When I heard he was conscious and talking I was so ridiculously happy. I used to work for the company the invented the defibrillator and who provides the AEDs for the NFL. We talked so much about how low the survival rate of a heart attack was, and how outcomes were significantly improved with prompt, properly performed CPR and defibrillation. I conceptually understood that, but watching this... it's different seeing it.

For the all things the NFL is, prepared for a medical emergency is one thing they got right. I wasn't there and I don't know everything that took place, but what I did see looked like the best case scenario. This so easily could have been a tragedy. Honestly, I thought it would be. I'm so pleased I was wrong.

A good real life example comes from Amazon a few years ago. They implemented AI that "learned" to prefer male candidates. From this article:

>In effect, Amazon’s system taught itself that male candidates were preferable. It penalized resumes that included the word “women’s,” as in “women’s chess club captain.” And it downgraded graduates of two all-women’s colleges, according to people familiar with the matter.

What it came down to was that the tech industry tends to be male dominated, so based on the resumes fed to the AI, it identified a pattern that successful candidates don't have words like "women's" in their resume or go to all-women schools.

I mean, I personally haven't, but if I had the beer would be the icing on the cake of everything else that has transpired. But also, if you pay for a premium experience I don't think it's ridiculous to want to receive what was promised. My husband and I enjoy fine dining. If I book a reservation with a fine dining restaurant and I am dropping a wad of cash I otherwise wouldn't normally for a premium experience and after I showed up they said oh, we know we said you'd get x and that's a standard part of the experience but too bad, you can live without it, I would not be happy about that. Again, it's not the end of the world, but it is an expected and promised part of the experience. I see no reason why it is silly to be upset that at the last minute you're being told you can just live without it in such a flippant manner.

Sure, that's an option. But if you've dropped thousands, of which not all is likely to be refundable, that is a hard pill to swallow. It's a no win situation. Stay and be denied the experience you were promised, or leave and lose thousands for flights you didn't need to take and potentially other costs that aren't refundable and miss out on this major event you were looking forward to. Either way I'd still be mad as hell.

I'm not a huge soccer fan but I've been to a decent number of games and had a lot of fun. Telling me I'll "survive" without beer is true. But I don't want to. if I spent all the money to travel to Qatar, book a hotel, pay to eat out everyday at inflated prices and all that, part of the experience I want is to have beer at the game. No one thinks they will die without beer. But they would prefer to have it and I'd be pissed if at the last minute someone said nevermind, we promised it would be available but meh, who cares? Of course a lot of the fans care. Their lives aren't destroyed because of it, but a certain experience was promised for the exorbitant price of admission and you reneged on that promise. If I had paid to go to the WC in Qatar I'd be absolutely furious.