scale. Her salary is less than half the average wnba salary. What’s really crazy to me is that the average salary is about 150k with only one woman making over 250k. For the salaries to be that flat seems odd compared to other pro sports but it’s just a part of the W having less revenue. Athletes have very strong unions also.
Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Is bill burr on lemmy?
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
In Brazil, is even more common now to people gather to watch the women football national team, not at the level of the men one, but there’s even companies where they close up when any of the two teams play, to give people opportunity to see the game.
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Why does nobody watch the women’s leagues? Is it because nobody else does? can’t have all the social aspects of sports if nobody else is doing it.
Imo, they need to stop the segregation. Ditch the women’s leagues, but keep the games and teams. Have both teams play in one league, and contribute to the overall score of the team.
It’ll add new strategy to the seasons. Spend all of your budget on the dudes and hope they keep winning despite the ladies; build a strong women’s team to carry your b-tier men’s team; or something in between.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I don’t like watching basketball (love playing it, though), but oddly enough I know of more people that go to WNBA games than NBA games, which comes to think of it seems odd. Maybe the seats are a lot less expensive…
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can sometimes buy season tickets to the WNBA for the price of similar single-game NBA seats.