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this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Is Arsenal the worst quadruple winner in the history of mankind?

Is Own Goal the worst Puskas Award winner EVER?

Is Declan Rice the worst Balon Dor winner ever?

the guardian roundtable, may 31st: is arsenal the worst champions league winner in history? 🤔

The Invincibles ballsed up the Monaco-Porto route to the Champions League, so let’s not get too giddy. But yes, it is a friendly draw for us.

The embellishment doesn't negate the need for the foul to be called. But it does look a lot like play-acting. It's hard for refs to tease apart a legit foul from someone completely faking contact.

There are other things like this too. Getting your foot stepped on with studs or clipped in the Achilles or a stray limb catching your nose can look like incidental contact but hurts enough to stop your action. Players have learned they have to embellish to get a call.

The problem is, when you're about to jump straight up as high as you can, it doesn't take much of a push from behind to disrupt that motion. Players know that (that's why they do it), but they also know that it doesn't look like much, so they have to embellish their reaction to draw attention to it.

@scott.cannonstats.com why's ours so... lumpy?

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Well gee, when you put it that way, I guess it really is fine.

I wasn't referring to the criticism, specifically. I was referring to... all of it. The entire ecosystem of activismist conflict.

It seems like you do a lot of lamenting of dysfunction on the left. So I can only interpret your pushback as "the left is dysfunctional, but this isn't an example of its dysfunction".

I'm not. I'm talking about... the incoherent dysfunction of it all.

Federal CIO tapped for dual-hatted role at GSA Greg Barbaccia will serve as the acting Technology Transformation Services director and senior advisor to the administrator at GSA, while its previous lead, Thomas Shedd, will remain with the agency i...

"During his time at GSA, [outgoing director Thomas Shedd] has overseen layoffs across TTS, including shuttering 18F ... . ... experts raised questions about ethics and conflicts of interest regarding his employment setup, as he’s on a leave of absence from Tesla while working for the government."

I don't want to say that that thread is *everything* that's wrong with "the left" at the moment, but...

Arsenal Compared to Corresponding Fixtures Last Season
Points: +8 (58 vs 50)
xG: +1.3 (45.05 vs 43.8)
G: +3 (52 vs 49)
xGA: -4.6 (17.96 vs 22.6)
GA: -5.0 (20 vs 25)
xG Dif: +5.9 (27.1 vs 21.2)
G Dif: +8 (32 vs 24)

Started looking into when the game turned on Wednesday and it’s pretty clearly when Eze and Jesus came on. Just very stark how much we struggled to keep the ball and perhaps more importantly stop them on the ball

Tbh I think Ebz could use an injection of her vibe.

Tl;dr I could have been excited about the thing if I hadn't seen it enter the world as a smug assault on human creativity, hadn't been relentlessly lied to about its capabilities, hadn't watched it fill the internet with misinformation, hadn't had so many products I use made worse by it, etc etc etc

It was not inevitable that generative AI would lodge in the culture as an explicitly right-wing technology; that it has done so is the result of a series of ideological decisions by its makers, the ideology growing more overt and desperate as AI's very serious problems become more apparent

Other Villa players probably obstructed the line of sight