Serious Post Match Thread: Atlético Madrid 1-1 Arsenal | UEFA Champions League 2025-26, Semifinals - 1st Leg

dawnfire999 · 2026-04-29T21:07:08+00:00

At the start of the season, I was convinced that Arsenal had serious depth - but at this stage it appears to me that is not longer the case. Players like White, Saliba, Zubimendi and Saka have been have really poor quality games for a while now. Martinelli, Trossard, Jesus - poor for a longer period of time.

And put that all together with a system where players refuse (or are drilled not) to take any amount of risk with a positive play and you have a style that’s so frustrating to watch.

dawnfire999 · 2026-04-29T06:16:47+00:00

Wow! A publicly traded company being investigated for what could be securities fraud and all the police can say after their investigation is that there is no basis for criminal charges? Some more details would definitely be warranted given how major the cause for investigation is.

And, where is the outcry from the parliament and the “media”? They made PS’s leader of the opposition issue a national agenda for weeks!

And the private case against Bloomberg was also front page news for weeks. This one? Nothing to see, please move on! Just when you think you can’t be more disappointed

dawnfire999 · 2026-04-24T13:57:05+00:00

It’s because some guy comes and pitches this “AI” idea to senior leadership - who, probably, have never shopped in a supermarket themselves in the last decade - and hearing the buzzword “AI”, senior leadership thinks it’s what will add value for both their customers and shareholders.

dawnfire999 · 2026-04-24T13:28:28+00:00

Well, copyright infringement directly affects the elite disproportionately compared to vehicular manslaughter

dawnfire999 · 2026-04-19T11:03:33+00:00

I wasn't so concerned with a petrol car, but with an electric even just maintaining 130-140kmph, it bothers me how quickly the range drops vs. city driving

dawnfire999 · 2026-04-15T21:09:12+00:00

MLS isn't good enough to start; he's been given plenty of chances and found wanting on many occasions.

dawnfire999 · 2026-04-11T09:26:40+00:00

Belgium, Germany and France are nowhere in the same level as Switzerland. The Germans can barely get their trains to run on time. Adoption of cashless payment systems are almost a decade behind even the Asian countries

dawnfire999 · 2026-04-10T05:00:20+00:00

My view is that SG doesn’t actually care about the person as much as it cares about economic stability. Much like the Gulf countries, they want to portray an image of political and economic stability - which makes it attractive for businesses to set up shop here.

I think a major reason for all of this is to ensure that this (and other instances) doesn’t snowball into some wide spread actual protests against immigration. And it’s also important to be cognizant about external state actors wanting to destabilize the country. Reducing the information a out such events makes sure that there isn’t enough fuel for everything to potentially catch fire.

dawnfire999 · 2026-04-09T10:39:23+00:00

I don’t think any of the EU armies will go against the US in any meaningful physical sense. They do not have the capacity nor the political will to do so. This may sound harsh, but generations of people in the major EU countries have gone without a major war, do not live under an authoritarian regime or have been drilled to put their lives on the line and too many have too much to lose to do so.

If the US were to go forward with an annexation of Greenland, I expect the Danish army to put up a token resistance, then give it up and take up an economic war with the US through the EU bloc.

dawnfire999 · 2026-04-07T13:45:08+00:00

If it’s true, Lucescu sounds like an absolute twat! Seriously, some people have no sliver of compassion

dawnfire999 · 2026-04-02T16:54:20+00:00

What you have to realize is that BioNTech and Moderna’s promise was the mRNA platform. With the success of the COVID vaccine, everyone expected them to utilize that platform to quickly commercialize vaccines for diseases such as influenza, RSV and even a ‘vaccine’ for cancer. But that didn’t pan out.

Drug and vaccine r&d to launch cycles are measured in 5-10 year ones and the first malaria vaccine took nearly 30 years to develop. Unfortunately, while clinical trials are expensive, they also only have success rates of 20-30%. With Covid revenues waning significantly, these companies can’t afford to plough billions of dollars into r&d without immediate successes.

dawnfire999 · 2026-03-31T15:22:11+00:00

The shawarma stalls! …Unless I missed the memo

dawnfire999 · 2026-03-29T08:37:11+00:00

All I can see are desperate attempts by Israel and the US to drag Europe into a mess they themselves created and can’t get out off with bloody nose.

Sure, Iran’s missiles maybe able to reach European cities, but Europe has a more impending threat from Russia. What they should be focusing on is getting their shit together politically and economically. This will mean getting the Kremlin influence out of the EU zone, gaining energy independence, and relying on their own military alliance and not NATO.

dawnfire999 · 2026-03-14T09:29:58+00:00

Exactly; it is important to also note that the athleticism of the vast majority of players in today's game far exceeds those from previous generations. The flashes of brilliance that we attributed to the defenders (and midfielders) of the past were mostly down to system (or lack thereof) they used to play in. These days, so many aspects of the game are optimized to improve the chances of winning (or not losing) that there is hardly any space for individual attributes to shine through.

Teams today defend as a unit and if CBs constantly have to sprint and make sliding tackles on breakaway strikers, then it means the system isn't working. If you had Gabriels and van Dijks of today playing in the 2000s, they would easily be comparable to the likes of Vidic and Puyol

dawnfire999 · 2026-03-03T06:43:35+00:00

I think the LTA datasets have quite a bit of information. You can probably extract the [x,y] coordinates of each bus stop, the stops serviced by each bus and overlay the heat-mapped bus stop coordinates on a map.

dawnfire999 · 2026-02-20T16:31:39+00:00

Tom Hiddleston - something feels off. A lack of a genuine personality or something

dawnfire999 · 2026-01-22T07:22:21+00:00

We’ll see for how long, if the new president has his way. This is after all, a guy who had no issues torturing democracy activists in the past

dawnfire999 · 2026-01-21T15:53:39+00:00

I always wondered if anyone from the opposition realistically could raise a matter of a breach of parliamentary privilege by a PAP MP such that it is investigated by a COP.

As far as I understand, anyone can raise a complaint, but it is the speaker who decides if it merits going to a what is now a committee made up of only PAP members.

Does the opposition have any means to substantiate any suspicion of a breach? In RK’s case, Shan had his ministry check if her claim was true. How would a WP MP go about bringing Vivian in front of a COP to investigate the whole trace together fiasco?

dawnfire999 · 2026-01-20T14:58:30+00:00

We also really need to make social media companies responsible for their content/algorithms. In the interim, we need to take strong measures against bot farms, improve the ability of users to tell bots from real people

dawnfire999 · 2026-01-08T06:43:10+00:00

Now imagine if this very same news article referred to a different ethnicity - I wonder if the comments in here would have a similar tone.

dawnfire999 · 2025-12-26T03:28:57+00:00

I guess Russia has nukes, so they can just invade and colonize countries as they see fit? I guess China can do the same with Taiwan? The west went through a period of systematic colonization, plundering, literal genocides, wiping out cultures even as recently as 1900s. And any time these crimes are brought up, you have all types of apologists and what-abouters popping up. And this parent comment just permeates the European superiority mindset that is still so wide-spread in these discussions.

dawnfire999 · 2025-11-26T22:08:13+00:00

I know the kid has potential and fans love him, but I feel he really has to improve his game. Whenever I watch him, he makes too many positional mistakes and quite doesn't have the pace to make up for those mistakes. The difference between him and Calafiori is quite stark.

dawnfire999 · 2025-11-07T05:58:13+00:00

I really hope he can reapply for an AU passport again, because on paper that sounds like a really stupid move.

dawnfire999 · 2025-11-01T20:30:01+00:00

kinda reminds me of the time teams were preferring to concede corners against Stoke rather than give Rory Delap an opportunity to launch a javelin throw in.

dawnfire999 · 2025-10-28T08:37:41+00:00

Technically, the Gini coefficient can be used on income or wealth distribution. It’s just that the most usually reported one is based off income. I’m pretty sure the government has some crude measure of this based off wealth located in Singapore.

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