@30GotNext Different positions. USMNT has had good playmakers like Puli before, but never a striker as clinical and talented as Balo. Heβs completely changed the dynamic of this offense, and without him, esp replaced by a slow-footed goal poacher like Pepi, changes this entire offense.
Without Balogun in the Rof16, #USMNT is in deep trouble. Pepi is not only terrible, but his style of play completely changes their offensive attack. I think Poch will be forced to change up a LOT to accommodate the lack of creativity up front.
@PlayStation I realize Iβm just one customer of millions, but for what itβs worth, my PS5 is the last generation of PlayStation I purchase. Very disappointing move on your end that will eventually catch up to you guys.
@RICHC1980@_MikeVA Jensen 100%. Hicks underlying metrics are bad and donβt support his success. Negative regression is coming for him. Jensen is only going to see positive regression
@_MikeVA Iβve got Mason Miller and Duran as my top 2 closers, and then it falls off a lot with Seranthony Dominguez and Robert Suarez. Which of the bottom two should i drop for Erceg?
I am fully convinced that 2019 was the last normal year we will ever have.
Not normal in the sense of perfect. Not normal in the sense of without problems. But normal in the sense that there was still a shared reality. A baseline. A world that, for all its flaws, still felt like it operated according to recognisable rules.
That world is gone.
Since 2020, something fundamental has shifted and most people feel it even if they cannot name it. A persistent low-level anxiety that never fully lifts. A sense that time is moving both too fast and strangely out of sequence. A feeling that nothing quite lands the way it used to that experiences, connections, even ordinary moments feel slightly hollow, slightly off, like a frequency that no longer quite tunes in.
Everyone is exhausted. Everyone is overwhelmed. And yet nothing seems to slow down long enough to make sense of it.
The anchors are gone. The institutions we were raised to trust have revealed themselves. The social fabric that held communities together was deliberately stressed and in many places snapped entirely. The relationships that did not survive the last five years left silences that have not been filled.
And underneath all of it is something that does not get said enough.
Grief.
Grief for the world that existed before. For the innocence of not knowing what we now know. For the relationships that were lost not to death but to division. For the version of the future we thought we were building that has quietly been replaced with something none of us voted for.
2019 was the last year most people lived without the constant sense that the ground beneath them could shift without warning.
But we are living in the aftermath of something enormous and we are being asked to pretend that we are not.
You are allowed to grieve what was lost.
And you are allowed to say that the world as it was is gone β because it is.
Look around.
@tim_cook How about you take responsibility for all the fragile retina displays from 2020-2024 that cost $800 to replace? How about you respond to the class action lawsuit instead of causing long time customers of being careless with their $2k laptops?
@Apple Oh yeah, and then charge $800 for a screen replacement, which is basically like asking someone to just buy a new laptop instead. As someone who has been loyal to Apple for the last 20 years, Iβm officially done with your crap products.
@Apple I think you guys should address the class action lawsuit on the M1-M2 retina displays from 2020-2024 that would crack for no reason at all, and how you guys decided to blame your loyal customers of being careless with their 1-2k laptops rather than admitting a design flaw.