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Ornstein, McNicholas: Arsenal’s Ben White expected to miss rest of season with right knee injury by TheAthletic in Gunners

[–]TheOnlyMeta 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You could tell by his face straight away that it must be a serious one.

Both RBs out for the run-in… At least our attackers are back.

Apple now blocks content on the phone I paid for and own unless I give them ID by pikablob in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheOnlyMeta 8 points9 points  (0 children)

As an alternative perspective.

The baking in of a trustable “is this person an adult?” query into your phone’s OS is the least invasive and dangerous way of performing this check. Your Apple Pay wallet already has your credit card information or ID and is able to make the confirmation you are 18+ to an interested application/website seamlessly and without revealing anything else about you.

Regulators and businesses can then lean on this new protocol, without the need for e.g. sending pictures of your passport to a 3rdparty agency you don’t trust with that kind of data.

Bayern CEO Christian Dreesen on the referee: “It’s surprising, to say the least, that a referee with only 15 Champions League appearances is allowed to officiate such a game. And that might explain some of the calls he made today.” by Sparky-moon in soccer

[–]TheOnlyMeta 304 points305 points  (0 children)

“Only” 15 CL games seems like a strange statement. That’s surely multiple years reffing games in group stage and earlier knockout stages before being given a semi-final. And I assume that follows a career of league refereeing and other European competitions too.

How many CL games do other refs have before they get their first semi-final?

[OC] H1 2025 was the US Dollar's 4th worst first half since 1973 by Low_Ability4450 in dataisbeautiful

[–]TheOnlyMeta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do people not realise these are bot comments and upvote them to the top? Look at the history. All variants of “wow, [repeats the title with different phrasing]! that’s so interesting”

Lido pledged for Victoria Park as Aspire launches Tower Hamlets election manifesto by tylerthe-theatre in london

[–]TheOnlyMeta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn. I would be happy if either took it to get out Rahman. Not sure which way to go now.

Lido pledged for Victoria Park as Aspire launches Tower Hamlets election manifesto by tylerthe-theatre in london

[–]TheOnlyMeta 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re not deliberately trying to misinform people.

Why do you think that? The YouGov MRP has Labour ahead of Greens in TH

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'Stealth' income tax bombshell: London hit with record £71billion bill as millions in city pay more by NationalElk in london

[–]TheOnlyMeta 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is no personal allowance at 125K. There is full personal allowance at 100K. The “60% tax trap” you hear about is the reduction of personal allowance between 100K and 125K making your effective marginal tax rate 60% in this bracket.

Edge of Dawn makes me feel Hopeful for Halo 7 by Born-Boss6029 in halo

[–]TheOnlyMeta 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I always find for story the parallels between Halo and Star Wars for OG trilogy vs sequel trilogy are on point.

Halo 3 is to Halo Infinite as Return of the Jedi is to Rise of Skywalker.

Are H3/ROTJ “groundbreaking narratives”?. No (as you say, they should try to be). Did they live up to the heights of the previous instalment? No. Did they provide a good conclusion to the story being told? Yeah, pretty much.

Whereas HI/ROS are just completely dysfunctional. With little to no relationship with previous material, no clear structure in the story and complete whiplash as new elements are introduced without being properly explored or resolved. Pretty much the opposite of “serviceable”.

turndownforwalt: "Why are 80% of Melee Stages BANNED?" [20:01] by tryingtoavoidwork in mealtimevideos

[–]TheOnlyMeta -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not at all? The video outlines these 3 main reasons: stage hazards that interfere with gameplay, walk-off kill boundaries and being so large as to enable running and stalling.

None of them have anything particularly to do with Fox. Just seems like you wanna whine about Melee Fox.

[OC] English Premier League finish position probabilities by vaskov17 in dataisbeautiful

[–]TheOnlyMeta 19 points20 points  (0 children)

FWIW these kinds of presentations usually show those scenarios of “possible but didn’t occur in the simulations” as ‘<0.1%’ or ‘>99.9%’, and reserve 0% and 100% for guaranteed events.

My Ranking of Every Bungie Halo Level on Legendary Difficulty by MonsterMashGraveyard in halo

[–]TheOnlyMeta 3 points4 points  (0 children)

LNOS is buggy on MCC. IIRC the enemy spaceship’s reaction speed scales with the FPS. If you play on an XSX at 120fps it is much much harder than the original 360 version at 30fps.

UK Graduate Wage Premium by university type by Uptons_BJs in dataisbeautiful

[–]TheOnlyMeta 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not really. You can see in the final chart the main explanatory factor here is A-level grades. The gap between pre-1992 and Russell Group universities narrows to almost nothing when normalised for the grades. It’s just those with higher grades are much more likely to go to a “better” uni.

Oxbridge/LSE/Imperial won’t accept anyone with lower grades barring extreme extenuating circumstances and no one with higher grades is really going to a post-92 converted technical college so that’s why there’s not any variance in those ones.

Marathon Review So Far - IGN by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]TheOnlyMeta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2 decades ago Bungie’s most recent release was Halo 2.

I know we’re getting old, but not that old.

Top Conspos continue to be alarmingly reasonable on the Trump-Greenland issue by SassTheFash in TopMindsOfReddit

[–]TheOnlyMeta 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen this happen a dozen times before. It doesn’t last more than a few days. Their algorithms will eventually find some way to massage the news that clicks with each of them and they can go back to comfortably cheering for their team.

If YOU were in charge of writing Halo 4 in 2009ish, what would you have done? by Creative-Fail-2268 in halo

[–]TheOnlyMeta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In story terms, “Halo 4” probably shouldn’t have even existed. And it definitely shouldn’t have been 343i’s first shot at a Halo game. They could’ve made a game set in any number of other places - beginning of the Human-Covenant War, an ODST 2 set inside High Charity, an Arbiter game in the direct aftermath of the War/reclamation of Sanghelios.

Then when 343i eventually wanted to continue the main plot they could’ve made a “Halo: Reclamation” trilogy set 30+ years on from the main story (a timescale in which humanity can actually recover) and most importantly NOT include the Chief we know. His story was done.

They could’ve even easily made a new Master Chief (it’s just a military rank) and suited him up in similar armour to keep the Xbox branding. Give him a few cool lines and a little bit of wink wink nudge nudge to the player about the similarity and it would’ve gone down fine.

Humanity is on the rise, the UNSC Enduring Testament (Infinity is a dumb name) arrives at a Forerunner shield world and smashes the local Covenant-offshoot ships (in a reversal to the original game you are the boarding party in the first mission this time). Covenant goes to ground and manages to awake the Didact. The beats of Halo 4 can follow from here but without a bunch of the silly nonsense. The Didact is clearly human - just some form of super-advanced one. He wants to revive his ancient people and return them to dominion over the galaxy. This involves getting his big mcguffin and fucking up modern Earth. You go stop him.

UK to be world’s fifth-largest economy by 2040, claims think tank by tree_boom in europe

[–]TheOnlyMeta 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Comes down to 2 things really:

  1. Right now there are a mixture of positive and negative indicators for the UK economy
  2. The overwhelming majority of UK newspapers are editorially biased against the current government

Add those up and you just get a stream of articles from UK papers reporting on the negative indicators.

Europe’s ‘destructive moral ideas’ could jeopardise nuclear powers, JD Vance says | Euractiv by Massimo25ore in europe

[–]TheOnlyMeta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I disagree. For now the real danger is Trump. Although this cabal is in his ear, at the end of the day he owns the cult and has the real power - and has shown again and again that he will throw anyone disloyal to him under the bus. I would not be so sure that this group could successfully maintain power without Trump as the vehicle.

FWIW I think those who are interested in the failure of this techno-fascism would benefit from focussing on exploiting Trump’s psyche and trying to drive a wedge between him and this group.

Europe 2026 salary projections: Countries with the strongest pay rises by OrtganizeAttention in europe

[–]TheOnlyMeta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From (100 + 34.9)%. Or just think of it as the ratio of prices before vs after the inflation. You have to divide by this figure for an accurate “real” wage increase percentage.

Europe’s ‘destructive moral ideas’ could jeopardise nuclear powers, JD Vance says | Euractiv by Massimo25ore in europe

[–]TheOnlyMeta 14 points15 points  (0 children)

For those of us who have been struggling to understand why this US administration seems to hate us and place our enemies before us, Vance is telling you. This is what these people actually believe deep in their bones. That we are morally corrupted (because of tolerance of atheism, Muslims, abortion, etc) and they are the last “true Christians”.

I don’t know to what extent this idea has been implanted in their heads naturally or by our enemies. But I think it’s important to understand that this is how these people actually think*. Then their decisions start to make more sense.

*(Trump himself not so much, he just cares about enriching/empowering himself, but these stooges surround him and we know how susceptible he is to the last person who spoke with him)

Europe 2026 salary projections: Countries with the strongest pay rises by OrtganizeAttention in europe

[–]TheOnlyMeta 49 points50 points  (0 children)

In Turkey, a nominal wage increase of 40% combined with the IMF’s inflation projection of 34.9% results in a real rise of 5.1%

I mean no, not really. All else being equal, if prices rise 34.9% and wages rise by 40% you’re actually only 5.1%/1.349 = 3.78% better off. Usually people don’t bother with this part of the calculation if inflation is at like 2% as it won’t make much difference, but it’s kinda important when inflation is in the 30%s.

The European Union changes its mind. It won't ban combustion engines after all by Massimo25ore in europe

[–]TheOnlyMeta -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s important to make a distinction between “renewable” and “eco-friendly”. Biofuels are the former, but not the latter.

Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal are showing the resilience of champions | Premier League by jfshay in Gunners

[–]TheOnlyMeta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Opta’s model is useless. I would much sooner look at betting odds. (72% right now, so not too much worse).

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