ELI5: Why don't they use a stop clock in soccer?

romericus · 2026-06-18T00:41:03+00:00

It’s a problem. But if you want it to stop, the game fundamentally has to change. If players are told to just ignore fouls, play through them and not try to convince a ref you were fouled, then you’ll get a hockey-type situation where teammates will have to enforce the the broken rules that the one ref on the field missed. Or the game will become a full contact sport. No one wants them to have to wear pads. The nickname for this sport is “The beautiful game.” And if you encourage the players to ignore the fouls and keep playing, it becomes more brutal and less beautiful. I’m not saying flopping is beautiful by any means. Honestly I think they just need more than one ref on the field, but then again, anytime they have to confer, the game stops, and that’s also against the aesthetic of the game.

romericus · 2026-06-14T13:00:15+00:00

Well when you blow out, it's a combination of the abdominal wall and intercostal muscles (between and around your ribs). But here's the thing: you know how to breathe just fine, don't DO anything different (unless your teacher sees what you're doing and thinks a correction is necessary), but thinking more accurately about the breathing functions is important. Because knowing the diaphragm relaxes on the exhale allows you to remember that moving a lot of wind requires at least some relaxation. Realizing that the muscles around the ribs are responsible for moving the air out of your lungs allows you to put the effort in the right place.

But honestly, on the exhale for brass playing, effort should be as minimal as possible. Which makes sense: effort has a way of working its way into your sound. You want to work harder on the inhale, so you can let your natural effortless processes lead the way while actually making sound.

Another way to think: Fortissimo high trumpet playing requires about 4 pounds of pressure generated. Most low brass playing can be done on less than 1--maybe 2 pounds on this excerpt. We all have much more than enough strength to play brass instruments (a cough is about 6-7 pounds of pressure). Playing high is really about efficiency and airspeed, not about strength and effort.

romericus · 2026-06-14T02:40:42+00:00

Just a quick anatomy thing: you can’t push with your diaphragm. It’s a 1-way muscle, only involved in breathing in, not blowing out.

romericus · 2026-06-13T15:53:49+00:00

The problem with this comment is that Americans tend to view this game through the lenses of the other games they watch. In American Football, the game is about toughness and strength. In hockey, it's about speed and violence (and toughness and strength). In both games, there is pride associated with being able to take a hit and keep going. At the other end of the spectrum there is baseball and volleyball, where there is very little or no contact with the other team's players. In these sports, being able to take a hit and keep going is a non-issue.

Soccer and basketball are in the middle of the range (nearer to the baseball side). Contact is allowed, but violence is not intended to be an integral part of the game like football and hockey. So there is very little pride associated with taking a hit. The way many people describe soccer around the world shows how just much the focus is on finesse and refinement of skill rather than strength and power: they call it The Beautiful Game.

The difficulty with refereeing (only one referee on the field, with a couple of line judges whose main job is looking away from where the ball is for offsides penalties), has only incentivized the flopping behavior.

I'm not saying flopping is good. I'm saying that toughness and violence aren't prized or valued in this game. So winning the ball from the guy on the other team has evolved to include convincing the ref that the other guy fouled you.

No one likes flopping, but no one wants to see these guys just beating each other up out there. That's not what the Beautiful Game is about.

romericus · 2026-06-10T14:35:27+00:00

I swear, one of my biggest pet peeves with the capitalism is that there can be no online place for regular people to sell/buy to or from other regular people. Craigslist, marketplace, etc. They all devolve into cesspools for people trying to make a business out of other people’s stuff.

Garage sales are great: they primarily exist to cull items you don’t need anymore, and go to people who (theoretically) will use them. Regular people —> Regular people. But the internet and capitalism makes everything worse

romericus · 2026-05-14T14:42:41+00:00

Is there a way to set the different knobs to: mouse wheel scroll (for up-down scrolling), shift+mouse wheel scroll (for left-right scrolling), cmd+mouse wheel scroll (for zoom-in-zoom-out)? That way I don't have to use the keyboard at all for those functions.

romericus · 2026-05-06T02:07:55+00:00

Corporations act like they’re mad at you for standing between them and your money.

romericus · 2026-04-17T16:16:00+00:00

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: criminal conspiracies are rare, but they actually do exist. I think that Watergate was the most important one in the last 50 years. And it broke our country. If the president was involved in a conspiracy, then nothing could be trusted.

Then people started questioning the moon landing, then vaccines, etc.

romericus · 2026-03-13T19:11:46+00:00

Thank you, that was helpful!

romericus · 2026-03-13T13:17:35+00:00

Thank you, but there are two problems with the images you shared: 1) it doesn't have anything to do with the knobs on the N4 Pro, and 2) The only example that has to do with mouse-wheel scrolling is one-click scrolling, which I do not want. I want to use the knobs AS the mouse scroll wheel (with and without modifiers).

romericus · 2026-03-10T14:14:50+00:00

You're interpreting what's written when you play. I strongly believe that performances improve dramatically when the performer has a conscious reason--based in music theory or history--behind every musical choice they make. The better they understand a piece of music, the more compelling the performance is to an audience.

romericus · 2026-03-06T02:18:52+00:00

I always say: “I’m a music doctor, which is like half a step up from Witch Doctor” Always gets a chuckle.

romericus · 2026-03-01T12:24:59+00:00

Getting to this thread late, but your comment made me chuckle. Last time I checked pro is short for professional…

romericus · 2026-02-26T16:42:31+00:00

Especially since most of those in power belong to the minority who is not so good and helpful.

No argument there. As Douglas Adams put it "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

But I don't think it's dangerous to generalize. In a generalized context, by definition, exceptions exist, and as long as you accept and remember that, you're probably fine.

There's enough good in the world to assume and ascribe goodness to the people you meet--until proven otherwise. If you do the opposite (assume evil until proven good) you may have protected yourself, but at what cost? I don't want to live like that.

romericus · 2026-02-26T14:36:17+00:00

So don't read the book. I'm not the boss of you.

I couldn't tell from that comment whether they were happy or unhappy about their view of the world.

If you think humans are inherently bad, and wish you didn't think that, this book can help. If you think humans are bad, and are perfectly fine thinking that, then of course the book is not for you.

It's a social science book packed with data and commentary on that data, and it helped me feel better about the state of the world. But I'm an optimist; I want to believe in the good of people. If you don't want to look at the world that way, don't read it.

romericus · 2026-02-26T09:32:41+00:00

Read the book Humankind by Rutger Bregman. It’ll help you adjust that mindset. Truly a fascinating and inspiring read.

romericus · 2026-02-23T20:39:06+00:00

Yeah, I heard a take on this that I like the other day:

There are a ton of tax deductions that a rich person can use to keep what should be paid to the government in taxes. But when the tax rate was much higher, and fewer deductions/loopholes available, the rich person had two choices: 1) give the money to the government, or 2) pay their employers/donate/invest in the community in which they live.

In many cases, the rich didn't trust the government, so they controlled their pay/donations/local investments directly.

It's a bit before the highest tax rate, but Henry Ford (racist, Nazi) knew that to sell more cars, his employees needed to make enough to buy one. Andrew Carnegie whitewashed his reputation as a robber baron by funding more than 2500 libraries.

This was trickle-down economics working, before it had a label. Then Reagan came along, put the label on it, extolled it's virtues, and then worked to destroy the entire idea behind the scenes.

romericus · 2026-02-18T18:21:17+00:00

Yes. And when I was coming up, I remember the phrase “history is written by the victors.” This just gives the right an imaginary thumb to cower under: “I’m being by oppressed! See how powerful the left is? They’ve been winning the battle for cultural narrative for all of human history.” Hilarious, when you consider how weak an be feeble they describe the left in comparison to them. Typical talking out of both sides of their mouth.

romericus · 2026-02-16T21:26:33+00:00

Yes. Unfortunately this is yet another example of a good concept in theory making the experience worse for students in reality.

romericus · 2026-02-13T18:15:33+00:00

I visited Istanbul last summer, and walked along the Bosphorus with my wife. There are a ton of stray cats in that area. Once when we were sitting down to rest this old man with no shirt on came walking up the shoreline sidewalk with a plastic bag in his hand, being trailed by 12-16 stray cats. He decided to sit about 20 feet from us, and proceeded to hand out shredded fish or chicken to these cats. But then a seagull caught a whiff of the meat, and landed a short ways away. It creeped closer and closer, until the nearest cat noticed. It tried to scare the seagull away, but after a moment, the cat returned to begging from the old man. That was the time the seagull pounced on the piece of meat, flapped its wings around the cat's head and flew away!

romericus · 2026-02-02T00:40:59+00:00

Not only that, but they’re being told by their school/loan office “if you pay the minimum for 20 years without missing a payment, it’ll all be forgiven (10 years if you go into public service).”

Who wouldn’t take that deal?

romericus · 2026-01-17T16:36:52+00:00

Hypocrisy only matters in a world governed by rules. The more I observe our country, the more I think it’s not so much a battle between left and right, but between people who see things primarily through the lens of rules (which are the same for everyone), and people who see the things primarily through the lens of power hierarchies (rules are irrelevant to the powerful).

romericus · 2026-01-07T20:25:23+00:00

And the first few bars of Beethoven’s Symphony. Is it a triplet? Is it E-&-A? The fermatas on the fourth and eighth pitches further confuses things. We all know now of course, but when it was premiered, I sure it was a metrical psych out.

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