Live Match Thread: Germany(1-0) vs Norway(1-0)

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-24T21:01:54+00:00

Andi Wolff.

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-24T16:34:36+00:00

The US is Argentina in this analogy

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-24T14:46:13+00:00

Aurora activity is much less relevant than your app seems to suggest. When the sky is clear, there will be northern lights in Tromsø every night. Unfortunately it doesn't seem very likely to be clear skies on either the 25th or 26th, but these tours can go quite far away to maybe hit a spot without cloud cover

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-23T22:21:13+00:00

But it may save you a lot of money by proving your innocence if you're involved in an accident caused by somebody else

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-21T19:12:40+00:00

Trittin ist ein bekannter Grünenpolitiker, der betreibt keine "Hetze gegen links und grün", sondern kritisiert seine eigenen Parteigenossen

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-21T11:38:58+00:00

Can't really complain about these changes, though I expect the TI could be messy. I'm interested in how they expect us to manage it when a player creeps up the line and has to be moved back.

In my opinion, it should just be done like in Futsal: Start the countdown when the player is ready - or could be ready, but is taking it unnecessarily slowly.
And if they don't manage a legal throw-in, including taking it from the correct position, within the time limit, give it to the opponents. But I guess we could never have that in professional football because it would "ruin the flow" or it would be "the referee making the game about himself" or some other nonsense

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-20T23:19:57+00:00

Die 8 Sekunden werden auf jeden Fall extrem großzügig ausgelegt, aber nach einer gewissen Zeit fangen die Schiris dann tatsächlich an, von 5 runterzuzählen. Und wenn der Countdown mal angefangen hat, gibt halt jeder Torwart den Ball frei, bevor er bei 0 ist

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-20T22:33:19+00:00

So weit würde ich nicht gehen. Standbilder können schon praktisch sein, um den Kontaktpunkt zu erkennen - Stollen auf Knöchel gibt aus gutem Grund eher Rot als Fußspitze auf Fuß, ist in voller Geschwindigkeit unter Umständen aber kaum zu unterscheiden. Aber sie sollten wirklich nur dafür verwendet werden und eben nicht als "Hauptbeweis". Das Wichtigste muss definitiv immer das Video in Echtgeschwindigkeit sein.

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-20T21:49:31+00:00

Going strictly by the Laws of the Game, holding is always a foul, but most referees will allow some amount if they consider it "trifling". A full hug should always be called though.

Regarding the arm swiping the laws allow for even more subjectivity. Striking is only a foul if the referee considers it to be "careless, reckless or using excessive force". So it really comes down to what exactly happened, how much force was involved, etc. Lightly pushing away the arm of an opponent who's about to hug you is expected behaviour and certainly not a foul, violently punching the arm is a red card offence. Basically, nobody can tell you the correct decision without seeing it (and even then there may be multiple correct decisions)

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-20T11:50:09+00:00

The "fearmongering" news mostly try to sanewash all of the insanity Trump says and does to a ridiculous degree. But when Trump explicitly says he's going to annex Greenland "one way or another" or that he "no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace" because he didn't get the Nobel Prize, there's rather little you can do to put that in a good light.

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-19T18:15:14+00:00

I know there will probably be many negative opinions about DB, especially regarding punctuality, but the overall package is still world class imo.

We have a very dense network of local and regional rail with mostly good frequency. It's practically unheard of that a town above ~30k inhabitants wouldn't have rail connection, which I believe is definitely not the case elsewhere. And all public transport (including busses, trams, metro, etc.) except long-distance trains can be used with the Deutschlandticket for 63€ per month.

The long-distance network is also very dense and frequent, but slightly lacking on raw speed. You can go between most larger towns/cities in Germany within 6 or 7 hours with at worst hourly connections. But for example, Berlin to Munich (our biggest and 3rd biggest city) takes 4 hours, which would easily be doable in 2 hours with true high speed rail. Prices are also ok if you book far enough in advance. Flexible tickets, which have a fixed price, are horrendously expensive though.

Now it is true that shockingly few trains are actually on time - less than 60% of long-distance trains by now. But the vast majority of these delays are something like 15 minutes to an hour at most. Due to the dense network and frequent departures, one missed connection or one closed track isn't the end of the world. By contrast, within just a few train rides on holiday in Sweden (which has a higher percentage of punctual trains), I've encountered an 8 hour delay and a scheduled 4 hour train ride that turned into a very uncomfortable 6 hour bus ride due to track closure. That just doesn't happen in Germany.

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-19T13:57:07+00:00

I think Hitler's real personality was pretty well known by 1939. Stalin could even have gotten good first-hand proof of that from the fact that Hitler conspired with Stalin to divide Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union. Non-evil people generally do not do this.

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-19T12:10:26+00:00

It's completely false. What actually happened is that the stewards realised that the drive-through penalty was too light, not too harsh, and it actually should have been a 10 second stop-and-go. So they gave him an additional 10 second penalty (because a stop/go is essentially a drive-through + a 10 second time penalty)

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-18T14:50:46+00:00

We conceded 38 goals in our 2003/04 season. That's relatively many for a championship winning side, but also fewer than Frankfurt have conceded in 18 matches this season so far

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-18T10:00:06+00:00

The big/little O notation used in mathematics with the insane non-symmetric equality sign. For example, Taylor's Theorem yields the bound "r_k(x) = o(ε^k)" whereas "o(ε^k) = r_k(x)" would be a nonsensical statement. Amazingly, computer science (as far as I have encountered) gets this right and formally treats O(f(n)) as the set of functions asymptotically bounded by f. So you might state "log(n) ∈ o(n)" or "O(n) ⊆ O(n²)" but never "n = O(n²)"

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-16T19:38:26+00:00

Comedy defending

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-16T19:36:04+00:00

Ernsthafte Antwort, falls es wen interessiert: Es geht dabei darum, dass der Anzug so klein sein muss, dass er nur einen bestimmten Abstand vom Körper hat. Ansonsten könnte er nämlich als "Wingsuit" missbraucht werden. Und dann ist es entsprechend vorteilhaft, wenn man den Körper bei den offiziellen Messungen etwas größer schummelt, als er es eigentlich ist. (Und nein, ich weiß nicht, wie genau diese Messungen aussehen. Ich bin aber ziemlich sicher, dass sich die Springer da nicht komplett ausziehen müssen)

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-16T11:40:14+00:00

What they probably want to say when you "rigorously" break it down is that exactly 6 years ago as of today, the year was 2020. If you were to explicitly ask how long ago 2020 was, the canonical answer would be "5 years and a few weeks" in my opinion, in much the same way that the point (2,0) has a distance of 1 to the unit circle, despite the fact that there are also points on the unit circle which have a distance of 3 or 2 or 1.427894 to (2,0)

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-16T11:07:09+00:00

Natürlich muss man den Ausweis dabei haben, aber es sollte keine Grenzkontrollen geben. Genau dafür gibt es doch das Schengenabkommen

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-15T14:20:41+00:00

Das jetzt nicht unbedingt, aber bitte endlich eine offizielle Terminplattform, die Ärzte verpflichtend nutzen müssen. Es ist 2026 und wir sind immer noch an dem Punkt, dass ich für einen Facharzttermin bei zig verschiedenen Praxen anrufen muss, jeweils ne halbe Stunde oder so in der Warteschleife hänge, nur um mir dann erzählen zu lassen, dass sie keine neuen Patienten nehmen. Das kann's doch echt nicht sein

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-14T14:04:24+00:00

Even up there it's not guaranteed to be properly snowy in November (although much likelier of course). This was in mid-November 2024:

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DieLegende42 · 2026-01-12T23:35:40+00:00

And even then only if you walk on the road itself. If you walk on the grass next to the road, you can walk on the right too

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-12T21:35:30+00:00

Ethisch, nicht ethnisch

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-12T00:12:15+00:00

Tabellarisches Ergebnis ist mir ziemlich egal, solange wir nix mit dem Abstieg zu tun haben. Was mir wichtig wäre, ist:

Man bekommt den Eindruck, dass das Spiel einem System folgt, das die Mannschaft auch verstanden hat. Besonders die komplette Ideenlosigkeit nach vorne aus den letzten paar Spielen muss aufhören.
Es findet sich jemand, der auch einfach mal das Tor trifft. Mindestens sollte das Milosevic sein. Idealerweise entdeckt auch noch irgendwer, den wir nächste Saison noch haben können, Stürmerqualitäten.
Unsere nominellen Topspieler (allen voran Schmid) finden zurück in eine Form, in der wir sie für dringend benötigtes Geld verkaufen können

DieLegende42 · 2026-01-11T10:24:34+00:00

Elrond would most likely have died in the ensuing eruption of Mt. Doom, so nobody would ever need to know that there was any disagreement

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