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It is of course not impossible for Atletico Madrid to close that gap and take Girona's position soon, but I think it is not likely. Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are fighting for 3 points in a couple of days, which means that one of the two teams will drop points or both if they tie the game while Girona can once again overtake Real Madrid or extend their lead to third position.

Atletico Madrid has still the games to be played against Barcelona and Girona, both of which will be home games for Girona. But it will be devisive how Girona will do against the top teams from Madrid. If they can ensure they don't lose both games, I think they will still be pretty well situated for the rest of the season. 8 points can vanish quickly should they lose their games against Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, but the jury is still out on those games.

But these problems have been known and I think that when the negotiations were going on between Barcelona and Xavi, in my opinion Xavi exactly knew what was going on with the finances in the club. Everyone could read it in the newspaper why Messi had to leave Barcelona and how broke they are and how close they have been to a financial collapse. So this wasn't a problem that Xavi had to deal with out of nowhere, he knew that Barcelona wouldn't be able to buy players that cost 100s of millions.

But he still took on the challenge and he won the La Liga title during his first year. However, it was quite easy to win that title as he didn't really have any competition in that year. This has how changed drastically as Real Madrid improved by a lot and there is a new player in the top field of La Liga that joined the party, which is Girona.

Xavi understands that bad times could be coming for Barcelona not only for this season and the next season, but for several seasons. There is no top player dreaming of Barcelona these days. They all want to go to either Manchester City or Real Madrid.

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Hey @JayJuanGee, thanks for pinging me here.

First of all, I may not be able to keep up with your unreal content output, but I enjoy reading it, which is what I do quite frequently.

This topic is interesting and when I saw you posting about it, I thought that could be worth having a conversation since I like your neutral approach to analysing things.

Since I have been experimenting with lots of stuff under various circumstances, I believe I have a couple of things to share.

You called this topic "Niacin / Glutamine...", but I guess you wouldn't mind if we talk other substances / hormones as well?

D3, K2, calcium, tryptophan, niacin (or all B-vitamins), etc. Impact on the nervous system (myelination), immune system, and interplay of those vitamins with cortisol, serotonin/dopamine, etc.

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I send this now because I feel bad. I had a couple of things to deal with in the last few (holi)days, but will continue this well awaited back and forth with you asap. My plan was to continue my post here, but give me a couple of days. I have some input for Glutamine, but life and organisms are more complex, yet pretty good to handle, if we dedicate some time to understand what drives our bodies. Sorry for the delay. Hope you feel optimistic for the next year that is running down our life clock! ;P ( psyche is huge, if we talk bad, everyone around us feels bad).

Looking forward to coninuing this and carving out some good points we can benefit from!

Cheers!

I didn't say that their performance in the Champions League group was weak, I said that the group was pretty weak. Since the top two qualify for the next round, having Real Madrid in your group is not a problem since the second also advances to the next round. But Union Berlin and Braga are both teams that are far weaker than Napoli and that is what I meant. If Napoli had played in the group where PSG, Dortmund, Milan and Newcastle played, I don't know if they would still be around in the Champions League. Their performance in the group stage was ok, it wasn't good. But now we will see how good they are when they finally meet some of the better teams although Barcelona isn't good either.

There exist licenses for everything in the world and the only reason they exist is to legitimize products and services that otherwise would not be taken as seriously. Granting licenses is a business in and of itself. You are well advised to not only look for a license, but thoroughly check whether that license means anything. It could be granted by a business that is shady itself, but with proper naming and a nice website you might think the license is worth something. In many cases it is not. In almost all industries there are licenses or seals of quality that really mean nothing. Don't get distracted by some fancy stamp on a product or some fany wording and a letter-number code on a website. Go with history, reputation and publicly shared user experience that does not look like it was faked.

This is one important aspect I think. As you said, Mbappe is the major target for the summer transfer window for Real Madrid. But understandably, Real Madrid would not announce if they were looking for a striker during the winter break now. It isn't smart to mention that publicly. A club has more bargaining power when they don't signal to the market that they want an additional striker as soon as possible by all means. It is never smart to do it that way unless everyone knows anyway and that is how it is in regards to Mbappe. Real Madrid would never give up on signing a striker like him as it is part of their DNA to have players like him in their team.

I would probably draw a line between someone who likes to have some least amount of skin in the game in order to make something more exciting or whether has to place excessively high bets on a regular basis. I can understand when people place little bets as it is sometimes like adding some spice to your food and it doesn't necessarily mean someone is addictive. I mean most people also play for a few bucks when they play poker because, you know without any money being at stake playing poker isn't fun. But does that mean someone is addictive already?

I assume this could end in a lengthy discussion as the topic itself is complex. Where does addiction start? Is addiction always connected to negative consequences in some shape or form? But if OP asks the general question whether it is more fun to watch a game with or without skin in the game, I would say that placing a bet is more fun unless someone bets an amount that can destroy the fun when the bet is lost.

If it's really just like making it a little bit more exciting because other friends are around or so, then it can't really hurt and doesn't mean someone is addicted in the most negative sense.  

Napoli was playing in a pretty weak Champions League group and it was not surprising that an average performance would be enough for them to qualify for the knock out rounds in the Champions League. If you call their performance in the Champions League a quite good performance, I don't know but we do differ a lot in opinion here. Their performance was not that good, but good for them that there was no team which was really able to pose a threat to them. If they ended up in a more difficult group, they would have probably failed to qualify for the next round. This time it was a happy ending for them.

I am certainly too lazy to collect any data about that now, but you first said there are several teams with "extraordinary" performance in the UCL while performing very poorly in the domestic league. Then you reduced it to a "handful" of teams. The easiest thing to do would be to provide examples here. Which are all those teams you are talking about? Extraordinary performance in UCL, very poor performance in the domestic league. I admit I can't think of any team at all at the moment. Really the only example that comes to my mind could be Chelsea in the 2020/2021 season when they defeated Manchester City in the final, but it could still be discussed whether their performance in the Premier League could be considered "very poor" that season.

I believe that it rarely happens that a team performs extraordinarily well in the Champions League while playing very poor in the domestic league. There might be some exceptions, but this is nothing I would recall as having happened frequently.

But even then a license is only one of many indicators that can give you some sense of security, but not more than that. Just refer to those examples like FTX and how they crashed and ruined peoples' financial situation. They had been licensed and yet these licenses don't mean a whole lot. In gambling I can imagine it is even worse as these licenses often are from countries with I guess little to no regulatory oversight? I doubt that a gambling service registered in the Cayman Islands has to frequently undergo monitoring and control.

I assume it is more like a one time event that then has some expiration date and has to be repeated by the time the license expires. But it's always more like moment in time where everything has to be presented properly rather than the ongoing monitoring as I mentioned before. A license can never hurt, but I think long term reputation and user reports are what's more useful when it comes to assessing the risk of using a specific service.

After all, it is like using centralized exchanges when people decide to leave funds on the exchange. Can you afford to lose it? Then you are able to take that risk. If not, don't use gambling services or leave funds on an exchange.

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I think there are a bunch of licences that casinos can obtain and in order for someone to judge whether that license is something good, I think you really need to study the meaning of those licenses and how significant they are within the gambling industry. But whether it is a guarantee against being scammed? No way, I think there are so many shenanigans a casino can pull off if they really want to deny any withdrawals and so on. If you go with long established casinos, that's probably the best you can do to reduce the chance of getting scammed to a minimum.

I guress fun isn't necessarily something one thinks about, but something that one can feel or should feel if it is an enjoyable activity. But the problem is that gambling does have the risk of losing it all and that's kind of detrimental to the whole thing as money eventually dominates whether we enjoyed a session or not. I can't recall whether I was ever super happy after losing my bankroll. Probably not. Which means it comes down to whether or not we won overall or not.

I think it is rather the exception than the rule that a team which is performing bad in the domestic league is one of the strongest teams in the Champions League. Yes I know that now some people will come up with examples, like Sevilla and how they won the Europa League last season when they were so bad in La Liga. But where is Sevilla now? They finished their Champions League group with 2 points out of 6 games and got destroyed in almost every game. There is a correlation between the overall performance of a team in the league and the other competitions, but yes there are exceptions of course.

This game must have felt like a really bad joke for Arsenal, the fans and everyone who watched the game. It was brutal to see how that game ended as Arsenal was by far the superior team. They were not just better by a little bit, but really by far. West Ham was on an uptrend in recent weeks and yet everyone expected them to lose this game. I thought that even after their 2-0 lead the game was far from over. Arsenal had chance after chance, but they couldn't score. West Ham had 3 shots on target and scored twice. That's how it can go.