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@lazlototh67

I am a white-adjacent caucasian. I was Joe Biden's stochastic taxidermist (whatever that is) but I am not responsible for his debate performance.

In your head. Katılım Şubat 2010
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
The reason we can host a World Cup is because although the % of people who care about it in the US is small the size of the nation makes that small percentage into a large absolute number - still, I live in the NY area and the last time it had the World Cup most people even here weren't aware unless they saw a headline in the sports pages, and I suspect the upcoming one will be similar. I'm pretty typical in my lack of interest - though I DO give most soccer ("football") players credit for being normally proportioned and not looking like the circus freaks in pro football and basketball.
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
Yes, expecting you to field a competitive team in baseball is even more unrealistic than expecting the US to field a competitive cricket team. Which reminds me that watching cricket games in NYC on a weekend always cracks me up because there are so many players from different nations that hate each other but they manage to play cricket together. What a shame nobody is ever able to leverage sports to achieve greater harmony, but history says that's a pipe dream.
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
Well, even as an American I tip my imaginary hat to the Venezuelan team even if they're professionals. Since I don't care about baseball that much in some ways I'm even happier for them than if the US had won - Venezuela is a nation that needs things to be happy about and this year it now has two of them. I hope it can one day get back to its greatness as one of the best-off Latin American nations.
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
Olympic ice hocky and basketball are the same. Despite the hypocrisy of forced amateurism and keeping gifted athletes poorer just to be Olympians, I think something was lost when all the pros started dominating all the team sports and countries could lure people to their teams with money. I feel the same way about college athletics - the idea that the NCAA made gazillions off athletes who couldn't even market their names was ridiculous but it's so different now that it'll take me awhile to figure out if I think the new situation is better or worse for those of us who watch, even if I'm happy for the players who no longer have to spend 3-4 years risking a career-ending injury in order to get some financial security.
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
Hard to be embarrassed by not having a great team in a sport nobody here is interested in. As far back as 1965 our coaches kept trying to shame us into liking it - "soccer - called football everywhere else - is the MOST POPULAR GAME EVERYWHERE BUT HERE!" The shaming didn't work. We were still bored out of our skulls. Even today kids abandon soccer the first chance they get to play US football. The common statement here is "in the US, soccer is the game of the future and always will be." The absence of a good team doesn't interest most of us, and the rest of the world loving doesn't bother us. But it's still puzzling when people get angry or critical at us for not being soccer ("football") fanatics.
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
Even if I still followed football, my local teams are the Jets and the Giants - look up their records over the past few years and you'll see why there's no appeal. Football is useful for workouts though - the stop-start tempo and the tension of how the clock is used build muscle tension AND distract so they game is useful for that if you can find a game you care about on youtube (works for me because I never watch them live).
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
Mine's in decent shape; the one before, rough equivalent model, had 230k miles when I disposed of it so my hope is this one has 100k left, but I drive far less now too and when I do it's almost always just retirement-drive entertainment with my wife. It was back in 1973 when the cost issue hit me - an older guy said "I don't care if gas goes to a dollar (it was 37 cents at the time) - it's still be one of the smallest expenses of owing a car!" That really stuck with me after he went through a breakdown of the other expenses. But cars give us freedom and privacy, which explains why the totalitarian mind hates them.
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Poi@poiThePoi·
@lazlototh67 @alanthefisher I mean, my car's blue book value literally cannot go lower, it's a $400 junk car with 3 rust holes. And yet, bits keep falling off at a rate where it would be slightly cheaper to buy new. /Not counting insurance which would um. Heh.
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Alan Fisher
Alan Fisher@alanthefisher·
Because a decent chunk of Real Estate in this country relies on cheap gas. Its only accessible via car, and because of its low density its built far away from real job centers. This means that the value of these properties would tank if the price of gas/energy rises to the point where commuting from these places costs more than the saved value of moving out here to own these homes
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Idk why gas prices are so culturally salient in america. You could drive an hour a day and it probably comes to less than $3k/year. Is it because they put the price on billboards along the road?

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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
Interesting calculation, likely more accurate than mine. I figure my car costs 50 cents/mile because it's fully depreciated (10 years old, 140k miles) but I bet if I was more precise even with depreciation you're likely closer than I am. I persuaded my wife to have groceries delivered after showing her the out-of-pocket per mile cost (albeit some are semi-fixed like insurance) and then said add in her time at just NY minimum wage. It persuaded her and now we almost never go to the grocery store - also reduces impulse purchases. But the value of time is by far the most important.
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Poi@poiThePoi·
@alanthefisher Driving is 70 cents per mile and raising the gas price to $6 from $3 only raises that to 80 cents.
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
Because the comment was made by one more Canadian sorehead desperately hoping we'd be unhappy about a game most of us didn't even know was happening and then when we found out didn't begrudge the winners for outplaying and outscoring our own team, in a game that had already happened and didn't affect the world.
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
@mwbeck6 @PatrickByrne @SikhFeminist @KProtein19 Actually I didn't realize you were just another Jew-hating loser or I would've just pointed out that you're the Jew-hating loser you are. All Jew-haters meet horrible ends. You've already met a horrible end just by having to be you.
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Jo Kaur
Jo Kaur@SikhFeminist·
Israeli settlers are civilians. Ordinary people who resemble the modern day KKK. They're not soldiers. They're often Jewish Zionists who have arrived in Israel from Brooklyn or wherever to rape, assault, steal from, discriminate against, torture, and murder Palestinians in the West Bank for shits and giggles. And completely get away with it. They are racist, violent, and extremely dangerous.
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Israeli settlers have increasingly used violence against Palestinians in a bid to drive them from their homes in the occupied West Bank. But sexual assault appears to be a new weapon in these settlers’ arsenal of intimidation, pointing to a troubling new level of violence. cnn.it/4du8vj6

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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
Pretty much every sport has multiple "world championships" so the arguments can be entertaining but really have no meaning. The World Cup in soccer is probably as official as a true "world championship" as there is but I'm not really sure about it since I don't follow soccer. The rest of the issue is fun to argue but the only meaning it has here is when angry Canadians can try to make themselves happy because Venezuela got a well-earned victory against our US team and they don't get why our existence isn't centered on a game that already happened, won by a nation that we want to prosper and rid itself of its thugocracy.
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Asomrof O@ReallyaNot·
@lazlototh67 @parkinscroat I saw many Japanese people there so, it’s like saying Liverpool is the world champions is football and therefore England is world champions hahaha
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
@TonyLaneNV More fake airline skits. Anyone with that allergy would take many more precautions before the flight, and as always there is nothing identifying an airline anywhere in the video.
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Tony Lane 🇺🇸
Tony Lane 🇺🇸@TonyLaneNV·
THIS IS WILD… Passenger says United denied a simple request that could literally save their life. Severe peanut allergy. One exposure = possible fatal reaction. All they asked for? A small buffer zone on the plane. Instead… they were told to basically deal with it and “email the company.” On a packed flight where people are eating inches away… That’s not a minor issue. That’s life or death. Do airlines have a responsibility here… or is this asking too much? ⬇️ 🇺🇸
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
@mwbeck6 @PatrickByrne @SikhFeminist @KProtein19 Someday this will all be cleared up when enlightened Palestinians make a "land acknowledgment" the way leftists in the US do all the time towards Native American tribes they believe had title to the land long ago.
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
I was keenly aware of that because I was at my laptop and it was a long, iterative interaction and I'm not sure it was even copyable - it wasn't one of those simple "grok is this real?" episodes and at first Grok wasn't readily agreeing til I pointed out what I saw. So your response isn't at all unexpected, but if you go into grok yourself and ask questions about genuineness you'll get the same responses. What jumps out initially is 2 people who seem to be walking casually to their cars and don't change pace, even when somoene supposedly is on top of the wall and jumps off running. But the repeated explosions in one place that don't look like rocket hits was what jumped out most.
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Patrick Henningsen
Patrick Henningsen@21WIRE·
ISRAEL: Looks like all chosen flights are canceled at Ben Gurion Airport. Currently getting hammered by Iranian missiles. For the second straight week, Trump still insists Iran’s military is “totally defeated”…
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
@watadam20 Guy with murderous homophobic asshole extraordinire Che Guevara as a hero hates us. Oh no. Oh no.
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Adam Watkinson 🌹
Adam Watkinson 🌹@watadam20·
Americans have so little introspective capability, they have no idea that this is why most of the rest of the world hates them. Hell they probably don’t even realise how hated they actually are.
lazlo tooth@lazlototh67

Well, the Dodgers ARE the world champions of professional baseball, having beaten - well, YOU know whom they beat. Like the other American-created game, basketball, baseball has spread enough that American dominance is not guaranteed, any more than it is guaranteed that an American born person will be the CEO of a successful American technology company. This is good for the sport since there's uncertainty in the outcome and that makes for a better game, and Americans don't begrudge a Venezuela win when it was a fair and square victory that resulted from superb playing. The reality is we know we have to EARN a victory to win in a sport whose popularity has spread so far that many of the very best players are not American. We don't believe we're entitled to victory the way many Canadians seem to feel about their hockey team.

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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
Yes, that was the point I'm making - it's similar to sports in that we don't feel entitled to something over people who came here from elsewhere unless we can do a better job than them. If someone from India has the skills and drive to be the best CEO of an American company, they can and should be the CEO. Same with anyone from another country competing for any sports position.
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lazlo tooth@lazlototh67·
@Khiva1 That's quite a leap when discussing a single individual's long ago contribution. I don't even follow basketball and haven't since the late 1960s in any meaningful way.
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