TheSpecialJuan

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TheSpecialJuan

TheSpecialJuan

@FirefoxCatcher

MMA Maestro. World Cup Watcher. Hurling hack. Not legally associated with Firefox.

Ireland Inscrit le Mayıs 2017
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TheSpecialJuan
TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@fedesimio @nic_amadio That’s just Europe in general imo. Here in Ireland our entire economy is dependent on a handful of big tech/pharma companies paying massive tax to subsidise social welfare, healthcare, roads etc. But there’s still a vocal group online who want to drive them out the country
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Federico Simionato
Federico Simionato@fedesimio·
@nic_amadio Mainstream Italian culture is to hate successful companies and guess what you need to provide high quality jobs
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Nicola Amadio
Nicola Amadio@nic_amadio·
Many of my ex uni colleagues in Milan are still making 1500-2500 euros per month (net). This is people who went to Italy's best engineering school, worked hard af, took great grades, got "good" local jobs. And they have 5-10 years of experience.
Nicola Amadio@nic_amadio

@euro_ASM i went to the best engineering school in italy and when I graduated making 1400 eur/net per month was considered a decent/good salary (at least it's not an unpaid internship) and 1800 eur/net per month was considered a very good salary (in milan).

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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@ConnCFC The Eze pen in the CL final by far the worst of the 3 imo. Horrific pen
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Conn@ConnCFC·
Gabriel missed a penalty in the UCL final, Havertz misses one in the World Cup knock out rounds. Football is healing
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EiF@EiFSoccer·
After one of the wildest penalty shootouts in recent memory, Paraguay advance! So much fight and courage, and a good bit of a luck. Wild.
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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@MC_of_A Dunno why lads keeping trying them, especially in high pressure shootouts. Don’t have data but feels like they often fail and looks ridiculous in the process
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Michael Caley
Michael Caley@MC_of_A·
love to see a stutter step penalty get stuffed
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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
Poor pen from Havertz. #Paraguay keeper seems to be in the Germans heads
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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@kashish_cfc Japan set up very deep 2nd half and let Brazil control the game. Still heart breaking for them to go out on that last minute goal
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kashish ᥫ᭡.ִֶָ𓂃
kashish ᥫ᭡.ִֶָ𓂃@kashish_cfc·
I hope Japan hold on to the lead vs Brazil. This could be the biggest moment for Japan (and Asian) football. It would be heartbreaking if they lose from here and go out in RO32 after a brilliant WC. I recall in 2018, Japan took a 2-1 lead over Belgium but Belgium produced a brilliant comeback to win 3-2. I was happy because I was supporting Belgium (because of Eden Hazard) but lowkey felt bad for Japan who gave their best.
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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@TubaronAzul @TheFallOffIsNow @beamerboiZ3 Yeah Cape Verde setup with a perfect game plan and played brilliantly against Spain. But Spain still had complete control and all the chances. If that game is played 5 times that’s the best result Cape Verde get imo. Which isn’t a bad thing
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BEAMER
BEAMER@beamerboiZ3·
The World Cup is really stupid because of its qualification process. Italy or even just Wales are much better teams than Congo or Cape Verde, but because euros play other euro teams, they lose out. Should be 90% Euro if this was a merit based WC and make quals worldwide
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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@TheFallOffIsNow @beamerboiZ3 Italy had a horrible qualifying campaign and have been insanely inconsistent for decades at this point. But Cape Verde could play 100 tournaments and not do what Italy did at Euro 2021. Which isn’t to say Italy “deserved” to be at this WC
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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@TheFallOffIsNow @beamerboiZ3 A wider variety of teams adds a cool feel to the WC so not really against it. But the nature of football is that any tiny team can setup an ultra low block and try to frustrate a much better team. Cape Verde setup perfectly and got very lucky
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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@jake_northwest @PaulSkallas The US has leveraged the markets via the 401k system. European pensions are just a massive pyramid scheme that no government has the balls to change
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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@jake_northwest @PaulSkallas For example the riots in France recently when they tried to push out the retirement age to fix the completely broken pension system. Incidentally while the US pension system has issues it’s in a vastly better place to the European system
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LindyMan
LindyMan@PaulSkallas·
The paradox of Europe. - no real growth for the past 15 years. - some of the smartest euros move to America (brain drain) - their Gross domestic product per person fell from 20% to 14%. Yet, the top 50 most liveabale cities are in Europe. It's not even particularly close. Massive improvements happening with quality of life including recently with bicycles, trams and walking replacing cars. Europe possesses something culturally other places do not have.
شرق‌زده sharghzadeh@sharghzadeh

After the death of Christianity, Europeans adopted a secular religion (among its beliefs are environmentalism and de-growth). Unlike Christianity, which gives beauty, meaning, solace, and the promise of everlasting life, this new religion produces no beauty or meaning, no solace or life, just suffering and decline.

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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@Mickcliff Thiel is a creepy wanker and the hotel cancelling this even wouldn’t be the end of the world. But it’s insane to me this story has gotten as much (or more) media coverage than a Somali asylum seeker attempting to SA then stabbing 2 18 year old girls in Dublin
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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@FailureUltra @nobodyknows2322 The vast majority of citizens of western countries have no idea how massive government spending is. Which is why the “$4 billion to end world hunger” thing was able to take off when the UK spends roughly $440 billion (£330 billion) on social welfare yearly
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Ultra Failure@FailureUltra·
@nobodyknows2322 People generally think there’s rampant austerity on literally everything but there’s always money for war. It’s bollocks. Same in the UK where the “underfunded” NHS is still the biggest item in the budget and grows in cost every day.
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Bird on Fire 🔥
Bird on Fire 🔥@nobodyknows2322·
This reminds me of when Ocasio-Cortes said we should 'spend as much money on schools as we do on the police' Yeah that'd mean stunningly draconian cuts to education spending
James West@James_West_PhD

@HistoryBoomer You know it used to be true that we spent more money on defense than K-12? Now it's about twice as much on K-12 as defense. I don't really have a point here, except that K-12 is not underfunded.

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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@rogeressig @pmarca People are showing cool old covers from the 90s but even 12/13 years ago when I 1st started reading Wired it felt massively different. Over that time it’s gone from cool, fun tech reporting to relentless negativity and endless smug political lectures
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca·
You kids can’t possibly imagine what WIRED Magazine used to be.
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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@BadAtCAD @FPLSportScience Lads feeling like heroes for trying to destroy someone’s life over a shitty moment/social media comment is mental to me
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Sam@FPLSportScience·
This is vile. Just so you know Matt, as you have your full name and location on your X profile, it just took a quick LinkedIn search to find out who your employer is. 👍
Matt Tuppen@fatmatt8978

Sorry @ITV is the mens football not on mainstream TV tonight, I got 3 split arses on my screen talking football, didnt realise women's football was on!!

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TheSpecialJuan@FirefoxCatcher·
@Brianc_56 @MaxRadwan Yeah similarly the all time top scorer list is gonna look very different by the end of this tournament and completely unrecognisable after the next couple
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BrianC
BrianC@Brianc_56·
@MaxRadwan It’s notable but you can’t compare with previous World Cups pre-expansion. So many team ‘first ever WC knock out match’ this tournament. well, yeah.
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Max@MaxRadwan·
Stat that doesn’t feel real – today’s match between Canada and South Africa is just third knockout match in the history of the men’s World Cup to be contested by teams outside of Europe/South America and the first not to feature teams from those regions or the US
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