@DKThomp I know they do, but I never quite understand how they properly control for all the confounding variables in these studies.
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Andrew McCullough
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Andrew McCullough
@AndyMuckaluck
Belfast born, now in NY via London. Work @CCSfundraising.
New York Katılım Nisan 2011
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I’m of a mind to vibe code a website that throws all these observational studies in a blender, lets you select from a lifestyle menu, and it tells you how long Science says you’re going to live. Eg
- eat spicy food: 2x weekly
- smoke: never
- drink: daily
- daily step avg: 7500
- weekly exercise minutes: 150
- sleep: 6.5 hours
… etc, and the model spits out something like “Congrats, your total lifestyle benefit is … +18 months”
Will the results be accurate? Hell no. Are the studies all high quality? Please. But will my crystal ball of life and death get the people talking? LFG
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
Adults whose spicy food intake averaged six or seven days a week had a 14 percent lower relative risk of dying than those whose intake averaged less than once a week. Here’s what else we know about how spicy foods affect our health: wapo.st/4bq2Dpl
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@dpatrikarakos We should have the remaining teams play each other , first in two semi finals then a final, to find out.
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Sorry, but the idea that anyone other than France is the best team is simply unserious.
Guillem Balague@GuillemBalague
The four World Cup semifinalists, in one line: 🇪🇸 Spain — the best team. 🇫🇷 France — the best player and the most frightening attack. 🇦🇷 Argentina — the best idea: doing more with less than anyone else. 🏴 England — two world-class players on form. They all have what is needed to win the tournament
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@jonathanvswan Yeah he's probably really hurt the sales with that message.
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Many people disagree with the president’s assessment. Thanks to you all for reading.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
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The Odyssey releases on the 17th of July, and I do not want a single one of you watching it.
Christopher Nolan has desecrated one of Europe’s foundational myths. This film deserves to fail. Do not give it your money!
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Unironically gotta hand it to England, by far the most difficult path to the semis.
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@JohnBrewin_ I mean yes but it also just helped that he could run which was a massive problem for the rest of the players
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@RobinWigg I think both the corner goal and the England pen call are genuine 50 -50s and would rather go with the call on the field for these
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@RobinWigg Yeah not sure how football is ever going to sort corner shenanigans
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Oh so the magic sensor suddenly didn’t work this time? Huh. Funny how that happened this time.
FIFA Media@fifamedia
Before England’s goal in minute 45+2 against Norway, the sensor in the Connected Ball showed no peak in the 'heartbeat of the ball' when in the air, and therefore no evidence that the ball touched the overhead wire and changed the movement of the ball.
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@EdwardGLuce Alternatively, a signal of how absolutely ruined everything has become.
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Non-trivial chance Count Binface could save British democracy. Politics hasn't made me laugh this much in years.
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@mattyglesias The AC thing was something to behold. And yes a very telling, this is all you have?
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Watching the Mamdani cycles, I understand the Trump phenomenon so much better — people convinced he’s evil will click on absurd anti-Mamdani takes about banal immigration maps or energy efficiency so they keep getting cranked out and only make him look good to normal Dems.
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@sehajdhillon_ Wait till Americans find out about this and set about solving cricket
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@PaulSkallas "upper body culture" is the most half baked thing I've ever read, and Americans love soccer -50 million watched the US game, second only to Superbowl for viewership. Don't need to contrive a ridiculous grandiose theory to explain something that just isn't true.
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No one has given me a good enough answer for why Americans never got interested in Soccer. America is a sports obsessed nation. Soccer is a great sport.
So what why isn't popular?
Soccer is a lower-body sport, and America is an upper-body culture.
lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/your-competi…
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@blakefinucane Except that in this context it makes no sense as it literally is a jersey not a representation of one
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Belgium is playing today in a jersey that says "this is not a jersey," stitched into the collar. A direct nod to one of the most famous art works of the 20th century... it's the most art-literate kit at the World Cup.
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Partly because all teams in the knockout rounds now do penalty research on the opposition
Opta Analyst@OptaAnalyst
Including shootouts, just 32 out of 49 penalties have been scored at the 2026 World Cup. The 65.3% conversion rate is the worst in a World Cup since 1966.
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@mattyglesias Great and timely piece. Hard to divorce from the profit motive that drives it and that compounds pressures on parents as well as kids.
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America's youth sports culture isn't even good at producing athletes
slowboring.com/p/high-pressur…
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Trump shouldn’t have tempted soccer karma by lobbying FIFA.
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Messi of course is famously jacked
Josh Wiesel@Jwiesel13
Christian Pulisic is a prime example of the United States not having its best athletes playing soccer There’s just no way there aren’t guys in the NBA & NFL who wouldn’t be better than him if they would’ve started playing soccer at a young age He’s a wimpy small athlete
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@MiguelDelaney Completely. Belgium would have won anyway, but the absolute circus Trump created cannot have helped the US - so a sporting as well as complete moral failure.
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Belgium obviously better but hard not to think all the controversy and distraction changed the psychology for both teams.
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@AndrewMarchand Lol, yeah that's how it works. Every team should try this new system.
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Sure, it's complicated with everything, but the fact that US already played a half hour with 10 men and could have lost for a clearly incorrect call seems like penalty enough.
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