@ProspectsUsmnt Same thing in playoffs. When you get to only a handful of playoff games a day there’s no excuse
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⚽️🏐Mom. Swede. Stockholm native. Boxer 🥊 Creative Director. Strategist. Tall. Fmr college 🏀+🇸🇪 ynt player. No sense of direction, but know where I’m going.
Chicago, IL Katılım Ağustos 2023
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This is semi final day of GA Cup. The last tweet from MLS Next was seven hours ago.
Please do better. If you want real time updates on games, you probably should just follow footy access on Instagram.
How is there not an MLS Next account that live tweets/clips GA Cup moments?
MLS NEXT@MLSNEXT
A spot in the 2026 GA Cup Finals is on the line 🥁 View Friday fixtures here » mlssoccer.com/generation-adi… #GenerationadidasCup | @adidasfootball
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@chitown86 @tomorr53 @middle_class_us Calm down. It’s annoying AF that X makes you pay to edit a post, but you kinda walked right into that one and it was a little funny 😁
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$72 at CVS.
Shampoo.
Conditioner.
Toilet paper.
A birthday card.
Nothing luxury.
Just existing.
At what point do basic necessities become a privilege?
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@BrandenTel @ianbergnet @AlexiLalas I think so, but my point was FIFA is the opposite. Sarcasm is a thing!
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Yes, with mandatory mid-half hydration breaks (ad breaks) for all games being implemented this World Cup, soccer is now a game of 4 quarters. We will even call them quarters this summer. These stoppages provide a new opportunity for coaches to convey information. Adapt or die.
hoyt3.eth@HoytFowler3
@AlexiLalas Atlanta gets a hydration break but is inside with A/C. World Cup games will turn into 4 quarters.
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@heynavtoor Ai writing a summary post with exhausting ai language about a study of how ai makes us dumber. I’m so tired.
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🚨SHOCKING: Researchers took ChatGPT away from workers for 4 days.
They couldn't ask coworkers for help. They described talking to another human being as a burden.
Here is what they found.
Researchers conducted a four-day diary study on 10 knowledge workers who frequently use ChatGPT. They removed access to all LLMs completely and documented everything that happened.
The disruption was immediate.
Workflows broke down. Participants found gaps in their ability to execute tasks they previously handled with AI. Without the tool, they realized how many parts of their process had quietly been handed over to the machine.
But the most disturbing finding wasn't about productivity.
It was about people.
When participants needed help during the withdrawal, they refused to ask coworkers. They described asking another human being for assistance as a social burden. They assumed their colleagues would find it tiring and burdensome.
One participant said they avoided asking people questions because they feared being seen as a "finger prince" - a Korean slang term for someone who burdens others with easily searchable questions.
They would rather switch between different AI services, from ChatGPT to Grok, than have a conversation with the person sitting next to them.
ChatGPT didn't just become a tool. It replaced human interaction entirely. And when it was taken away, these workers had forgotten how to reach out to each other.
The researchers described LLM use as "inescapably normative." The participants didn't even realize how dependent they had become until the AI was gone. It had woven itself so deeply into their daily routines that its absence felt disorienting.
But here is what nobody expected.
When forced to work without AI, participants started reclaiming professional values they had lost. They reconnected with their own thinking. Some found that human help was actually more useful than AI had ever been.
One participant said that if the withdrawal had lasted a year, "discussions between people would be more active."
Four days without ChatGPT and they remembered what it felt like to think for themselves.
The question is whether the rest of us ever will.
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@tomorr53 @middle_class_us Genuinely don’t think people know what “Concenience” stores are anymore
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@dadmann_walking Yes. Champions don’t wear shirts, they wear blankets. Apparently.
And then they eat while wrapped in a cream blanket and I lose it.
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does anyone else's teenager wear a blanket around the house instead of a shirt? I hate it so much
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@lilonostitches @VeryBadLlama Yes. That’s the OP’s whole point. You can’t “stock up” on meds like these like some suggest to save money on prescriptions and “being prepared” in case of emergency.
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@VeryBadLlama For controlled meds, it’s simple:
If your prescription has 30 pills, you can refill it after 30 days.
It doesn’t matter if you skipped days or didn’t take it daily. The refill timing is based on how many pills you were given, not how often you personally took them.
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"stock up on your prescription medications"
ma'am I am on a controlled substance, if I so much as smile too much while I'm picking up a refill they make me swear a blood oath that I'm not selling my meds behind the nearest 7/11
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@VeryBadLlama Me trying to refill my adhd meds two days early because I’m leaving for vacation
GIF
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@madisontayt_ Only if you’re not an actress or supermodel 😉
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do you need someone to hold your hand while you wear jeans and shorts?
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I’d argue the new quarter break at the World Cup favors the weaker team. It gives a team being crushed a vital way to stop the momentum and to regroup. In the past, it was, “if we can just make it to halftime.” Now, it may be, “if we can just make it to the quarter.”
Lee McAlilly@leemcalilly
@AlexiLalas I think the extra chance to adjust favors the better team. We saw this with both Belgium and Portugal in this window.
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@eastdesigns1 @ianbergnet @AlexiLalas We shall see. We seemed to have been able to manage without it throughout the history of the WC until now. Hydration break is a nice rebrand of media timeout.
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@PernillaIce @ianbergnet @AlexiLalas Doubt it. These breaks will be a part of any future tournament in the summer. It’s better for the players.
Making them mandatory even in domed stadiums is a fairness measure. Playing a match in a temperature just below the threshold w/o a break vs just above w/ is a disadvantage
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@usmntaut Hydration break is a nice rebrand of “media timeout” 😁
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@PernillaIce We’re already getting that with the hydration breaks 😒
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They’re just going to keep expanding the tournament until Italy qualifies. Can’t wait for the 128 team World Cup in 2034 where Italy loses to Liechtenstein in the playoff.
The Touchline | 𝐓@TouchlineX
🚨💣 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄: FIFA is now seriously considering to make the 2030 tournament a 64-team tournament. Discussions are ongoing internally, with the idea gaining traction despite concerns over scheduling and player workload. Nothing is final yet, but momentum is building.
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@stabmarine @LayoffAI Working the same full time hours as before vs unpaid overtime is lazy?
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@LayoffAI Great attitude....you'll be part of the next wave of firings. Company has no reason to be loyal to lazy employee's simply collecting a paycheck.
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This Reddit post from r/employeesOfOracle is the most important thing you’ll read today.
A surviving employee telling coworkers: do not give a single extra hour. Let the deadlines slip.
This is the part of the layoff cycle nobody talks about.
Company loyalty/culture is dead.
Official Layoff@LayoffAI
There is a lot more to the Oracle layoffs than what meets the eye. Trump stood at the White House in January 2025 and said Stargate would create "100,000 American jobs almost immediately." Larry Ellison was standing next to him. This morning, Oracle -- not just a Stargate partner, but the primary builder and physical operator of every Stargate data center -- sent the first of 30,000 of its own workers a termination email at 6 a.m. No manager was looped in. System access was cut on delivery. The email was signed "Oracle Leadership." Here is the part worth sitting with: The 100,000 jobs Trump announced are construction workers. Concrete. Steel. Cooling systems. Temporary site labor across Texas, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Michigan. Real jobs, yes, but they end when the buildings are done. The 30,000 fired today are software engineers, cloud architects, SaaS operators, healthcare IT workers. The people who built the systems those data centers are being built to run. Permanent careers. Gone in a single email before sunrise. Oracle is not struggling. It posted $6.13 billion in profit last quarter. Up 95% year-over-year. It is cutting workers because it owes $248 billion in data center lease commitments that do not appear on its balance sheet. It is cutting workers because it committed to $50 billion in AI infrastructure spending this fiscal year alone. It is cutting workers because the $300 billion OpenAI contract it signed -- the one that made Ellison briefly the richest person on earth -- does not generate revenue until 2027. Bloomberg reported three weeks ago, citing internal Oracle sources, that the cuts targeted "roles the company expects AI to make redundant." The termination email said "broader organizational change." Oracle told 30,000 employees: organizational change. Oracle told Bloomberg: AI. Oracle told investors: the plan is working. Oracle told America: 100,000 jobs. All four are technically true. Oracle's stock was up 5% while the emails were still landing.
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@LayoffAI Wait wasn’t ai supposed to offset all this work? 😁
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@ianbergnet @AlexiLalas Considering who pays his salary, he has to be for ad breaks. Adapt or die is interesting. It’s only a WC is America thing and then will go back to the way it is.
Capitalism > Football
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@AlexiLalas I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not :) but as breaks are a weird thing to defend imo
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Matt Turner: five saves in a 2-5 loss to Belgium 🇺🇸🇧🇪
Matt Freese: three saves in a 0-2 loss to Portugal 🇺🇸🇵🇹
USMNT fans: put aside the past, or what Pochettino thinks. Who impressed you more in this window?
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@PeterMooreUSA It’s so obnoxious, made worse by our economy and everything being more expensive already. Looked into this stat to make sure it wasn’t cherry picked for clicks. It’s legit. Best part is most parking will be $100-200, this is just for non metro areas prepay.
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It got me thinking…who is this World Cup actually for?
In 1994, I was able to take my family to matches here in the United States. It wasn’t a luxury decision, it was something that felt within reach, and that mattered because that’s how the game grows and that’s how memories are made. I was living in Boston working for Reebok at the time, and so we were able to go to so many games at Foxborough as well as in New York City. In full disclosure, my work also allowed me to travel to games on the West Coast, including the final. While that was not the best shop window for The Beautiful Game it was stunning to see the Rose Bowl fulled to the brim with 94,000 fans.
Now fast forward to 2026.
Imagine a young family here in America today. Mum, dad, two kids who love the game. They sit down and look at the cost of attending just one match…tickets, travel, maybe a night or two in a hotel…and they pause. Not because they don’t love the game enough, it’s because they simply can’t justify it.
in my 45 years living here in the US and being involved in the game at so many different levels, I’ve never seen its popularity spike like it is today. Gen Z has fully embraced the game, Welcome to Wrexham has laid bare the passion and the joy it can ignite in a previously beleaguered community,
and we are spoiled for the choice of just about every major game in the world brought to us by streaming channels fighting for their place in broadcasting live sports.
Or think about a supporter from abroad. Someone who has followed their national team their entire life. For many, this isn’t just a trip, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage.
Between ticket pricing, travel costs, and uncertainty around access, that dream starts to slip out of reach.
That’s the part that sits uneasily with me.
The World Cup has always been more than a tournament. It’s been a gathering of people, cultures, stories. A place where the game feels like it belongs to everyone.
If too many of those people are left watching from afar, we lose something that can’t be measured in revenue. It becomes a made-for-tv spectacle like the Super Bowl, and then we lose the soul of it…
And once that starts to go, it’s very hard to get back.
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@ProspectsUsmnt @noting014 Not a fan of attributing GA to a keeper as a standalone metric (it’s a team sport and there’s a defense supposedly, blabla), but no doubt that kid is one of the best 2010s period, forget just the keeper position.
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Yes, precisely as I said. Dale didn't start the third game. They gave up 2 and then he had to come in to face a PK at the end when the backup was sent off.
Sounders won today with him only giving up one and them winning on PK's (saved the first PK). He has given up 3 total goals in 4 games and change. Not more than one in any game. Some of these saves are ridiculous (I might have a highlight reel after the tournament).
Could be as simple as Sounders have the best chance to win of the MLS teams because they have the best player in the division of the MLS teams.
USMNTProspects@ProspectsUsmnt
Sounders are good and gonna be tough to beat. I think the best MLS team left in the division. I’m speculating here and will confirm at a later point, but of their four matches played they only allowed one goal total in their first, second, and fourth matches of the tournament. Third one they allowed three and I’m gonna guess Jackson Dale (‘10) didn’t play in that one with them already qualified for the next round.
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@Stevinho21 MLS rosters are by mandate ~70% American, it’s just that green card holders count as domestic players too.
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MLS should take note. 60% of rosters should be American. The 3 Canadian teams can do the same
Primo_Calcio@primocalcio
This is what happens when you whore your league out to foreigners. We deserve this.
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