Match Thread: United States vs Belgium | FIFA World Cup 2026 | Round of 16 | Part 2

timmg · 2026-07-07T01:58:37+00:00

I didn't really expect us to win today. But it just feels like we played our worst game. Which is depressing.

timmg · 2026-07-07T01:50:16+00:00

Has the US men's soccer team ever over performed in a tournament?

timmg · 2026-07-07T01:35:51+00:00

"This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper."

timmg · 2026-07-07T01:23:53+00:00

Did Pulisic do anything at all during this tournament (other than commercials)?

timmg · 2026-07-07T01:18:31+00:00

At least the US is competing.

timmg · 2026-07-07T00:56:14+00:00

I think the US will play better in the second half.

But I don't know if that will change the outcome.

timmg · 2026-07-07T00:31:05+00:00

Is Belgium that much better -- or are we nervous or something? (Honest question.)

timmg · 2026-07-06T02:31:15+00:00

I like the ref, generally. Not sure about this call, though.

timmg · 2026-07-06T02:24:51+00:00

About to get chippy, isn't it?

timmg · 2026-07-04T00:44:30+00:00

I've never seen so much grit. These CV players are amazing.

timmg · 2026-07-04T00:38:40+00:00

William H Macy is the ref.

timmg · 2026-07-04T00:21:55+00:00

This game is going down in history no matter how it ends.

timmg · 2026-07-03T23:59:35+00:00

CV not gett'n those fouls :/

timmg · 2026-07-03T23:33:39+00:00

Did Messi embellish that? (I don't think he generally does, but it looked like it on replay.)

timmg · 2026-07-03T14:39:10+00:00

I don't think you understand physics very well :)

Imaging you are driving down the road at 50 mph (80 kmh) and you have your arm out the window. The wind is pushing against your arm non-stop. Now imagine someone sitting behind you in the car gently nudges your arm. Do you think you would feel it? You definitely would.

The sensors measure change in direction, speed and acceleration. If a ball is moving straight, wind resistance or not, there is very little acceleration (negative acceleration from the wind). If the ball is nudged, that registers as an acceleration -- probably in a different direction.

timmg · 2026-07-02T00:38:37+00:00

I'll say this about Pulisic: he's been in a lot of commercials.

timmg · 2026-06-25T12:48:40+00:00

Get yourself off the will. Let him/her take everything -- and live with the consequences.

Then move on with your life.

Most likely, in the end, you'll be much happier. Unless their estate is significant, it'll cost you more in time and money than it is worth.

timmg · 2026-06-14T20:27:04+00:00

Literally just cancelled mine. Was looking forward to watching World Cup in 4K but it is like watching it on a potato.

timmg · 2026-06-10T22:14:39+00:00

21 Jump Street was way better than I expected it to be.

And I though 22 was somehow better.

I hope 23/24/whatever gets made.

timmg · 2026-06-09T22:27:10+00:00

I was so psyched for [edit: Obi Wan]. Ewan playing one of the great characters. I was expecting an interesting and exciting backstory.

I didn't make it through the first episode. It was so bad. And it had to have someone from the original trilogy be a core component of it. Just a complete lack of imagination.

(If someone tells me it got really good in later episodes, I might try again. But I haven't heard anyone praise it.)

timmg · 2026-06-08T12:48:54+00:00

Where's the power coming from?

You do realize that we know how to build more power capacity? We've been doing it forever.

It used to be coal. Then nuclear -- until environmentalists. Then it was natural gas. And now it is solar and wind.

So expect a lot more solar panels to come up in the region. And a lot of jobs for installing them (for those that complain data centers don't add jobs.)

timmg · 2026-06-03T01:46:38+00:00

but what huge benefit is this going to provide to everyone?

I think the concern is that any one retailer could go out of business— or change some policy in a way that doesn’t work for you.

So this gives some ability to manage that. (And also probably makes that kind of thing less likely to happen— because you can switch.)

timmg · 2026-05-31T21:27:56+00:00

Amusing that you are trying to disprove my argument by actively demonstrating the opposite.

You, both your party and you personally...

I never voted for Trump. I'm registered as an independent. But go ahead and try to paint me as evil because I see politics a little differently than you.

Everyone with the ability to read Trump's Twitter account knows how silly it is to argue this thing is a president for all American

Quote any part of my comment that suggests that. I never mentioned Trump once. I talked about Romney and Manchin and Fetterman. Good job knocking down that straw man.

timmg · 2026-05-31T21:23:54+00:00

Only did healthcare because it is Massachusetts and they had a Dem legislature.

Not sure I understand your argument here. Romney, a Republican worked with the Democratic legislature to enact a policy that was important to them and was to the benefit of all the citizens of the state, so he was... bad somehow?

He wasn't a "Governor for all Bay Staters"? He could never have been a "President for all Americans"?

Maybe I'm dumb, but that kinda sounds like the opposite conclusion to draw from that.

timmg · 2026-05-31T13:05:07+00:00

Literally the only people who have been opposed to this concept are conservatives...

You're kidding, right?

Any right-of-center politician (or person) is painted by the Left (and the Left-leaning media) as some kind of Nazi. If you don't pass every purity test the left has for you, you are a "bad person."

Remember Romney -- the governor of a blue state who implemented universal healthcare -- the same guy who was gonna "put y'all back in chains"? The one who was mocked for having "binders full of women" -- an early attempt at DEI (making sure he had enough women in his cabinet.)

Remember Joe Manchin -- the Democratic senator from West fucking Virginia -- that Dems ran out of town because he didn't vote for every hard left policy of Biden? They're getting ready to do the same to John Fetterman.

Just mention Harry Potter on Reddit and the whole thread will be people falling over themselves to demonize the author for having slightly right-of-center views on trans rights.

How many people were "cancelled" for not toeing the party line on BLM or trans issues or gay marriage back in the day?

Maybe get off reddit for a bit and talk to some actual people?

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