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Today's Dealmaster is headlined by a handful of special offers Amazon has set live ahead of its upcoming Prime Day sales event, which the company recently announced for June 21-22. The best early deal of the bunch is one we also saw during last year's event: Prime members who buy select Amazon gift cards worth $40 or more will get a bonus $10 Amazon promotional credit applied to their account at no extra cost.
To get the deal, you'll have to use the code "GIFTFORPD21" at checkout or tap the "Apply code to your account" button located on the offer's landing page. You should then see a notice at checkout that confirms your eligibility for the credit, which Amazon will then email to you and apply to your account within two days. The company says you'll have to use the credit before August 8, and the credit itself can't be applied to items sold by third-party vendors on Amazon's store. You can only utilize the offer once per account, and again, the deal is only for Prime members, since Amazon's aim here is to generate more users and sales activity ahead of Prime Day. All that said, if you buy a card for yourself, the deal effectively gives $50 in Amazon money for the price of $40. Amazon says the offer will run through June 20 or while supplies last.
If you don't feel like taking advantage, though, our weekend deals roundup also has early Prime Day deals on Audible and Amazon Music Unlimited subscriptions, plus good price drops on PlayStation Plus, the recently-released Resident Evil Village, wireless Logitech mice, noise-canceling headphones we like, and much more. You can check out the full curated roundup below.
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Evangelische Kirche und “Russlandfeldzug”: Neuedition einer Arbeitshilfe von Dietrich Kuessner – Kirche & Weltkrieg, Teil 6
This weekend, boxing legend Floyd Mayweather will fight YouTuber Logan Paul for bragging rights, and the not insignificant prospect of tens of millions of dollars each, whatever the outcome. Despite calls from anti-piracy groups for people to watch the event legally, this matchup will be pirated to hell and back. Here’s why.
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When talk of a Floyd Mayweather versus Conor McGregor boxing match was first aired in the media, few true boxing fans believed it would happen. But it did and was a spectacular success, despite being heavily pirated.
There is no doubt that Mayweather enjoys the limelight but McGregor and his infamous trash-talk was always going to be a huge factor in attracting eyeballs. What followed was a boxing match that showed that if your mouth is big enough and you have enough fans, having a fistfight for money doesn’t have to follow the traditional boxing model.
Not to take anything away from these two professionals, but they have to shoulder some responsibility for what the boxing world now has to endure in the shape of brothers Jake and Logan Paul. While their abilities are up for debate, they have huge mouths and audiences to match, which makes them attractive commercial options for anyone wanting to punch them in the face.
This weekend, Logan Paul will try to emulate his brother’s performance against Ben Askren by knocking out Floyd Mayweather live on Showtime in the US and Sky in the UK. To be frank (and despite being at least 30 pounds heavier), that’s his only chance of winning the fight. But both men will emerge victorious whatever happens, to the tune of a rumored tens of millions of dollars each.
But that, of course, rests on people paying to watch the PPV. Unfortunately, all the signs suggest that huge numbers of people will pirate the event instead, and that will rest pretty squarely on the shoulders of Logan and brother Jake. Here’s why.
With 23.1m and 20.4 million subscribers on YouTube, Logan and Jake are undoubtedly internet superstars but for the large part, following them hasn’t cost fans a penny.
The brothers have successfully leveraged the advertising-supported models of YouTube and similar platforms to bring their content to the masses at pretty much zero cost, meaning that their fans simply aren’t in the habit of paying. Which is fortunate because a huge section of their audiences is unlikely to have much disposable income.
While Logan and Jake’s fans are continually growing up (hopefully at a faster rate than the brothers themselves) there is no doubt that these gentlemen attract a young audience. They are a huge deal with tweens, teenagers and younger adults who have grown up with the free nature of YouTube, not $49.99 (in the US) and £16.95 (in the UK) PPV events.
Indeed, the brothers largely market themselves to their social media audiences, which in their cases are populated by younger people. The problem with that is these fans present the perfect piracy storm. Not only do they have less free cash than older adults and have grown up in an environment of having to pay nothing, they also tend to be experts at finding free streams or have a large enough network to have them delivered on a plate.
When you add in the fact that the Pauls never shut up about having more money than most regular fans, you have to wonder whether the ‘Logangsters’ would want to part with all of their spare cash to watch the fight when an illegal stream is just a click away. And there are other problems too.
For fans who did part with their money to watch Jake knock out Ben Askren in 70 seconds, there will be mixed emotions. Ok, their hero disposed of his opponent quickly and spectacularly but was it worth $49.99? As a boxing fan, who appreciates a good fight, absolutely not. The many clips on YouTube and other platforms by the next morning did, however, since they came at a price more closely associated with the Pauls’ other content.
To be clear, there will not be a quick knockout of Floyd Mayweather, so the round-to-dollar ratio should present much more value. But this is a fight card, not just one fight, so will there be more value there? Skimming it quickly, possibly. Being more objective, probably not.
Mayweather fans will relish him fighting but as high-quality cards go, this one ranks very averagely. Add in the fact that most Logan Paul fans will have zero clue who anyone else is on the card, it’s doubtful they’ll be sitting through all of it. In fact, most people are clearly only interested in the main event and whichever way you cut it, that is not worth the money in itself.
That will lead to the inevitable cries on Monday that while the fight did well, it will have been heavily pirated everywhere. The UK, where the Federation Against Copyright Theft has already issued a “DON’T PIRATE” warning on behalf of its client Sky, will be especially affected due to problems dating back decades.
Very big fights tend to happen in the US, on US broadcasting schedules, meaning that in the UK the Mayweather v Paul fight will take place in the middle of the night. Even for the most dedicated of fans, staying up all day and then all night is a big ask. Granted, younger fans might have less of a problem staying conscious but paying for a PPV and keeping mom and dad awake might prove even less popular.
Instead, expect many thousands of young Paul fans to be tucked up in bed with a phone, tablet or laptop for company, waiting for their social media friends to paste them a link to the fight, either live or straight after. The quality won’t be great but there will be enough detail to watch Logan get schooled for all eight rounds, if Mayweather wants it to go that far.
According to the contract, going the distance after making Paul look like an amateur still won’t mean a win for Mayweather though. So, the YouTuber’s fans can get up on the morning after the fight, declare victory, and begin saving up for Jake Paul’s next battle against former UFC champ Tyron Woodley in August.
Depending on how long the fight lasts (or God forbid Mayweather gets knocked out), paying might become a more attractive option next time. But let’s see.
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Seenotretter sprechen von einer grotesken Begründung. Italien drängt auf eine schnelle und entschlossene Strategie der EU angesichts der Migration aus Libyen
Turns out human development is a matter of economic justice and climate justice.
Ethiopians carrying jerrycans of water. (credit: UNICEF Ethiopia/2011/Lemma)
As people around the world escape poverty, you might expect their energy use to increase. But my research in Nepal, Vietnam, and Zambia found the opposite: lower levels of deprivation were linked to lower levels of energy demand. What is behind this counter-intuitive finding?
After all, the prevailing strategy to end extreme poverty relies on the belief that we need to grow the economic “pie," so we can produce more goods and services, at the same time as households and government spending capacity increases to consume those goods and services. And so, when poverty is “diagnosed” by income, the “remedy” is said to be economic growth.
However with widening inequalities and an acute sanitation crisis in much of the world, many still evade the promised benefits of economic growth. It turns out that poverty is not only about income: it consists of multiple deprivations.
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Supply constraints and soaring demand have made vehicle prices a key number for the Fed.
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Last month it took Carey Cherner, a 36-year-old used car dealer in Kensington, Maryland, less than 12 hours to sell a 2001 Ford F-150 pick-up truck with 184,000 miles on the clock. It went for $7,500—50 percent higher than usual.
Cherner’s experience was not a one-off in the US used car market, where prices are rising rapidly. The industry is at the heart of the country’s growing inflationary pressures—and has therefore become a subject of great interest to policymakers in Washington.
“There’s more people buying cars than there are cars in the market, which makes it go kind of crazy,” Cherner said.
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