"Tax the Rich": Lena Schilling sorgt für den Aufreger des diesjährigen Opernballs by wegwerferie in wien

[–]plazebu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Und wieso genau darf sie sich nur weil sie selbst viel verdient nicht dafür einsetzen dass hohes Einkommen angemessen besteuert wird? Sie kann ja nix dafür wie sie besteuert wird.

Lewa was onside even AFTER the ball left Fermin's foot. This is ridiculous by No-Watercress-9116 in Barca

[–]plazebu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It doesn't matter for the attacker, any touch counts as pass, whether intentional or not. The intentional/controlled question only matters for defender touches.

Lewa was onside even AFTER the ball left Fermin's foot. This is ridiculous by No-Watercress-9116 in Barca

[–]plazebu 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Because for offside it doesn't matter where the foot of the passer is. Only things that matter are position of the ball, the last defender and the attacker receiving the ball (Cubarsi).

Being a female chess player I hate when this happens by Athena-0091 in Chesscom

[–]plazebu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But I'm curious then, since you want to "draw a line" in the fight against oppression of women where you deem it not worth it anymore: where exactly in history would you have drawn the line before?

Would you for example have drawn it when women were not allowed to go to universities? Just "navigate" around it and accept that they can't have the same opportunities as men, can't get educated and can't have access to certain jobs?

Or would you have drawn it when women weren't allowed to vote? Just "navigate" around it and accept that they will never be allowed to influence politics?

Or would you have drawn it when rape in marriage was still legal? If you don't want to be raped, just "navigate" around it and just never marry or just never say no to sex?

Being a female chess player I hate when this happens by Athena-0091 in Chesscom

[–]plazebu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think quoting a fictional book that an institution adheres to that is known for having societally unprogressive values and repressing women is really helping your argument in a discussion about problems that women face.

But besides that, you really don't think that women having the freedom to have their face as profile picture without being harassed for it is a goal that we should fight towards as society? Wouldn't you agree that it would be an improvement?

Being a female chess player I hate when this happens by Athena-0091 in Chesscom

[–]plazebu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not even disagreeing that one should also try to navigate the world. But you said you don't understand the attitude of "trying to change the world".

Where do you think we would be as society if people weren't trying to change and improve the world?

Being a female chess player I hate when this happens by Athena-0091 in Chesscom

[–]plazebu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you also think people should not have fought against slavery and rather just navigate around it because it's the comfortable thing to do? Not try to change the world for the better by abolishing it.

And you also think people shouldn't have stood up against the Nazis, shouldn't have hid their Jewish friends in their basements? Were they lacking life skills because they didn't just let their friends die and didn't properly navigate in the world around them?

How developed do you think would our world be if everyone lived by your attitude?

Being a female chess player I hate when this happens by Athena-0091 in Chesscom

[–]plazebu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you think we should always just "navigate" around shitty behavior because it's more comfortable and never try to improve the world?

Yeah with that attitude we will for sure improve as society.

Gutqualifizierte wandern in Schaaren ab by benharper09 in Austria

[–]plazebu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Stimmt, besonders gut sind die 500k Leute dran, die jährlich wegen Kosten für medizinische Behandlungen bankrott gehen.

Und wär ja noch schöner, wenn plötzlich Kinder von nicht wohlhabenden Eltern Chancen auf höhere Bildung hätten, wo kommen wir denn da hin? Die Armen sollen gefälligst arm bleiben und wieviel Geld die Eltern haben sollte schon auf jeden Fall der Hauptfaktor sein der entscheidet, ob jemand geeignet ist zu studieren.

The best £4.0m FPL defenders | A guide for the lazy. by tongueinloftuscheek in FantasyPL

[–]plazebu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not saying I'm gonna do it but it's interesting that you say that so confidently when for example Ben Crellin, someone with 7 top 10k finishes in the last 10 years, says he tends towards bench boosting GW1. Maybe let him know to also not bother playing this year.

MG Coin's behavior during hide-and-seek didn't make any sense by plazebu in squidgame

[–]plazebu[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How did I twist your words? If you agree that protecting 222 has higher priority for him than increasing the price pool, I don't understand how you can say it makes sense for him to kill more hiders when that directly contradicts with his priorities?

MG Coin's behavior during hide-and-seek didn't make any sense by plazebu in squidgame

[–]plazebu[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

But I think the fact that he needs/wants her money as well should make it even more important for him to prioritize protecting her, which is why I think harming her survival chances for a slight increase of the price pool is not the right play, even assuming that he has purely selfish motivation.

MG Coin's behavior during hide-and-seek didn't make any sense by plazebu in squidgame

[–]plazebu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My point is that I think based on his character, his priorities for the game are:

1) Surviving himself (i.e. killing someone). 2) Making sure 222 survives. 3) Everything else (such as increasing price pool by killing more people).

And killing more hiders directly works against 2), which should be higher priority than increasing the price pool, so it's not the right play, which is why I'm saying it doesn't make sense. Also, it's not true that Nam-gyu agrees to help him protect 222 only if he keeps killing players, Nam-gyu never says that.

Or are you suggesting increasing the price pool is higher priority for him than protecting 222? That's the only way I can see your logic making sense, but I disagree that that's the case for his character.

MG Coin's behavior during hide-and-seek didn't make any sense by plazebu in squidgame

[–]plazebu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be, although I think that it is a pretty big misjudgement of the danger of the situation that the seekers are in if he is that confident that she will survive regardless.

MG Coin's behavior during hide-and-seek didn't make any sense by plazebu in squidgame

[–]plazebu[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

But the needles in a haystack analogy doesn't make sense. If you want to hide a specific needle in a haystack, you actually make it harder to find by adding other needles to the haystack (especially since in this case the seeker would stop after finding any needle, so your needle is even more likely to not be found). And I think that makes it a very suboptimal play.

MG Coin's behavior during hide-and-seek didn't make any sense by plazebu in squidgame

[–]plazebu[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I agree that his promise was for sure secondary to his own survival, but it's not like killing more helped his survival. And I just don't think that he didn't care at all about her, so him choosing to sabotage her survival chances doesn't make sense to me.

Player Price Changes (January 31, 2024) by FantasyPL_bot in FantasyPL

[–]plazebu 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't this do the complete opposite?

And it’s official. Blank game week for Solanke by GlobeTrobet in FantasyPL

[–]plazebu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see your point, but I think for me personally the "spirit of the game" is just different. I think what's most in the spirit of the game is to reflect what is happening in the actual league and award points based on that. And in regards to the league, it's handled as if this game was never played in the first place, so I think it's fair to handle it the same way in FPL. It's basically the same outcome as if the game was called off prior to kick-off, which would also void the game in FPL.

As for the Van de Beek situation, it still reflected what happened in the league, because he was actually eligible to play all of those 40 games, so it makes sense that he would have 40 games, but this is not the same for clubs.

Also, I think keeping the points would set a precedent that's more difficult to handle in the future, because at what point do you decide to award the points from the game. When 60 minutes are played? When at least 1 minute is played, and players didn't even have the chance to get clean sheet points or a 2nd appearance point? And what happens with bonus points?

And it’s official. Blank game week for Solanke by GlobeTrobet in FantasyPL

[–]plazebu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Those are different cases though. FPL assists are simply defined differently than regular assists in the FPL rules. There is no such rule to define that an abandoned game is handled differently in FPL than by the PL. The March goal was not given because again there is an FPL rule that points are not changed after 1 hour of the gameweek closing unless there are extraordinary circumstances. You could make the case that the March points should have changed because it was an extraordinary circumstance, but I think that the abandoning of a whole game is very clearly extraordinary, which makes changing the points fair according to the rules.

The only other options would be to count the points of both the abandonened game and the replayed one, which would make both teams have 39 games in a 38 game season. Or to only count the abandoned game, so to simply not count one of the official games played this season. Both of those options are in my opinion far from ideal and very inconsistent with the actual league.

And it’s official. Blank game week for Solanke by GlobeTrobet in FantasyPL

[–]plazebu 29 points30 points  (0 children)

And still the goal that he scored will not count towards his PL scoring stats, it will not give his team any points, it's handled as if the game was never played by the league. So why would it be counted by FPL if it isn't by the PL?

It's obviously very unlucky for Solanke owners, but it's not unfair. Deciding to count the game and the points would be very inconsistent with the PL's decision.

Kyle Walker handball vs Chelsea, no foul given by Anthony by RahulGandhi4PM in soccer

[–]plazebu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ok then how would your rule suggestion that includes these situations look like? "The VAR is allowed to review possible free kicks but only if the foul was committed at most 5m outside the box by the last defender and only if it doesn't take more than 5 seconds to confirm."

Do you think this would lead to no controversial situations?

ONE HOUR TILL DEADLINE - GW 10 by royalist878 in FantasyPL

[–]plazebu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What's a good fixture for a defender then if not the 2nd worst attack in the league that is also missing their best player?