@kushb6rbie One time not too long ago, long after I thought I had been ID'd for the last time, I got ID'd while buying beer,and that is when I knew the dark days were behind and the light had returned to my eyes.
When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.
A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”
That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.
I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.
Only a low IQ non-technical person thinks that a wireless sensor inside a ball with a shitty polling rate that is kicked around for hours is precise enough within low millisecond range to register a string of hair on the ball’s surface, yet magically immune to the pressure wave of someone missing it by 2mm and do all of this over the air in real time across hundreds of meters.
It's an accelerometer. It picks up vibrations and pressure changes from EVERYTHING nearby, even it hitting an insect in the air, then FIFA decides which spike counts as a ‘touch’.
The problem here is 'legalism', not scientism. Forget whether the player's hair touched the ball or not. Here's what the offside rule was originally created for: a striker breaks through the defense early or purposely stays behind, finds himself with ten yards of open grass between him and the last defender and only the goalkeeper in front. The rule is one of the oldest in the game because the people who first played it saw something clearly unfair about it, i.e., an advantage that doesn't require skill to create, which, if allowed, would have made the game unwatchable. The problem is that over time people began to conflate the advantage aspect with the mechanics of detecting it, especially since TV programs in the 70s began showing slow-motion replays of gray-area calls over and over in post-match analysis to keep football fans endlessly arguing and their ratings high. This is how you get, for instance, cases in which a forward who times his run perfectly, catching the defender off guard (often running in the opposite direction) and then scoring, is still called "unfair" by other fans because his shoulder or nose or whatever was ahead when the pass occurred, despite the fact that if it would have been behind, if anything, it'd have given him even *more* time to score. It's the same thing that often happens in court. A law is written to stop a particular harm, then lawyers spend decades arguing over the exact wording until the very harm it was meant to stop gets almost forgotten and the letter becomes the law. Nobody watching Croatia's disallowed goal possibly believes that the Croatian player’s touch (even if it happened) created an advantage for his teammate. The ball clearly reaches the latter thanks to the (non-deliberate, thus irrelevant) deflection off the Portugal player. But nobody is thinking about the purpose of the rule anymore, only the technicality of its wording. Hence scientism, which is downstream of legalism in this context and eventually convinced the entire sport that it needed sensors inside the football to detect a hair touch because... why not?
La sua fissazione sull'effimerità della vita e l'inevitabile decadenza data dall'invecchiare e morire diventa molto più comprensibile quando ci si rende conto che era un omosessuale vittima della peggior twink death di sempre
love that it basically took them stepping foot into france for 5 minutes to be like “it’s settled, this is absolutely where we should do the next season of our show about huge fucking assholes”