Alas7ymedia

Alas7ymedia t1_ja0kob4 wrote

About baseball, you are assuming open spaces that most countries don't have. In Cartagena, Colombia, for example, kids used to play a certain form of baseball with soda caps and the handle of a broomstick. It requires so much skill that not many kids can play it, and those who can, only got the coordination after certain age, but it's what they can get.

Basically an open field in a residential area with no cars or windows around is as rare in Nigeria or Argentina as an Olympic pool. So, no popular swimming sports here either.

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Alas7ymedia t1_ixhjkcl wrote

All this is useful for gamblers, not fans. In football, the only relevant statistics to know how well a team played (besides the score) is how often it shot to goal. It's really hard to win if you barely shoot, even using catenaccio strategy, but ball possession or heat maps can say nothing about the game depending on the strategies chosen.

For example: if you score 2 goles in 20 minutes, the other team is going to spend 70 minutes trying to even the score. The ball will be in your half 75+% of the game, ball possession will be theirs 70%, their passes accuracy will be high since passes far from the box are more accurate (less risks taken), they will have less fouls since fouls are committed usually to get the ball, not to keep it, but if they don't shoot, that means your team played better because you had everything under control.

Argentina played well, but the SA defenders formed a solid line, they used physical contact often but without violence, the Arabian GK had a dream game and their attackers were at the right speed. It was a well deserved victory.

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Alas7ymedia t1_iumz2eq wrote

You are assuming a linear behaviour for human decisions, but in the same way that a person would eat a cow but not a horse, some people draw the line at fish, others at eggs, and so on.

As a vegetarian myself, I have read that the economic, health and environmental benefits of not eating meat draw a curve with an optimal point right before becoming full vegetarian; going vegan can easily feel like going too far since the price of ingredients and carbon and water footprints start going up again when you start to diversify your diet to replace the things you liked before and that is before considering the social impact of not sharing other people's food.

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Alas7ymedia t1_iu9tygb wrote

This is the answer. It'd be faster to take the whole battery out and leave it charging and put another one in fully charged (I've seen videos of someone doing that with electric motorcycles in Taiwan iirc).

Now, hydrogen cell cars are electric and they are charged very fast, but they are not competitive in small cars and it's impossible to find a charging station in the middle of nowhere since H2 can't be pumped all the way there. They will replace buses, trucks and large ships soon, tho, because as batteries price go up, making hydrogen from water remains cheap.

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Alas7ymedia t1_iu4q0eu wrote

The wall drags only the layer of liquid in contact with it. That layer drags along another layer a little less, that next layer drags along another layer even less and so on. The intensity of the dragging at a certain distance of the wall is the literal definition of viscosity.

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