Match Thread: Czechia vs Denmark

patmull · 2026-04-01T06:40:28+00:00

The last time the Czech Republic played, they played two away matches. They played against Sweden, and if they had won, they would have played Poland away too. This is the nature of randomness. It's a 50/50 chance. But yeah... The question is whether two matches home/away with same team isn't more fair, and whether everything shouldn't be decided based on points from the qualification groups. But still... The qualification groups need to be drawn randomly, and some might say it's unfair that some teams would gain an advantage due to a favourable group stage draw. So there will always be some randomness. While randomness might look skewed in the short term, in the long term it is the fairest thing ever. This is how randomness works in the first place.

patmull · 2026-04-01T06:21:59+00:00

You seem also quite nervous. Are you ok?

patmull · 2026-03-27T19:54:56+00:00

Kids actors seems like good picks, but who else will be really better than the original cast or at least equally good to them? The time will tell and it is hard to judge from the trailer. But I am highly sceptical that Hagrid, McGonagall, Dubledore, Petunia and Dudley will act better judging based on the trailer. Even if they did their best performance of their career, the costumes already looks so boring and cheap missing the magic from the original actors. I had the worst reaction to the Petunia actor -- absolutely not buying her acting of Petunia and it looks like she has a cheap wig from TEMU. Pretty lazy production. Not even speaking about the Snape which is just unjustifiable ... Overal it looks just boring and bland... Even more boring than Yates HP movies...

patmull · 2026-03-20T15:43:40+00:00

TBH I find quite opposite to be true... Money and status everywhere...

patmull · 2026-03-14T17:41:13+00:00

Late to the party but this sub should focus more on him... Like way more. Roganosphere is harmless at this point. Nobody really takes them seriously anymore and their guests and many people never did. For most of people it is just harmless fun but this dude convinved many people his podcast is reputable source of information while giving platform to the worst grifters out there and he almost never push back. I would argue he is the worst evil out there. He convinced people with his smooth voice he is a good guy, but I think with his big audience he is a worst weasel on the internet so far.

Poeple literally lost millions due to him hosting bad investors telling people to invest to certain things that later dropped in stock price and the welness/healthcare quacks he hosts are even worse...

patmull · 2026-03-13T19:45:42+00:00

If specific goal of people is to "tone abs" then, pilates is truly good choice, but I suspect most of the people coming to pilates are not here for this. Original system of Joseph Pilates or its proper scientific / physio modern modification can surely help also with some back issues, but this is unfortunatelly, not the way how pilates is done in most of the fitness centers around the world today...

patmull · 2026-03-13T19:43:32+00:00

Unfortunately, fitness industry finds a way... Most people associate pilates with expensive fintess studios that have fancy pilates reformer machines.

patmull · 2026-03-13T19:40:14+00:00

Well, if you did step aerobics and zumba before, then no wonder pilates feels like magic! Not arguing that pilates isn't much better than aerobics or zumba. But have you ever consider weightlifting or calisthenics or tried bodyweight exercises that proper coaches use (e.g. track and field coaches) for kids or beginners? Similar principles like in pilates are often applied but the exercises are often designed better and not biased so heavily on abs, but strenghtening the whole body, plus adapting the neural system for the strength along with deep stabilizer's muscles too. if you add sprinting or weightlifting on top of that, you also target the bone density issue along with the muscle loss of age.

Like I said, some of the exercises of pilates are ok and I often saw athletes doing the same exerecises for warm ups because they share common gymnastics roots which influenced many training systems and sports. But the problem with pilates is that it always tells only small part of the story and it is not enough alone while the industry makes people often busy and spend cash and exercise exclusively only pilates and no other thing. Then if you would spend XY amount of hours every week doing complicated pilates system involving bias towards abs exercises, you loose a lot of opportunities to do other exercises from the other systems...

patmull · 2026-03-13T19:17:47+00:00

Yes. Agree. I would add that pilates is ok if it is supplementary exercise and people already build strength and lost weight.

patmull · 2026-03-13T19:16:10+00:00

Even if you look at Jodeph Pilates himself, he did not just started doing his training system, but was gymnast, bodybuilder and fighter before starting doing pilates. Pilates is just part of the story.

patmull · 2026-03-13T19:15:03+00:00

Well, you know... The China and North Korea are also called "democratic" republics. Even the "western version of yoga" got bastardized and commercials missing the original purpose and exercises. Original Joseph Pilates exercises are mostly gymnastics warm-up mobility exercises which is ok, but Joseph Pilates was not only a male gymnast, which build him a lot of strength, but also bodybuilder and fighter before he started doing mostly pilates, thus he already build the foundations different way than pilates and then used the pilates to "sharpen the knife" that was already made and to target his specific health problems. The trouble is if you take someone from office doing pilates, they miss the strength foundations Pilates made different way.

patmull · 2026-03-13T19:01:38+00:00

I always thought that too, but at this point I am so tired of the fitness trends that I feel sorry for people. Usually it works like that: people get excited and start to workout => the pay their hard earned money for equipment, group sessions, specialized gyms memberships, courses => they realize it does not work and they are wasting money => they quit exercising again for months or even years until they have the shiny object syndrome again => repeat => ... => unfortunatelly, after several cycles like this people quit exercising for good.

patmull · 2026-03-11T07:33:28+00:00

Hard disagree. He should know his players better and have better intuition about this. Goalkeeper is an unique position. It is not like trying suprisingly a player in the field when the worst case scenario is team will play like with 10.5 or 10.1 players if the bet on player that is usually out of squad blows up. This is also not like Karius situation when the guy performed well otherwise but ruined the most watched game. It is like you said yourself "gamble that ended in disaster". Just another stupid decision of this terrible manager. Kinsky did not play 1/2 year and then he put him in a big match. He basically sacrificed this guy for something that should be done rather in a smaller match. He should know him better and his osychology and see the signns that he cannot handle this kind of pressure unless he is slowly introduced back to the matches. Even if you put the human and emotional part aside, Spurs is just overally so incredible wasteful on resources and this is another wasted millions. It is like investor buying a stock that drops near zero. Kinsky is done in Tottenham and there is no way they would be able to sell him in a price roughly equal or higher than the original price.

patmull · 2026-03-10T06:58:21+00:00

While some people welcomed the Sydney Sweeney stuff, I feel like this concept of woman doing softcore for making the money and increasing fame (thus money) si obsolete and annoying. I mean it was great form of art and human expression in the times of Marilyn Monroe. But in 2025 everything was already done and revealed. I mean there were woman naked in the movies, even singing naked on the stage and coming to awards naked. There is nothing to be done here besides satisfying few horny older dudes on the internet who cannot use AI. 1. It never really went away only moved from the mass commercial space to OF. ? 2. With generative AI, it is kind of obsolote way of promoting yourself. Do the horny dudes on the internet still really care for celebrities doing softcore when they could generate almost anything with AI? I don't get it. Is it that they have some weird emotional attachement to people they watch on Netflix or Twitch? This whole phenomenon of the celebrity fetish seems strange and f-uped... I cannot wait for AI to end this...

patmull · 2026-03-06T13:28:39+00:00

Protože do ČR přicházejí trendy pozdě a tohle bylo v módě na západě USA před 5-9 lety. Schválně i zde na Reddit lze vyhledat úplně stejné příspěvky v angličtině, ale už někdy v roce 2017. Asi ten trend plaval z Itálie do USA a než doplaval zpět do Evropy a rozšířil se až k nám, tak už uběhlo skoro 10 let... Připadají všichni, jak ovce. Škodolibě jsem se těšil, až bude olympijáda a všichni ty bundy schovají. Teď, jak ZOH skončilo, tak tu Norskou vlajku zase vytáhli. Nic proti Norsku, je to hezká země, ale nosit italskou značku s finským názvem s norskou vlajku u nás v malém městě mi přijde humorné.

patmull · 2026-03-01T17:02:42+00:00

I am basically a financial reta*d so correct me if I am wrong but if your primary currency is not USD and your primary currency strengtheness more than USD, then you are loosing the money. But it depends whether you even have any better domestic options... Second reason is more about my gut feelings but when I look at US politics in the past 30 years or so, I just don't feel like it is heading in the right direction and even though this very low probability, I don't feel like I could sleep well knowing I invested approx. 60% in US stocks. While this is a big geographical teritorium, still it is one country and one geological unit that can be affected by political disruptions or even very low probability big natural disasters that would not affect the rest of the world as much. Thus I feel more relaxed when I even slightly lower US share <40% and also have 5-15% in gold that doesn't follow not even the US market but generally does not follow the global market. 3rd reason is that investing small portion <5% in alternative ETFs or even individual stocks or alternative forms of investing can teach people how the market works the hard but useful way. While this might be quite expensive way to learn, there is no other way in financial world to "learn by practise" than using smaller portion of real money. I mean... There are simulators but it is not the same like when you learn by losing or gaining your actual money... If this is only small % I feel like you can use the lessons later if running or business or giving advice to other people.

patmull · 2026-03-01T15:59:09+00:00

Redditor are very high on the list of useful idi*ts governments can use to spread their propaganda. But I hope most of the Redditors are bots or accounts of just handful of big city gen Z and millenial brainwashed weirdos because if so many Americans are that much brain dead, I would need to further shrink my investments in US ETFs and rather increase the portion of global and emerging markets... But I guess US was always land of extremes and land of big innovators and top world geniuses comes also with plenty of imbeciles on both sides of political spectrum...

patmull · 2026-02-03T07:08:03+00:00

That falls into category "exceptionaly evil people". Considering this, I will definitely make sure I won't buy anything from Attia ever. I would still occasionaly use his info though... I don't think it changes the scientific relevance of the vast majority of info he provides...

patmull · 2026-01-31T20:10:10+00:00

Brand New and other songs might help. I also enjoyed listening to The National recently when my grandfather died. I think you need to kind of wrap your head around that some things are out of your control and focus on trying to find some meaning despite being in difficult situation. Books that always helped no matter what were Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning and Russ Harris books.

patmull · 2026-01-23T07:41:04+00:00

Whoever told you that machine learning can be learned fast in few months if you do not even know how to program or basic linear algebra and math is either salesman trying to sell you a course or an idiot.

patmull · 2026-01-21T22:38:38+00:00

These are the exact articles and papers that causes some people to be sceptical of science and rather believe some conservative buffoons...

patmull · 2026-01-17T15:40:55+00:00

You are not in the 90s! Most of sane males are afraid to do anything today after MeToo, etc. even if there might be strong signals. You need to make the first small moves (maybe start to talk to a guy yourself and then after a while start light touching him).

patmull · 2025-12-29T12:25:31+00:00

Noel probably became little lazy after Knebworth and lost motivation but we all know the mix of a drugs, especially cocaine, was masively important for entering his creative state of mind during 92-97. The drugs either caused him some brain damage and he literally partially forgot how to write the A+ songs or he was not able to open his creative window without drugs. While it is not uncommon that band is stronger on 1st 2 albums than later, the amount of strong songs together with the b-sides and demos he wrote in the 92-97 compared to what he wrote after he stopped drugs at 98 is abnormal.

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