Farn 🇺🇸⚽ :)

@FailureUltra @PunishedRWR Same bro... They ruined my bracket 😭.

@Farnetus @PunishedRWR Honestly I wanted the Netherlands to get farther than they did

Out of the top 4 favourites, Who would you most like to see win the tournament out of these 4, (*not who you think will win*)

@FOXSoccer ANULO MUFA. DELETE THIS RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

The USA's project path to the Final 🏆

Not-entirely-trollish suggestion: I think the World Cup should pause for ~3 days in between the group and knockout stages so people can fill out brackets. Granted, mostly an American thing, but this is a very important mechanism for the NCAA tournament for bringing in casuals.

@hunterparker99 1upʻd me😂. I went with a USA semifinal in my recent bracket post.

Fuck doomerism, I’ma start believing.

My second chance bracket. Yes I know it's a bit delusional for my team. Was fun getting 6 groups right in my first bracket (it's in a previous post) tho it annoyed me how the others went. aus vs egy and sui vs alg were most difficult for me to decide on.

@alt_ccc I'd be happy with this USA run.

Quarter-finals: 🇳🇱 0-1 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 0-2 🇪🇸 (p) 🇳🇴 0-0 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇨🇴 2-4 🇦🇷

World Cup predictions: Second round: 🇿🇦 1 - 1 🇨🇦(p) 🇧🇷 2 - 0 🇯🇵 🇩🇪 3- 1 🇵🇾 🇳🇱 3 - 1 🇲🇦 🇨🇮 1 - 2 🇳🇴 🇫🇷 3- 0 🇸🇪 🇲🇽 0- 0 🇪🇨 (p) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2 - 0 🇨🇩 🇧🇪 1 - 2 🇸🇳 🇺🇸 2 - 1 🇧🇦 🇪🇸 2 - 0 🇦🇹 🇵🇹 1 - 0 🇭🇷 🇨🇭 3 - 2 🇩🇿 🇦🇺 0 - 2 🇪🇬 🇦🇷 4 - 0 🇨🇻 🇨🇴 2 - 0 🇬🇭

OMG AUSTRIA 😂😂😂

@nikicaga Respect Cabo Verde.

Generational Messi statpadding run

@usmntonly Anulo mufa fuckin jerk.

The USMNT's path to the 2026 World Cup final: 🇧🇦 Round of 32 — Bosnia 🇧🇪 Round of 16 — Belgium 🇪🇸 Quarterfinal — Spain 🇫🇷 Semifinal — France 🇦🇷 Final — Argentina

@sadfcdfans I actually forgot about that song.

Did the internet bully FIFA in to pretending that Jelly Roll World Cup anthem never existed or what? Or was that never a real thing? I haven’t heard that shit song once all tournament lmao

@Noahpinion Interesting take....

Every geeky guy in America dreams of growing up and marrying a bass player. I know this statement is factually false, but also, it's spiritually true.

@SpiceIce_Baby SA are not good but did enough to pounce on Korea's mistakes.

@SpiceIce_Baby Korea are managed by the Korean Gregg. Crazy how their attack looked lifeless. I'm annoyed because I rated them and had them 2nd in the group on my (first) bracket.

How tf did South Africa get 2nd in their group

@FAmmiranteTFJ AMPLIFICO MUFA

Here's what's going to happen: USA is going to get to the quarterfinals. Optimism will never be higher, set for a matchup vs Spain. Pundits will feed into the hype. Fans will think there's an actual chance. And then, Spain will have 70+% possession in a clean sheet win.

@Noahpinion They don't want to poke the bear I guess.

Y no USA 😭

@DrewPavlou I'm using Gemini to self study OS dev. I haven't used Claude much.

I fucking HATE the anti-AI leftist luddite push. None of these people use AI so they have no idea how it can improve their lives. I literally translated a 500 page Italian book the other day simply because I wanted to read it and there was no English translation available. Ordinarily you would need to be a billionaire to commission somebody to translate a book you personally want to read. I've been waiting 3 years for the translation. The publishing house wouldn't move. So I did it in 20 minutes for like 5 dollars in coding credits and the output was actually good. AI is literally the most amazing tool for the democratisation of knowledge work in human history. I can suddenly do things that would have required me to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire entire research teams a few years ago. Yesterday I got Claude Code to download and analyse years worth of Brisbane City Council debate. It analysed 4.2 million words to detect patterns in council debate, pin point commitments, analyse subtle ideological and rhetorical shifts. It would have been literally IMPOSSIBLE for me to do that without AI, you would ordinarily have to hire multiple researchers to read 40,000 pages worth of council minutes non-stop for like 9 months. It would have been excruciatingly boring work for the researchers and would have taken years to produce a report. Realistically, it simply would have been impossible, because I don't have the money to hire research teams. So this work simply would never have been done in the first place. AI is a democratisation tool, it allows people like you and I to do things that would otherwise require entire warehouses of research teams which we could never afford because we aren’t billionaires. It is just so unbelievably helpful and good. I used it the other day to analyse my financial transaction data going back 5 years in order to help me make savings in the future. Almost 10,000 transactions. Ordinarily you would have to go to an accountant and probably pay tens of thousands of dollars for financial planning advice. Something I can’t do because I don’t earn enough money. Suddenly AI could do this for me. Another cool task I did. I wanted to download, transcribe and analyse hundreds of lectures by jihadist extremist preachers in Australia and the UK. Claude Code did it all for me in less than an hour. It would have taken like 20 hours on my laptop and heated it up to like 100 degrees. So Claude walked me through the steps of hiring a GPU in a data center to do it for me. I still don’t know how coding works so I simply ask Claude Code to walk me through the steps. I went from never having opened Terminal before in my life a few months ago to renting a NVIDIA H100 GPU from a data centre in order to complete this task. A single H100 card runs roughly AUD $40,000–$65,000 depending on variant and vendor. I rented it for one hour for $3 USD and it completed my task in like half an hour. I love using AI. In my own life, it has massively improved my productivity. I remember this time last year I was posting on X hoping a billionaire could sponsor me to hire someone to help my media business cause I was just drowning in tasks as one guy trying to manage everything. Claude has now reached the point where I can run things on my own. I get it to analyse millions of words of text each week, produce transcripts, manage my emails, my finances. Just try it out. People tried AI a few years ago when it used to hallucinate everything and just wrote it off. But there's been a massive change in the past 6-9 months. Marc Andreessen said we basically hit AGI a few montha ago. Basically every person on earth can now have a full time 150 IQ personal assistant and it ACTUALLY works. I can't believe people aren't using it

#USMNT better be watching this Portugal v. Uzbekistan game and get ready for crazy sneaky set pieces.

@ManagerTactical Congo's performance looks even more impressive now.

Unfortunately Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 ain’t built for this… they have a lot to work on. They have improved a lot over the years but they still have a long way to go to become relevant in the World Cup.

@TCUCarterBoys I'll be honest I wasn't thinking much when I made that reply and was running on less sleep than usual.

@Farnetus @jeffisrael25 I’ll give you one guess on what the home jerseys looked like that year lmao

There’s no reason the USMNT shouldn’t adopt red stripes forever and just modify them the way Croatia does