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Tunisia vs Japan will be the 1,000th match in FIFA World Cup history.
It is being played 96 years after the first matches in the history of the tournament, when Montevideo hosted France vs Mexico (4-1) and USA vs Belgium (3-0).
via @OptaJoe
The FY26 budget is $7.4 trillion
5% of a trillion is $50 billion ≈ 2.5 days of federal spending
According to @ewarren, free child care for 3y/4y is an single increase of 0.67% of spending
From 2016 to 2026 spending grew ≈ 7% ANNUALLY
It’s not a lack of taxes 🙄 it’s choices
Imagine what the World Cup would be like if it was being played at the 80,000 seat West Side stadium Mike Bloomberg wanted to build in 2008 next to Javitz Center on 11th Ave. NIMBYism & James Dolan's money stopped it from being built. The land is still unsued rail tracks today.
Niemand hat den "Kapitalismus" erfunden. Kapitalismus ist das, was freie Menschen von Natur aus tun - Waren und Dienstleistungen zu ihrem eigenen Vorteil tauschen.
BREAKING: Mark Ruffalo, worth over $100 million, urges the government to drastically increase taxes on billionaires.
“Tax the rich—they can handle it. Trust me.”
In Mexican meme mythology, El Pirata de Culiacán is a modern Charon, driving souls to the other side in a Jeep Cherokee through space. Today, the man who condemned him took a seat in the back.
In shareholder letter this week, DraftKings said that in fiscal 2025, they took in $54 billion in bets with potential liability from those bets being being $2.5 TRILLION.
Amazon says that it’s going to replace 600,000 workers with robots. Other companies are moving in the same direction.
How will working families feed their kids and pay their bills? We’ve got to fight back.
2017: DFS was unprofitable and stuck in a legal gray zone, with lawsuits & threats
2018: with no clear path to profitability, the company is sold
2018: the SCOTUS strikes down PASPA.
Post-sale: new exec team pivoted hard to sports betting —> Value explodes, but different business
FanDuel sold for $465M in 2018.
Founders got $0. Zero.
- The CEO who joined later? $11.3M.
- The CFO? $5M.
- The CLO? $6.2M.
3 years later, FanDuel was valued at $11.2B.
The people who built it for a decade got nothing.
The people who joined at the end got millions.
That's venture capital.
Dear NFL:
We don't need a speech for the coin toss. Just flip the stupid coin and get this game going. The HOF'ers and all of this is dumb. We don't care about the pageantry.
Signed,
Normal people
There's something about being forced to snow shovel that feels too authoritarian by the state:
- mandatory
- unpaid
- time-sensitive
- enforcement is complaint-based
If it’s truly a civic duty, frame it that way, or have municipal services handle it in dense areas.
NYC snow clearing rules:
The city does not clear:
>Sidewalks in front of homes or businesses
>Alleys
>Snow blocking sidewalks, driveways or cars (even from plows)
Owners MUST:
>Shovel a 4 foot-wide path
>Clear corner ramps & crosswalks
>Shovel bus stops & fire hydrants
>Add salt or sand if icy
**DO NOT** shovel snow into the street
Deadlines to clear snow:
Snow ends 7a–5p/within 4 hours
Snow ends 5p-9p/within 14 hours
Snow ends 9p–7a→by 11a
Failure to clear sidewalks can result in fines from $100–$150 for the first offense ... up to $350 for subsequent offenses