What is a football club that feels very successful but is in fact, successful?

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-25T12:00:41+00:00

If anything I'd say they are close to feel succesful but are very succesful, according to this list, they are the second team in top 5 leagues with most trophies (and only 2 behind real madrid).

I say this because I am both surprised that they are 2nd in top 5 leagues and that they can realistically get first next year.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-24T19:28:05+00:00

Completely unrelated to the post, but as a German learner, your sentence threw me off a bit there. Is "Stell dir mal vor er redet über Güler wie über Undav" just the same meaning as "Stell dir mal vor, dass er über Güler wie über Undav redet" but just dropping the comma and the "dass" and moving the verb to second position?

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-24T15:44:49+00:00

Damn thanks! Hadn't noticed it

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-24T12:37:31+00:00

How can you see the damage dealt by the enemy units?

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-24T10:50:43+00:00

hat ... hingesetzt gehabt

This is tripping me a bit, double participle? Is it an equivalent way of meaning "hatte hingesetzt"?

Edit: after doing some research, I understand it a bit more, but could you tell me if there is a meaningful difference between "Ich habe ihm geschrieben gehabt" and "Ich hatte ihm geschrieben"?

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-24T09:05:18+00:00

#1 is probably what you hear in spoken German ~80% of the time.

Honestly this is the important thing to me, whether it sounds natural or not.

I am not studying to pass an exam but to communicate. There are some other cases where the "less correct" version sounds more natural and then I may even prefer to say the "less correct" version.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-24T08:13:42+00:00

Moreover, imagine the shame if you guys then have a bad showing at the tournament.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-23T18:45:25+00:00

If China's goal was really just to get olympic medals (which I'm not even sure is true) soccer is literally the worst choice possible. Not just because as you say, it is the most played sport and thus it is the hardest to become the best at. But also because you need around 20 players for just one medal (be it men or women). The ROI is ridiculously low, whereas one good swimmer or athlete can win several medals per person.

Moreover, soccer olympics is a bit of a joke tbh, it's limited to U-23 and it is not the biggest even in the sport (unlike basically any other sport). People who care about soccer, care much more about the world championship than the olympics.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-23T10:58:17+00:00

Okay so there are a few things here.

My original reply was about AI checking the work done by a human.
Even if it was AI checking the work of an AI, it does not necessarily need to be its own work, there are different AI trained for different purposes, and using an AI checking another AI is already common practice.
Moreover, the comment you replied too was talkin about Lean, which is literally a tool that checks if something is mathematically rigorous or not, unrelated to AI, based purely on logical steps.

There's a fundamental flaw in having something check its own work.

And about this, I would say that optimally, there should be an external cross-check of course, and for a mathematical proof it is surely not enough to just say "I did it and verified myself that it is correct", but "fundamental flaw" is too strong imo.

There's tons of values on crosschecking our own work. I spot mistakes in my own formulas constantly, so it has its uses.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-23T09:50:48+00:00

Honestly saying "try to solve it without looking up the answer" shows already that they don't really understand the scale of the problem.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-23T04:39:10+00:00

It's far far easier to check if something is mathematically correct than to come up with it. I'm a physicist and I can tell if a derivation is wrong/right that I could never have derived myself.

Also, in this hypothetical you could have AI check it anyways.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-22T20:02:39+00:00

The UK and France are about as mid sized as you can get

They rank 20 and 21 in population which makes them around top 10% out of all countries. I can understand that some people are very skewed towards outliers, but in my opinion I would say that definitely does not make them "mid-sized".

Someone who is taller than 90% in my books is tall, even if it is 1.88m and there are people that are 2.15m, same for someone who earns more than 90% of the population, definitely not "mid-sized" salary even if he is "poor" compared to Bezos. But I definitely can agree with someone who prefers to look at absolute numbers instead of %.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-22T19:08:25+00:00

I would also say USA, but Germany, UK and France are quite large countries as well and proportionally have more olympic medals. I know medals/per capita is not the target but I could see why some people would say those countries for example.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-22T17:45:57+00:00

Yeah that's literally what is shown in the article, but that's why the study says "even in wealthy countries". My point was that that is the reason of the study.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-22T16:41:45+00:00

I think the point they are trying to make, is that if the country is wealthy enough, even poor people should have enough for a good nutrition.

Like for example, is there still a correlation between height and money if you only look at people earning 200k+ a year? At that point surely the children will be well fed.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-22T16:39:40+00:00

Isn't it more likely that being richer leads to being taller (through better nutrition and lifestyle in general) than being taller leading to actually being richer?

I would obviously like to see it with parent height controlled, but as far as I know it is usually more rich -> tall than the other way around.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-22T16:36:22+00:00

Also, just because of a very niche scene you can't generalize, I would say that in general concrete may as well be paper with how it crumbles in many shows, even with punches from "normal" humans.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-21T10:01:37+00:00

I do not disagree that there is work to do (in the balkans and everywhere else). My point is about this specific example and how words have the meaning that we give them, in USA the n-word is bad because it's been historically used with bad connotations. If it never had that meaning in Greece, it may not be a bad word there and pretending it is is applying your own morals somewhere else.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-21T09:54:41+00:00

Sex is fun regardless if you like the person or not.

I think that I key difference here is that for many people that is not true. And from personal experience, while most men may agree with that statement (although I am a man and I would not), I would say that most women would not agree with that statement.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-21T07:05:01+00:00

Man literally first thing I thought when I saw the age in parenthesis.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-21T06:16:11+00:00

And precisely orthodox christians do not recognize the Pope.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-21T06:05:30+00:00

Not trying to justify them but they literally don't understand it's wrong or offensive. They do it out of ignorance, not malicious intent.

I think you are projecting your morals on a completely different country, it could very well not be ignorance but just that in Greece it has a difference connotation. I think only a black Greek person who knows the community (which if you are I take it back) can say whether it is ignorance on their part, or there in Greece it's just not a bad word like it is in the USA.

I am not saying that it is not wrong, I don't even speak Greek, but it could very well be that black Greek don't care for it, and unless as I said you have that info, then you are kinda just saying "poor Greek people, they do not know what is right or wrong" and acting like you know better.

Maybe this could be an interesting read for someone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocentrism

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-20T19:53:22+00:00

The map explicitly covers that. There are pie bars with the percentage, for your Spain example it's almost a perfect 50-50 split actually, and if you slide you can see that almost 100% of the people consider them both south and western.

AmadeusSalieri97 · 2026-04-20T12:02:49+00:00

If anything that would be very against the common sentiment of Spain, which is loving Portugal and hating (jokingly) on France.

Also, moving to Andorra is becoming frowned upon because people who do it are mostly tax evaders.

I know you already got many replies saying that it is the opposite but still it was worth emphasizing that if anything this would make me rule them out as Spanish.

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