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The French defense hasn’t looked this bad since WW2

waste and fraud

@M_cope1991 Ensure victory and then just giving it away?

This is the most English soccer display I have seen in a while (4 years)

@mikeduncan Fernando Torres is the answer

The answer is Olivier Giroud

Senator Lindsey Graham dying is tragic. At the youthful age of 71 you’d think he would have 3-4 terms left in him

@theiaincameron Another fun one

@theiaincameron And a third

Côte d'Ivoire v Ecuador is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries are named after geographic features you can point to on a map. Ecuador is named after the Equator. Côte d'Ivoire is named after the ivory-trading coast of West Africa. Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

@theiaincameron The other is that Scotland and Haiti are both nations taking up the smaller and more mountainous bit of an island that they share with a more powerful neighbor

In a bar in Houston and it’s like Paris in 1940. Just taken over by Germans

@roblmn The two peoples will stay close after a 2-2 draw

the civil war next thursday will be heartbreaking

@elonmusk I think this is a good selling point for Mars $SPCX

@senor_crappy I’ll root for Germany for any reason I want

Reminder: you root for your home country in World Cup. I don’t want to hear about your semester in Spain 15 years ago or how your great great great great grandmother was born in France.

@anishmoonka Alright so I was having sushi the other night and of course my cat was prowling around. I tried to give him a slice of ginger and he made one of those funny faces. So was that from the smell or the taste?

The research behind this is wild. A cat has about 470 taste buds. You have 9,000. A dog has 1,700. So the cat in this video can barely taste that pancake, and that is the whole reason it sniffs the thing like it might be poison while the dog just bites straight in. Taste barely works for a cat, so it leads with its nose. To a cat, smell is how you tell food from not-food, and safe from dangerous. The sniff you are watching is a safety check. Most of the time, the answer comes back no. The reason runs back thousands of years, to the kind of animal a cat used to be. House cats come from small wild hunters that caught fresh prey, mice, birds, the odd lizard, and ate it on the spot. They did not scavenge or pick through rotting leftovers the way some animals do. So a strange smell has always meant one thing to a cat: possible poison. A cat that has never seen a pancake does not look at it and think food. It might as well be a wad of paper. There is a second catch. Cats cannot taste sweet at all. Scientists found the gene for it is broken in every cat, from your couch cat to lions and tigers. So a sweet, syrupy pancake gives a cat nothing back. The smell is wrong, there is no sweetness to enjoy, and the texture feels off. It checks the thing and walks away. The dog is running the opposite script. Dogs come from animals that lived off scraps near early human camps, and their bodies changed to match. A 2013 study in the journal Nature found that as wolves became dogs, they picked up ten genes for digesting starch, the soft, carb-heavy stuff in bread, rice, and yes, pancakes. Wolves are bad at digesting starch, but dogs got good at it. A dog was practically built to eat our leftovers, and that pancake is close to the exact food that turned a wolf into a dog. Dogs also bolt their food because their ancestors had to. In a pack, anything you left sitting got stolen, so the fast eaters won and passed it down. A dog's 42 teeth are made for grabbing and tearing, not slow tasting. So the dog does not test the pancake. It just bites in. One animal treats every meal like it could be a trap. The other treats every meal like it could get stolen. Both are still running survival rules that were written long before anyone held out a pancake.

I’m sorry. A *what* cob??

Well who is going to woofing tell them otherwise??

This is the best dressing room speeches ever recorded on video, if not the best. Pep is easily the goat

@bryan_maxw46284 people that really understand it have already priced it in. those that dont understand it arent afraid because the media hasnt told them to be afraid. media doesnt tell them to be afraid because they feed them sensationalist news relevant to now because that was already priced in

I don't understand why only a few people, like Mathew Gross, understand just how bad this whole combination of Super El Niño on top of out of control climate change + fertilizer shortages and energy crisis all hitting at the same time is going to actually be. It kind of reminds me of the flooding situation that forecasters were warning about in the Carolinas ahead of Helene- everyone was just kind of like, ok, we get it, there's going to be a lot of rain, but nobody could comprehend just how terrible the situation was going to actually get until 3-4 days after all the missing people couldn't be found alive. If you have any friends in places around the world where famine could hit later this year, please make them aware of how bad it's going to get, and make sure they have a plan to stay alive!

@FromKulak Political dynasty

Patriot

@PardonMyTake I’m sorry, I thought this was America