It's not a simulation... more of a bad 80's movie about a dystopian future with a laughable script and cringe acting.

We crapped it.

It's the world cup. It's difficult. England hasn't won it since 1966. A country that rhymes with Schmitaly didn't even qualify for this one. Germany and the Netherlands were already knocked out.

Belgium is currently ranked 8th to the USA 16th in FIFA rankings.

But yeah, uncharacteristically bad performance for the US.

Plot twist: Balogun scores an own goal tonight...

Everybody saw the replay. Straight red card. Nobody who is not garbage is questioning this.
#78 | Posted by Angrydad

When it happened, i did not think it was a straight red. Didn't seem to have any intent at all and was a bit unlucky landing on an opponents ankle after they collided. Should have been a yellow imo.

I disagree with changing the ruling days after the game, and the optics are terrible with a phone calls etc. Just accept it and move on.

RF4B is the kind of guy who played high school football and still thinks he's the man.
#85

Uncle Rico!

"President Trump reaped a stunning windfall in his first year back in the White House, including about $1.4 billion from his family's cryptocurrency businesses, a new filing shows.

All told, the president pulled in at least $2.2 billion, a figure that includes other parts of his vast holdings, such as his real estate assets. That compares to a minimum of $622 million his enterprises pulled in for all of 2024, before he returned to the presidency."

Anyone on the right concerned?

I think debt is one of those things that people take on when it 'feels' ok - society approves. Oh you have a mortgage? That's a smart investment. You have a car loan? Ok, that's necessary for a lot of people. Oh you maxed out a credit card to gamble at the casino? Hmmm...

So for a lot of people, especially young people, they are looking for society to give them a nod. Student loans are a good example. 18 year old is like 'well you told me this is the way...'

And the message from credit cards to auto loans for decades has been 'go ahead, it's ok, everyone does it'

I know someone who was born in 1940 and ain't no way she's taking on a penny of debt. Of course that's something an older person can position for themself through their lifetime decisions while younger people don't have as much latitude.

I saw some youtube short and the guy was just interviewing random young people at Disney and asking them about their financial situation while they enjoyed their day, and it was of course an absolute horror show ("yeah, $750 for my car payment... about 80k of student loans...enjoying my $12 slushy though")

I didn't read every comment but it didn't see any take on how pushing debt has been normalized (advertising, slow brainwashing).

These crazy ten-year loans for a new truck with an $800 month payment... wtf you doing bro?

"There are some things money can't buy; for everything else, there's Mastercard".

Blatant market manipulation going on.

"But supposing the world has become 'filled up', so to speak, with liberal democracies, such as there exist no tyranny and oppression worthy of the name against which to struggle? Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and prosperity, and against democracy."

- Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man

I shall mod the Cummins diesel to burn used fryer oil from the chicken tendies.

Ride with me my DR brethren and sistren, free from the shackles binding us to the cruel escapades of our petro overlords!

It's too expensive to have kids.
If both parents work, then you pay for day care. Too expensive.
Healthcare is too expensive.
College is too expensive.
Team sports that turn into all-year travel leagues, dance class, etc. : too expensive.

The rent it too goshdarn high.

The consequences of monetizing every last aspect of existence = less existences.

Maybe he went tuh get a side-a-ways haircut ... .

Where, where, where the hell is Bill?