@arstechnica My guess is that something similar happens for American's playing #AFL. They pick up #aussierules specific terms and pronounce them the same way as their Australian teammates.
Smashed by a fairly ordinary Hawthorn side, with some big injuries including Day, Lewis, Jiath, Wingard, and Breust.
The big question: Is the issue North's list? Or has the game gone past Clarko as a coach?
"Meanwhile, North Melbourne coach Alastair Clarkson concedes his side is still a long way off the pace after forecasting the match would be an indicator of where his rebuilding outfit sits in its development.
"He was left in no doubt and North has now lost 26 of 27 games since success in Clarkson's first two outings at the helm early last year."
Hawthorn just being utterly outclassed by Gold Coast.
Not sure if the return of Will Day will make a difference or if they need to go back to the draft, but they desperately need another quality midfielder. #AFL@afl
Seven organizations the far right is targeting after the supreme court ban affecting admissions
Last August, #Hello#Alice, an online platform which 🌟offers grants to Black small-business owners, 🌟was
💥 sued by America First Legal 💥( #AFL ), a far-right non-profit formed by the former senior Trump White House adviser #Stephen#Miller.
The lawsuit alleges that Hello Alice’s grant program is unconstitutional, and that it should be accessible to all business owners regardless of race.
Founded in 2022 by Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz, both of whom are white,
Hello Alice’s grants help Black people across the country purchase commercial vehicles.
Nathan Roberts, a white Ohio resident who owns Freedom Truck Dispatch, a trucking dispatch company,
alleged that he experienced #reverse#discrimination because he was ineligible for the grants.
Roberts filed a lawsuit in August 2023 which argues that he is “suffering past and future injury in fact because he was barred from applying for this grant”.
“We think this case is meritless and sets the nation, and small businesses, back,” Hello Alice executives said in a joint statement.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( #EEOC ) responded in February by filing an amicus brief with Hello Alice in order to give additional information relating to the case.
👉“Empowering employers to take voluntary measures to remedy past discrimination remains an important component of our nation’s progression toward equal employment opportunity,” the brief reads.
“This court should take care not to hinder such efforts.”
“It’s not over when you lose, it’s over when you quit,” - how Wahgunyah football club, famous for losing 432 to one solitary point, has bounced back after last year's drubbing.
What an inspiring story about community and not winning, but succeeding! #Australia#AFL#Sport
"We know the community is over it", says TAB spokesperson re gambling advertisements during football before 8:30pm. Yes, we are TOTALLY over it, so don't do it!!!
And why, why, why is the AFL encouraging gambling problems by having an official relationship with Sportsbet??? Hasn't the AFL seen the damage gambling has caused for cricket? Clearly they don't care about the damage to people's personal lives by constantly encouraging them to gamble whenever they watch football. #gambling#AFL
Today in Labor History March 30, 1930: Hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers demonstrated in thirty cities. 35,000 marched in New York City and were violently assaulted by the police. At the time, there was virtually no formal aid available for the unemployed or poor. The ruling elite feared that workers would choose the dole over work if given the choice. So, they opposed unemployment insurance. Even the AFL opposed unemployment insurance because it saw itself as the representative of skilled workers only. It didn’t care about unskilled factory workers. The demonstrations were organized by the Communist Party, with the goal of overthrowing capitalism.
I like the new Tasmanian team logo except I keep wanting to say Tasma Devils. My mouth can't quite cover the distance in the time alloted to say the full name
Today in Labor History February 23, 1887: The Journeyman Bakers National Union was charted by the American Federation of Labor. Its founder, George Block, was also nominated to head the newly-formed AFL. When he declined, Samuel Gompers was unanimously chosen. Today the bakers’ union is known as the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union. In July 2021, BCTGM struck against Frito-Lay in response to 12-yr workdays, 7-day workweeks, low wages and dangerous working conditions. In August 2021, they struck against Nabisco. And in October 2021, they struck against Kelloggs.
Today in Labor History February 6, 1919: The Seattle General Strike began. 65,000 workers participated. Longshoremen, trolley operators and bartenders also participated. The strike began in response to government sanctioned wage cuts. Both the AF of L and the IWW participated. During the strike, the workers formed councils, which took over virtually all major city services, including food distribution and security. They also continued garbage collection. Laundry workers continued to handle hospital laundry. And firefighters remained on duty. They established a system of food distribution, which provided 30,000 meals each day. Any exemption to the work stoppage had to be ok’d by the General Strike Committee. Army veterans created an independent police force to maintain order. The Labor War Veteran's Guard prohibited the use of force and didn’t carry weapons. The regular police made no arrests in any actions related to the strike. Overall, arrests dropped to less than half their normal number.
A pamphlet that was distributed during the strike said, “You are doomed to wage slavery till you die unless you wake up, realize that you and the boss have nothing in common, that the employing class must be overthrown, and that you, the workers, must take over the control of your jobs, and through them, the control over your lives instead of offering yourself up to the masters as a sacrifice six days a week, so that they may coin profits out of your sweat and toil."
The strike ended when they brought in federal troops and the workers were pressured to quit by bureaucrats from the national unions, particularly the AFL.
I expect we will see #TaylorSwift's plane from Japan being tracked every ten minutes during the pre-game shows, kind of like how NORAD tracks Santa on Christmas.
I know, I know, it's weird when the worst people you know are right, even when they're right for the wrong reasons: like, the "Intelligence Community" is genuinely terrible, pharma companies are murderous crooks, and Big Tech really does have a dangerous grip on public debate. The swivel-eyed loons have a point, is what I'm saying:
BRGs, in other words, are the Crisis Pregnancy Centers of workplace discrimination. They're a Big Store Con, a company union dressed up as corporate social responsibility.
Now, let's not pretend that unions have a sterling record on race and gender issues. Giant labor organizations like the #AFL had to be dragged into racial integration, and trade unions have sometimes been on the wrong side of anti-immigration panics:
"Not only are we not skating where the puck is going, not only are we now skating in the wrong direction but this is at best an 'own goal' & perhaps might even be pulling our goalie halfway through the 1st period because we're scoring too many goals"
-Show host @Bentley
Is there any legal way to watch #AFL in Europe/Germany without paying an arm and a leg for it?
Years ago Eurosport broadcasted that each Saturday… #AussieRules