Alas7ymedia
Alas7ymedia t1_ixhjkcl wrote
Reply to World Cup: Argentina v Saudi Arabia [OC] by 123Javi123
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.
Alas7ymedia t1_iumz2eq wrote
Reply to comment by thegapbetweenus in [OC] There are more self-described vegans than vegetarians among US users of Twitter by jasonjonesresearch
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.
Alas7ymedia t1_iu9tygb wrote
Reply to comment by Swardrak1337 in ELI5: How are aerodynamics different between EVs and combustion engine cars by Auguste-67
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.
Alas7ymedia t1_iu9e43v wrote
Reply to comment by Skithiryx in TIL that when the French first arrived in North America they met the Ojibwe Indians who introduced them to other tribes but used nasty names. The Lakota/Dakota people were called "Nadowessiwag," which became Nadouessioux in French, then Sioux in English. It means "little snake." by marmorset
Skimo is also an insult. They call themselves Inuit which means "people".
Alas7ymedia t1_iu4q0eu wrote
Reply to I was drinking tea and got a hair in it. I rotated the cup but the hair seemed like it was stationary even though I was rotating the cup thinking it would then be on the opposite side of the cup away from my mouth. Why does the hair not rotate along with the cup? by Nomorethisplz
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.
Alas7ymedia t1_itex70m wrote
Reply to comment by redentification in TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down by newshoeshudis
-"Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin! Leave that country alone!" -"But, ma..." -"Inside Kremlin Now!".
Alas7ymedia t1_ite9xm6 wrote
Believe it or not, the Spanish word for both of those things is the same: gato. So, not wrong, the cat must be Latino.
Alas7ymedia t1_isl1re8 wrote
Reply to comment by goteamnick in [OC] Most popular unisex names (US + UK + Canada + Australia) by byJoanic
I see a problem with Jaime, which is how you write James in Spanish. A lot of Hispanic boys named Jaime would skew the data.
Alas7ymedia t1_iqshf6r wrote
Reply to comment by Illustrious_Alps_802 in How do ants find their way back "home"? by DanieleJava
Yes, they are pretty much identical. Which is why they are so territorial: a foreign organism can take a pathogen to an ant colony and kill them all because they all have the same inmune system.
Alas7ymedia t1_ja0kob4 wrote
Reply to comment by Gnonthgol in ELI5: How did association football become the most popular sport in the world, more popular than any other sport that was spread around the world? by astarisaslave
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.