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[Ayy Ess @ShinyDime]

Agreed.

[Rich Lowry @RichLowry]

I know countless millions of people love soccer, and it can be a thrilling game, as we witnessed repeatedly during the World Cup, but it suffers from a fundamental structural flaw.

Because offense is in such short supply at this level, scoring is highly dependent on penalties.

This means that scoring often comes outside the normal flow of play, and incentives flopping and pretend injuries that are unworthy of grown men—you think someone rolling around the turf in agonizing pain is going to have to be transported immediately to the hospital, then you look up and he’s played another 45 minutes, no problem.

Then, there’s the courting of artificial penalties—a player steps in front of another, gets bumped, and proceeds to pretend he got shot.

Whatever the other merits of soccer, this stuff is a blight on the game and brings an element of low comedy to even the highest-stakes competition.

[6ɪx✦ @ok6ixx]

My sister's hamster escaped and we thought it died until we found it SIX MONTHS LATER living in the walls absolutely thriving. We only discovered him because my dad was convinced we had a poltergeist since he kept hearing scratching and finding his hidden candy stash empty. Dad set up a camera to catch the "ghost" and instead caught Butterscotch, this hamster, squeezing through a hole, stealing a Snickers, and disappearing. We tore open the wall and found a full hamster paradise. He'd stolen socks for bedding, had a stash of probably 50 nuts and candies, and somehow found water from a leaky pipe. He'd GAINED weight. This hamster lived better in our walls than he did in his cage. We tried to put him back in the cage and he looked legitimately depressed, so now Butterscotch free-roams the house and my dad leaves out "tribute" snacks. The hamster runs this house now. We are his subjects.

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

"How is a worldwide soccer tournament in the United States done more for foreign relations than the United Nations?

I mean watch it, they're dancing in the streets.

They're singing Country Road by John Denver.

They're playing bagpipes at Fenway.

They're eating barbecue.

They're going to the Grand Canyon.

They're praising America.

Unity. Community.

We need to break bread at the same table without politics being somewhere in the middle.

We need to embrace humanity when we can. We needed this."

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

I’m loving the World Cup, but flopping and fake injuries ruin the sport for me. American football is vastly more violent, but you see a tiny fraction as many players rolling around in agony. In American football, they’re actually hurt. In soccer, they miraculously rise from the dead the instant the ref waves play on.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I’m convinced that the most underrated trait in a romantic partner is that they bring peace into your life. Days are filled with enough chaos and uncertainty. Being able to come home to someone who defaults to emotional consistency, who creates a peace, is massively underrated.

[Ayy Ess @ShinyDime]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

The World Cup is at our shores, and all these people are doing us a great service. They are reminding Americans that this place is kind of awesome.

[Movies Scenes 🎫 @SceneinCinema]

Knight Rider is here to fix Hollywood.

[Casey Smith @CaseyRySmith]

Shout out to my real ones. @jalenbrunson1 @PJPatton52 @heathaaamau They said we weren’t a good fit for their culture. Said we weren’t good enough in our roles. Peter Patton, Heather Mau, Jalen. We did and will continue to do the work.

[Ashley Schendel @ashleyschendel]

I love seeing what people from other countries put on their USA bucket lists because it is not the stuff we think it will be.

They’re not saying “Grand Canyon” or “New York City.”

They’re saying Buc-ee’s, a Big Gulp, Texas BBQ, baseball, a rodeo, a drive thru, Chipotle, a gun range, and watching something completely ridiculous happen in a Walmart parking lot.

And the funny part is they’re not wrong.

America is so normal to us that we forget how bizarre and entertaining it probably looks from the outside.

If somebody came here and asked you for the real American experience, what are you making them do first?

[Ayy Ess @ShinyDime]

Why did @mcuban approve Casey Smith’s firing?

[Ben Rogers @BenRogers]

Incredibly happy for Casey Smith to win another NBA Championship last night. His first with the Knicks, and 2nd overall after being an important part of the Mavs’ 2011 run.

He's one of the most respected sports medicine gurus in the league, who was unimaginably fired in one of the biggest mistakes in Mavs history by the man who would eventually drive the entire franchise directly into an iceberg.

According to a report by @BannedMacMahon, Nico parted ways Smith over a video conference call while he was tending to his ailing mother, no less.

Let that sink in.

And after almost two decades with the organization doing work that was universally recognized as being best in class.

Words can’t begin to describe what a shitburger decision that was by Nico, who appeared to be dead set on playing cold-blooded corporate chess, removing anybody that could stand in his way or threaten his growing power.

Hmm, I wonder if removing anyone with veto power would end up mattering. 🤔

But back to 2011… Smith was instrumental in keeping the great Tyson Chandler healthy enough to be the anchor of their championship D. A man who won multiple gold medals representing his country with USA hoops, an extremely high honor. And a Basketball Hall of Famer.

Immediately scooped up by the Knicks, Casey led a staff that won NBATA Training Staff of the Year and finished first in the entire league in fewest games missed to injury.

The Luka trade gets all the attention, understandably. But the day that Nico parted ways with Casey Smith is also on the short list of worst days in team history.

Some things just feel like a karma boomerang. This is one of those things.

Good piece here by @tomhaberstroh

https://t.co/6HnWyVwuCA

[Dick Carlisle @DickCarlisle]

Spurs doing right by my 🐐 moved a lot of water under that bridge

[Ayy Ess @ShinyDime]

Of course he did. All the dots connected, some people just simply didn’t want to believe it.

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Jason Kidd reportedly supported the Mavericks trading Luka Dončić, per @ShamsCharania

(Via @PatMcAfeeShow )

[Troy Frasier AKA Revived Studios @RevivedThoughts]

The amount of self-hate Americans have towards their own history is truly unreal.

They defeated slavery by fighting against their own family.
They shut Europe out of the western hemisphere so that nations wouldn't live under colonization forever.
They had the ability to stay out of world war 1 but they went and died to help Europeans.
They had the ultimate power in the nuclear bomb. They also had access to all of Europe's colonies that were in shambles. But instead they promoted freedom. They rebuilt Japan and Germany after defeating them in war. They stood down the Soviet Union, even as the world jeered them.
They sent soldiers to places like Vietnam and Afghanistan that died TRYING to create a better world (even if you disagree with those wars, the intentions were fairly good)
And they sent more missionaries to the world than maybe any other country in history. Translated more Bibles into indigenous languages than any other country in history. Ran bigger charities than any other country in history. Created more Christian resources than any other country in history.

Whether it was stopping the Dutch from reconquering Indonesia to the Berlin Airlift to giving Cuba its freedom in the Spanish-American war to saving China from the Japanese America has at least ATTEMPTED to do good with its power.

Yes yes, America has problems. People are imperfect. But goodness gracious does the world have a lot to be grateful for in America. And when we could have taken SO much from the world we have often chosen not to. Rome, Britain, Mongols, Assyrians, Soviets, Chinese, no other group has ever shown the restraint America has consistently shown with such vast power at its fingertips.

We didn't even get into the GIGANTIC technological advances, consumer advances, convenient lifestyle changes America has pioneered. From electricity to space to the light bulb to the smart phone to many cures in medicine and agriculture to the airplane the world has been enormously blessed by America.

[Ayy Ess @ShinyDime]

@MilesFuzzyBear @aakashgupta That’ll preach.

[Ayy Ess @ShinyDime]

What I had in high school. 😊

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Casio F-91W costs $30 and runs on the exact same chip from 1989. Same case. Same plastic strap. Same module 593. Casio has sold over 100 million of them. The product strategy here might be the most counterintuitive lesson in consumer electronics.

The bull case for killing this watch and building something new looks overwhelming. Apple Watch does health monitoring, GPS, cellular, fall detection, notifications, apps. It's a computer on your wrist. The F-91W tells time, has an alarm, and runs a stopwatch. On feature count alone, it should have been extinct by 2018.

Instead it's having its strongest years. Casio shipped 2.3 million F-91Ws in 2025. Tech workers are actively replacing their Apple Watches with them. And the reason isn't nostalgia.

Total cost of ownership tells part of the story. The F-91W battery lasts 7 years. Replace the watch every decade for $30. That's $3 per year. Apple Watch needs daily charging, a new model every 3-4 years at $400+, and a paired iPhone to function. Over a decade: $30 vs $1,200+.

But the real driver is cognitive. No notifications. No update prompts. No charging anxiety. No red dots. You strap it on your wrist and it tells you the time. For people who spend 10+ hours a day staring at screens, removing one more screen from their body is the actual upgrade.

Then there's the business math Casio accidentally perfected. Module 593, the chip inside every F-91W, hasn't changed since 1989. Same tooling. Same manufacturing line. Same bill of materials for 37 years. Zero R&D spend on a product generating $70M+ in annual retail revenue. The margins on a product with no engineering costs are absurd.

The product design lesson that most tech companies will never accept: iteration is an assumption, not a law. Ship, measure, iterate, ship again. The F-91W is proof that the highest-margin product strategy might be building something so complete that iteration becomes unnecessary.

Obama wore one. A teenager in Lagos is wearing one right now. Same watch. Same chip. Same $30.

[Ayy Ess @ShinyDime]

@Riffraff3232 Did you go last year?

[Ayy Ess @ShinyDime]

🎯

[El Duderino @pebkac101]

@UziCryptoo Having had my debit card compromised and account drained right before my bills and rent hit and having the bank takes months to get me my money back…nah, I’ll use the credit card champ.

[Ayy Ess @ShinyDime]

Exactly

[Matej Sportinfo @MatejSportinfo]

Translation: I wasn't the one talking to Pelinka and making the deal, but I was bitching to Nico about Luka for years and I knew he's gonna trade him, cause I'm a backstabbing snake. Hey, but how about our rookie, isn't he great.

Mavs will suck as long as Kidd's on the team.

[Ayy Ess @ShinyDime]

Not knowing about the trade details until the 11th hour doesn’t mean he didn’t tell Nico to get rid of him long before that, which is what I believe happened. Nico & Kidd even said they were “aligned” in what players they wanted.

[Kirk Henderson @KirkSeriousFace]

Kidd’s trying to damage control this, and it will probably work because there aren’t many Mavs fans that are paying attention anymore.

[Ayy Ess @ShinyDime]

@BenRogers @chkenman @lukadoncic @HaymakerNetwork @PrestonSilvey