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Professional Chaos Wrangler

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@zekramu Where does a technically inclined non-engineer begin?

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@RafaelNasriX When you say “coffee”, do you actually mean caffeine? There’s decaf coffee, there is tea, and some people only drink soda.

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@KyleVansice @cedarbuild What a weird thing to say. Had you sought to understand first, you may have learned how parking affects everyone in a small neighborhood. Developers tend to do what’s good for them, everyone else be damned.

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@KyleVansice @cedarbuild Looks nice. Hope the lot has min of 2 parking spots for each home. ✌️

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@jaxoncoder Here’s another fact: Companies will give an entire 100-person dept a limited number of promotions in a cycle. And that number is often very small, e.g., 2. A person could be outperforming and visible, but only 2 promotions available for the entire department. Wtf

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The OA (2016) was cut off just as it was getting truly daring. A series that treated belief and mystery as form, not gimmick. Still thinking about that Season 1 finale all these years later.

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@JosieBedlam @Vote4Brock You’re right about this

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It’s 2026 and we still can’t compare real-time grocery prices from multiple stores. Consumers need and want to find the best prices for the entire list/cart and have the option to checkout and pickup or get delivered. Big grocery will do everything to prevent this!

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@EvilMopacATX Deep Eddy’s basement

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[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.

[Larry Henry Jr @lhenry019]

Thierry Henry on the Folarin Balgun red card: "You need to have some common sense. Where is the player supposed to put his foot there in that situation?" #USMNT

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@crazyclips_ Asked for divorce, wonders why man accepts his reality and takes actions to take care of himself. Don’t ask for a divorce if you’re still trying to repair the relationship. Her expectations are ludicrous.

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@raphousetv7 Terrific manners

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@danosseasoning Looks like flank steak. Not a brisket

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@KantInEastt That oil is from the 1960s

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@crimpandclimbhq What?! That’s not what free soloing is, dodo! Obviously she has a rope, which is used in free soloing. Your captions are wrong

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@FitFusion__ A chef would not do that or teach that whatsoever

[“paula” @paularambles]

they call them crisps there

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@LearnDIY_ What was the point of cutting it while in the container?!? Dumb