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[RealEstateDude @realestatedude0]

Saw this project online. Beach front Malibu home.
Insane excavation

[Pasta @DavidCab]

@elonmusk @grok @bot Ugh let me get a reset! thing burns through supergrok usage so fast.

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@ZohranKMamdani What a cunt

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@ClaudeDevs You love to reset weekly limits a few hours before my limit resets

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Pasta @DavidCab]

@Reuters What’s the suspects name though? Description?

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It really happened right?

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@TheStalwart @arrowintheblue @MeganNyvold I go to China 6+ times a year for 20 years. My phone has never bricked. Roaming on. T-mobile works. Access everything. No firewall just slow as can be.

[Pasta @DavidCab]

@TheStalwart @MeganNyvold No. You can use your phone. T-mobile for example works. Just way slower service. Can access anything from your device as long as you’re not on WiFi.

[Pasta @DavidCab]

@garfield628 @TheStalwart Quick journey to China proper and 90% of your didi’s will be BYD

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@TheStalwart Tariff refunds put to use

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@_madisontayt Sheep

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@darrenrovell There are also no more, no idea if there were earlier, direct flights. Flying to Austin an option but long drive. Not worth the headache

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@KFCBarstool Landry shamet looks like he makes a mean chopped cheese the ocky way

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@TheStalwart @NateSilver538 After asking it to plan out xyz idea I almost always say something like should I just pay for this and it’ll say yeah you’ve got enough on for plate. Pay the man

[Pasta @DavidCab]

@satyanadella Cheaper to just use Claude code on my own than pay for an expensive Copilot license.

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@NYCMayor No comments on your ridiculous statement yesterday that painted the white protestors as the cause? Shocker.

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@RepDanGoldman The two guys who threw the BOMBS screamed allah akbar and practice islam. Maybe don’t throw bombs at people exercising their first amendment. Idiot