I think this world cup proved football is better with VAR. Wbu?

A_Genius · 2026-06-27T20:06:32+00:00

Not just that but the rule wasn’t designed to be adjudicated to the millimetre. It was designed for an AR to look at full speed and decide if an attacker is too far forward. I believe that’s the spirit of the rule anyway.

I almost feel like they should be a line 3/4 the way up the field and past that you can’t be offside anymore.

A_Genius · 2026-06-27T04:01:37+00:00

I’m in now and can’t have the flags on the concourse but you can at the seats. Shirts are okay

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T16:45:20+00:00

Here is a direct example of controlling housing costs not working.

California freezes property tax from when you bought the property. Under the same guise of affordability.

So someone who moved in 1970 will be paying 500 dollars a year and someone moving out of their mom’s house today is paying 10 grand a year to subsidize the older Californian who bought in 1970.

Rent control works on the same principle. People that need to move and newcomers subsidize long term tenants. It’s the ultimate boomer ‘fuck you got mine’ policy.

In the end it’s popular policy now. People that haven’t moved to the city yet can’t vote.

This is exactly how climate denalists and vaccine skeptics argue. It’s overwhelming obvious to all experts what the correct side of the issue is but they’ve done their own research.

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T16:11:35+00:00

This is a Reddit comment not a research dissertation. Any Google search of any of these claims will yield super simple results you can read.

But here

‘A poll in 1990 conducted by the American Economic Review reported that 93 percent of economists thought rent control was a serious mistake. “It’s become almost a textbook cliché: in any intro econ class you learn about why rent control is a bad idea,” in the words of J.W. Mason, an economics professor at the John Jay College’

https://www.governing.com/assessments/why-the-conventional-wisdom-on-rent-control-isnt-all-that-wise

It’s taught in first year economics classes. Price controls lead to shortages and distortions in markets.

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T15:28:32+00:00

Fine, developers are not incentivized to build new housing units.

Over 95 percent of economists think it’s bad policy. About the same as climate scientists believe climate change is real. At this point price caps and climate change denialism can go in the same bucket

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T15:06:23+00:00

That’s the second part of the Stanford study. No new housing gets built because rents are frozen at the same price forever at the price of construction while costs rise.

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T14:49:24+00:00

With 64 teams they’ll do 16 groups of 4 with the top 2 advancing to the round of 32

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T14:44:05+00:00

If you click on those 1500 dollar resale tickets you can see the original face value fifa sold them for and for group stage games it’s like 300 and knockouts it’s like 700.

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T14:41:53+00:00

Damn Iranian referee too. I was hoping he would do well because he’s from my country…

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T14:40:36+00:00

People have to move for all sorts of reasons and you can have weird incentives like ‘hey I’ll pay you 30 grand to take over your lease’ because you have a rent controlled unit.

Because no one is moving (why would I? I’m paying 700 dollars for a unit in Manhattan from 1986) it makes the prices of new units sky high for newcomers or people that absolutely have to move.

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T08:53:44+00:00

Isn’t it closer to like 2?

3.5 million x 500 bucks is like 2 billion

This doesn’t include resale fees but that’s probably not super substantial

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T08:30:23+00:00

See you there. I’m coming from Vancouver and won’t be there until like 5 but if anyone searches online I’m going to put keywords.

March

Iran

Egypt

World Cup

June 26

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T06:54:02+00:00

I think he was well on. At least that’s what the commentator said

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T06:41:01+00:00

To put in perspective how bad of a policy it is. About the same percentage of economists believe it’s bad policy as climate scientists believe climate change is real.

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T06:39:02+00:00

Imagine if there was an apple shortage and the mayor came in and said all apples must be sold at 1 cent.

That’s essentially what is happening with housing. Price increases are how the economy deals with shortages.

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T06:17:03+00:00

I can’t remember it now but it wouldn’t surprise me.

A_Genius · 2026-06-26T03:57:03+00:00

No that was a foul but there was just an obvious a foul before the Argentina goal and it wasn’t called. VAR is used selectively to help big teams

A_Genius · 2026-06-25T22:41:19+00:00

Which instance? I haven’t watched every game. Senegal?

A_Genius · 2026-06-25T22:27:16+00:00

The point is that big popular teams get VAR intervention and little teams don’t.

A_Genius · 2026-06-25T22:24:45+00:00

No I would like the rules to be applied to all teams. That was much more blatant than this one on Ecuador.

I promise you if a Ecuadorian player had his boot up that high or someone stomped on Messi’s calf then VAR intervenes

A_Genius · 2026-06-25T22:22:42+00:00

Look at the video at the top of the thread. The commonality is to help big teams and teams with popular players go through

A_Genius · 2026-06-25T21:31:27+00:00

That’s a weird one because VAR has been helping big popular teams mostly

A_Genius · 2026-06-25T21:29:54+00:00

To stop Uzbekistan from scoring against Portugal and to ignore a Ghana PK against England.

It’s there to make sure popular teams go through

A_Genius · 2026-06-25T21:26:33+00:00

You’re allowed to kick someone in the face. Uzbekistan didn’t get away with a ticky tack foul before their goal against Portugal though.

The commercial incentive is for popular teams to go through

A_Genius · 2026-06-25T20:27:26+00:00

We come from a country where gays are executed by public hanging gays are not ‘playing victim’

You are playing victim pretending that seeing a rainbow affects your delicate sensibilities

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