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God I hate Austin. I hate the way they play.
You jump into a time machine and wind up in 1982. Who do you go see? Pick your top 3-5. Queen Talking Heads Genesis Blondie Heart (with John Cougar!)
Just want to point out that was some extremely good teamwork by the ref crew there. Ball popped up and hit the Austin attacker in the hand, but Maruffoâs view was screened. 4th official had a clear view and let him know on the comms system.
That pass⌠whew. I need a cigarette
Wonder what Elon will have to say. Last time he got pissed at Trump, he told us about Trump being in the Epstein files
Many of your grandparents were the original Antifa. They fought against the Nazis on the beaches of Normandy and in the forests of Ardennes. They literally helped save the world from the scourge of fascism. Today, under this regime, they would be declared terrorists. Let it sink in.
A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
The recession is already here and theyâre just coming to realize it.
These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
Unless you believe in the First Amendment, that is.
We are now witnessing the start of what might be seen as Phase 2 of Trumpâs efforts to eradicate political opposition. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-phase-2-now-begins
Ouch.
NEW: The messages on the bullets are from a video game called Helldivers2. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-the-me...
This will go unstated during all the coverage of Tyler Robinson, but once again we have a case where the shooter was apprehended not because of the competence of the FBI or law enforcement, but because someone turned him in. The expensive and intrusive mass surveillance tools didnât do a thing here.
How much do you reckon a reasonably motivated, sociable American with barely A2 Spanish could make working for, say, a real estate agency? (Asking for a friend)
For some reason in Apple Music Iâm getting alt-text on the album photos and it kind of kicks ass
Support your stateâs universal healthcare plan. Help get it on the ballot, volunteer, donate; whatever you can do. If Nordic countries can each make it work, with populations similar to our states, so can we. Hereâs an example from one of the Western Health Alliance states: wholewashington.org
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
The United States Supreme Court saying that it's perfectly fine for federal agents and the police to make indiscriminate stops and interrogations of people based on their color, race, ethnicity, and the language that they speak is the effective end of civil rights in this country.
the lesson is that the billionaires that keep exploiting the hell out of everyone and getting more billions are the ones doing it right! Elon: "you should be a billionaire" Me: "I won a billion bucks and blew it all at the track and on cars and booze and hookers" Bezos: "Not like THAT"
I make a lot of poor financial choices but let me make them with significantly more money please.
lol right? I mean, I'd buy a soccer club, without question- but it would be one that I knew I could run for years without losing my fortune. Nice second or third division setup somewhere and try to get promoted and just break even year to year. And I'd lump a bunch into a family trust forever.
Found a view of the city i never saw before, on my walk. Gorgeous.
this is a chance I'll just have to take www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
how are they an Airbnb but also have a blown-over fence and overgrown yard? does it rent for like 30 bucks a night or something? Anyway yeah go spike that thing
I've usually found that SofaScore is pretty good, they typically have a section listing where a game can be seen.
Argentina is supposedly still on Paramount + worldsoccertalk.com/superliga-ar...
Brazil is fragmented, with some teams in one bloc that has one deal (Amazon Prime, www.sportspro.com/news/brasile...) and one bloc that has a different deal. Someone called Fanatiz- worldsoccertalk.com/tv/fanatiz-s... It's out there somewhere.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . âŹď¸ âŹď¸ âŹď¸ .
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
a lot of the stuff on the PK was just shithousery to try and ice the kicker, IMO. Get a couple of guys in the ref's face so that way someone else can go get in the kicker's face. CR7 handled it perfectly, stepping up and pretending to be the guy, while Alex went over and just waited patiently.
Busquets lost it too, among others. I always thought he was a bit more level-headed than that. Guess they just couldn't handle getting thumped.
He cannot retire too soon. He does this thing where he steps on your foot so you can't get away, then pulls his shenannigans. Sooner or later someone's going to take his block off and I hope there's video. But hey, we won, he's getting suspended, life is good when you're the champs
I swear I hate the solar industry. These guys go out of their way to make stuff more complicated than it needs to be. Trying to get a quote from EcoFlow for a battery backup is turning out to be a pain in the ass- I've explained to the guy three times precisely what I want and he doesn't get it.
Suarez going after Obed Vargas is what touched off the melee
And the common thread in all of that? Yup: Brian Schmetzer.
When this guy finally retires, Iâm going to sob big ugly tears into my scarf. With all due respect to Zach Scott, Brian Schmetzer is Mr. Sounder.
I just want to say how delighted I am that we beat them so completely that Suarez did something dumb.
He isnât wrong tho
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This is a fantastic thread.
What do you call mass hysteria but that is the opposite of panicking? Mass wishteria?
A month ago my kid didnât know what one was. Now sheâs expecting one for her birthday, and worse, I think her cousin got it for her.
This angle of De Ro's goal đą
Totally agree there. Youâd think if anyone knows that stupid shit can happen when you go flying off your feet, itâs Nouhou. No teriyaki for him this week.
No, itâs Nouhouâs responsibility to control his body during a challenge. But Nouhou didnât go in studs up, either. He got ball and lightly got the guy on a follow through. Itâs a yellow. Definition of reckless. Shame on the VAR. Very CONCACAF.
You have the last one!
Yes
Well, you have to play in control. But thatâs just not âwith brutalityâ or âendangering the safetyâ. He just catches him a bit on the follow through. Terrible, terrible call.
This is terrible. This is not a red. Itâs reckless and should have been a yellow, but not red.
Curious if that was fallout from an ultimatum from when he pulled them aside earlier? Either way, that was super weak
I think it was. I think he probably told them âno more, knock this stupid stuff offâ and then they kept at it so he figured âokay, screw you guysâ Itâs a way of stamping some authority on the game, for sure.
Angulo is one of the most frustratingly talented players in MLS - he could've headed off all that late drama by simply hitting the target on this first-half breakaway, where he and MartĂn Ojeda sliced open Miami's brittle defense. Again: You have to shovel dirt on the Herons when you get the chance
âNo. Meek-ah-lohb ool-trahâ
The Border Patrol is arresting people fighting wildfires now. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Hi Willow, completely separate (but also related) to soccer⌠shoot me a PM if you have a chance. I have some stuff that I think you were going to sign for a soccer buddy of mine.
Neither of them should get it. The only possible justification is just general unsporting behavior and lack of respect for the game, but come on, guys get fired up.
That is not a yellow card for either of those guys. I donât understand that at all. This ref must have watched our last game and decided he wasnât going to ref like that.
Hey ECS, anyone needing GA for any, um, future games, give me a shout.
The Superman take was FREE Youâre welcome đ¤Ł
Iâve got spare GA when youâre ready
Me, regularly
Man at first I didnât think that was even a foul, but on replay I think Osazeâs lucky to not be in the book. Scissored the guyâs planted foot/leg.
Itâs like the ultimate buddy comedy setup. The serious grizzled old partner and the young lovable goofball.
Osazeâs gotta sink the shit but great great great stuff from everyone, including him, on the goal.
the dog is the best part of the movie. Give me a whole movie of Mr Terrific and the dog
and instead it's resolved in about two minutes in a chat with pops. Anyway. Yeah, not crazy about it. I wasn't a huge fan of the Snyderverse, for that matter, but at least it kind of kept that broody darker tone and wasn't cluttered with a zillion "metahumans" with zilch for background.
approach (like in Guardians) doesn't work with Superman. Superman is just too damn earnest and do-goody-two-shoes, and if you're going to try and set up this big internal "who am I, really?" conflict, the way they did it just doesn't work. It needs to be central to the story...
The sidekicks are okay (I did NOT have Mr Terrific being the best character in the movie beforehand!) but all in all... nah, it just doesn't work that well for me. I also fear greatly what Batman will be in this universe/version. It's weird, because I'm a big big Gunn fan, but his lighthearted...
or more correctly, the central conflict that they set up is treated so lightly and like a side plot point that we don't really feel any emotional connection to seeing Superman resolve it. The tone is off, too. Is it jokey? (it's Gunn, of course it's jokey) but is it supposed to be? Serious?
Just finished "Superman" and it's... meh. It's not BAD and it's not GREAT. I think the biggest problem for me is that there's zilch for origin story; I get why Gunn did it (everyone kind of knows Superman's story, I guess) but it just drops us into his life now. There's no central conflict...
Itâs not that big a deal when theyâre both rich. Well, one is rich, and the other is REALLY RICH, but you know what I mean.
(Of course that assumes the federal courts wonât just do whatever tf they want anyway, which is probably a safe assumption, but you get my meaning.)
I think people are missing a point here. Federal officials/employees are only protected from state prosecution if they are carrying out their official duties. If they break state laws and are not acting within the scope of their duties, they can be prosecuted- and the president cannot pardon them.
He does terrific work. Is he perfect? Who is? Not me, thatâs for sure.
I fear AI is coming for all of us. I probably sound like a paranoid kook but letâs face itâŚ
I know it has a history. Iâm saying I hope this instance isnât AI, and if you think someone wonât try and replace the librarians with AI to do this I would point you to the three decades that both Amazon and Netflix have been using computers for providing suggestions to users/readers âšď¸
Agahagagagaghaagagagagagagabagagahagaga Que grande es ser pequeĂąo does not apply today
I went to school in Tempe. Arrived now, third week of August. Got to the campus at midnight from delayed flight. Had to walk across the whole campus with two suitcases and carryons because they changed my dorm. It was still 98 degrees. At midnight. This Seattle kid did not know what to make of it
FERRAN TORRES IS A TRAITOR TO COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA
Man, I really hope Jane is a human and not AI. I will be severely depressed otherwise.
THATâS MY CAPITĂN! SIT DOWN BARCA YOU SNOBBY CATALANS Man I wish I were in Valencia today. Estadi Ciutat de València must be going nuts.
both of these photos of Trump's hand were taken today (Getty)
Itâs about damn time Democrats play the game the same way Republicans do.
If anyone should write one about how to train keepers, itâs Tommy.
Uh-oh. Alaska Airlines just revamped their mileage plan. New names for stuff, points and elite points, all kinds of new things. You can bet they didnât make points more valuable, thatâs for sure.
Brb ordering a flag
Ouch
Or the book written by the goalkeeper coach of the Boca Juniors team that won 5 shootouts out of five in 2023
Goes to show his 2024 open cup PK performance wasnât a fluke. Big Andy was built for PKs.
Thomas has studied the proper shithousery for PKs. I would be willing to bet heâs read Geir Jordetâs book.
He definitely should have been pulled but itâs still on him. The ref just gave him a YC, what does he think is going to happen when he jumps up screaming and bumps the guy?
Leyva not being in for the last 15 minutes of service opportunities was a big missed opportunity.
Theyâre both easy fouls and yellows. The guy is having a trash game but thatâs still a YC.
I was thinking the same thing- at some point the managerâs gotta say âletâs get him out before he does something stupidâ