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@sbzcomps @JPierreX7 Yep. Getting the ball around faster by passing rather than carrying it, and a constant mental picture of who he wants to receive it.

@JPierreX7 Yep, very qualified to say what he said

Graeme Souness vs East Germany (1982) Basically every single action is progressive, this is what it looks like.

@gavmorgan82 @J_a_y_s97 @LEWIS__EFC Absolutely, and that is clear from this angle.

@J_a_y_s97 @LEWIS__EFC He stood where he is so 1. He can see the ball and 2. The 3 players between the ball and the goal should be covering the goal to his right. If the players in front of him get out to the ball and shut the shot down it doesn't make it anywhere near the goal.

Wannabe football coaches on here are once again showing they have zero ball knowledge btw 😂 Pickford should have stood further over, what behind 2 players so he can’t see the ball? Mongs mate. Blame the outfield players for allowing a short corner, and enzo to have 15 yards

@J_a_y_s97 @mwatson051083 Seen from this angle, there isn't much wrong with Pickford's position. And a shot to his left is a more obvious risk that he has to cover.

@mwatson051083 There isn’t a 2 foot gap at all stop making things up. England would have been 1-0 down anyway if it wernt for Pickford in that very game.

Seneca's perspective on literary borrowing seems (broadly) applicable to the Synoptic Problem.

Andy Burnham and Ed Milliband having a long weekend.

@Ben_Wray1989 @tomhfh Yep: no oil revenues, no Thatcher revolution.

@tomhfh "the period of relative decline was clearly 45-79" makes no sense. UK capitalism's golden age was 50s-60s. 20 years of growth. There was a crisis of global capitalism in the 70s. Growth in mid-80s was an oil boom on back of a recession in first half of decade. Read a book.

Andy Burnham is trying to argue things were great until 1979 then turned bad. It’s just completely out of whack with all comparative data. The period of relative decline was clearly 45-79. We received more than twice as much Marshall Aid as West Germany and just had just half the rate of economic growth to show for it. By the mid 1980s and beyond Britain was growing faster than West Germany. Post war we had all the advantages of a victorious and generously funded country and threw them all away on nationalisation and trade union ransoms. West Germany developed a social market economy instead and (with less than half the aid) became richer than socialist Britain as a result. The reforms of the 1980s saved this country. And the policy response to 2008 has thrown it back in the dirt.

@lukeappleton @andyburnham Or give Truss (Oxford Uni) and Burnham (Cambridge Uni) a canoe each and settle it with a boat race.

Given he has no democratic mandate, shouldn't @andyburnham call a General Election if he has a different agenda? Or won't people start asking if he'll last as long as a lettiuice like they did with Liz Truss?

@Benjwinst @SeanyMcarty From this angle, Pickford's position is pretty good, and he's every reason to be prepared for a shot to his left. Basically it's a free shot thanks to the defence.

@SeanyMcarty Nope, he clearly has to step to his left to see the player and ball. It’s basic goalkeeping. Players have to close down.

First time I’ve seen this angle, How can anyone criticise Jordan Pickford for this goal. Blame 100 percent on players failing to close down quick enough to stop the shot.

@PosthumanDan @SpeedWatkins @TheDrewHaas Greg Boyd's work on Open Theism is useful and readable. Also see @ReKnewOrg

@FindingTrinity @SpeedWatkins @TheDrewHaas Well, that's a start. I would also be without the promises of Jesus within Christianity where Jesus promises healing, miracles, signs & wonders. It would begin to erode this part of Christianity too.

Modern science is highly successful without ever invoking God’s will, which confirms atheism. Because the probability calculus dictates that confirming a hypothesis must also mathematically disconfirm its negation, this success *logically entails* the disconfirmation of theism.

@PosthumanDan @SpeedWatkins @TheDrewHaas It would be "without Calvinism." The opposite end of the spectrum would be Open Theism which offers some interesting challenges to Calvinism and, to a lesser extent, to classical theism.

@FindingTrinity @SpeedWatkins @TheDrewHaas If there is a sample of data where God does not exercise will, nor omnipotence & power, nor steer things towards His ends, nor allows His glory to shine through: Would that sample be 'without theism'?

I challenged Gemini on a topic that it first spoke of with certainty. It eventually conceded all the problems with its conclusion. I asked why I had to press it to get this info. It says it first operates in "textbook mode". Beware!

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Here is the actual Greek — Odyssey 8.514–520, the close of Demodocus's song: ἤειδεν δ᾽ ὡς ἄστυ διέπραθον υἷες Ἀχαιῶν ἱππόθεν ἐκχύμενοι, κοῖλον λόχον ἐκπρολιπόντες. ἄλλον δ᾽ ἄλλῃ ἄειδε πόλιν κεραϊζέμεν αἰπήν, αὐτὰρ Ὀδυσσῆα προτὶ δώματα Δηϊφόβοιο βήμεναι, ἠΰτ᾽ Ἄρηα, σὺν ἀντιθέῳ Μενελάῳ. κεῖθι δὴ αἰνότατον πόλεμον φάτο τολμήσαντα νικῆσαι καὶ ἔπειτα διὰ μεγάθυμον Ἀθήνην. No bullshit, so here's the verdict the tweet won't like: its central philological claim is false. αἰνός does not mean "awe-inspiring." LSJ glosses it dread, dire, grim, terrible; the adverb αἰνῶς means "terribly"; αἰνότατον is the superlative — "most dreadful." It is the word Achilles uses of his grief and Zeus of his dread. There is no positive-glory sense of αἰνός anywhere in Homer. So Wilson's "dreadful" is not a political intervention — it is close to a dictionary gloss of the superlative. The tweeter's "awe-inspiring" is the invented translation in this exchange, not hers. And note Fagles, whom the tweet holds up as the faithful one, renders the same word "grimmest fight" — grim, dread, dreadful: Fagles and Wilson agree on the semantics of αἰνότατον against the tweeter. Where Wilson is legitimately vulnerable, on the evidence of these lines: πόλεμον → "violence." This is her one real liberty in the passage. πόλεμος is war, battle — a term with standing in the heroic code. "Violence" strips the martial frame and imports a modern moralized register. "Dreadful war" or Fagles's "grimmest fight" keeps the category; "dreadful violence" changes it. If the tweeter had aimed here, he'd have a case. τολμήσαντα dropped. "Having dared/endured" — the verb of heroic daring. Fagles catches it ("he had ever braved"); Wilson's compression loses it. That's a genuine subtraction of heroic coloring. Epithets flattened. ἀντιθέῳ Μενελάῳ is "godlike Menelaus" — Fagles gives the loose but vigorous "diehard Menelaus"; Wilson drops the epithet entirely. μεγάθυμον Ἀθήνην is "great-hearted Athena" — Wilson: bare "Athena"; Fagles inflates to "Athena's superhuman power," which is more than the Greek says. So the honest scorecard on epithets: Wilson subtracts, Fagles adds, and the Greek sits between them. The cause is mechanical before it is ideological: Wilson translates line-for-line in iambic pentameter — fewer syllables per line than the hexameter — so compression is forced on every verse, and epithets are the first cargo overboard. Fagles's loose six-beat line lets him expand. You can fault her choice of form as guaranteeing a thinner Homer; that's a fair fight. But on the specific charge the tweet makes — that she perverted a glory-word into a shame-word — the Greek convicts the tweeter, not the translator. αἰνότατον πόλεμον is a dark phrase in the original: Demodocus, singing to please, still calls the fight at Deiphobus's door most dreadful, and Homer's very next move is Odysseus dissolving in tears likened to a widow being dragged into slavery. The darkness at Troy's fall is not Wilson's insertion. It is Homer's design — the poet of the Iliad never once lets a sack be clean.

Emily Wilson completely changes the meaning of Homer's Odyssey. On the left is Robert Fagles' brilliant translation of Homer's epic. Reading Odysseus' conquest at Troy, you get the sense that this is a man full of glory who is proud to have conquered his enemies at Troy. On the right is Emily Wilson's "interpretation." She downplays the glorious language in Homer's original text and somehow manages to translate αἰνότατον πόλεμον (awe-inspiring war) as "dreadful violence" to make some sort of political statement. This is the translation that Nolan used, and this explains everything you didn't like about the movie.

@SpeedWatkins @TheDrewHaas Possibility and power are not necessity.

@FindingTrinity @TheDrewHaas Theism entails that possibility because God is omnipotent. Omnipotence entails the power of God to intervene in any contingent order that He creates. Perhaps God wants to frustrate every empirical attempt to confirm the efficacy of petitionary prayer.

@SpeedWatkins @TheDrewHaas That's a dubious claim. Why would classical theism entail God frustrating your experiments? Really, why? That's unnecessary to classical theism, and also unnecessary to miracles unless you apply a specific definition.

@FindingTrinity @TheDrewHaas But classical theism does not ENTAIL that. Classical theism entails the possiblity of miracles--it entails that some secular scientific endeavors might not be successful because God intends to frustrate our experiments or occasionally intervene in certain regularities.

@SteveO_AFC @Arsnl_Exclusive @LoudGunner I'll reframe then. The cross has swerve on it taking it away from the keeper. Pickford takes a step forward but then realises it won't be dropping in his zone and is swerving away and floating to the back post. So he adjusts in that direction. The cross eliminates him anyway.

@FindingTrinity @Arsnl_Exclusive @LoudGunner This isn’t his fault but calling this top class is deluded. He clearly starts to run out to try to get it, stops, then runs to the side. Without the forward motion first, he has a better chance at a save attempt.

What was Pickford doing here?

@SpeedWatkins @TheDrewHaas Nice try, but classical theism may also say that scientific success need not invoke God's will, and therefore such demonstration confirms classical theism.

@FindingTrinity @TheDrewHaas Nope. I only need the entailment of atheism: If science is successful at all, then that success won't need to invoke God's will. From this entailment and the symmetry of confirmation, it follows that the secular success of science disconfirms atheism's negation, i.e., theism.

@SteveGott6 @Emma_A_Webb 100%. Glorious decade of music.

@FindingTrinity @Emma_A_Webb Ah, but for every Roussos there was a Bowie, Bolan, Jagger and Townshend. For every Brotherhood Of Man an Eagles, Thin Lizzy, Fleetwood Mac or Queen. For every Mrs Mills a Deep Purple, ELO, Faces or Genesis. For every Bay City Rollers, a Roxy Music, Slade and Tamla Motown....

Andy Burnham wants to go back to the 1970s. What might that look like? 1973 Oil Crisis - but replace the Yom Kippur War with the Strait of Hormuz. 1976 IMF crisis - the IMF has already warned Burnham against increasing taxes and increasing spending. Winter of Discontent - caused by Net Zero policies, after Burnham discovers the left of his party won’t let him permit drilling in the North Sea. The Troubles - we are already plagued by increasing sectarianism, which will surely be bolstered by giving local councils more power through further devolution. You can’t say the man’s lacking in vision. What a decade to aspire to.

@OxideTwinjet @Longtallhel23 @Itmustbetues @DavidGHFrost Supermarkets managed their shortages by rationing to their customers, but this was their own prerogative.

@FindingTrinity @Longtallhel23 @Itmustbetues @DavidGHFrost There were food shortages in the 1970s., not rationing per se, but your beloved Grauniad calls it rationing theguardian.com/theguardian/20… 1973/4 sugar 1974 + 1977 bread 1975 salt

Only one phrase matters in Burnham's speech today. "Britain took a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s." Anyone who thinks that simply does not understand what happened in Britain's recent history and why, and is therefore doomed to fail to solve our problems. 👇

@SpeedWatkins @TheDrewHaas Your argument silently assumes something like: If God existed, successful scientific explanations would regularly require reference to God’s will. But that assumption is not part of classical theism.

@TheDrewHaas Yes, it is: x.com/SpeedWatkins/s…