zeke5123a
13hr ago
But that happens in other sports as well. In football, there is constant attempts by the offense to set up plays to catch the defense in a wrong play. The defense is constantly trying to surprise and disguise the offense to create a massive play. Most plays aren’t huge plays but many lead up to it.
The difference is that most plays could be huge plays. Most plays are kinetic. Most plays are violent. Most plays are one player out eleven doing the wrong thing (or amazing thing) from a massive breakdown or big play. And also there is a clear sub-goal—gotta get the first down. Even if you don’t score on that play, getting from 1st and 10 to second and 2 is a huge play! It sets up a mini score when you convert the first down on the next play or two.
Hockey is constantly a dance where players are trying to solve the forecheck by the offense or the trap being deployed by the defense. If one team solves, it almost immediately leads to a high quality scoring chance. Oh and beyond kinetic. And there is scoring. Less than the NFL. But more than scoring and the scoring chances are way higher.
Baseball is probably the most tactical sport. Each pitch is setting up the next pitch. Decisions about bullpen usage, when to steal, when to bunt, etc.
In short, the thing soccer fans claim as not unique about their sport. In fact, frequently it is lacking compared to other sports. It then has a bunch of other issues (not a lot of scoring or scoring chances, not a lot of kinetic action, limited violence). It is just a sub standard game that is largely popular due to poverty.
zeke5123a
13hr ago
Or people could watch a real sport like Hockey where scoring can happen at any point, frequently happens after wearing down your opponent, and there are actual fights!
zeke5123a
1d ago
You must not be familiar with the Knicks if you think this isn’t a once in a Lifetime event…
zeke5123a
1d ago
Soccer is an embarrassing sport so it’s apropos.
What separates us from animals is our hands and head. In soccer, the use of the first id outlawed and the second is used as a club.
zeke5123a
4d ago
In the U.S., psycho (when used negatively) means someone who is basically a sociopath or barbarian.
zeke5123a
5d ago
We don’t need to kick out everyone; we need to stop new people coming and get 30%-50% to self deport.
Cut off gibs but offer exit gibs.
zeke5123a
5d ago
I guess the question is how much of more capital being invested (instead of being moved to the government) would have led to more automation thereby increasing productivity
zeke5123a
6d ago
Oh for sure the immigrants of for gibs for them and the party giving out gibs are gibs for most. But my prediction is that when those immigrants move from a key bloc to the main bloc a different calculus will arise.
zeke5123a
6d ago
The real risk to old people is bringing in a bunch of third worlders who then have to support the old people who the immigrants have no connection to which in a democracy means the olds gibs will get voted away.
zeke5123a
7d ago
I lived during it. The CDC and Merriams literally changed the definition.
Now I think the argument is they changed it to be more in line with the technical definition but that doesn’t mean they didn’t change the definition which just happened to correspond with the general usage which TPTB gleefully motte and baileyed.
zeke5123a
7d ago
It isn’t conspiratorial when the dictionary definition changes over night. Good riddance.
zeke5123a
8d ago
Rate reduction is meaningless without knowing the base rate. If the base rate is de minimis, then even a massive reduction is still de minimis.
zeke5123a
8d ago
No. There was a dictionary definition that matched the common usage. The covid vaccines were far and away from the dictionary definition which reflected common usage. They then changed the dictionary definition to match their technical usage.
However, every day people still operated under the common usage. TPTB preyed upon people mistaking the common usage for the technical usage and when called out on it cited the changed dictionary.
zeke5123a
8d ago
Common usage was the flu shot. That’s still the common usage (ie get your flu shot)
We could argue (they are both highly tactical) but I hope we can both agree soccer is far from having the same tactical approach.
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