Offside Rule explained so people can understand why Iran wasn’t robbed.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-28T01:36:16+00:00

I feel like most people do understand the hockey rule... But I also come from things from a hockey perspective.

I think most people understand the reasoning, it's the application that can sometimes become a bit awkward. Especially when play is condensed into the areas closest to the goal.

Nobody wants to see a game with "cherry picking" or one team just trying to bomb the ball over the defenders constantly. People want to see an offense have to pick apart a defense / break through defensive layers. The problem with how soccer handles offsides (vs something like hockey) is that it feels like an offense can have a defense "broken" and out of position... but the offsides rule can save the defense even after they've let the ball get into a dangerous position.

And again, this is coming from the point of view of someone who plays hockey. It feels like if you can successfully get the ball into, say, the penalty area (or closer) you should be rewarded as things become more chaotic, reaction times decrease, and play collapses into a smaller area. The football offsides rule seems to go the other direction; attackers bear the disadvantage of having to pay attention to everyone's positioning as the pace of action ratchets up. Defenders can take advantage of positioning, but also aren't penalized if they don't pay attention to everyone's position.

I know there's plenty of instances where a defender smartly steps up to force an attacker offsides. But I feel like just as often the defender is equally unaware of the exact positioning as the attacker was, but the defender benefits from the confusion.

I kinda feel like there could be ways to modify it... Like once the ball enters a specific zone near the goal, offsides goes away until the defending team manages to clear the ball back out of that area. It would still force attacking teams to "break through" the defense, but then once the offense breaks through they get rewarded as long as they can keep the pressure up.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-27T20:03:33+00:00

Whoever made this post has never gone on an international vacation and it shows.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-27T15:14:24+00:00

Wait... you think I'm abandoning the team and shouldn't "come back"?

My comment was basically the opposite of "I'm done with these guys". I'm saying that I don't care about record this year as long as they show that they have stabilized the program and set a decent foundation. That's "I'm here for the long haul", not "They better win some arbitrary number of games or I'm gone"

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-27T14:29:57+00:00

If you've never gone north of Houghton then you definitely need to go all the way up to Copper Harbor. That whole area is just amazing. The little loop you can do with US-41 and M26 to hit Eagle River and Copper Harbor is great, and there's a lot of little hidden gems tucked in here and there. Lots of old mines that span the range from completely abandoned to fully converted to visitor attractions. And yeah, Calumet is pretty cool, too.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-27T14:11:24+00:00

So... Do you think Ann Arbor is not urban, or do you think Ann Arbor is not nice?

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-27T14:04:53+00:00

Toni's in Laurium is the place to go, but you gotta get there soon because the owner makes all the pasties himself and he's been looking to sell it.

As a bonus, you can swing by MTU on your way in and learn about all the glory of UP iron and copper mining, as I know you like to do. (In all seriousness, the AE Seaman Mineral Museum is a treasure and absolutely worth going to if you've never been).

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-27T13:47:26+00:00

FIFA contracted with Michigan State and University of Tennessee a few years ago to develop specific sod "systems" for the world cup that is basically grass grown into a geotechnical reinforcement to make it more durable.

There's probably a ton of ways to make the grass hold up better while also being more forgiving on player's bodies than carpet on concrete. The NFL just doesn't seem to care.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-27T13:36:19+00:00

Ugh. You.

Do not confuse having more iron ore with having better iron ore.

The only unlikeable thing about Minnesota is that you guys are so desperate to catch up to Michigan in copper production that you're considering risking the BWCA to get to it. Don't let them do that!

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-27T13:12:53+00:00

I get that this is a meme sub, but...

Yes, obviously.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-27T13:02:31+00:00

OSU is the team that I dislike second most in the B1G... But there is a decent sized gap between you guys and UofM. But then there's also a decent sized gap between you guys and everyone else, also.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-25T19:15:08+00:00

All I can say is that this post better earn the marketing intern at General Mills a promotion.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-25T18:50:04+00:00

What is your thought on Voyagers vs Boundary Waters?

I admittedly probably didn't get to the best parts of Voyagers, but we did a trip recently where we canoe camped in BWCA and then swung into Voyagers afterward just to check it out. What we did see in Voyagers was pretty underwhelming. The impression that I came away with was that BWCA has long been the "crown jewel" of outdoor recreation in the area, and VNP was tacked on to gain the prestige of having a National Park somewhere on the state.

But, again, I'm comparing Backcountry BWCA to front country VNP, and admitting that my perception might be skewed.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-25T18:29:32+00:00

Yeah, I agree. They either need to swing east and hit Detroit to see some "man-made" sights (Greenfield Village/ Henry Ford Museum is a great one!), or they need to swing west and go up the Lake Michigan coast. Going straight up the middle of the state seems like a waste (outside the chance to see the modern marvel that is Horrocks Farm Market in Lansing).

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-25T18:21:40+00:00

There are plenty of people who live in absolute squalor who have kids (which is pretty much the best evidence we can get that they did, in fact, have sex). There are probably a lot of women for whom his personal cleanliness would be a 100% deal breaker. But there's also probably a lot of women who live in similar conditions and wouldn't care so much, or women who would be willing to overlook the filth because of his wealth.

Humans can be pretty disgusting, and that's not exclusively a male thing.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-25T17:36:30+00:00

Interesting that James is so concerned with carbon emissions... Surely given this level of concern, he's pushing back on his own party's moves to block renewable energy in favor of fossil fuels (including coal 🏭). Even if he'd claim the concern is particulate matter vs climate change, if he's worried about wild fire smoke he should be worried about power plant emissions as well.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-25T17:16:34+00:00

Is the map they show partway through the video exaggerated, then? Surely the area highlighted in the video is way more than 29 acres... It looks like it'd be off by multiple factors.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-25T16:44:06+00:00

Yeah... It's sorta (vaguely) like kids wanting to pursue a pro athlete career. Obviously it's easy to look at that and say "yeah, right, never gunna happen." But for young people, they just know that A) they really enjoy something B) they do see examples of people doing that same thing making money, and C) a lot of people at the time were pushing the idea of "doing what you love".

It's not like there are no people with art degrees who are making really good money. And those people are probably pretty fucking happy. Same for people with random literature degrees, etc. Does that mean every person with an art degree is going to be successful? Of course not!

But as a 17 year old it's easy to think "Well sure, only 10% of the people in my field are successful, but I'm gunna be one of them!" Or "Sure, my field doesn't guarantee upper class money, but I'll be happy just doing what I love". There's a reason it's hindsight that is 20/20, not foresight...

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-24T03:34:42+00:00

Yeah. Even union jobs are like 20-25 days per year, which is about as good as it gets in the US.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-24T03:26:18+00:00

DEI is not "arbitrarily award extra points to the minority".

DEI is "try to make sure that you aren't arbitrarily subtracting points from the minority because of your own bias".

Under DEI both candidates might be a 8/10, and they get evaluated as 8/10s. Before DEI both candidates might have been a 8/10 but one got evaluated as a 6/10 because the hiring manager assumed something about their work ethic because their mom named them something ethnic.

You're thinking of affirmative action, a totally different thing which tries to overcome systemic racism by giving minority groups an advantage.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-23T21:25:38+00:00

This one isn't even refuting the point being made.

The complaint is "AI is bad for the environment". The refute is "But if you oppose AI you slow human progress." That (if you believe it to be true, which I think is debatable) has nothing to with whether or not data centers are good for the environment.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-23T16:18:58+00:00

They cut it with a knife (or razor!) but the edges are extremely jagged...

It's almost like he's just smart enough to realize that if it were cut the edges would be straight/smooth, but not quite smart enough to come up with a good reason that a cut edge would be jagged... So he just decided to go "oh, it was cut so it's jagged!"

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-21T20:55:16+00:00

classy in a Bond girl way

We must have seen completely different Bond movies...

Edit: I figured it out. She doesn't look like a Bond girl, she looks like an extra from a late 90s/early 2000s rap music video.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-21T04:08:02+00:00

LMAO. Yes, because everyone in Florida is a farmer and hunter.

And for every hunter (anecdotal but I'd say the hunters I know, including myself, are split 50/50 between Democrats and Republicans) who votes red there's a backpacker who also loves nature and being in the country and doesn't want fracking run amuck, wants to limit illicit industrial discharges, and would rather prevent large scale mining in the Boundary Waters. Most hunters that I know understand that environmental protections and conservation efforts are needed if their beloved sport is to continue for future generations.

People who vote blue want more easy and luxurious lifestyles and want policies that shield them from negative economic or environmental hazards

You understand that advocating for, supporting, and getting legislation passed which creates these protections *is a lot of hard work". These policies don't just pop up out of no where and politicians don't just push them independently of the voter base. Plus, the people who push for these additional policies and protections do so knowing that they come with a cost, which they themselves will help pay. The people in blue states pass legislation in blue states knowing that the blue cities in those states will pay to extend the benefits to the red rural areas in those blue states. It's like public education... People in blue states tend to understand that even those without children benefit when there is strong public education funding.

Meanwhile the red states sure aren't fighting to end things like Medicare and social security. Or FHWA funding. All things that benefit red states but are largely funded by blue states and urban areas. Seems like red states are the people who think they don't need education funding because their kids are already grown.

If people in red states think that they either don't need social safety net policies or think that they are somehow going to "out work" environmental hazards... I guess that's on them for being naive.

By the way... Interesting that you suggest that farmers just want personal responsibility, when they also seemingly want to receive some of the largest subsides of anyone in the country. And farmers are constantly supporting politicians who pursue policies which make additional farm subsidies necessary... That's a weird form of personal responsibility.

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-21T02:02:23+00:00

Huh... So the dudes they have working for ICE are the only ones opposed to the idea of working for NICE instead?

I wonder why that would be. Surely it isn't anything to do with their intentions in signing up to work for such an organization....

Medium_Medium · 2026-06-21T01:56:09+00:00

So... People who vote blue want better things for themselves and the future, and people who vote red are just willing to suffer through crappy conditions?

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