{"channel":"sports","content":" one of the benefits of a \"blog\" over a \"newslettr\" is that the minimum amount of information required per post is lower.\n\n well, actually, is that a benefit? surely to an author who has a word-count requirement it would be a benefit. but, perhaps, sometimes, \"not writing\" is better.\n\nThe Commonwealth Games may or may not be canceled.\n\nRecently, the 2026 hosts (a variety of cities [other than Melbourne] in Victoria, Australia) decided to break their hosting contract. (ref) Now the question is: who will put up the billions of dollars to host the event?\n\n it would be heresy to suggest that perhaps there is less of a market for international archery and table-tennis tournaments than certain egregores demand.\n\nPerhaps the better question is: why is there a British Commonwealth? It was created as part of the process of decolonization. But that is ancient history now. Does it serve a purpose today other than creating expensive boondoggles of sport and politics?\n\n it has the same purpose that the United Nations has: to puff up the importance of \"small states\", so they can be bought off by the US and China as \"rotten boroughs\"\n\n but perhaps we should ignore that as \u9b3c\u8bdd. The real purpose must be the obvious one: an organization to improve relations between Britain and India. Canada and Australia are along for the ride. Everybody else is window dressing and legerdemain.\n\n \u9b3c\u8bdd (\u666e\u901a\u8bdd GUI3HUA4), literally \"ghost words\", translated as \"nonsense\".","created_at":"2023-07-18T18:29:51","id":387,"llm_annotations":{},"parent_id":null,"processed_content":"

\n \ud83d\udca1\n one of the benefits of a \"blog\" over a \"newslettr\" is that the minimum amount of information required per post is lower.\n

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\n \u2694\ufe0f\n well, actually, is that a benefit? surely to an author who has a word-count requirement it would be a benefit. but, perhaps, sometimes, \"not writing\" is better.\n

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The Commonwealth Games may or may not be canceled.

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Recently, the 2026 hosts (a variety of cities [other than Melbourne] in Victoria, Australia) decided to break their hosting contract. (ref) Now the question is: who will put up the billions of dollars to host the event?

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\n \ud83c\udf0e\n it would be heresy to suggest that perhaps there is less of a market for international archery and table-tennis tournaments than certain egregores demand.\n

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Perhaps the better question is: why is there a British Commonwealth? It was created as part of the process of decolonization. But that is ancient history now. Does it serve a purpose today other than creating expensive boondoggles of sport and politics?

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\n \ud83d\udd25\n it has the same purpose that the United Nations has: to puff up the importance of \"small states\", so they can be bought off by the US and China as \"rotten boroughs\"\n

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\n \ud83d\udca1\n but perhaps we should ignore that as \u9b3c\u8bdd. The real purpose must be the obvious one: an organization to improve relations between Britain and India. Canada and Australia are along for the ride. Everybody else is window dressing and legerdemain.\n

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\n \u2699\ufe0f\n \u9b3c\u8bdd (\u666e\u901a\u8bdd GUI3HUA4), literally \"ghost words\", translated as \"nonsense\".\n

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