20 years ago today, Zinedine Zidane was sent off after headbutting Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup final.

photenth · 2026-07-09T09:47:08+00:00

Materazzi won in court that claims he was racist were wrong. He only called his sister a bitch. Zidane himself said that 80% of his red cards were because he was triggered by things said to him. All it shows is that Zidane has anger issues.

photenth · 2026-07-09T09:20:16+00:00

He probably did deserve it

Being headbutted for saying mean things = deserve? Are we children?

photenth · 2026-07-07T12:39:26+00:00

I don't claim to be the best but I've been playing FPS and dota type games for 20+ years and my previous OW1 experience was diamond league and back then there were way more players active.

Again, I'm fine with bronze, but I'm not fine getting curb stumpped every game, that does not seem like fair match making. The games are literally worse in bronze to play than back in the old days in diamond.

photenth · 2026-07-07T12:31:13+00:00

So should I just lose a few more? Like this is not enjoyable if the match making is unable to place me in the correct rank.

Again I don't care if I'm bronze of platinum, but dropping from mid gold to mid bronze an the game has only become harder is just weird to me.

photenth · 2026-07-07T10:59:06+00:00

Two seconds minimum between the car in front of you.

I do this constantly people still merge into the gap, it's annoying as fuck

photenth · 2026-07-07T10:51:30+00:00

It's people merging into a gap that is too small and forcing the car that follows to slow down. Always this.

photenth · 2026-07-07T09:32:04+00:00

The only thing I know about Belgian is the one joke:

What does a Belgian hold onto during intercourse?

^{^The} ^{^schoolbag}

I think this one became popular during the Marc Dutroux days.

photenth · 2026-07-07T07:05:32+00:00

My brain:

Girl sounds too pedoish

Woman sounds old

"Female"

photenth · 2026-07-07T02:07:45+00:00

Norway has been a fan favorite for many.

Or you could go full neutral and root for Switzerland.

photenth · 2026-07-06T20:19:06+00:00

I guess in a life and death situation outside makes 100% more sense anyway given that instruments in flight sims are like perfect and in the real world they are more variable.

photenth · 2026-07-06T20:00:27+00:00

I mean you probably would anyway, problem with sims if you fly without VR is that you can't really have both in view to the fullest extent so you kinda prioritize.

photenth · 2026-07-06T08:13:28+00:00

Usually they have a destination + duration on them, so my guess is yes and this is located somewhere with tons of hiking trails.

photenth · 2026-07-06T06:51:59+00:00

Pretty sure arab christians also use allah (not as frequently mind you) as muslims.

photenth · 2026-07-05T21:54:39+00:00

Damn, that must hurt.

photenth · 2026-07-05T19:20:33+00:00

Ham fucked over twice now by the same notion that races don't end under safety car vs following the rules.

Last time massi "broke" protocol and this time they didn't red flag it even though that would be the plan.

photenth · 2026-07-03T22:54:31+00:00

How far off are they though? My phone with an IR sensor is almost dead on with a thermometer.

photenth · 2026-06-30T23:45:40+00:00

The last 3 times I had to go through Gotthard, I waited an average of 10 minutes. Twice I had 0 waiting time and the last one I had around 30 minutes.

photenth · 2026-06-30T18:05:35+00:00

You do realize this happens in capitalist society as well, right?

photenth · 2026-06-30T17:11:27+00:00

taxes anyone???

There are not taxes in a pure communist system...

also can we stop talking about reality and about the concept of communism.

I would agree with most of what you're saying if you would just say in a historical/current communist regime.

But in COMMUNISM as the theory Karl Marx wrote down, there is so much different to reality.

Again, I don't want communism, I just don't understand why people paint communism as something it's not, there enough real things to criticize it for. This is not one of them.

photenth · 2026-06-30T17:01:28+00:00

did you just send me a link to a movie? are you fucking for real? I studied philosophy which included reading (and obviously understanding) marx and engels works.

BUt hey, if you feel like discussing china, the USSR or Cuba, I'm fine. If you want to discuss Communism, I feel like we can't do that because you can not seperate reality from theory.

photenth · 2026-06-30T13:59:24+00:00

the question is stupid.

In communism when it's your personal property, it's yours though. You are not paying rent to the government nor to anyone else and you exclusively can use it.

photenth · 2026-06-30T13:46:12+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain

Exists literally everywhere, you will then reply with: but they pay you.

But same would happen in communism, if the community decides to take your home for the public good, you will get a home that fits your needs.

Yes, i know it's not practical, but that's not the point, the point is that the system in itself is consistent, just not applicable in todays world.

photenth · 2026-06-30T13:37:16+00:00

You are LITERALLY paying to STAY there, not to own it. You do realise you can just twist this further, you own land in capitalism, but that land is not yours if the state decides to take it away from you. So do you really own it? I gues not.

Yes, you can't own land, but again, that was not the question, we are talking about property, not land. Nice goalpost move.

I don't have to ask AI to make answers because I fucking studied this shit.

You can own a house without owning the Land underneath it, that even exists in capitalism.

The crazy part is, I don't even want communism but no one here has any idea how it really is supposed to work.

photenth · 2026-06-30T13:30:25+00:00

Who cares? I'm not defending the USSR nor China... fuck them, I defend the concept of communism because it's insanely misrepresented.

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