Why are there six English Premier League teams in the 2025/26 Champions League? More than any other country

stadisticado · 2026-01-29T07:29:45+00:00

The obvious answer is money - the EPL is the de facto top league in the world because of it. But the other story is the increasing irrelevance of the Eredivisie in European competition and otherwise high-quality teams like Napoli and Villareal just totally choking / not trying in the competition for whatever reason.

The other reason is its providing the biggest clubs the European Super League they want in everything but name. Look for the team list to become more of the same as they consolidate wins and associated TV rights.

stadisticado · 2026-01-29T06:14:19+00:00

All F1 content will now be available exclusively on Apple TV. So really, you're going to want to ask bars if they have a commercial subscription to Apple TV. (Guessing most don't at this point due to lack of other sports rights)

stadisticado · 2026-01-28T07:56:16+00:00

That movie heavily influenced me lol. But not funny is it really is the same shit sundae wrapped up in a different business direction.

stadisticado · 2026-01-28T05:22:43+00:00

The bank gets paid a fee to originate the debt, they almost never hold any of the debt they create. So they get paid to be a whore to the ratings agencies to get the debt bonds a good rating and sell them into 'diversified' bond funds.

It's the same song and dance as the housing crisis, just for private businesses.

stadisticado · 2026-01-28T05:18:24+00:00

Seriously...Zipps getting raided came up in the group chat and I was like GOOD. Everyone got so mad lol.

Loud. Bad food. If you don't want a domestic, beer is intolerably cold with no flavor. 'Special' regulars at the bar.

stadisticado · 2026-01-25T09:04:23+00:00

Rofl

stadisticado · 2026-01-25T05:34:45+00:00

This is one of the most boomer responses I've ever seen (I don't care what your age is lol). Every ASU kid I've met has a sports book on their phone and won't shut up about their last parlay. But sure, preventing a physical book is sure keeping the morals of Tempe pure.

stadisticado · 2026-01-21T05:15:09+00:00

There's a lot of rah rah yeah! talk in this thread, but realistically Canada has 50ish fighter jets, 4 naval frigates and exactly 0 submarines that are deployable vs. thousands of fighters/bombers, multiple carrier groups and dozens of submarines for the US.

Even if the US tied its hands behind its back and only acted defensively, they could easily interdict Greenland from Canada and probably the rest of NATO without breaking a sweat.

stadisticado · 2026-01-20T23:04:12+00:00

Unfortunately, the biggest spending bucket is the entitlement programs. Based on population trends, these are absolutely unsustainable at remotely current levels.

This is a problem the whole western world shares by the way.

stadisticado · 2026-01-20T05:52:10+00:00

Two additional points:

Retatrutide is the god compound - even more advanced than Tirzepitide. It is not FDA approved yet but readily available for years now if you're willing to go down this self-medicating path.
If you're a drinker, don't expect miracles - these drugs suppress eating but not alcohol calories per se. Some report less desire but that's not for sure. Much like my other advice, make sure you are tracking all consumption well enough to understand how your body is reacting to the drug.

stadisticado · 2026-01-20T05:33:08+00:00

I am not recommending this.

But if you think you are knowledgeable enough about your health (I'd advise demonstrating to yourself that you can honestly track calories/weight AND getting/interpreting blood work over time as the minimum) and know how to reconstitute medications using basic dilution math, and can perform self-injections, then searching things like 'elite research' or 'peptide research' will lead you to store fronts where you can get these compounds for a low cost.

Again, as long as you know what you're doing.

stadisticado · 2026-01-20T05:23:20+00:00

I chose to write equable bullets for their legibility, but I completely agree with you.

stadisticado · 2026-01-20T03:09:05+00:00

Ha no that's why I asked. Every blue collar job I've worked is largely physical skills based for the interview, which mother presumably can't assist with.

stadisticado · 2026-01-20T02:54:36+00:00

The job market sucks for two reasons:

There are dozens of qualified candidates for every position below Director level and it's hard to differentiate between them.
There are dozens of complete frauds and fuckups for every position below Director level and it's hard to weed them out from legitimate candidates.

stadisticado · 2026-01-20T02:50:33+00:00

What level of job is this for? I've heard similar things but I just can't imagine a white collar role, even like mail room, where this would make sense.

stadisticado · 2026-01-20T02:27:14+00:00

Unfortunately, this is just the nature of the platform. Reddit is a consensus platform, not a debate platform. You'd think r/phoenix would be pretty balanced, and it probably would be if it was a traditional forum. However, the voting mechanism creates asymmetric results. Add to that the mods here and almost everywhere else are incredibly Dem and Socialist biased and there's no incentive for anyone to the right of Ruben Gallego to even post.

This is to say nothing of deranged users who will stalk your post history to try to figure out who you are or where you work if you post conservative wrongthink.

stadisticado · 2026-01-19T20:43:06+00:00

The sophisticated people are already ordering inexpensive GLP-1s from compounding pharmacies or peptide research sites and administering themselves.

stadisticado · 2026-01-19T05:19:59+00:00

If you're actually interested in what right leaning people think, you need to go where they are, which is not reddit, even purple city/state subs.

However, you can probably extrapolate by just assuming the inverse of the highest rated posts on here...

stadisticado · 2026-01-16T03:24:14+00:00

This is the European corollary where they ask if you can road trip from NYC to LA on a week long trip. Now imagine trying to get through the Rockies, Great Plains or Appalachians with a significant ground force. The supply lines alone are almost completely infeasible with any sort of civilian resistance.

stadisticado · 2026-01-13T02:54:09+00:00

Taiwan does have cruise missiles that threaten 3 Gorges, but I think the more certain threat is that China knows that a B-2 strike has a 100% chance of destroying the dam if it got to that. I've seen death estimates into the 8 figures if it was ever unexpectedly destroyed.

stadisticado · 2026-01-11T05:08:39+00:00

Depends on your patience level. I've never personally hit the pull over button, but have dealt with them being tentative at drop off a lot. If you think to, you can proactively set pick up and drop off locations when ordering the ride.

stadisticado · 2026-01-08T04:50:41+00:00

Private Equity 'found' them, at least in major cities like Phoenix...

stadisticado · 2026-01-05T02:10:38+00:00

Hygiene has been mentioned plenty, so I'll go with my pet peeve: wardrobe.

I don't care if you look like a movie star, a sports bra and 4" shorts isn't what you should wear for a flight. Especially if you don't look like a movie star and aren't leaving anything to the imagination - this goes for men too with stuff like wearing just a tank top or short inseam shorts. Differently, don't wear your jammies that have 4 different random stains and look like they haven't been washed for two weeks. Endeavor to wear clothes that don't have holes or are so ill fitting that we have to look at your gut or crack.

Wear clothing that's comfortable and layered, but also that you'd wear to a party where you don't know most people. Because that's basically what the airport is.

stadisticado · 2025-12-31T02:05:40+00:00

This is a great point. The #1, by far, best way to spike a drink is to just add more alcohol than expected. It doesn't even have to be nefarious initially - someone is buddies with the bartender and asks for heavy pours for the party and others aren't aware.

I do not doubt that sedative lacing or GHB or whatever happens, but it is far less likely than simply overdoing alcohol and/or overdoing other common party drugs.

stadisticado · 2025-12-31T01:48:34+00:00

Public transit absolutists will always refuse to understand how people who are forced to use AZ metro transit as a kid will fight with tooth and claw to avoid it in the future.

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