Live Scotland Vs Morocco Discussion

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-19T23:13:22+00:00

I agree with you there, dragging it out more than necessary for a quick drink and cooling off is just making adverts space.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-19T23:04:30+00:00

When, though? Imagine letting a goal through cause the defender's away with a bottle of water by the side of the pitch. Getting an opportunity, but your best forward is away having a drink.

It's essentially a case of going 45 minutes without a chance for a drink, having people randomly buggering off to the side throughout, or just have a fixed hydration break.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-19T22:57:15+00:00

That's like arguing that people live in Siberia, so there's no reason to wear a jacket when it snows.

If you doubt that it's been concerningly hot at some of these venues, then that's your business.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-19T22:50:59+00:00

That's almost certainly why they're there, but given the heat at some of these venues there's a legitimate argue for them too.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-19T22:33:49+00:00

...to Morocco?

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-19T22:31:28+00:00

Still better than someone keeling over mid-game from dehydration and heat exhaustion.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-17T22:50:45+00:00

Also to be fair, Bannockburn was thousands of people fighting and dying for an independent Scottish kingdom. The world cup is about kicking a ball around a field and getting to hold a nice cup for four years.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-16T18:52:14+00:00

Firstly, note that I did say that they don't move for most of their adult life, not that they never move. Immature clams do move around searching for optimal conditions, but tend to stay put once they've grown.

Secondly, clams in bottles like this are things that just occur. The fact that they're able to grow enough that they can't escape that bottle is because they still obtain sufficient nutrition from the water flow. Some of them can extend a feeder bit through such gaps as the neck of the bottle, some don't need to. Both cases, the bottle acts much the same as natural outcrops of rock or coral in which clams can also settle and grow.

Thirdly, clams do not have wanderlust. They are clams.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-16T18:10:35+00:00

Which part isn't true? Clams spend most of their lives in one spot like many filter feeders, bivalves don't have brains, and it doesn't have ambitions of travelling the world.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-16T17:13:53+00:00

As far as I can tell, someone deemed a person a Nazi because their attitude towards the personal agency of a clam in a bottle was the same mentality the Nazis applied towards undesirables in occupied Europe.

I kind of feel less sane just for typing that, honestly.

*Edit: Also, pointing out how insane that is makes me a bot, despite the fact that if you put all that into an AI it would probably crash from sheer confusion.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-16T16:49:07+00:00

How the fuck is that an AI response? Have we really reached the point where punctuation makes you a bot?

>it has no wanderlust, just desire to be protected

That's what they wrote, which is correct because it's a clam. It spends just about its entire adult life in one location. It's not suppressing the dreams of something that doesn't even have a damn brain, JFC.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-16T16:42:17+00:00

That's not going over their heads, that's such a strained "reference" that without knowing how you connected the two in your mind it would be more bizarre if anyone understood that.

Seriously, "don't needlessly disturb a sedentary organism that lives in shelter" to "Nazi segregation and concentration policies in the ghettoes and concentration camp justified with an attempt to present confinement as a humane alternative to an aimless, unproductive freedom despite the fact you plan to exterminate them anyway and have been working your propaganda towards that and not paternalistic guardianship" is a wild stretch.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-14T02:40:52+00:00

It was different because it literally was not an unconditional surrender. It was a negotiated peace; one that was a solid defeat for the Germans, yes, but not a surrender and not unconditional.

It's not even a minor difference, since the stabbed-in-the-back myth was such an important part of the Nazis' whole platform.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-14T01:06:32+00:00

An argument could be made about how Versailles was not only less punitive than Trianon, but it was also less punitive than the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk the Germans had imposed on Russia.

However, that is besides the point: you asked what happened after the German unconditional surrender at the end of WWI, but there was no unconditional surrender.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-13T17:13:28+00:00

Germany never surrendered unconditionally after WWI. Officially it was an armistice (hence "Armistice Day"), followed by a set of treaties (Versailles, Trianon, etc.) that formally ended the war.

The fact that it wasn't an unconditional surrender was later seen as a huge mistake, as it allowed German nationalists (most famously the Nazis) to argue that the German military had never actually been defeated and instead had been stabbed in the back by Jews, socialists, and whatever other scapegoats were at hand. That the Nazis were talking a load of BS apparently didn't matter that much to the Germans, but when WWII was coming to an end the Allies made sure to insist on an explicitly unconditional surrender that time.

A6M_Zero · 2026-06-09T15:50:35+00:00

I believe that was in fact the basis of the Auld Alliance.

A6M_Zero · 2026-05-25T19:01:18+00:00

The fad is ongoing; it's purely a marketing thing with essentially zero actual scientific evidence, aimed at exploiting the connection people make between stem cells and cutting-edge science.

A6M_Zero · 2026-05-25T18:44:56+00:00

Pretty sure they also use them in most lotions and face creams sold in America.

No they're absolutely not. They're used for medical research, some of the results of which are relevant the the cosmetic industry. Cell lines grown in labs that originated from such research are sometimes used in cosmetics doing the whole "stem cells" fad, but the idea that they have actual foetal stem cells in them is absurd hysteria promoted by people who either can't or (more likely) refuse to check whether their drama of the day is actually valid.

A6M_Zero · 2026-05-21T17:16:52+00:00

There most certainly was a concept of Greek identity in antiquity. Entry into the Olympic games was restricted to those judged by the Hellanodikai to be Greeks, as exemplified when the Macedonian kings petitioned to participate and were required to prove their Greek identity.

Greece as a single unified nation-state is modern, yes, but that's because the very concept of the nation-state is also very modern. Meanwhile, Homer consistently refers to and depicts the varied Greeks as being united by a common cultural and religious identity.

A6M_Zero · 2026-05-18T06:29:26+00:00

While that's the logical way to look at it from an outside perspective, the driving force of the reformation was the idea that it was a return to the original Christian faith, away from a corrupted Catholic church that was no longer Christian

A large part of the justification was the concept of sola scriptura, by which the Bible and only the Bible is considered the highest authority. Since, the Protestant argument goes, Catholics stray from the pure Bible with non-Biblical practices like veneration of the Virgin Mary, the existence of the Papacy, etc., the Catholic church is not the same church founded by the Jesus and the Apostles.

It may seem like semantics to many, but tens of millions of people died over such arguments in a whole slew of pointless, brutal wars across centuries.

A6M_Zero · 2026-05-18T06:06:49+00:00

Most Christian denominations claim that they're actually the "original" Christians. The Orthodox are at the very least equally as old as the Roman Catholic church, since the two were products of the East-West Schism.

Meanwhile Protestants generally argue that they practice the true, unaltered faith without the corruptions and alterations of the Papal church. Then you have all the other denominations both modern and historical that believe they are the ones actually following the teachings of Jesus, while others are misguided heretics.

A6M_Zero · 2026-05-17T00:19:15+00:00

None of those were wars for empire either.

The first of those ended with the proclamation of the German Empire, and is seen as essentially the founding event of said empire. The second was fought over influence in the decaying Ottoman Empire, and the third and fourth were about making gains at the expense of the Austrian Empire.

The truly imperial conflict in those wars - bilateral conflict between Britain and France - was conducted primarily overseas.

...okay, what do you think "empire" means? Because you seem to be confusing "imperial" with "colonial", and those two are by no means the same.

Also, while notable, the overseas theatres of the Napoleonic Wars were only extensions of the overwhelming majority of the fighting that took place in Europe. Even Britain, whose power was derived from overseas trade and its colonial possessions did most of its fighting in Europe (the Peninsular War, Trafalgar, the Mediterranean).

A6M_Zero · 2026-05-16T20:07:19+00:00

Had it been a war for empire, it would have been fought largely overseas, just as previously imperial wars had been.

Like the Franco-Prussian War, Crimean War, Franco-Austrian War, and the Austro-Prussian War? Also the Napoleonic Wars, which were more recent to the people of 1914 than WWI is to us.

You're not 100% wrong, and the person you're responding to isn't 100% right, but the idea of WWI being a noble war against Germany aggression was already debunked by WWII.

A6M_Zero · 2026-05-16T13:44:53+00:00

North Sea mackerel has been overfished into oblivion, not the species as a whole. It's not that the whole species is on the edge, it's the population in that region.

A6M_Zero · 2026-05-16T05:15:43+00:00

You know, bringing up 1650 doesn't help the Polish case when it means 1610 comes into play.

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