If you ever think that your job is useless, remember that FIFA has an Ethics Committee.

You were wearing it wrong.

If that escapes the bowl, you’re doing it wrong.

So, don’t piss on other people’s floors. Aim better. You can still do that while standing up.

the acceptable amount for one to pee on their own floor willfully is none

Nobody’s talking about willfully peeing on the floor, we’re only talking about microscopic amounts of pee mist that could drift away from the stream when you’re peeing from 50 cm from the bowl instead of 10 cm from the bowl.

Every toilet I’ve seen has a big air gap under the seat even when the seat is down.

Unless you take a bath / shower immediately after using the toilet, you’re then walking around with a thin coating of waste on you all day.

Sitting down takes longer. IMO it also flows more easily if I’m standing. I’ll sit if I’m tired, or half-asleep, or whatever. I’ll stand most of the time to get it over with faster.

ass interruption

Do you have a cloaca?

You’re weird because apparently you don’t clean your bathroom floors.

Sure, microscopic amounts of pee gets on the floor. Then, every couple of weeks you clean your bathroom.

You know that when you flush a toilet you aerosolize a bit of the contents and they drift out and land around the room too. Does that bother you?

They don’t know how to use the phone? They don’t know how to use regular postal mail?

They most definitely did not get it right.

Having said that, there is some value to being thoughtful about the adoption of new technology. Especially when it comes to kids, some parents are too quick to allow their kids to use smartphones, tablets, chatGPT, etc. without much supervision.

But, the prospect of having to forego virtually all modern technology or become exiled from the only family and community you’ve ever known is crazy. It’s really only cults that require that you shun people who have left the “faith”.

Also, the modern Amish are the effect of multiple decades worth of Group Polarization. People in the community will hold different views. If someone has a view that the rules are too strict and that the group should be more lenient, they may eventually give up and just join the modern world. On the other hand, if someone thinks the group isn’t extreme enough, there is no other even more extreme group for them to join. So, they’ll stay and fight for their view. Over time, that means that the less extreme people tend to drift away, and the more extreme ones stay, leading to the group becoming more extreme.

That’s basically why I carry a wallet – as backup. I got used to leaving my wallet at home unless I was driving and I needed my license. But, then one time I spent 45 minutes shopping tried to pay, and for some unknown reason I couldn’t pay with my phone. Now, if the phone doesn’t work I have the NFC card in the wallet. If the NFC doesn’t work on the card, it also has a chip so I can insert it. If, for some reason, that fails too, I have enough cash for at least the main things I want to buy.

If I’m going out and not planning on doing a major shop, and don’t need to drive, the wallet stays home. If something comes up the phone will probably work, but it’s not worth the extra space to carry the wallet just in case.

It’s not illegal to not have ID.

In which countries?

Then you’re well aware that it doesn’t work while the card is in a typical wallet.

Not being able to play as a team has always been a weakness for Brazil. The country also expects them to attack and play other teams off the park. It’s a team that always has superstars, and those superstars want to have their moments, and a coach that doesn’t allow that doesn’t last long. Meanwhile teams like Japan put the team first and aren’t too proud to focus on defending.

But, the bigger issue this time is that Brazil is a really aging squad lacking decent players in some key positions. Their main GK plays for Liverpool. Their CBs play for Arsenal and PSG. Their central midfielders play for or just left big European clubs. But, their fullbacks were major weaknesses. One is about to turn 35 and left Juventus a year and a half ago after barely playing in his final year, and he’s mostly a CB not a fullback. The other is a 32 year old who has been playing in Russia for the last 7 years. Brazil used to have world class fullbacks. Marcelo, Dani Alves, Roberto Carlos, Cafu, etc.

Age was also an issue. Despite having 2 teenagers in the squad, the third youngest player was 25, and they had almost as many over-30 players as they do under-30s. They were the 6th oldest team at the World Cup, and 3 of those 6 didn’t make it out of the group stage. Only 2 of the 6 were reasonable contenders, Brazil and Colombia, the other one that made it out of the group was the surprise story of the tournament Cabo Verde.

So, I don’t think it was really that Brazil played too many tricks. They always do that, and they frequently win. The problem this time was that their aging squad lacked good fullbacks which put them under pressure when opponents could get down the wings.

The kinds of people I’m talking about are ones who have a local MLS team whose matches they attend, but they also have a favourite European team… and yet, somehow they don’t realize the vast gulf in quality between a player for Real Salt Lake and Real Madrid.

Timothy Tillman? He wasn’t good enough for any club in the Bundesliga, but he plays for LAFC. He should do fine in a midfield battle against Kevin de Bruyne and Youri Tielemans!

I think the US is going to get better, but I don’t think they’ll be challenging any of the global powerhouses. Soccer / futbol is getting more and more popular over time. And, typically, when a country hosts the world cup, 10-15 years later there’s a new group of players who were inspired by the tournament and who have spent the time since then focusing on it.

I wonder if there’s any country above 84%. Some small countries like Bosnia seem even more obsessed than Brazil, but they have such a small population that they don’t have the reputation of Brazil.

It’s not uncommon for Trump to ask FIFA to reconsider a red card.

For just about any other politician in the world it would be deeply strange. It’s a sporting competition, and politicians should stay out of it. If they get what they want, they only taint a potential victory. If they don’t get what they want they look weak, and embarrass their country.