Pizza Pi

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@platosbeard69 It’s hard to have an alibi when you did it.

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@ajafan594234 @retarded__woman It’s Haaland…

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@watchfuldyingin I wasn’t necessarily endorsing the claim, but simply explaining it.

[hannah jones @hannahjonescool]

I am getting to know a lot of young brooklynites with great politics and absolutely dogshit morals and it’s making me so confused about where their great politics came from.

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@francesdidnot @docgotham @wesyang He’s saying that her tweeting brought us back from the brink of lunacy with regard to the gender question.

[USMNT_STAN @StanUsmnt]

“This World Cup will forever be tainted for the U.S. if they win this game.”

Here are some historical examples of controversial things that have shifted World Cups in the past. Have any of these really changed the way the normal soccer fan views their runs?

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@feelsdesperate It’s incredible that these are the people who are constantly calling everyone else bootlickers. I’ve never seen such fawning idolatry directed toward a political leader.

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@Steve_Sailer @nickyperks The defenders didn’t jump because that opens up space for the kicker to shoot beneath them. You are really out of your element commenting on this sport.

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@Steve_Sailer This is wrong in every possible way.

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

european football has spent the past fifteen years solving futbol like chess.

a generation of coaches optimized for pass completion, pressing triggers, territorial control, rest defense, and positional occupation.

the problem of this is that they optimize for what is measurable. depth, the willingness to attack space early, attempt the difficult pass, dribble past a defender, or deliberately create chaos, is a high variance play. it fails more often than it succeeds. if you evaluate players by completion rate, ball retention, or positional discipline, those actions look like mistakes. so they get coached out. eventually, everyone converges toward the same local optimum.

the game becomes increasingly legible. every team occupies similar spaces, presses in similar ways, builds from the back with similar patterns, and minimizes the same risks. systems become better at defeating other systems, but worse at dealing with players who refuse to behave like systems.

south american football never fully abandoned the duel as the fundamental unit of the game. the 1v1 remained sacred. so did the tactical foul, the unpredictable dribble, and the player willing to lose possession five times if the sixth breaks the match open. the objective was never simply to preserve structure, it was to create someone capable of destroying the opponent’s structure.

football is not won by completing the most passes. it is won by scoring more goals than the other team. those are related, but they are not the same objective.

this is the danger of optimizing proxies. when everyone optimizes the same measurements, they stop optimizing for victory itself. they optimize for looking efficient.

italy may have been the first major european football culture to lose part of its identity this way. its historical advantage was never athletic superiority or perfect positional play. it was tactical asymmetry, unpredictability, and an instinct for making matches uncomfortable. as italian football converged toward the same coaching model as the rest of europe, it gradually surrendered the qualities that had made it different.

the broader lesson extends well beyond football. every optimization process eventually risks becoming self-defeating. metrics become targets. proxies replace objectives. variance is mistaken for error. the outliers capable of breaking the system disappear because the system itself learns to eliminate them.

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@J3ffMiller @Devon_Eriksen_ @politicalmath 🎯

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@revenant_MMXX A lot of people on the internet are both extremely hostile and bad at reading.

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@kevinnbass @feelsdesperate @tlowdon Removing them from power must be the primary political goal. Everything else is subsidiary.

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Millions are doing exactly that, actually.

[Echo 🔆 @TheEcho13]

No man is fulfilling his marital duties during the day and then being denied sex when he gets into bed.

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@WordOfScott @kodyjd @katrosenfield You’re such a bootlicking little weasel.

[Nic Agüero @ClawForThatInch]

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@xBulletproof1 @MomJeansVT @shoe0nhead @_ReeMiddleChild That’s because it is.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Samuel Henderson, the autistic student with Tourette syndrome who has a knack for perfectly imitating the sounds of over 50 types of birds.

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@platosbeard69 @hasanthehun He took a photo op with a book once.

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@Matt_Santangelo You could always support Bayern Munich.