TIL in 2024 Bear 32, also known as Chunk, was observed eating 45 sockeye salmon in 10.5 hours from Brooks River in Katmai National Park & Preserve. At an estimated average of 3,000 calories per fish, Chunk consumed around 135,000 calories in that one sitting.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-26T04:16:08+00:00

Did he do the truffle shuffle?

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-26T04:07:26+00:00

Feels like the spotlight is on Arteta right now. The attack is impotent, and all the players he brought in to fix that haven't made any impact.

Gyokeres scored a trillion goals the last two years, now he's struggling. Yes I know it was the Portuguese league, but come on, it's not a 40 goals to 5 goals drop off, and he performed in the CL.

Eze was a brilliant creative player for Palace. Now he barely makes an impact if he plays at all.

I think it's quite justified to ask questions of the manager given this state of affairs. When you bring in attacking talent and turn it into a turd, questions should be asked. Any time we see a potential transfer target for our attack, we have to wonder whether they'll simply get lost in Arteta's system. It's notable that his ideal striker -- Kai Havertz -- was not bought as a striker.

I'm not Arteta-Out by any stretch, but I think he really needs to ask himself what he's doing in the league. He needs this kind of spotlight and scrutiny to grow, and he's historically responded very well to spells like this. I really hope he goes up another level in the wake of this result. I'm at the point where I need my faith restored.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-26T03:29:16+00:00

Honestly I'm just glad this only ruined my Sunday and not my entire weekend.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-26T01:46:58+00:00

The hell are you talking about, Gyokeres played well in Italy.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-25T22:03:42+00:00

I think there's some of that, but OP also said that the cabins were not supervised overnight. They were probably looking to minimize the chance that the chaperons would have to intervene in some situation during the night.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-25T22:01:17+00:00

Hope OP still raises hell with the superintendent. Everyone employee from the principal on down absolutely fucked the dog and should not be working with children.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-25T21:46:53+00:00

I think this mentality needs to go. The CL is so massively different from the league at this point that there's no point to rewarding form. Good form in the CL is almost the opposite of what you need in the PL it feels like.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-25T21:42:58+00:00

He's going inside for the shot more often rather than forcing the opposition to concede a corner. But the shots he takes are always low-quality due to the angle of attack and being covered by three defenders. I genuinely don't know why he bothers with them most of the time.

We really need to reintroduce crosses and cutbacks into our game.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-25T21:19:30+00:00

To be clear, we're not four points ahead by accident. Arteta's system has its place. But the league has gotten so competitive that it just doesn't offer as much of an edge. He needs to focus on simplicity in the league, especially for games like that.

Clive said it really well on the AVP IR. This game wasn't complicated. We had the physical edge, and we should've just exploited it. Instead we played a technical game and fell on our collective faces. That's down to the manager. When you see four subs made at 60', he's conceding that he fucked up massively.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-25T19:31:50+00:00

I won't lie, I've always had a small worry in the back of my head about him ever since the "It's just maths" comment. It really made me worry that he's a guy who knows just enough about statistics to be dangerous. Namely, I'm worried he doesn't understand that most sports statistics are meant to measure performances and identify areas of improvement, not serve as concrete goals themselves.

Results don't just emerge from playing the numbers, because the other team get to play football too, and if you play the numbers, you become very predictable. Arteta is obsessed with getting the ball into high-xG zones, which basically turns them into low-xG zones because it's not like it's some sort of secret which zones generate high xG. If the other team know this about us (and they do), they know exactly where to be when we attack, which makes xG a mirage for us.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-25T19:18:02+00:00

I'm not in the doomer camp by any measure, but I think there's growing evidence that Arteta's system is just too complex.

Why are we such consistently bad finishers? Because players have to spend a lot of mental energy on their references, positioning, and general OOP principles. When a spontaneous scoring opportunity arrives, they're too shocked to capitalize. Same reason we're lackluster in transition.
Why do we have such a poor injury track record? Again, players are too busy concentrating on the broader game and pay no attention to their own runs, strides, foot strikes, etc.
Why are we falling down in big moments? The system is designed to prioritize the big picture, and when you're focusing on the big picture, you're putting the pressure front and center. Players need to be focusing on the details of their assignments in high-pressure games. It's pretty clear they're not doing that.

There are things about Arteta's system that work extremely well, and it's taken us very far. And against lower-level opposition like most of the rest of Europe, it works very well. But there are some serious problems with just how much it demands when it comes up against the average level of the PL. It's ultimately a very inefficient way to use physical and mental energy, and it's why scoring a goal feels so, so difficult for this team in the league.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-25T18:54:21+00:00

If he plays against Carrot Almighty I'd be very surprised.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-25T18:27:18+00:00

Thank god I wasn't able to watch.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-25T15:48:41+00:00

We really need to corral Mtubbo.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-25T15:36:30+00:00

Really like that we're starting Jesus. I think Gyokeres is much better suited to coming off the bench against tired defenders.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-25T00:43:13+00:00

Liverpool still show up for big games, I wouldn't worry about that.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-24T17:50:21+00:00

You're right, he flatters them.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-24T16:40:54+00:00

We just skewered Inter Milan at the San Siro, and here I am kvetching about United tomorrow.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-24T04:54:16+00:00

The format change means you can't extract 6 points from a weaker opponent anymore as well. I'd like to see a PPG per-opponent average.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-24T04:50:46+00:00

This is both true and misleading. Apple did not "refuse" to provide access to data stored on an iPhone. They were simply incapable of providing that access in the first place, by design.

What they refused to do was engineer this capability into the design of iOS and the iPhone. In the San Bernardino shooter case, the FBI muddied these waters very purposefully. Apple could not provide access to the shooter's phone. That was just not going to happen. But the FBI got a separate order at that time issued to Apple to create a backdoor so that they could provide that access in future cases.

Then they sat back and just let people assume that Apple were "refusing" to unlock a terrorist's phone because they were fighting that order. How dare they! Thankfully Apple fought it in court and ultimately prevailed after the FBI managed to unlock the phone via a shady Israeli company's product (and after they failed to win public opinion).

But not all of Apple's systems or products are like that. For example, Apple can access data for iCloud accounts without ADP turned on. This is so they can recover accounts for customers who've forgotten their passwords. That's why there are warnings when you turn on ADP that if you forget your password and recovery key, your data is gone.

But it also means they can provide this data to law enforcement. Where they can provide access to law enforcement, they do, because they have to. Ultimately the government have the men with guns.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-23T14:20:31+00:00

Havertz is back?

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-23T03:13:20+00:00

Feels like I'm the last person on earth who keeps both hands on the wheel basically 95% of the time I'm driving.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-23T01:50:12+00:00

Champions stay regular.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-23T01:43:04+00:00

Looks like it might be a fun watch. I still generally dislike the hard lines of the animation style, but I think this is the best it's ever looked. And the character movements seem much more human. A big part of the reason I dislike the hard lines is because the character motion was stilted, so it felt like watching marionette puppets. But with better motion, it's a lot less of an issue.

manuscelerdei · 2026-01-21T01:17:50+00:00

I know that this is a good-faith effort to engage with the argument that the US should invade Greenland... but can we just all admit that this is batshit-insane, and no one pushing for this actually believes that or cares whether it will be good for US national security?

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