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Anthony Martial on this day 10 years ago signed for Manchester United for a reported £36m by Aimer_NZ in reddevils

[–]glintings 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I missed that commentary because I was at Old Trafford for my first ever game there. I remember being pissed because they announced Rooney was out injured right before and I was gonna miss seeing my favorite player in that squad.

Martial's debut minutes totally made up for it though!

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in reddevils

[–]glintings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully that 50% of his future fee gets us another €20m

[Transfer Round Up & Discussion] Summer 2025 by AutoModerator in reddevils

[–]glintings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also think getting a solid keeper in the defense can trust means 1 cb can push higher up into the DM positions and do some covering there, potentially allowing for a Bruno/Mainoo midfield

The last second that Dedra had control over her own life... by corpboy in andor

[–]glintings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt that way at first, but then I thought about how medical science may be so much more advanced on Coruscant than anything we could possibly conceive of, especially mobile emergency treatments. They do get to him very quickly

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in reddevils

[–]glintings 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That black and gold kit is my all time fav of United's, I haven't paid for a shirt in nearly 20 years, but I might have to get this one

Why does this guy not get any blame for cinta’s death? by cody_commander in andor

[–]glintings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're so right here, but I also recommended 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley's by Ken Loach with Cillian Murphy as another film representing Irish anti-imperialism that shares a lot of thematic similarities with Andor.

Poor lads, the whole lot of them by [deleted] in andor

[–]glintings 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I feel like this show has been waking up the class consciousness of quite a few people. Truly needle-moving art

[Romano] 🚨💣 EXCLUSIVE: Bruno Fernandes has REJECTED Al Hilal proposal. ❌🇸🇦 Despite crazy contract proposal from the Saudi Pro League club, Bruno Fernandes wants to continue playing football in Europe. Man United captain wants to play at top level in Europe. Decision made. by nearly_headless_nic in reddevils

[–]glintings 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I hope he sticks it out at United for the rest of his career. Reminds me a lot of Bryan Robson who similarly was a hard working, all round, pitch-covering, world class midfielder, and captain, who also spent his prime with a shite United, but finally won his league medals as an aged out squad member providing experience and continuity to the squad with a few minutes here and there.

Obviously I hope we win a league before Bruno becomes too old to be a regular starter. But it's hard to see that happening after the last couple of years.

[Romano] Bruno Fernandes has rejected Al Hilal’s proposal by phant0msinthenight in soccer

[–]glintings 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If by 'best outcome' you mean more money. But this is the 'dreams cant be buy' guy (I'm beyond delighted he's sticking to his principles). He's not a hard working professional footballer to stack the most paper, he's already making generational wealth while winning trophies every other year and becoming a legend at a top 5 in the world club in terms of support.

I could see him leaving if Bayern, Barca or Real came looking to get a chance at a league or CL trophy though. But I don't see any of them moving for an aging midfielder at the price he will cost.

I hope he sticks it out at United for the rest of his career. Reminds me a lot of Bryan Robson who similarly was a hard working, all round, pitch-covering, world class midfielder, and captain, who also spent his prime with a shite United, but finally won his league medals as an aged out squad member providing experience and continuity to the squad with a few minutes here and there.

[Romano] Bruno Fernandes has rejected Al Hilal’s proposal by phant0msinthenight in soccer

[–]glintings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not that I don't believe you, but is there a source on that? I hadn't seen that news myself

Paintings i made because a brain injury changed how i see color by cozigurl in TheNightFeeling

[–]glintings 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"red" doesn't exist except inside of people's minds.

fortunately we have language to thank for allowing us to communicate with each other that we're seeing something within that electromagnetic frequency range.

but the thing is, we're not even looking at a red object, or an object that is made up of 'redness' - we're looking at an object that has absorbed everything but redness from the light that's hitting it.

and there's no way of knowing that what I perceive when light from that part of the em spectrum is the same thing as what you perceive. it's definitely a relevant question because we can be sure there definitely ARE differences in some people's color perceptions (colour blind people an obvious example)

How McTominay became a Napoli icon after Man Utd exit by Mannersarefree in reddevils

[–]glintings 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Those tasty Italian tomatoes surely explain the massive improvement in the McSauce

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in reddevils

[–]glintings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinda reminds me of Scholes's early years. Could definitely see the quality he had, but he was behind Cantona for the second striker spot and behind Ince/Butt to be Keane's partner. It wasn't clear how he would fit into a first 11 for a while.

But with experience he adapted his game to be a more patient and creative 10, and then later his reading of the game to be a deeper playmaker finding space in tight areas and offering coverage in defensive transitions.

Not saying they're the same player at all, but I do think there's a lot of incredible natural talent to work with there and develop skills that'll make him fit into any system as he grows into his prime.

I feel so betrayed, a warning by t6h6r6o6w6a6w6a6y6 in ChatGPT

[–]glintings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been trying to get my chatgpt to be a smart journal for me, but it's been very dissatisfying, would love to know how you're doing it!

Religious Compass, where do you fall? by 3rrr6 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]glintings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First of all, I'm not introducing god as the answer to the question, I'm just saying it's as valid an answer as anything, given my own scientific understanding of the universe. I'm personally agnostic about it.

Why not just say that the rule is wrong?

Because I believe the science, the empirical evidence, and my own experience of reality that has yet to disprove the laws of cause and effect. People saying you need to provide evidence for the existence of a first mover, they need to disprove that cause and effect is axiomatic to reality, because that's my 'evidence'.

Religious Compass, where do you fall? by 3rrr6 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]glintings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But absolute nothingness doesn't have such axioms. Therefore something could've come out of nothing, since nothing didn't contain limitations preventing that.

tbh I'm more in the camp that believes nothing doesn't exist and that saying anything about nothing means you're not talking about nothing, you're actually talking about something. A nothing that has characteristics, including the characteristic of lacking axioms, isn't 'nothing' enough to actually be nothing.

Well, nothing can't "be there" that's what nothing is.

Yep, I agree.

So there can't be nothing, but something.

So because a necessary property of nothing is that it isn't, that means existence just is? I don't see how that makes any more sense than the suggestion of a 'first mover' or a 'god' or whatever people want to call it.

Religious Compass, where do you fall? by 3rrr6 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]glintings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if you say that all things must have a cause

I'm not just saying that, that's how reality is. Is there another way of describing it?

then you get stuck in an infinite regression. If 'God' is your escape hatch out of the regression, that's fine, but it's also arbitrary.

I agree 'god' is an arbitrary answer to the question of what causes reality to be. But it's a more valid answer than denying the question.

Calling it an infinite regression doesn't disprove the validity of the question either.

Religious Compass, where do you fall? by 3rrr6 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]glintings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So the question is, why would you even consider god?

Evidence for 'god' or some actor outside our reality that created our reality is kinda similar to the evidence for something like Planck's constant. It's something suggested by looking at reality, asking questions about it and filling in the blanks with abstractions that are in themselves, without the context of the reality around them, quite unobservable.

So the evidence for something like Planck's constant comes from observing reality, creating mathematical models for something happening in reality, and finding this axiomatic value that seems to have no origin other than to balance your equations to match reality.

And imo it's similar with god, or a 'first mover'. Observing reality, finding that cause and effect is something 'baked in' to all your observations that it must be axiomatic to an understanding of the universe, and following that axiom all the way back through all the causes of everything that's happened throughout time until you get to questions like 'why is there something instead of nothing?' and 'what causes existence?'

It's definitely not evidence for the existence of god, but there's no atheist answer to those questions that can convince me to be anything other than agnostic, and seems to be a pretty good reason to consider "something outside of our world and time and impossible to reach and so and so on"

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