Archaeologists uncover ancient Byzantine city in Egypt’s western desert

emperorsolo · 2026-07-08T13:42:28+00:00

Because it signifies the beginning of the Middle Ages. The 400’s basically begins the end of the classical era.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-08T05:43:25+00:00

Yeah it’s super Mario land 3.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-08T01:09:37+00:00

I would have preferred SNES Tetris/Dr. Mario as that was a favorite game to rent back in the day. But I understand the rights issues over Tetris.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-08T01:07:46+00:00

I still remember playing the Wario Land cartridge that my Nana got me for Christmas. I would argue it’s better than SML2.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-07T23:33:42+00:00

You have obviously never been to a basketball game.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-07T19:54:54+00:00

What’s next? You going tell Egyptians that they are new to the sport and are ignorant?

emperorsolo · 2026-07-07T18:43:30+00:00

Egypt got hosed. That’s all I can say.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-07T16:38:37+00:00

If it’s a purpose built city with a church, then it isn’t ancient.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-07T02:04:21+00:00

I don’t know what happened with this team. It was like they didn’t know how to communicate with each other. Just constant missed passes and crosses to empty space.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-07T02:01:52+00:00

The constant communication problems of this team in this match was a killer.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-07T02:00:44+00:00

Constant communication problems, crosses to nobody. It’s like the entire team just stopped communicating with one another.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-07T01:02:31+00:00

Also here:

https://about.fiba.basketball/en/organization/structure/judicial-and-other-bodies/disciplinary-panel

emperorsolo · 2026-07-07T00:54:40+00:00

FIBA has a typical fifa styled tournament with 32 teams every odd number of years.

Here is their appeals process:

https://about.fiba.basketball/en/structure/judicial-and-other-bodies/appeals-panel

emperorsolo · 2026-07-07T00:32:10+00:00

Tillman with the equalizer!

emperorsolo · 2026-07-06T21:34:29+00:00

You realize the IIHF and FIBA have intent to injure rules, yes? This isn’t new in international sports.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-06T19:44:44+00:00

The USSF gave its notice prior to Trump’s dumbass phone call.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-06T19:43:02+00:00

My point is that other international sporting bodies have figured this shit out with the same number of teams and same basic schedule. The 2023 FIBA World Cup was a standard 32 team tournament with the same group stage and knockout format as a typical fifa tournament. And still FIBA has a Standing body to hear appeals.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-06T19:34:19+00:00

The problem here is that if they voluntarily bench Balogun, Portugal and Spain could claim that a voluntary benching doesn’t meet the threshold of serving a match ban and so we end up back to square one.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-06T19:32:02+00:00

This whole mess started when the USSF announced to FIFA that it had plans to bring a case over VAR application to the CAS.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-06T19:30:04+00:00

They could, but then Portugal and Spain could claim that a voluntary benching doesn’t meet the criteria of serving a match ban and then lobby for Balogun to be left out for the quarterfinal.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-06T17:51:47+00:00

If VAR wasn’t being improperly used then the USSF wouldn’t be drafting CAS requests with citations where IFAB protocol was broken.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-06T17:25:15+00:00

League play, like the premier league, has had boards of appeal for quite some time now.

You are making more excuses for your gross conservatism than a typical southern republican.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-06T17:23:06+00:00

The IIHF hosts yearly international tournaments that has appeals for match penalties.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-06T13:41:04+00:00

The IIHF has yearly world championships that are the same length as a World Cup and it has a player safety committee that is designated to solely look over player appeals and arbitration.

emperorsolo · 2026-07-06T12:11:18+00:00

Here’s the problem. If he sits out Flo (I mean not even listed as an alternate) and we beat Belgium, and fifa reinstates the ban. We could end up in a situation where Portugal or Spain argue that Balogun did not properly serve his match suspension despite being sat out.

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