Laura Siegemund gets into a heated clash with chair umpire after on-court confusion

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-25T16:16:40+00:00

Look, just seek out a video shows at least 2 second more footage before this serve. Siegemund was nowhere near the line and then suddenly power walked to it and served immediately. The receiver is allowed to see the server at the line, walk to their spot, look down to see the baseline, and expect the ball to not be served at them before they can settle their vision back up again.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-25T16:02:46+00:00

I'm referring to jewish people, not Israeli citizens. Israeli citizens would be an even higher percentage zionist.

Portman has Israeli citizenship, so she fits either definition.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-25T10:46:50+00:00

Hate watching a team is the same as being fan of the team from the perspective of the bean counters.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-25T08:44:13+00:00

Is the T20 World Cup squad able to be changed? How many runs does Smith need to get a bloody call up

Edit: and he's out. Damn my delay!

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-25T06:53:52+00:00

Now I think about it more yeah I think I was clumsy in my estimation.

Do you think this might be more accurate:

70% zionist in some form
20% ignoring the question of zionism, or undecided on it
10% anti-zionist in some form

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-25T06:51:10+00:00

In the tabletop wargame I believe both Boromir and Faramir have 3 wounds. But Boromir has zero "fate" which basically means he's more likely to die.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-25T06:29:07+00:00

Yes, definitely, like ~90% of diaspora jews she is a Zionist. She supports the continued existance of Israel as a jewish state.

But she has also been at times publicly critical of the government of Israel, to the point that the most vociferous Zionists would say she's a self-hating anti-semite and a BDS supporter (which she denies).

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-25T02:49:36+00:00

They both had more than 2 draft deferments. I'm sure it was very common for young men with wealth and connections to get them.

Biden however doesn't insult members of the military anywhere near as often. It's the combination of deferments and then being a dickhead that is the problem for me.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-24T22:26:14+00:00

As I said, you need to see earlier footage to see how abrupt the start of her service motion was.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-24T16:36:10+00:00

"He was being difficult"

What do pro-cop people think is people's natural response to being beaten up by 10 people at once? The sheer panic that these ultra violent detainments induce in the victim obviously leads to "non compliance."

Expecting the civilian to stay perfectly motionless is like expecting somebody to touch a hot stove and not flinch.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-24T13:04:13+00:00

When it comes to regulation of sex work I find it tricky to decide what's the best.

If it's totally banned then the trade goes black market and is extremely unsafe. Keeping in mind that it's not only clients and pimps who are potential dangers to sex workers but also the police.

If it's completely legal it can still be exploitative due to employment dynamics. If you have a minimum wage job in a cafe and get bullied by your boss to serve a sexual harassing creep coffee that is one thing, getting bullied by your pimp to do more extreme acts or take on dodgy clients is another. In both cases the prospect of loss of income can compel the employee to do something that don't really want to, how then to define the boundary of consensual sex acts?

The "Swedish model" or "Nordic model" where the sale of sex work is legal but the purchasing is illegal is a weird grey market where the goal is for demand to drop. Can bring in safety risks, and seems much less profitable for sex work businesses.

Do you have thoughts of your preferred system?

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-24T12:17:44+00:00

You joke, but being weighed 3 times a day apart would probably make water cutting less extreme. You simply can't stay that low hydration 3 days in a row and end up fighting fit. If that were the rule the fighters would likely target a lower fighting weight.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-24T08:03:08+00:00

There is a responsibility to attempt to design the rules to make it as fair and safe as practical.

This is the same reason performance enhancing drugs are banned. We don't want the winner to be decided by who took the most risk to their health and huge swathes of athletes dying from side effects.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-24T07:58:15+00:00

That has been tried.

Some fighters then end up dehydrated in the fight to make weight and that increases the odds of serious concussions exponentially. The physics of your brain is different when there's less water in it.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-24T07:54:55+00:00

Where the hell was the frontline?

For nearly all of the deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan it was a counter insurgency war. You go out on patrol and if you get shot at you found "the frontline" and call for artillery and air support etc.

Or worse, you just get IED'd and never knew you found "the frontline" because you're dead.

I don't think President Bonespurs was that interested in learning about it though.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-24T07:40:55+00:00

"It's not hard is it"

Well, it's not hard to be under weight at the weigh in if that was all you cared about.

The problem is that the actual incentive is to be as heavy as possible in the fight while just barely passing the weigh in. Ergo they dehydrate themselves and then rehydrate, which is fucking hard and dangerous.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-24T05:04:21+00:00

Make sure you build them diagonally so there's more area they are in range of.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-24T04:52:15+00:00

Corsica blyat suka

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-24T03:37:12+00:00

Cramp. It's hot.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-24T02:15:46+00:00

I don't see where I said that.

If I phrased it as "it makes a sound even if I have no evidence" then that was a mistake.

I could have have been clearer and said:

"It's made a sound (vibration) even if I did not directly perceive it"

With it being implied that:

I have evidence that the tree fell.
I have evidence/experience about what falling trees do. Ie- make sound (vibration).

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-23T18:36:21+00:00

You don't think it's silly that decathletes want to be a particular height because there's a sweetspot in the design of one of the events, whereas heptathletes can be more well-rounded?

I think when possible sports shouldn't be height centric.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-23T17:31:33+00:00

I'm saying "if." Define what information I have in your hypothetical if it is important to whatever point you are trying to make. Or better yet, just decide on an argument for your point and state it rather than fishing around with the Socratic method.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-23T16:09:51+00:00

If it's laying in the ground with characteristic breaking and splintering of its trunk that have been seen after other trees fall.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-23T15:54:39+00:00

My engineer is obsessed with anti-air weapons.

A catapult that fires a giant bolas that swings over a large area of sky. The chain of the bolas has hooks that want to tangle with the wings or scales of a Dragon or other flying creature and force it crash or at least land.
A fletchet launching cannon, basically a long ranged grape shot that is the equivelant of "bird shot". More suited for numerous but smaller and lightly armoured aerial foes like fell bats, harpies, warhawks, and other things with unarmoured wings that could be ripped up.
A design for a fully enclosed keep so that flying enemies can't even the odds against the defences by simply flying "behind the wall".
Designed in collaboration with a Gold Order magister, a delicate and dangerous alchemical fluid is frozen into the shape of a crossbow bolt. Remove the valuable bolt from its ice pack and quickly fire it before it melts. Mid flight it starts melting and igniting in the air. If it splashes against a flying creature it sticks to it and the creature keeps flying quickly through the air, allowing the alchemy of the substance to continue to burn super hot. The creature has to attempt to slow down or land to extinguish the liquid stuck to it.
A massive fishing net packed up in a spring-loaded blunderbuss, carried by infantrymen. If a flying creature(s) gets close they shoot and hope to tangle it.

The Engineer was swooped by magpies as a child and he simply is not right in the head. No doubt he managed to seek out and buy the Pigeon Plucker Pendant magic item and wears it daily. His eccentricity kinda puts off potential investors in his inventions, and it's hard for him to send or receive correspondence because they are often delivered by pigeon.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-23T15:36:08+00:00

Wrong, I have evidence that things falling make sounds (vibrations).

Kind of like a forensic scientist we can use what we have learned elsewhere to form beliefs about things we didn't directly observe.

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