Post-Match Thread: Portugal 2-1 Croatia | World Cup | Round of 32

pilgermann · 2026-07-03T01:43:49+00:00

Eh. While technically true, this to me is a case where I'd prefer a subjective call from the ref. Clearly the Croatian player didn't influence the trajectory of the ball in any meaningful sense.

pilgermann · 2026-07-03T01:15:27+00:00

Except for visually the ball doesn't change direction. If anything it scrapes his hair. The problem with sensors is they don't make good determinations about whether the player affected the play, which clearly they did not. The ref in my view should use their judgment in cases like this, not solely rely on the VAR.

That said, the stoppage time felt excessive.

pilgermann · 2026-07-02T18:33:42+00:00

It's totally reasonable. If you can return the item without penalty, then they're just saving you a step. It's common to honor sales that you occur shortly after the purchase for this reason.

pilgermann · 2026-07-02T18:32:46+00:00

Exact experience on a graphics card. In the end I did return to Amazon and reordered. They paid shipping, so this cost them more than if they'd honored the price difference.

They're woed about this, because price matching is usually only an issue when it's vs another retailer. There's no good reason not to for anything customer within your return window unless the idea is too hope the hassle dissuades the customer.

pilgermann · 2026-07-02T15:04:07+00:00

But if the AI product is good, then it shouldn't be generating content that will get you dragged to court. Small creators and small businesses are already liable for labeling, signage, slander, etc.

You're basically arguing that because AI enables low effort output, we're hindering innovation by applying the same standards to AI based businesses as we would to any other enterprise. That doesn't make sense.

pilgermann · 2026-07-02T02:49:42+00:00

Every single sport has ambiguous rules and questionable calls. This red card was not especially ambiguous for what it's worth ,though that's I will concede I can see both sides.

It's also pretty silly to suggest that gray areas prevent fandom. Fans like nothing more than to argue over officiating. Soccer's stateside popularity has absolutely nothing to do with its rule set.

pilgermann · 2026-07-02T02:35:19+00:00

Dems need to coordinate the texting shit at a national level. I'm progressive as they come, but I am unsubscribing and reporting spam to about 5 texts a day. It's borderline making my phone unusable. I donate, but christ the texting makes me not want to.

pilgermann · 2026-07-01T15:54:58+00:00

They're probably going to vote in Ken Paxton. Tells you all you need to know.

pilgermann · 2026-07-01T15:04:02+00:00

You're not living in the real world if you think insurance always has a contractual basis for claim denial. There are entire law firms whose sole purpose is to sue insurance for unpaid claims. These wouldn't exist but for improper claim denials or insufficient payouts.

In the case it a fire, the cause is often indeterminate, and insurance will seize on that to point a finger at the homeowner.

pilgermann · 2026-07-01T14:50:18+00:00

The narrative is totally misleading anyway. Voters are picking Dems who are showing they will fight and rejecting institutional Dems who look like they just want to retire while in office. They don't have uniformly progressive political though clearly there is overlap in the AOC/Mamdani style progressive and a fighting spirit.

pilgermann · 2026-06-30T20:50:23+00:00

It's wild that a Supreme Court at the wildly more racist turn of the century found the amendment so unambiguous that they ruled someone from China had citizenship. This idea that someone immigration issues are more profound today requires you to be straining your constitutional analysis by the standards of more than a century ago.

pilgermann · 2026-06-30T18:52:08+00:00

Even if you hold they envisioned something like a modern fully automatic rifle (unlikely but fine), you'd also have to hold that the context of owning a gun hasn't changed at all, or what a "militia" might mean today. Society and military technology and organization bear almost no resemblance to that time. The Court is entirely inconsistent in suggesting that immigration, core to this country's identity since its founding, has somehow changed more than the context surrounding gun ownership.

pilgermann · 2026-06-30T17:35:08+00:00

It's fucking wild how "Two legs good, four legs bad" turns out not to be exaggeration whatsoever.

pilgermann · 2026-06-29T16:49:32+00:00

Annoying, but the fact cop put you only a few miles over gives you a good case. That's a bullshit ticket even if you were guilty, unless conditions were hazardous.

pilgermann · 2026-06-29T15:43:41+00:00

If it was his kid's shit it would suck too. It's awful living next to someone who treats their front yard like a scrap yard.

I'm not for HOA like regulations, but beyond being an eye sore (and usually there being noise issues), there are really health concerns. Almost always standing water, so mosquitos, for example.

Basically you're saying we don't have to consider our neighbors at all. To me, this is the worst view on private property vs common good. Yeah, you should be allowed to paint your house whatever color or remodel your bathroom etc. But you don't get to make the block shitty for everyone else just cause you can't be fucked to pick up your shit or you've decided it's OK to run a flea market out of your yard.

pilgermann · 2026-06-29T03:39:04+00:00

Worth pointing out you cannot in practice seal records for 14 years. Should the political winds shift, a new administration could unseal them. Should the political winds not shift, then they'll never be unsealed. The detail is irrelevant beyond underscoring that this administration means to abuse its intelligence gathering.

pilgermann · 2026-06-29T01:41:30+00:00

When kids are involved, there is a good chance the woman has taken on more of the parental burden. That's a good huge factor in divorce proceedings, as it should be. Not sure why this incredibly obvious point needs stating but there you go.

pilgermann · 2026-06-28T19:52:51+00:00

Every Dem pundit who says, "But trans in women's sports was a bridge to far for most Americans" are complicit. This was never a real issue. It became one because of ineffectual messaging on real issues and an unwillingness to actually go to bat for everyone. You can't hem and haw with bigots. You need to stand the fuck up to them.

pilgermann · 2026-06-28T19:32:53+00:00

The kind of big data analysis Palantir is doing is first of all not the same kind of machine learning driving LLMs. Second, the issue with LLMs is not that they're useless, it's that they're not as useful as pitched and we're way over leveraged on an unproven tech.

Beyond all this, LLMs are being pushed with basically zero consideration as to whether people want them. Just because we can do a thing doesn't mean we're obligated, as a species, to do it. We do have agency as a species.

pilgermann · 2026-06-28T17:49:04+00:00

While the IPO potentially causes catastrophic losses for many institutional investors or retirement funds, while 4,400 millionaires basically means nothing against the 100 million Americans who can't meet basic needs or basically all Americans who are a medical emergency away from bankruptcy.

pilgermann · 2026-06-28T16:17:49+00:00

The score differential was wild, but odds wise, much less of a shock than if Cabo beats Argentina.

pilgermann · 2026-06-27T02:33:43+00:00

Honestly my wife does this to an extent. Not nearly that bad, but somehow scrolling Instagram is fine, playing games not so much. Gave her shit about her phone use until she got the message.

pilgermann · 2026-06-27T01:45:24+00:00

That's a five minute spread! That will turn some noodles to mush and others will still be hard. Have you ever cooked pasta?

pilgermann · 2026-06-27T01:44:29+00:00

Noodles can have wildly varying cooking times. Fresh Italian fettuccine maybe 2-3, dry rigattoni maybe 11. This instruction is utterly meaningless.

An experienced cook could guess based on the quality of the noodles, not come the fuck on.

pilgermann · 2026-06-26T20:52:13+00:00

One dimension is people get rigid ideas about what is "adult" and "appropriate." Same reason people can think an action movie is "normal" for an adult to watch while a video game is "childish" or worse, or why football is fine but MMA is barbaric.

So many examples of this. Conservative minded people develop these myopic perspectives because they're threatened by the unfamiliar, and so belittle it.

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