Mate Kosor

Matematika i znanost.
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[📝とっしー🐱 @Tossii_123]

ノルウェーイングランド戦クソ中のクソすぎる
審判まじ目ついてんの？OFRでお前は何を見たんだよ
あれで取るなら75 分のCKの流れで跳んだベルグを二人がかりで押したのはなんで取らないわけ？？？
カメラケーブルもあるし、イングランド贔屓もいい加減にしろよ

[Zealand @theoldzealand]

FIFA saying the ball sensor didn't detect hitting the camera wire really just causes problems for them

Because you can see it hit something and move, so how can we trust the sensor

And where's Croatia in all of this

[Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen]

Thanks for the info, anonymous Reddit fella. Boy, it sure would be a shame if something happened to those three plants. 🤔

[Mate Kosor @matekosor]

@tshevcom Is it feasible?

[Ante Kusurin @Ante_Kule]

A friend’s breakdown of the Croatia-Portugal VAR decision is worth reading, and I agree with it in full. If this pattern continues, it reinforces a growing perception that success at the top level of football is shaped less by merit than by money and influence. @FIFAcom does not appear sufficiently committed to transparency or fairness in how these decisions are made and reviewed. At the highest level, outcomes are often decided by the smallest of margins — which is why officiating in these moments matters so much. The officials in this match made a call that ended @HNS_CFF’s run, and the reasoning behind it does not hold up to scrutiny.

The Croatia Call Might Be the Worst in Sports History

I’ve had a full day to sit with the Croatia call. I’ve watched the replays, gone through the rules, and measured it against the worst officiating disasters in sports.

My conclusion: that disallowed goal may be the worst call ever made. Not the most famous. Not the most argued-about. The worst.

Here’s why it differs from the usual suspects.

It isn’t Maradona’s Hand of God, where a referee missed a handball in real time, before video review existed. It isn’t Jim Joyce robbing Galarraga of a perfect game — brutal, but a split-second human error. It isn’t the Saints-Rams no-call, where everyone watching knew a flag belonged on the field. It isn’t Don Denkinger in the ’85 World Series.

Those were humans missing something fast and hard to see. This was the opposite.

The call on the field was a goal. Croatia had equalized in the final minutes, 2-2, headed for extra time. Then VAR stepped in — and instead of clean visual proof of a touch, instead of the ball’s path or spin actually changing, officials leaned on a faint “blip” from the chip inside the ball. That was the entire basis for reversal.

Watch it back. The trajectory doesn’t shift. The spin doesn’t shift. It sails past the defender’s head with no visible contact. Yet that blip was enough to rule a touch, which made the next Croatian player offside, which erased the goal, which ended Croatia’s tournament.

It gets worse. Even granting the faintest touch, that shouldn’t have ended the analysis. Under offside law, a defender who deliberately plays the ball can reset the offside phase. So the real question wasn’t just “did he touch it?” — it was “did the Portuguese defender deliberately play it afterward?” If he moved toward it, attacked it, got a genuine piece of it before the attacker entered the play, there’s a real case the phase should’ve reset. A stray deflection doesn’t reset offside. A deliberate play does. VAR needed to examine that too, not stop at a sensor reading and call it settled.

So the failure stacked in layers: a correct goal on the field, an alleged touch the video doesn’t clearly support, a sensor blip treated as proof, and a deliberate-play question never addressed — wiping out a stoppage-time equalizer.

This is what makes it worse than an ordinary blown call. VAR exists so referees don’t have to live with missing something huge in real time, with bad angles and bodies flying everywhere. That’s forgivable. But here, the on-field call was right. Review had every advantage — multiple angles, unlimited time, total control — and still overturned a goal on a sensor reading the footage doesn’t back up. A different category of failure entirely.

In a knockout game. On a goal that would’ve forced extra time. When the standard for overturning a call should be sky-high.

If the video doesn’t clearly show the touch, and the ball doesn’t react like it was touched, how do you erase a country’s World Cup on a sensor blip? And even allowing the faintest contact, how do you not fully examine whether the deliberate play should have reset offside?

VAR isn’t supposed to manufacture microscopic, unverifiable infractions. It shouldn’t take a goal off unless the error is unmistakable. This wasn’t unmistakable. It wasn’t obvious. And it changed everything.

[Josip @l3d1c]

Why is the graph from a few hairs so similar to a regular touch that is at least 100x stronger?

Is it a logarithmic scale?
What is the x-axis? What is the y-axis?

We are fed up with your bullshit. We don't trust you. FIFA = mafia.

Open source the technology! If it's so accurate, why not make it transparent?

[Tebogo @Thethinker_b]

@Joshua__Ubeku Yeah, there's no way a defender would dodge a ball intentionally, he was trying to clear, but he did not expect it to hit him like that

[Patriot2929 @Patriot2929x]

Portugal vs Croatia

The decision to disallow Joško Gvardiol’s late equalizer for Croatia against Portugal relies on a fundamentally flawed and contradictory interpretation of the rules of football. The official ruling states that a microscopic sensor spike inside the ball registered a touch from Igor Matanović, constituting a "pass" that put Mario Pašalić offside. This logic falls apart under intense scrutiny when evaluating intent, physics, and the game's established precedents.

1. Completely Clean Initial Onside Positioning

First and foremost, when Ivan Perišić initiated the original ball into the box, every single Croatian player was in a completely legal, onside position. The entire sequence built toward a legitimate scoring play. Stripping away a critical goal based on a microscopic, invisible inflection point later in the sequence violates the spirit of fair play.

2. Contradictory Logic Regarding Intent

The VAR interpretation relies on a paradox. The officials claim that the touch from Portugal defender Renato Veiga was "irrelevant" and a mere deflection because he was not the intended recipient and was oblivious to the ball hitting his back. Yet, they simultaneously label Igor Matanović's headbutt attempt as a "pass" to Mario Pašalić. Matanović was clearly making a direct attempt on goal, not trying to pass. If the referee rules that a player's deliberate intent does not matter for Matanović, they cannot logically turn around and use a lack of intent to excuse Veiga.

3. The Precedent of Defender Liability and the "Block"

Ruling that Renato Veiga's touch was irrelevant directly contradicts basic football rules regarding defensive liability. Consider an identical physical scenario on the pitch: an attacker fires a shot or cross full force at a defender who has his back turned and has no idea the ball is coming. If that ball hits the oblivious defender's back and goes out of bounds over the goal line, the attacking team is awarded a corner kick. The defender is held fully liable for the touch simply by taking up space on the field.

Veiga did not stand in the 18-yard box by happenstance; he placed himself there deliberately to block the path to the net and take up critical space. If the microchip dictates that Matanović's goal attempt counts as a conscious play on the ball, then Veiga's body placement must be counted as a defensive block.

4. A Loose Ball Interception, Not a Pass

Because Matanović's action was a clear attempt to score, the resulting collision with Veiga’s back was a physical block that completely disrupted the ball's original speed and trajectory. Once the ball deflected off a defender who was actively acting as a human shield, the phase of play changed. Mario Pašalić did not receive a calculated, deliberate pass from his teammate; he intercepted a loose ball resulting directly from a defender’s physical block. Therefore, no offside offense occurred, and Joško Gvardiol’s goal should have stood.

#croatia #portugal @FOXSports
@barstoolsports
#fifa #portugalvscroatia
@FIFAWorldCup

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Understanding Trump's Surrender to Iran: A Quick Guide

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

It is important that the world does not remain silent in response to this latest act of Russian barbarism. This strike on the Lavra is an attack on the Christian community and on the cultural heritage of humanity. There can be no justification for this or for any other similar Russian attacks. What is needed is more cooperation to stop Russia’s war and stronger protection to save lives from Russia.

[Jakub Janda 楊雅嚳 @_JakubJanda]

Chairman of Alternative for Germany (AfD) Saxony Jörg Urban was just caught at the Russian Embassy in Prague by Czech journalists from @enkocz.

Russian Embassy in Prague often serves as a regional headquarters of Russian intelligence to run their assets in Germany.

Full story:
https://t.co/x0dMzNrui4

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Completely blown away by this.

Today I was recognised by President Zelenskyy with the Order of Merit. A profound honour.

Right now powerful people want the truth about Ukraine buried. It’s a privilege to be able to tell it. ❤️🇺🇦🔥

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Irish politicians are avoiding questions about Aughinish. Patrick O’Donovan refuses to answer my calls. The refinery is in his constituency

He says the Russian owned plant is not connected to Russia’s war machine, without showing evidence. They want this to blow over. It won’t

[Alexander Browder @Alexbrowder_]

Proud to be the first high school student in the world to ever be sanctioned by an authoritarian regime for uncovering corruption. It just proves that the work I’ve done to expose Russias sanctions evasion stablecoin, A7A5, has touched a raw nerve.

https://t.co/b0voHBkqG7

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Israel having killed every child, every sheep, every dog and cat. Having destroyed every tree, every road, every building in southern Gaza

Is now bulldozing the remnants.

Every gravestone, every sign that anyone ever lived here.

It's a holocaust

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

The footage from Ashdod showing the humiliating and degrading treatment of activists detained following the interception of the Gaza-bound flotilla is deeply disturbing.

Such treatment is unacceptable and incompatible with respect for human dignity, human rights, and international law. The public humiliation of detainees can never be justified.

The detained activists must be released and their safe return ensured, with a full respect for their rights and dignity.

[Panzerpicture @Panzerpicture]

🚨 Day 54 of fighting for my archive

This isn’t a glitch.

YouTube’s AI has wiped out 13+ years of WWII tank archive footage and veteran stories. My entire channel is gone, and my account has been disabled 155,000 subscribers erased overnight.

People are now calling me a PDF file, because in their minds the channel “wasn’t deleted” even though you can clearly see that it was. https://t.co/zGctsW2Cph

That's the internet for you!
First, the channel was removed. Then, my entire account was disabled. YouTube support bots claiming it was a Google product trigger, doesn't make a lick of sense when the channel was deleted first!

The content that got flagged? Historical WWII footage. No nudity. No inappropriate intent. Just real history yet it was labeled as “child abuse material.” And I’m not the only one this has happened to. https://t.co/AkB8rNd6Tn

This isn’t just about one channel. It raises serious concerns about how automated systems are handling and potentially erasing historical archives.

We can’t let real history be misclassified or disappear like this. #RestorePanzerPicture #YouTubeCensorship #WWIIHistory #SaveHistory @TeamYouTube

Support the effort to restore the archive: https://t.co/AXzajRFTEX

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel just executed Hussein in Kfar Tebnit, South Lebanon.

Not a combatant. Not armed. Not a threat.

He was a paramedic.

Israel deliberately assassinated him in a double tap strike while he was rescuing the wounded.

[Chris Rollins @ThePowerAudit]

The Iran Strike That Didn't Happen Last Night (Iran time) and the Hormuz Mining Response.

Breakdown of the overnight strike on Iran that didn't happen, and the Iranian response prepping to mine the Strait of Hormuz the moment they're hit.

This all coincides with the Trump WSJ news drop confirming extended blockade as doctrine. The US was likely in the war room either feinting an attack to collect intelligence, or actually prepping and eventually calling it off.

What the air picture showed: 3 US tankers staged over Israel, 4 C-17s into Amman, SOF inserted into Saudi Arabia, AWACS on station, three C-17 deception runs at Tel Aviv.

What the sea picture showed: Iranian small craft mining fleet pre-positioned in the central strait, anomalous high-speed transits, and a stand-down the moment the WSJ piece dropped.

This all occurred between midnight and 5 AM Iran time.