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@criticalthink36

When you understand the bell curve means half the people and all the politicians are dangerously stupid

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@JamesSurowiecki International teams are all star squads with relatively very little time together. This is why the strategy is simplified and allows for more individual brilliance Any CL squad would run every international side ragged just through their technical unity and team discipline
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James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki·
The idea that soccer is more complex than football is just comically inaccurate. In football, you see teams with inferior talent regularly win games because they have better schemes and smarter playcallers. That almost never happens in soccer, and when it does the scheme is almost always "park the bus and hope to steal a set-piece goal or win on penalties."
Erik Dale 🇳🇴@EuroDale

Frankly, I doubt it. Football is far more complex than eggball. Just because you managed to master an 11 minute turn-based game of brute force and scripted plays doesn't mean you could excel at a continuous, flowing one that demands elite touch, vision, stamina, and IQ from every single player for 90+ minutes. The same way dominating Monopoly doesn't make you a potential real estate mogul. If the US thinks it can compete, build a grassroots football culture, an open league system, and clubs capable of attracting and challenging the best youngsters. It would take decades, but it's feasible if you stop wasting energy on games no one else wants to play or watch. Good luck 🤞

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@nftholbein @DanNeidle Asset management companies with billions are moving house prices way more than billionaires These companies would be the ideal vehicle to fund the massive building of council housing, a robust profit sharing contract also provides both parties with long term assets
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G Wizz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿@nftholbein·
@DanNeidle I thought you came across well Dan. I do think Gary will be proven right on this issue even if his solution isn’t the right one. People fear wealth tax because it forces investment out, but that’s kind of the point. Billionaires sell up, house prices come down.
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Dan Neidle@DanNeidle·
I don't usually write personal stuff, but a few words about my experience of being interviewed by Gary Stevenson. It started with a nice chat, comparing taste in hoodies... then the tone changed. He demanded to know why I'd deleted a tweet criticising him.
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@alexjmingolla Non transferable skill sets Forget the ball skills You can’t sprint for 45min, but you need to sprint for 45min or the other guy will Think about the build required to sprint for that time, any big guy who still competes with all the other skills required is once a generation
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alexjm 🇺🇸@alexjmingolla·
Europeans still misunderstand this argument. There are ~192 wide receivers in the NFL. These guys are 6+ feet tall, fast, strong, quick feet, powerful jump, great reflexes, elite positioning, spatial IQ etc. We’re not saying if you gave them a soccer ball today they’d outscore Haaland. But if you gave those 192 NFL receivers a ball at their feet instead of in their hands at 5 years old, and you trained them to be strikers with the same intensity that took them to the NFL? I promise you’d have at least one elite number 9 among the bunch.
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Haaland is what Americans mean when we say our bigger, stronger, faster athletes play other sports instead of soccer but if they focused on it they’d be elite.

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@Living4aLiving_ Ball skills buddy, you have been arguing with bots You can be small and fast see many examples You can be big, fast, strong and good on the ball but it’s much rarer! Being fast gives you way more of an advantage than size or strength But it’s all about a ball at your feet?
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Joey Bradley
Joey Bradley@Living4aLiving_·
Europeans love arguing that you don’t have to be an “athlete” (big/fast/strong) to play soccer and use Messi as the example but never bring up Ronaldo (pt/br), Haaland, Zidane, Henry, Zlatan, Kane, Mbappe or Ronaldinho who were all 6’+ Messi is the exception to the rule
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@anon_opin They spray and wax the fruit & veg Pump meat full of water and preservatives Put yoga mat in the bread Cardboard in the cereals Bovar in the milk Palm oil in the chocolate But yeah stop selling the ciggies
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Anon Opin.@anon_opin·
Asda, Tesco, Morrisons: follow the example set by Lidl and ALDI, stop selling tobacco.
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@ghoastdad We were laughing at the ex prison guard ‘mock’ worrying about the law 🤡😂🤡😂
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@Anarseldain I dont think doing it with shamans in the Amazon is the same as getting off your tits in Thailand with a belly full of yaba! Swimming is great but only if you can swim, don’t jump in the Atlantic if it’s your first time!
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Sólionath@Anarseldain·
Really a very bleak, sad story. Absolutely do not mess around with psychedelics, it is not worth it. Joe Rogan tried to convince a bunch of normies to take the strongest, most ridiculous psychedelic out there, and many never recover.
Kiwi Farms@KiwiFarmsDotNet

Connor Murphy, fitness influencer, has died of drowning in Thailand at the age of 32. Local news media reports he went on a "rampage" painting the interior of luxury rental apartment, rolled around on asphalt, and then walked into a lake. kiwifarms.st/threads/connor…

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@fadule_ If he had 6 years to practice he’s never going to be able to hit a half volley, that’s why you need to start when you are 2/3
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@Keats_90 @TwinPistons_MC @IanCarrollShow @angertab No simpleton it’s a thought exercise Can you understand one concept and apply it other situations and circumstances Some primates can do this! You however appear unable
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Ian Carroll@IanCarrollShow·
Matt @angertab Tardio wants you to know that because bullets are not Jooish space lasers it’s actually quite simple for them to come in at a downward angle, strike in the lower right throat, then turn upwards to strike C2, then turn again to travel directly down into the heart to stop the heart. This is just standard terminal ballistics and if you don’t understand that - it’s probably because you’re a peasant that works a normal job. And you must hate joos.
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Matt Tardio@angertab

Ian, thank you for demonstrating your lack of knowledge with terminal ballistics and basic physics. The top portion of the tip of the projectile strikes first and generates resistance. The lower half of the tip does not. This begins to level out and adjust the direction of the projectile through it's terminal phase. Without 10 min worth of typing, this should help you with your research on terminal ballistics. Bullets are not jooish space lasers.

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@Keats_90 @TwinPistons_MC @IanCarrollShow @angertab Its the resistance that matters You understand even wind can change the trajectory right? So skin is a lot more dense than air This is an example to illustrate the theory! Now can you apply it to the current situation? It’s like an intelligence test
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@signulll International football is just an all star team tournament but they are representing their country They train daily for club competition and that’s why domestic football is where the excitement and entertainment is The WC is a tribal event
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signüll@signulll·
the reason why soccer’s not a thing in america is because its entertainment payoff distribution has a mode near zero. you can sit through 90 min & the modal outcome is nothing fucking happens. american sports solved this with guaranteed event frequency… e.g. baseball gives you a discrete resolution every ~30 sec, & american football every play. the floor is high even when the ceiling is low. while soccer is a lottery ticket.. you occasionally get mexico/england, otherwise you get the snoozefest that was portugal vs spain.
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@tdgator9 The societal aspect of kicking a ball before you can walk trumps converting athletes no matter their size But on Haaland he is an extremely rare talent! There are a handful of big guys who possess the ball skill and even fewer with the composure infront of goal like 1/2 global
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Haaland is what Americans mean when we say our bigger, stronger, faster athletes play other sports instead of soccer but if they focused on it they’d be elite.
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@mitch_fretton It’s still corrupt but they used exactly the same article to suspend Ronaldo’s ban at the start of the tournament
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Mitch Fretton
Mitch Fretton@mitch_fretton·
I’m sorry but is this not blatant corruption by FIFA? There’s absolutely no premise for them to suspend a red card ban, especially in the knockout rounds, I’d be absolutely raging if I was Belgium…
Ben Jacobs@JacobsBen

🚨 Folarin Balogun is eligible to play against Belgium. FIFA sources had insisted US Soccer had no appeal. Sources say US Soccer did not attempt one as a result. And Balogun had spoken on Monday here in Seattle about missing the game telling us, “I have to accept it…” Yet FIFA have decided to hand Balogun a suspended one-game ban, which is in their powers as per Article 27. The red card stands but Balogun is free to play. Cristiano Ronaldo also given a suspended ban before the tournament allowing him to play Portugal’s opening World Cup games.

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@tomhfh Can someone explain what exactly would be different if the Labour Party and now government were to be penetrated by a nefarious foreign agency? It’s hard to tell what might be done differently
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@ManitobaSAO @catsiesxx Its great that you think the cyclist is mentally infirm and has a carer 😂😂
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Sean Olson@ManitobaSAO·
Hmmm… One looks mentally infirm, thus one is likely their care taker, so that’s two of them who “could” be argued to have a reason to be there, reading levels and such. The third guy, the one to the left, is clearly there to hog the charging station, leaving me wondering about outlet accessibility. Thus only one guy is in there “without a reason” and I’m going to assume it’s because you’ve cropped out their kids they’re there with. FAIL ON YOU, good sir!
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catsies@catsiesxx·
Speaking of men who take over spaces that weren't meant for them... This is a separate, cordoned-off "teen area" at my library. It has a single entrance that is clearly marked "TEEN," and the shelves contain only books for teens. There are ALWAYS 2–4 grown men lounging inside.
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@InspGadgetBlogs Its a sad fact that videos gain far more traction on the internet When there is footage of police being attacked the public are rightly outraged see Manchester airport
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@gbrl_dick In any other time it’s called a ‘bloodless coup’
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Gabriel@gbrl_dick·
am i understanding this correctly: starmer (oxford, left) is a “human rights” barrister who won a landslide election for labour two years ago. his platform? managed decline. since then he hasn’t done anything. nonetheless he has become very unpopular. burnham (cambridge, right), former MP, was mayor of manchester and has become the avatar of working class dissatisfaction. a sort of cockwomble, glastonbury mamdani type with less vision. a few months ago, labour frustration with starmer grew to the point that an MP resigned his seat so that burnham, then still mayor, could have it, giving him the chance to challenge starmer for the leadership. seeing that burnham won the seat, starmer immediately resigned, presumably to avoid the shame of losing to a northerner, clearing the way for pm burnham. his platform? also managed decline but everyone has to go to Manchester occasionally.
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@Rob_ThaBuilder Have you held a football boot recently? They weigh about the same as a whisper
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The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦@Rob_ThaBuilder·
Dunno if this is a Mandella effect, but I could've sworn soccer players used to wear big bilky shinpads under their socks. Now they dont seem to wear shinpads at all, lots wear low socks and bare shins. What happened there?
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@the_jefferymead Capitalism is a free system with so many possibilities that even socialism is possible within it Socialism needs to be forced upon everyone with so few possibilities that even thought of alternatives is murderous dissent
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Jeffery Mead
Jeffery Mead@the_jefferymead·
This post must go so hard if you’re stupid. Capitalism didn’t just build the iPhone, it made it possible. Capitalism raised the capital, took the risk, and coordinated the vision. Labor showed up because that capital arrived first. No capital, no factory. No factory, no jobs. Capitalism > Socialism every single time.
Power to the People ☭🕊@ProudSocialist

The greatest tweet of all time.

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@RichardHanania The same logic would imply your lack of donation has killed people!
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Richard Hanania
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania·
You post something about Elon fans, and they just respond doing the exact thing you said they're doing without even realizing it. They literally can't think. They don't sit there and follow an argument. A implies B, etc. They have vague word association. "Libs are hypocrites" and then if you mention something tangentially related to the narrative, they repeat the same thing. Yes, I have deep contempt for these types. What other reaction is appropriate?
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