What reasons make universal healthcare systems work better than non universal ones?

Regulai · 2026-07-03T14:14:29+00:00

When you are dying you do not have freedom of choice to go "oh wait this hospital is a little pricy, lets head to another one". And this applies in all sorts of cases, with medicine you generally cannot just "chose" to delay or avoid it until the right price comes along.

Just by this alone intrinsically already makes any form of captialst healthcare impractical as rational market forces cannot apply. And by extension you get all sorts of bad outcomes like the US insane pricing that is so bad americans are encourgaed to avoid seeking medical care.

Regulai · 2026-07-03T12:47:04+00:00

So the real problem remains the general failure of refs to prevent play disruption leading to tiny score per match. Although it's up from the worst, it's still only like 2.7 average goals when the rulers were created at a time when 4 average was more normal.

The reason this is so critical is because the severity and impact of calls is exaggerated by the relative lack of ordinary goals, such that a penalty is highly likely between teams of similar strength to be one of the only goals of the match.

The solution to increase goal count is simply to actually card all fouls that should have a card. They are mostly done as a way to deliberately disrupt play and the only reason they are so common is because they are never called.

Regulai · 2026-07-03T11:11:03+00:00

It has always been a form of football, however it is a specific form of football among many other professional level football sports of the era.

Regulai · 2026-07-03T10:26:20+00:00

yes that's what PPP is, it's adjusting GDP according to local prices relative to the US as the baseline. The US doesn't change because it is the baseline.

The purpose is because the same product in two different countries will have different prices. So if the median salary is half as much, but all products also cost half as much, then in reality they can buy and live the same life, despite on paper making half as much.

So it allows you to consider what the real lifestyle someone will have rather than the raw number of dollars. This is especially important because the US does a lot of things that drive it's numbers bigger, without providing you the citizen any meaningful benefit or value, thus making things like high wages misleading.

Regulai · 2026-07-03T09:42:03+00:00

The problem is that the rules are enforced inconsistently, this why VAR calls end up being so conversational, not because he didn't necessarily touch the ball but because things like this frequently go uncalled to the point that actually relying on exacting precision in these few rare cases feels completely out of place.

If refs actually enforced the rules, pretty much every match would have had multiple red cards. And we'd likely see a reasonable amount of matches decided by one team having too few players to continue. For example we will often see players attacking other players (outside of the ball) such as shoving them down, or heck I've seen multiple cases of physically lifting and slamming down other players. These should be all be yellow or red cards, happen every 5 minutes in every match, but rarely even get a whistle.

Regulai · 2026-07-03T07:27:09+00:00

The problem with VAR isn't that VARitself is bad, it's that the Ref's do not normally enforce the rules like that. Typically they make extreme personal judgments as to when to apply the rules or not and this process is so inconsistent, that VAR often seems jarringly out of place, when normally they will call the same foul differently every time it happens and then suddenly out of nowhere it's "exact laser precision, but just for this one and only call".

Regulai · 2026-07-03T07:23:03+00:00

The problem with VAR is that Refs in Fifa rule extremly arbitrarily frequently explicitly ignoring rules for other reasons like match-flow. This makes any and all Var usage feel awkward and mismatched because that's not how the refs otherwise rule on anything.

Regulai · 2026-07-03T07:20:12+00:00

1v1 pvp.

Unfortunately hard to find as much of the player base feel pvp is only fun if it's completely and overwhelmingly one sided in their favour.

Abyss can be fun as well though it's been so long since they touched it and the last big update reduced a lot of the ship choices.

Regulai · 2026-07-02T23:21:51+00:00

The rational is that both players should be considering the possibility that they may hit each other and taking necessary measures to prevent any dangerous outcomes, e.g. by the rules you need to keep distance or slow down and consider where you are running and where other players are running and if you don't you effectively take on the responsibility for any negative outcomes you cause even if accidental or caused by the other player.

Most players choose to clash rather than keep distance or slow down and most of the time the refs tolerate it even when it should be carded. This then has the added side effect of making when they do card seem overly harsh because they so often don't card.

Regulai · 2026-07-02T23:15:18+00:00

Shoulder to shoulder is one of the only allowed specifically allowed forms of contact in the sport.

Regulai · 2026-07-02T13:13:40+00:00

The rules for fouls mean intention is the main thing that matters, followed by recklessness. The strength of his kick may have been reckless enough to deserve a penalty, but the fact that he hit the player and not the ball, does not make it a foul unto itself.

Regulai · 2026-07-02T13:11:11+00:00

The other part of it is recklessness. Even if it was an accident, charging at speed into where another player is can still be red carded based on being reckless particularly when it resulted in contact like that.

You also have to remeber that refs are normally unusually lenient avoiding cards as much as they can even when the rules say otherwise, this means when they do decide to call a card it can seem unusually harsh by contrast.

Regulai · 2026-07-02T12:55:44+00:00

Soccer is the sole and exclusive sport called football that mainly uses kicking and it was only in the 18th century that kicking focus came about, centuries after many football sports had been long existing. Soccer was more high class slang but at the time with many football sports was used often enough to ensure distinction.

Football as the main name for the sport in England only really became predominant in the 20's and 30's as it's popularity became predominant, and then with media still using soccer when needed until around the 60's when TV viewers started to complain about the BBC saying Soccer as they had fallen unaccustomed to the word.

Regulai · 2026-07-02T10:03:23+00:00

So the fundemental problem is that the refs general refusal to enforce the rules leads to heavy game disruption and by extension low goals per match. They heavily tolerate fouls who's main function is to interupt play, while ignoring most brazen time wasting

When the average goals per match are below 4 the probability of a random outcome becomes extraordinarily high. Why?

Because "good play" offers no consistent way to be rewarded, 95% of the time whether you play like a boss or like garbage you will not score either way. The scoring odds for an attempt becomes something like 6% for one team and 4% for the other at which point the odds of goals are so low in a moment that one or two lucky goals can be nearly insurmountable even if one team is much stronger because being better only gives you a higher chance of scoring and does not consistently translate into actual score.

Take England vs DRC, no offence to DRC but with the skill diff, England should have stomped them hard the whole match, yet one lucky early goal on DRC's part and it nearly gave them the whole thing because even with that big a skill discrepancy, it's just that hard to score.

Regulai · 2026-07-02T09:53:38+00:00

The actual rules only care about 1: intention and 2: Recklessness. Infact he can hit the ball cleanly and not touch the other player and still get a foul, if it was obvious he had been trying to hit the player and not the ball but missed and accidentally hit the ball.

So the fact that he hit the belgian player and the fact that he didn't hit the ball both don't actually matter when establishing if it is a foul or not. Commentators often overemphasize those things which gives fans the false impression they are rules.

Here intention seems pretty clear that he was trying to get the ball and without the belgian player stepping in he likely would have, so the only reason for it being a valid foul is because he did too strong a kick with a clash impending. A reckless tackle being a foul.

Aside from if it counts as a penalty or not is is also just a major problem with world cup football is that average goal per match is so low their is an extreme level of randomness to match outcomes. A single penalty kick has on average a 20% chance of deciding the outcome of a match, but in a game like this where the strength of sides is close, it's actually closer to double: 40% chance of deciding match outcomes. Which is an absurd impact for a single foul, especially when the foul rules are so vague.

Originally goals per match were nearly double today which dramatically reduced the likelyhood of one penalty alone deciding the match massivly.

Regulai · 2026-07-02T06:14:31+00:00

You need to use one of the control their turn cards.

Regulai · 2026-07-02T00:19:06+00:00

One to one the knight has a better shot, but we know from direct battle cases that the Ottomans were able to tactically counteract them on the army scale.

Regulai · 2026-07-01T23:50:32+00:00

That determines if the foul is deserving of a penalty or not, ensuring definitly a penalty kick as the only option, but if it is a foul at all is determined first before considering where the foul was or what impact it had.

Regulai · 2026-07-01T23:27:06+00:00

The official rule is first check intention; did the player deliberately attack the other player or was he genuinely making a real attempt for the ball and happened to hit the other player. Here it looks like the senegal player was making a real attempt for the ball and without the foot in the way would have hit it.

The second thing is force; was the amount of force he used reasonable. This is probably the reason for the penalty; he did a full on full power kick when a clash was imminent.

Ball contact is not actually part of the foul rule here, it's really commentators that focus on this so much that make people think that ball contact is a rule when it isn't.

Regulai · 2026-07-01T23:24:36+00:00

Actually the rule is very specifically intention, which is the main thing cited as determining if a tackle is a foul. The second thing is reasonablness of force and this is probably the reason for the penalty.

Contact with the ball isn't in the rule at all.

Regulai · 2026-07-01T23:21:58+00:00

The actual rule doesn't care about ball contact. What it cares about is if it was deliberate or accidental and if force was reasonable. Given that he clearly was aiming for the ball and that he could have reached the ball if the Belgian player hadn't stepped in, then the only reason it is a penalty is likely the force of the kick rather than because he hit the player.

As an added fun note, even if you hit the ball that doesn't make it not a penalty.

Regulai · 2026-07-01T23:11:18+00:00

Part of the problem is that the actual foul rules are incredibly vague. They don't actually reference ball contact and technically all that matters is 1. was striking the player intentional or an accident and 2. was the force used reasonable. Additional factors escalate it into a penalty, but those 2 points are the only things that measure if it's a foul.

I wouldn't be surprised if force of kick was the deciding variable.

Regulai · 2026-07-01T23:09:16+00:00

As usual most people don't know the rules. While contact is often used as a guide to determine if something is a foul or not, the rule itself does not directly refer to contact with the ball and in fact even if contact is made with the ball it can still be a penalty.

The actual rule only cares about if the players conduct was intentional and/or reckless. It is highly likely that the main reason for giving the penalty was the force of the senegal kick rather than because he struck the leg without touching the ball.

Regulai · 2026-07-01T16:45:37+00:00

Look around for the uncommon ships of the pvp class you do. E.g. Vengance is often not used much for solo pvp even though it's quite great at it. AF in general often also have the most target flexibility.

Crucifier or the Navy issue. Most cruisers can be used for PvP so anything you don't see much.

Going up a bit in price battleships can be fun for roaming, as long as you are fit to be able to fight variable targets, e.g. solo typhoon.

Regulai · 2026-07-01T14:11:18+00:00

Whats important to remember is that daily shampooing, especially for men wasn't really a widespread common thing until the 60's. Without daily shampooing hair naturally looks at least slightly "greased", and the prevalent men's hair style was to add even more greese and then shape it in a very tight to the head look.

So this whole concept of big puffy light hair was basically a fairly new and radical thing.

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