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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

When should they have stopped?

IMO if someone hasn't even been charged with a crime, they should be given the benefit of the doubt. This isn't even "innocent until proven guilty", it's just "not assumed to be guilty before even charged".

Can you imagine the chaos if it was widely known you could stop a club from playing a player just because the police were investigating? Gangs would make a fortune by placing bets against a team / player then arranging for an associate to make an accusation. Even if the charges were later dropped for a complete lack of evidence, the gang makes their profit in the window while it's uncertain.

If you're going to draw a line in the sand, where do you draw it? If you draw it at a conviction, that's reasonable. I don't think anybody would expect that a player who's convicted of a crime should still get their full wages, and get to play if they're appealing or if they're on probation or something. But, maybe you want to be even more harsh, so you draw the line at being charged. That's a bit unfair, what happens if they're found not guilty? Or what if the prosecutors drop the case before it goes to trial? You could give them back pay, but that won't restore their reputation, and sufficient time without playing could destroy their careers. But, it wouldn't affect too many people because it's not common that players are charged. So, maybe that's not completely unreasonable.

But, to me, treating a player who hasn't even been charged differently from other players is taking it too far. Players are high profile targets, so they probably face a lot more attempts to get at their money than most other people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

But... why?

Gyokeres absolutely tears it up in the Portuguese league and comes in for £60m, which apparently Arsenal are still trying to negotiate down. But Arsenal are willing to pay Chelsea £52m for a player Chelsea doesn't even want? The English Tax explains some of it, but even though he's English he doesn't even count as homegrown.

If this were an end-of-the-window thing and all the other players we were after had already been signed, or we'd missed out on them and had to settle, then I could see it. But, that seems like a lot of money for a player who, if he's behind Saka, won't even be a starter. If they're buying him as a left winger, why buy a right winger to play on the left?

If they are buying him to play on the left, does that mean that they're not going to sign Eze? He's actually a left winger, he's actually better than the current starters, and would only cost an extra £20m?

Maybe if you're hoping to win the CL, you need to be buying £50m players who won't start. But, wouldn't it be smarter to buy a £70m who will start (and counts as home grown) and then have someone like Martinelli as the backup?

The fact he's from Chelsea doesn't really bother me, except that it means that Arsenal are helping Chelsea to meet their FFP obligations... not that those actually seem to matter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

No matter what happens in the future, it's going to be a Canadian going to Arsenal that broke the £1m barrier, so it will go down in history. I like it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Strange times for Berry Club

From Mr. Lovenstein whose website unfortunately doesn't seem to work, except to redirect you to Meta-owned socials. Ugh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Also, Hitler didn't invent racism or antisemitism. His agenda didn't die with him not because he was such a powerful figure, but because he was harnessing prejudices that have existed before apes even started to walk upright.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You can get thrown in a concentration camp because your skin's too dark and you weren't carrying your ID, even if you're a US citizen.

That's one of the side effects about tossing out the rule of law. If merely protesting or having a certain meme on your phone is dangerous, then might as well go all in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

My best guess is that he's actually a hardcore MAGA grifter, but part of that is being an attention whore, so he's happy to put out tweets where people dunk on him as long as it results in more attention.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

It's not just over the top, a lot of it appears to be engagement bait where he sets himself up for people to dunk on him. Check out some of the tweets I've posted in this discussion.

Maybe he is both serious about being a MAGA acolyte, but also playing an over-the-top character that gets him more attention, even if it's just so people dunk on him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Confoederatio futura. It's like Confoederatio helvetica but for the futura font.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

So, it's propping up US interests to help Syrians avoid hunger? Why is it that you think I care about US interests anyhow?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

He didn't say he "rides" the motorcycle, that's just how he sits on a Harley. He sits on it as if someone else owns it and he asked if he could have his picture taken with it.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Pop it in your calendars? Maybe I'm using calendars wrong, but mine aren't filled with things I should avoid doing. But, I'm willing to learn. What date should I put "Don't Buy Subnautica 2" on?

 

In the most recent Arsecast, Andrew and Lewis Ambrose played a game where they picked a team of Arsenal players to lose. The restrictions were that the player couldn't be played too far out of position, and that they had to have at least 20 appearances for Arsenal in all competitions in the emirates era, and that the team be in a 4-3-3 shape.

It's worth listening to the episode. They didn't always pick the worst players, sometimes it was players who were just bad in a certain position, or surrounded by players who emphasized their faults.

You can see the two teams if you want to skip to the end.

Seems like a fun game, anybody want to post their designed-to-lose teams?

 
  • At least 200 people have died
  • The plane crashed into a doctor's hostel, injuring many people on the ground
  • One passenger survived, with injuries minor enough he was able to walk away
  • The plane was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
 

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Stocks have almost returned to where they were 5 days ago after his latest change to the tariffs.

 

I need some new earbuds, and live in a place with severe winters. I want to be able to access the controls using gloves or mittens if possible.

The online reviews I've seen all assume that you can just touch the earbuds with bare hands, but when it's well below freezing, that sometimes isn't possible. If I have to take off a mitt to use my earbuds my hand might not warm up until I can get back indoors again. Earbuds that work with touchscreen-capable gloves aren't good enough either. I've never seen touchscreen-capable gloves that keep your hands warm at -40C.

Any suggestions?

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First time home buyers will not be charged GST (5%) when buying a home, as long as the place they're buying costs less than $1M. This means that people buying a home for the first time will save up to $50k on their purchase.

Edit: Note, GST is mostly only charged when buying newly built homes, so this won't have any effect for people buying used homes.

 

Currently the PM doesn't have a seat in the house. If he visited the house, he'd have to go to the visitor's gallery.

It's an interesting situation. The PM is the leader of the federal liberal party, but he's not a member of parliament. But, does he need to be? Is the PM sitting in the house of commons just a tradition that nobody has challenged yet? Could the PM delegate things inside the house of commons to their deputy-PM and then do things like give speeches, attend diplomatic functions, etc.?

The US has a very different system where the president isn't part of the legislative branch at all. But, typically presidents don't twiddle their thumbs waiting for something to do. Being the head of state keeps most presidents busy. It makes me wonder if technically Carney could choose not to run for office, and just spend his time doing head-of-state things rather than legislative things.

 

"Sports Interactive regret to inform that, following extensive internal discussion and careful consideration with SEGA, we have made the difficult decision to cancel Football Manager 25 and shift our focus to the next release."

 

This sounds like a disaster.

For those who don't know, Football Manager has a yearly release schedule, and the highlight of the release is that it has a database of nearly every professional player in the world, the club they play for, and an attempt to "scout" them, giving all their various attributes from passing ability, to height and weight, to their determination.

By releasing in March 2025, they're going to release the game essentially at the end of the 2024/2025 season right before players start moving to new clubs and the database becomes obsolete. Typically, around March is when they're giving deep discounts on the yearly release because they know there won't be much remaining interest in playing a game that's almost out of date.

They really shot themselves in the foot. They could have released a Football Manager 25 that was 100% FM 24 but with an updated database, they've done it before. They could have called "Football Manager 25" something like "Football Manager Next Gen" and not tied themselves to a certain season. And, if they do manage to get Football Manager 25 out in March, are they really going to be able to do FM 26 half a year later? Will anybody buy FM 25 if they know there's a FM 26 coming out so soon?

 

It's amazing to me that they can even measure a 0.01 XG shot. This comes from James Benge's twitter account.

The XG graph is also interesting. Tottenham has a continuous stream of very low quality shots, resulting in the graph going up in tiny increments. Arsenal has a series of decent chances near minute 17, and then the one high-quality shot resulting in Gabriel's goal.

Arsenal vs. Tottenham XG graph

https://understat.com/match/26640

I'm sure part of it is Arsenal defending in a low block after scoring. But, it also smacks of desperation on Tottenham's part. If you're taking a shot that has a 1% chance of going in, rather than passing and waiting for a better opportunity, you don't believe that you're going to get a better opportunity.

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