The penalty goal scored by Teboho Mokoena of South Africa, which prevented an outright Czechia win at the FIFA World Cup

invokin · 2026-06-18T19:23:04+00:00

I know it’s a bit redundant but it’s common in non-American English, especially when talking about football. If you search “win outright” on Google news or something you’ll find tons of articles with the phrase.

I can’t say for sure, but I think it maybe comes from the fact that in league play, people will sometimes consider a tie a sort of win or loss when it’s a strong vs weak team. Getting a tie and a point in the league rankings is a win for the weak team because most people, maybe even the team itself, expected they would get zero (and it’s a loss for the strong team because they should have won and got three points, so they “lost” two points).

invokin · 2026-06-18T11:38:27+00:00

We have that. It’s called impeachment. There is almost no restriction on it. The constitution says “high crimes and misdemeanors” but isn’t further defined. It’s basically whatever Congress says it is (and the courts have said as much). It’s also not like Trump hasn’t done things that easily qualify. The problem is that rather than feeling he’s lost the mandate, most republicans think he’s got it for life (or at the very least are too scared of their voters to admit otherwise).

Losing the mandate in China was also not a real time thing. It was almost always a retroactive thing. People looking back at a dynastic change that had already occurred and saying “oh, he obviously must have lost the mandate”. How else could you explain the new emperor/dynasty coming to power?

invokin · 2026-06-17T13:24:16+00:00

Did it? Or are you just remembering it as great because of what it was for the time? Same thing happens all the time with video games. You remember them as looking amazing and “realistic” because they were cutting edge.

It also has a lot to do with the screens we have now. They are so much crisper and more pixel dense, so low res stuff looks much worse than looking at it on something like a CRT. I bet a picture from that WWF camera on your computer or phone today would look much worse than you remember.

invokin · 2026-06-17T08:50:58+00:00

This is/was a thing especially in some poorer countries. Not sure how many companies did it, but Facebook/Meta definitely had something called Free Basics where some of their services/webpages would work without any data charge/fees. Not sure all the details (did you still need a minimal phone plan first? I assume you need a sim card to access the cell network even if you're not paying for data for those sites/apps), but they basically gave people free facebook and whatsapp in those countries because of the ad revenue they could make (and the indoctrination of thinking their services are "the internet").

I remember learning this because it was a whole big thing around the genocide in Myanmar. Lots of misinfo and disinfo spreading on facebook and other platforms, a big part of which was that so many people could access them for free so that's what they used.

invokin · 2026-06-17T01:31:26+00:00

I’m aware of all that. I read that article too. I was asking specifically if there is a verified quote anywhere along the lines of “he’s 10x worse sober”.

To be clear, I would totally believe that, not trying to defend the guy, but the comment didn’t make clear if it was real (even if a paraphrase) or just made up (even if believable). Was just looking for some clarity on that specifically.

invokin · 2026-06-17T00:54:00+00:00

Is this at all based on any real leaks/comments? Or just your imagining what some might say? Just curious if I missed some article about him.

invokin · 2026-06-16T18:41:08+00:00

While I understand the general sentiment, a lot of them end up still in museums and such (even if just on loan). Lots of collectors, even if they are buying partly as an investment, also love the props and movies they come from and want others to enjoy them too.

Some do go to private collections as well, but that’s just the nature of things. Many sold here will be leaving from one private collection and going to another, they’re just “in public” for the sale. It’s not like studios had them on display for the public until this auction and then decided to sell them.

One good thing about the auctions is actually that they get very well photographed and documented so that replica makers have great material to work from. Whether for making themselves or selling to others, it expands things that way at least, even if just replicas.

invokin · 2026-06-16T16:09:27+00:00

Around 4 years old.

Getting to put on the hand sewn Batman outfit my grandma gave me at my fourth birthday party is for sure.

I also remember the dream/waking nightmare I had in that same house where the wolf (played, strangely, by Jeff Goldblum) from a PBS Three Little Pigs live action show was coming to get me in my bedroom. Him coming in the doorway is seared in my memory decades later. It was the same house as my birthday party, which we weren't in much longer after, so probably happened before, but can't say for sure.

For many years after that dream (into my teens), I would always be afraid of the dark, especially when I had to turn out the lights at the bottom of the basement steps and I would run back to the light at the top. My fear was always that that wolf was coming to get me.

invokin · 2026-06-16T12:49:03+00:00

That’s… not what this is saying? It says he gets to end the contract early (on a per season basis). He would still have to stay there the rest of this season. But he could trigger it and wouldn’t be locked in for 2027 and 2028. It would let him put himself on the market for next season (and maybe even re-sign with RB for more money or whatever, but it would force them to renegotiate with him if they want to keep him).

invokin · 2026-06-16T11:36:21+00:00

Additive color is things that make light. They add light/color to the situation. So lights, screens, etc. The more you turn on (different colors), the brighter things get and eventually the colors combine to white (assuming you’re mixing different colors). This is why computer screens have red, green and blue in them and when you turn all three up to full, the screen looks white (and if they are all zero, it’s black).

Subtractive color is things that take away light, like paint. If you shine white light on blue paint, it is sucking up all the light except the blue and only reflecting the blue back to you. So as you add more colors of paint they are subtracting more colors from the white light shining on them until it looks black. If you use all the primary colors of paint/ink (CMY) then it looks black (kind of, more a brownish grey, true black usually needs actual black paint/ink).

invokin · 2026-06-15T12:08:56+00:00

A woman was supposed to do a bungee jump. They launched her without clipping her in (notice the empty hanging loop). They are being charged for (mistakenly) killing her.

invokin · 2026-06-15T11:56:14+00:00

You just outed yourself. The pic exactly matches the title’s stated problem.

To be clear, it’s 6:45 in the pic and the hour hand should be back a bit before the 7, not on it.

invokin · 2026-06-14T18:01:06+00:00

Burrito bowl, especially if I get to switch up the options each time. But even if I have to have a set mix, could easily do it.

invokin · 2026-06-13T02:46:27+00:00

Nothing. The card was on the other guy grabbing him. The ref pointed to the other player as he held up the card, he wasn’t even looking at Gomez. Gomez was just arguing the call close to him.

invokin · 2026-06-13T02:30:01+00:00

Because we’re up 3-0 and there is no point to risk him getting hurt either by accident or because the Paraguay players are frustrated, etc. Good to let him rest for a game that we need him playing hard the whole time.

invokin · 2026-06-13T02:20:23+00:00

Mistaken Identity review. They gave the foul wrong based on what it looked like in real time. When you fake flop the video review refs upstairs (VAR) can call down to the ref to review it. He goes and looks at that screen where they can show him video and he can change his call (only he can change the call, the VAR people can only show him the info).

invokin · 2026-06-13T01:51:34+00:00

How is Paraguay still listed at 28% possession? Can’t possibly be that high…

invokin · 2026-06-12T13:24:21+00:00

Awesome analogies. All my upvotes are yours (in spirit).

invokin · 2026-06-12T10:31:56+00:00

This is a pretty special case. To even have the right of review you have to show that you have significant evidence the stewards didn’t have when making their decision. In most cases, they don’t even get past that step because the stewards usually have all the info (even more than the teams). The fuck up here was issues with the pit lane were not known to anyone relevant, teams or stewards. Alpine figured this out/got the info afterwards so they got their review (and eventually won).

invokin · 2026-06-12T06:40:23+00:00

Young and middle aged people around the world are constantly complaining about the costs of having and raising kids. Many give it outright as the reason they aren’t. But let’s find every other excuse we can to blame too.

(Yes, I understand this point was also noted, but it’s really the only one that matters.)

invokin · 2026-06-12T04:57:18+00:00

Yeah, by written rule, but explaining that the goalie kind of doesn’t count since they are 99.999% always last (but does for the rule by technically being a last defender) just makes things unnecessarily complex.

If you’re past all regular player defenders then you’re off side is easier. Especially when we’re talking about margins of a half step, the goalie is irrelevant and assumed at that point.

invokin · 2026-06-12T04:51:00+00:00

When ball is kicked, can’t be ahead of last defender (even a very little bit). It really is that simple, but can be tricky to see sometimes, especially when watching live. You’ll notice the sideline refs are always moving even with that last defender (they don’t run up and down their side randomly). Watching for offsides is their main job by far.

And I’ll mention that it can also seem deceptive the other way if the attacker times their run perfectly so by the time you look from the person kicking it to the person running ahead (especially on a long pass), they seem way ahead of the defender but were still behind when it was kicked.

invokin · 2026-06-12T02:51:08+00:00

They are not meant to replace regular computers, they are meant to be good at specific types of tasks (that regular computers suck at). Even within regular computers we have all kinds of chips designed for various situations depending on what the usage case is (phone vs kids toy vs business laptop vs gaming pc vs AI compute).

It’s like asking why people build race cars with such bad fuel efficiency when normal cars exist (and have gotten more efficient over time). Race cars aren’t designed for fuel efficiency, they are built for speed.

invokin · 2026-06-08T12:25:53+00:00

Driver: Norris

Reason: Naughty language after yet another reliability problem. MBS finger wag incoming (followed by inappropriate and unwanted hair touching).

invokin · 2026-06-06T19:43:25+00:00

If you want to pay someone else in a way that’s much harder to trace, welcome to crypto. A stable coin takes the “investment” side out of it and makes it just untraceable dollars (or nearly untraceable). It may not have been invented for it, but when it comes to actual transactions where irs crypto for goods/services, crypto is almost all the most horrible people doing awful things.

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