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@gvvenk @florianederer FIFA now has the arrogance to believe that people are just waiting for a chance to be screwed over...as if that doesn't happen enough in our lives every day. There is no prestige in showing the world that you are a moron. The seats in the CWC were empty; that was the warning. 2/2

@RPTXMBA @florianederer In 94’, FIFA needed to raise the profile of the game. Nowdays, most Americans are aware and the immigrants from the 1990s on have kept their interest in the sport and will happily pay premium price. A lot have no qualms with getting shafted. Some see it as a sign of prestige.

Yesterday available FIFA inventory suddenly dropped from 74k to 30k tickets. It's the post-Covid US ticketing model: 1) start with high prices 2) slowly release inventory 3) occasionally remove supply 4) steer seats to hospitality 5) only cut prices if absolutely necessary

@gvvenk @florianederer Yes, and no. FIFA left the US alone in 94 because they knew they had to, and the US blew away all records for attendance and profitability -- which stood until they expanded the number of teams (and thus games) in the tournament. 1/2

@mattpressberg It isn't 1996 any more. Soccer is massive in this country, full stop. Americans watch more soccer every week than people in any other nation around the world, by a lot. US clubs are valued in the billions now. The WC would be sold out with Americans if we weren't getting robbed.

A lot of people missing the point in my replies. Soccer isn’t a massively popular sport in 🇺🇸, but there are enough fans and general sports enthusiasts in this huge, affluent country to fill stadiums easily at an appropriate price point (~$100 for most group stage matches)

I blame FIFA for this. The US is a mass affluent country where wealthy people can afford pricey tickets but are generally sensitive to ripoffs. FIFA is pricing this for the type of country with a small hereditary elite class who is comfortable with being treated as human ATMs.

@mattpressberg My wife and I sent to 6 games (before we were married) in 1994. We had planned to attend several this time around, until we saw the offensive and outrageous ticket prices. FIFA have ruined the Cup because of their arrogance and disdain for Americans.

@wiley_knows @SamaHoole I think that was part of his point. It isn't recent data, but for reasons both benign and nefarious, people still don't know about it -- especially the doctors they are relying on for sound advice.

@SamaHoole This is very old news. Thanks anyway.

In 2019, a paper landed in Scientific Reports, a Nature journal, that should have ended a forty-year argument. It didn't. The reasons are instructive. The study followed 12.8 million Korean adults for nearly a decade. 694,423 of them died in the dataset. It is one of the largest cholesterol cohorts ever assembled. It asked, simply, what total cholesterol level is associated with the lowest risk of death. The doctrine the study walked into is one almost everyone reading this has heard from their doctor. Lower is better. Get the number under 200. If you cannot get it there with diet, get it there with a statin. This advice underpins one of the most-prescribed drug classes on the planet. The data found a U-shaped curve. Above 200 mg/dL, mortality rose as cholesterol rose. Below 200 mg/dL, mortality rose as cholesterol fell. The bottom of the curve, the cholesterol level at which Koreans were least likely to die, sat at 210 to 249 mg/dL, which is to say, in the range your doctor currently calls "borderline high" and recommends treating. The age-dependent finding is what should make a clinician sweat. In adults aged 65 to 74, each 1 mmol/L higher cholesterol below 200 mg/dL was associated with 20% lower all-cause mortality. In adults 75 to 99, 13% lower. Among the people most likely to be prescribed a statin and chased toward a low number, the data found that the people with higher cholesterol were the ones still alive at follow-up. This is not a fringe blog. It is the largest cohort of its kind ever published, in a Nature journal, on PubMed since 2019. A 2016 systematic review in BMJ Open, by Ravnskov and colleagues, pooled 19 cohort studies covering 68,094 elderly people on the same question. In 92% of the participants in those cohorts, the people with the highest LDL cholesterol lived the longest. The advice your doctor gives an elderly relative is, in most of the world, to drive the cholesterol down. The two largest pieces of evidence on what actually happens to elderly people at different cholesterol levels say the opposite. These are not arguments. They are observational findings, repeated, in independent populations, by independent researchers, in mainstream peer-reviewed journals. None of it is on the leaflet at the pharmacy. The leaflet was written before the data arrived, and nobody has been particularly keen to rewrite it.

@TheBabylonBee I thought you guys were supposed to be a Fake News satire site...

@elonmusk @SciGuySpace Yes, 100%. Do it!

@SciGuySpace Maybe we should make a “Hungry Hippo” version of Starship one day to collect and de-orbit spent rocket stages and other space junk

This is going to be a problem. arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/…

@BWWings Too bad this is only on a few of your appetizers. Tried to take advantage of it yesterday but I don't need that many cheese sticks...

16 days left: Bottomless Apps deal for $9.99 FOR YOUR GROUP, NOT PER PERSON, ENDS June 10th.

@AlexiLalas Obscene and offensive ticket prices, mainly...

Hello, Sunshine. World Cup kicks off in 22 days. What are we yelling about?

@SenRandPaul I believe this is the missing link to finally bring down Dr. Fauci's corruption. Can you get these royalty payments made public? It seems inconceivable that the law allows them to be kept secret. Incentives will tell the rest of the story.

Please publish all of the pharma royalty payments made to NIH/CDC employees since 2014. The public needs to see who profited personally from the public vax mandates. NO reason for these to be kept secret. @SecKennedy @elonmusk @POTUS @JDVance

@TheLaurenChen You left out “from California“.

There are really leftists trying to argue that the gay, black teacher with a BlueSky account is actually rightwing. Guys be for real.

@ThePatriotOasis Great. Now do the SAVE America act.

🚨 SENATE BREAKTHROUGH AT DAWN! Republicans just PASSED their budget reconciliation package for ICE and CBP through the Senate in a 50-48 vote at 3:30 AM. After 68 days, the partial shutdown of DHS comes to an end.

@elonmusk @nypost No, it won't. But if somehow it does...we are all 100% screwed, and your efforts to "save free speech and humanity" will have been completely for naught. Game over. You are so, so rarely wrong. Such a great thinker -- but you couldn't be more wrong if you tried on this one.

@nypost It will happen

Elon Musk's proposal of 'universal high income' to combat AI job losses baffles economists: 'So wrong on this' trib.al/OMUOuCz

@AustinJustice In a just world, this Judge is (a) removed immediately from the bench, and (b) prosecuted and convicted and incarcerated for involuntary manslaughter.

A judge in Austin had three separate chances to send Jaheim Neal to prison before he killed Larissa Herold. She denied every one. Neal was on plea-deal probation for a 2020 aggravated kidnapping and robbery. In the meantime, he picked up arrests for assault, drugs, and a bunch of other crimes. The DA filed three motions to revoke. Judge Chantal Eldridge denied all three. One Saturday last fall, 26-year-old Larissa was stopped at a red light at Parmer and Mopac, driving home from volunteering at a community garden. Neal was on the service road - speeding with no valid license, on alcohol and cocaine and pot. He jumped multiple barriers and slammed into her car. She died at the scene. Since 2021, Travis County judges have denied 68% (or 5,400) of motions to revoke probation or deferred adjudication. Occasionally, an Austin prosecutor will try to put away a violent offender, but it’s the judge who sends them back to the streets. Larissa was a mechanical engineer with two UT degrees. Her father still keeps her plants in the front room of his house. "She was my daughter, she was my friend," he said. Great reporting by @BriHollisNEWS and @hueyjayd - link in replies.

@HaroldWren22 I agree, and hope you are correct. This cannot just be about a "nuclear deal" at this point. Like it or not, we must finish the job so that there are no remnants of the regime left alive and in any position of power or influence. The Iranian people will then decide their fate.

First observation: there will be no deal. The ceasefire will end & the war will re-commence. Second observation: the US has been flooding the Theater with reinforcements, resupplies & performing maintenance on air assets non-stop, & re-arming warships. The force is ready & its larger than its ever been. Third observation: every key player left in the regime surfaced from their hide holes & safe houses during this ceasefire. The regime ‘negotiation’ team sent to stall America. The IRGC thugs who showed up in Islamabad to stop the Iranian Regime delegation from making any deals. The midlevel staffers going between the IRGC thug leadership & the IRGC cannon fodder still shooting at ships. All of them broke cover & came back up on the grid. From that point on, they were visible to the human intelligence networks watching them, the persistent ISR assets watching 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without pause— spy satellites, stealth & non stealth drones, manned reconnaissance aircraft. From the moment this ceasefire started, everyone who is a key player in Iran’s continued resistance came back on the grid & have been surveilled ever since. The intelligence mosaic is fully fleshed out & these targets are being tracked in real time, and the strike plans created with the help of AI are already set & planned. When the ceasefire ends, the strikes will be begin with such rapid speed, & precision it will be much more savage & fearsome than the first round. Fourth observation: Iran received drones, SAM missile systems & radars & intelligence from China during this ceasefire & this is still ongoing. This is what’s driving the remnants of the IRGC to continue the war. They do not fully comprehend what is set to take place, or how completely unable to counter it or survive it they are. That’s partly due to history, partly due to institutional arrogance of IRGC, & partly & most importantly because China & Russia simply do not understand our full capabilities— in terms of intelligence collection, planning, speed we can act on those things, & how good our situational awareness of the battlefield is. That last one is the key: the disconnect— how clear & complete our granular picture all the way up to the grand strategic picture is, compared to how blinded & how fragmented the situational awareness of the Iranians is. That last part is what really, really scares Russia & China— the vast gap in cognitive capabilities & situational awareness capabilites between the US & them scares them because its a gap they cant bridge, & beyond that the speed we can act on that clear picture is something they cant match. This war is going to restart after the ceasefire ends, & all hell is going to break loose— & the ferocity of what comes next is going to genuinely surprise the IRGC fanatics driving events in this direction.

@DonroeDoctrine1 @BenjaminDEKR Your point about spending on daily necessities is valid, but I think Elon's premise on AI/robotics actually overwhelms deflation when it comes to capital investment. If savings grow at 1% a month, but investing in AI/robots yields 5% a month, then investment still occurs.

@RPTXMBA @BenjaminDEKR It will slow long term investment, but day to day consumer spending doesnt care if you can save 10% in a year, you need your food and new TV now.

So why don't we just...... let this predicted deflation happen?

@GmorganJr Yours being one of them, I take it…?

I see a lot of comments from people who obviously don’t understand his argument.

@imPenny2x Utter nonsense. Human nature rules all else. Your assertion that "this time, it is different!" fails the test of "has it ever been true before?" Compared to 100 years ago, or 1000, we live "in abundance", yet UBI ALWAYS fails...because that isn't how economics works.

99% of people really do not understand abundance as Elon describes it. The fundamental reason is that they don’t understand compound growth. Same people who would probably pick 1 million dollars today over a penny that doubles in value every day for 30 days. It’s a bad choice by the way. You lose out on millions. Imagine if that doubling object was a labor producing robot instead of a penny. Compounding labor. It’s actually crazy if you try and wrap your mind around it. So Elon mentions Universl High Income and the midwits flip a lid. “The elites won’t share” You don’t get it. They won’t need to share. They will make everything so cheap, it is effectively free. Charities will have immense resources to distribute. Unfathomable intelligence will exist to help optimize production and distribution. An unfathomably large labor pool will exist that operates on solar power exclusively. The public work projects that are erected will be unseen before levels of breathtaking. I think we are incredibly blessed to steward this new age of abundance. Can you see it now? Can you see the future?

@BenjaminDEKR Of course, that isn't what happens. Some things get cheaper (e.g. computing power) and others get more expensive (e.g. homes). And holding cash when investment is the most important economic driver would be foolish. The market will sort it out; let it do so! 2/ @elonmusk