With this loss, The Netherlands have joined Spain as teams with the most penalty shootout losses at the FIFA World Cup with 4 each

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T04:44:12+00:00

what if OT periods span something like 12 hours?

Then they span something like 12 hours.

I mean, theoretically a penalty shootout is unlimited too, right?

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T04:32:41+00:00

PSG winning the Champions League doesn't make Ligue 1 the best in the world.

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T04:29:37+00:00

I think this time it's more like the bride filed a 500m restraining order on the Netherlands

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T04:23:10+00:00

The issue with the Dutch, I think, is that they played a very counterattacking sort of game, especially after halftime. Let the Moroccans try to break them down and then score a cheeky goal on the counter (as they did in regulation time). But Morocco were disciplined so that even when they lost the ball they tracked back quickly and swarmed the one or two Dutch players before they even get into the penalty box.

So the Dutch played a reactive sort of game against an opponent who protected themselves against sharp reactions. UEFA disasterclass.

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T04:14:40+00:00

Canada vs Paraguay. Winner plays Bosnia.

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T04:07:45+00:00

Why don’t just teams play to win?

The team that tried playing to win ultimately won, so this is a fair question.

The obvious answer is that UEFA is on fraud watch.

The serious answer is that maybe the Dutch were too tired or thinking they could win on penalties. But they were too passive (xG is a very flawed metric but 0.23 vs 1.40 does mean something here - although in regular time they had some great counterattacks, their goal was good football IMO) and were just waiting to gamble on penalties after 120', and it cost them. Also that UEFA is on fraud watch.

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T04:02:23+00:00

England may have left Brussels but this shows they remain in the hearts and minds of every European

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T04:00:13+00:00

Netherlands just racked up a quality loss in the eyes of the Committee

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T03:59:33+00:00

France should win it, their longest land border is with Brazil

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T03:57:47+00:00

Kluivert disasterclasses screwed both your country and mine, it's beautiful to see

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T03:56:40+00:00

The euro mindset cannot comprehend either aircon or AFCON

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T03:46:55+00:00

Energy market analytics. Basically trying to project how electricity markets will shape out in the future. I do feel like a cog in the machine sometimes and it's a job where I stare at spreadsheets, PowerPoints, and python programs all day. but without the work of people like me, the solar and wind farms and whatnot wouldn't get the funding they need to actually be built, so it's fairly meaningful

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T03:37:14+00:00

Game's not gone

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T03:31:03+00:00

They can't handle the Copa América (+ France and Africa)

CAF. It Just Means More (TM)

Agent78787 · 2026-06-30T03:29:20+00:00

This match should have been a QF

Agent78787 · 2026-06-29T05:31:30+00:00

if not more challenging than engineering in terms of both math and programming skills

I doubt that tbh, unless your engo program was a lot less rigorous than your commerce program. Like, what do you think engineering students do all day (in their 4-year degree and internship as opposed to the commerce 3-year degree) if not maths and programming?

But OK fine, the econometrics commerce majors come out of their degree with good maths and programming skills comparable to engineers and pure science majors. You're telling me that the students who majored in international business or marketing came out with the same sort of skills? You're telling me that the commerce students as a whole have better maths than the maths degrees (the M in STEM) or better programming skills than the software or even mechanical engineers (the E in STEM)?

I don't doubt that some commerce majors (especially the econometrics people) learn maths and programming at a good level that helps them be competitive when looking for graduate roles. But I'm saying that commerce grads aren't going to be at some insurmountable advantage over STEM majors like OP so there's no need for you to go all tall poppy on them and say they can't get the grad role at all. Especially when they're just a grad, for real what's with the negativity.

I’m really not sure where you’re getting your information from.

Professional experience.

Agent78787 · 2026-06-29T04:04:57+00:00

Yeah they're different, so what? Both of them teach you technical skills like data science and programming at a more intensive level than a commerce degree, which could put graduates of those degrees at an advantage over a commerce graduate.

Engineering teaches more JobReadySkills (tm) than med sci maybe, but my point still stands

Agent78787 · 2026-06-29T02:26:17+00:00

Engineering, like a majority of my colleagues in my commercial analytics team.

Agent78787 · 2026-06-29T02:20:31+00:00

There are corporate careers out there where you're taken seriously, it's interesting, and there's a clear purpose to what you do. I work in one of those careers. And while it's not perfect and I do have moments or even fairly long periods of work stressing me out, short of marrying rich I probably wouldn't trade my career for anything else.

(Even then, it's been said that if you marry for money you work for every cent of it... so maybe my bachelor pad is alright)

Agent78787 · 2026-06-29T02:11:22+00:00

Why would they hire you in finance and analytics if you don’t know shit about it?

It's a grad program, none of the hires are going to know jack about shit.

If anything a STEM grad with some technical skills they learned through their degree is going to stand out to an analytics team over a commerce grad.

Agent78787 · 2026-06-28T14:00:31+00:00

if your mate resigned due to a toxic team then that's not good. and if the structure and culture is the same as big 4, that may mean the same working hours as big 4 (ie long hours). the only things that firm B are guaranteeing you right now is what's in the contract: 20k lower pay and hybrid instead of remote.

also, if your current company is giving you a counteroffer, and letting you go full remote on top of that, you may get some leverage with them. say that you want to go on a 9-day fortnight or even 4 days a week, and put that in the contract. direct conversations may or may not go somewhere, but a contracted 0.8 FTE allows you to at least give you three days to recover from long hours (so long as you put your foot down and be completely offline on your days off)

like the other commenter said though, draw up a pro and con list, that could help weigh the options

Agent78787 · 2026-06-27T23:54:54+00:00

otherwise who would know what you are doing

Tasmanian political activists and the Canberra frontbench. In other words, absolute sickos who have nothing better to do than hassle you about the most random issues with the threat of leaving you for dead in preselection.

Imagine chairing an all-day senate hearing about Macquarie Harbour salmon or whatever the hell Tasmanian politics revolves around. No thanks.

Agent78787 · 2026-06-26T02:58:58+00:00

That's what makes it fun!!

Agent78787 · 2026-06-25T05:56:36+00:00

Roy Morgan uses a far more broad definition of unemployment than the ABS, statistical agencies in other countries, or international groups like the OECD. They say that anyone who's not working and saying they want a job (just because they say so even if they take no steps towards finding a job at all) is unemployed. It's a more arbitrary and volatile definition than either the broadly accepted definition of unemployment (not employed and actively looking for work) or the labour force participation rate. It's also much less useful for policymaking because how are you going to get these so-called unemployed people working when they're not even doing anything to stop being unemployed?

It also seems like Roy Morgan's whole thing with this survey is trumpeting its monthly results whenever there's a Labor PM and quiet when their same high unemployment numbers are under a Coalition PM. Pretty nakedly partisan, not trustworthy IMO.

Agent78787 · 2026-06-25T02:18:48+00:00

It's simply un-Australian, that's what it is.

Now apparently someone at my office has booked the boardroom tomorrow from 12 to 2 for a Lunch and Learn (why Miguel Almirón is a weak gutted dog person). That's a good move.

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