For someone who has lived in England for more than 4 years, his English is still surprisingly poor.

I’m not too upset by this. Arsenal won the league and almost won the Champions League without a superstar like that.

I like the idea of incremental improvements by slightly raising the floor and also slightly raising the ceiling. Also, ensuring every player who joins is one who is going to 100% have the mental strength that Arteta looks for.

You ate at the onion.

One day when he was 18 or 19, still near the start of his journey, Héctor Bellerín got a call from Mikel Arteta inviting him round. He remembers asking lunch or dinner but this was neither. “When I arrived that afternoon, he was sitting with a financial adviser and they started to ask: ‘How much do you spend on this?’ ‘How much do you spend on that?’.

This was when Arteta was just his teammate. That’s pretty amazing.

I said: ‘Thank you.’ He said: ‘If you do the same for a teammate one day I’m happy.’

It sounds like Hector took that to heart and is doing that role for his teammates now.

I wonder if these kinds of life lessons were some of the off-the-field stuff that Norgaard provided last season.

It was really nice seeing Bellerin again. I’m really glad that his post-Arsenal career has gone well.

I was trying to figure out when he last played for Arsenal and who he knew. His last season was 2020/21 when Auba was captain and he was vice captain. The players who were already there at that time were Gabriel, Gabriel Martinelli, Saka, Reiss Nelson.

Interestingly, I saw him talking a lot with Ben White early in the tunnel before the match. But, as far as I can tell, White joined after Bellerin left. Yes, Bellerin spent one year on loan at Bettis before joining permanently, but it doesn’t seem like White and Bellerin played together.

Anybody see the drummers on the field getting soaked by the sprinklers?

I’m assuming Bellerin? His locks are beautiful, not sure about the moustache though.

Blondies? Pound cakes? Cheesecakes? Honestly, none of those appeal to me. They all seem like such bland treats.

Vanilla is a good flavour enhancer. I love it as an addition to something like a chocolate mousse or an egg nog. But, on its own it’s as exciting as white rice, or spaghetti without sauce.

The disease caused the decease.

Wow, you’re so emotional. One protest on one day. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong their protests were an ongoing thing for more than a year until they were interrupted by the COVID pandemic. The German anti-AFD protests started in January 2024 and are still ongoing, more than 2.5 years later.

You haven’t “shown me to be wrong”, you’ve misinterpreted what I said and then got all butthurt. The rest of the world doesn’t respect the US because the US protests were one and done, and didn’t actually change anything.

As for why it’s better:

1. It’s in sort order. Even if you use it for things that don’t understand dates, they sort properly because the day is the last part, month is the middle part, and year is the first part. If you include hours, minutes or seconds, the sort order is still preserved.
2. Speaking of things that don’t understand dates, because there are no slashes, you can easily use it in file names, directories, and anything else that treats slash as a special character. In addition, if you include the time part, because it uses “T” to separate the date and time, it doesn’t use a space, so once again it can be easily used anywhere where a space might cause issues.

If it takes multiple billions of dollars to create a product that is useful for a niche group of pen and paper RPG players, that product is probably not going to succeed.

But, also, if Facebook didn’t have such an unassailable monopoly on social networking, small, focused social networks that targeted a niche group of people might have a chance of surviving.

And Google built a search engine. Everything else they’ve tried to build has failed, other than maybe Gmail which was just a Yahoo Mail / Hotmail clone. Everything else that has been successful has been an acquisition: Maps (Keyhole), YouTube, Android, Google Photos (Picasa), Doubleclick…

We really need robust antitrust. How many of these acquisitions would be thriving companies in their own right, competing with the big tech giants if the tech giants hadn’t been able to absorb them.

Google+ is an example of what happens when companies have to compete instead of acquiring other companies. Google poured billions into it and it flopped completely.

that Jesus is 100% God and 100% Man

That makes about as much sense as Trump saying that prices were down by 500%.

Now we’ve reached the point in the match where the average shirt number is above 30.

I’m going to have to get a Dowman shirt.

We can conclude Tzolis always scores, so we have no need for Vini.

I watched a video about it, and what’s interesting to me is that he had an enormous budget for this Squid Game remake. He spent it on setting up hundreds of cameras, building a whole set where the game would take place, hired all kinds of camera operators… but didn’t do even basic play-testing of the games he was going to have people play.

As a result, some challenges that were supposed to last for an hour or so ended up taking more than 12 hours. Some challenges that were supposed to eliminate half the contestants instead eliminated over 90%. Some challenges didn’t work because people refused to eliminate their friends.

Indeed, if McConnell were in perfect health and a Democratic senator were in this position, McConnell would be leading the charge to ensure they resigned.

No, McConnell wouldn’t “ensure someone resigned”, he’d use some procedural trick to remove them from office and have a Republican of his choosing fill the seat. And, he’d do it even if he knew full well that the person was alive, conscious, fully in possession of their faculties, but somehow unable to defend against that kind of a dirty trick.

The governor of Kentucky should simply replace McConnell, and if it turns out that McConnell is, in fact, up to continuing to serve in the senate, he can fight to get his seat back.

Indeed, if McConnell were in perfect health and a Democratic senator were in this position, McConnell would be leading the charge to ensure they resigned.

No, McConnell wouldn’t “ensure someone resigned”, he’d use some procedural trick to remove them from office and have a Republican of his choosing fill the seat. And, he’d do it even if he knew full well that the person was alive, conscious, fully in possession of their faculties, but somehow unable to defend against that kind of a dirty trick.

The governor of Kentucky should simply replace McConnell, and if it turns out that McConnell is, in fact, up to continuing to serve in the senate, he can fight to get his seat back.