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[⭐️⭐️ Moh le droniste 🇲🇦 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🛩️ @MohLeDroniste]

Selon plusieurs analystes sportifs, Bono pourrait bien avoir révolutionné la manière de défendre lors des séances de tirs au but. Contrairement à la technique classique qui consiste à rester au centre de la cage avant de plonger, il a, à plusieurs reprises — notamment face au Nigeria et aux Pays-Bas — adopté un déplacement et un positionnement debout.
Cette posture lui permet de couvrir près de la moitié du but à lui seul : il peut arrêter un tir à ras de terre avec ses pieds tout en conservant la possibilité d'intervenir sur un tir en hauteur avec ses mains, sans avoir à se coucher prématurément.
Si cette technique venait à être adoptée par d'autres gardiens, espérons qu'elle sera un jour baptisée « le Bono », à l'image de la célèbre Panenka, nommée d'après son inventeur.

[Prash @isgrumpyra]

Physics vs anti-physics

[Bhavesh Kansara @kansaratva]

Says someone who is named after a French pastry.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

> Japan lost
> Germany lost
> Italy didn't show up
> Europe doesn’t have Air Conditioning

Welcome to 1945.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Most Indians have not heard of Persistent Systems.

That is a shame, because every Indian should know what happened this weekend.

Let me explain everything from the beginning.

Persistent Systems is an Indian software company founded in Pune in 1990 by Dr. Anand Deshpande.

He started it after doing his PhD at Indiana University, came back to India, and built a technology company from scratch.

For most of its existence, Persistent was a mid-size player that did not get the same attention as TCS, Infosys, or Wipro.

Today, Persistent is recognised as the fastest-growing IT services brand globally in 2026. They have had 24 consecutive quarters of sequential revenue growth.

So, for six straight years, every single quarter has been bigger than the one before it. That kind of consistency is extremely hard to pull off in any business.

Now, they did something that has almost never happened before in Indian tech.

An Indian IT company just launched a takeover bid for a publicly listed German company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Persistent is offering 81 euros per share to buy Nagarro SE, which works out to approximately 1.1 billion euros.

And they are paying 140 percent above Nagarro's share price the day before the deal was announced. That is how badly they want this company, and how confident they are in what the combined business will be worth.

So what does Nagarro actually do and why does Persistent want it so badly?

Nagarro is headquartered in Munich, Germany. They have 18,500 employees across 40 countries and generated 1 billion euros in revenue in 2025.

Their biggest clients include four of the top five European automotive manufacturers. So BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz type companies.

These are some of the most demanding engineering clients in the world.

Nagarro builds the software that goes inside these companies.

> The dealer management software.
> The supply chain tools.
> The digital interfaces that a BMW engineer uses when designing a new model.

This kind of deeply embedded enterprise software work is extremely difficult to replace once it is in place. These are long relationships measured in decades, not years.

That is why this deal makes strategic sense for Persistent.

Before this deal, only 9 percent of Persistent's revenue came from Europe. After this acquisition closes, that number jumps to 22 percent.

Right now, Persistent earns most of its money from North American clients, which means it is heavily exposed to whatever happens in the US economy.

If US companies cut tech spending, Persistent hurts.

Adding a strong European base changes that. Your revenue is now spread across two of the world's largest economies.

The combined company will have $2.9 billion in annual revenue and more than 46,000 employees across 40 countries. Of those, 37,000 plus will be in India.

So an Indian company, built by an Indian founder, that now employs 37,000 Indians and just bought a German company listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

For most of the last 30 years, the story of Indian IT was that we sent engineers to do work that Western companies needed done cheaply.

Good work, real work, but fundamentally in a support role. You came to us because we were affordable and skilled.

But now with Persistent buying Nagarro, Coforge buying Encora for $2.35 billion, TCS buying Coastal Cloud, Infosys buying Optimum Healthcare IT, Indian IT companies going out and buying Western companies for their client relationships, their market presence, and their technology capabilities.

We are the buyers now. :)

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

We can confirm that we don't wish to add Gautam Gambhir to our coaching staff. He clearly has talent, though. To take those Indian players and deliver those results in Ireland takes truly remarkable gifts.

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Letting Shedge make a debut before Suryavanshi is nothing but being sadistic. It’s like rubbing in your face, saying Hey kid, I am the boss. You don’t play with the emotions of a 15 year old. Nurture your talent, don’t shit on it
BCCI

[Goku @ProjectGokuu]

Novak Djokovic just said being bored is the most creative state a child can be in.

His son is 10 and his daughter is 7.

He says when his son told him he was bored after a morning of ping pong, kayaking, and soccer, he sat him down for a conversation most parents avoid.

"It's okay to be bored sometimes. When you're bored, it doesn't mean that you have to instantly take a book or a screen. You need to also learn how to be with your thoughts."

Djokovic says boredom is when creativity finally shows up, and it's also when everything you have been suppressing through your phone comes to the surface.

Most parents are protecting their kids from the only state that grows them.

— Novak Djokavic (@DjokerNole) on Jay Shetty's (@jayshetty) podcast

[Raunaq Mangottil @RaunaqMangottil]

Sing Geetham: THIS is what Telugu Cinema is capable of. An absolutely wild, funny, emotional, gutsy epic which only a master like Singeetham Sreenivasa Rao can think of and execute (with a fantastic, devoted team)
This is the cinema that the Telugu industry should be proud of🙏

One of the best films of the year and probably the most daring attempt by Telugu cinema

really, really hope this clicks with the audience🧿

[Cinema Kaburlu @kaburlucheptham]

Celebrate the SIGNATURE OF A GENIUS who has turned 30 years thrice

#SingGeetham from Tomorrow ❤️

@VyjayanthiFilms @nagashwin7

[Lisa Sthalekar @sthalekar93]

@mufaddal_vohra Really?? First in 60 years 😜

[AstroCounselKK 🇮🇳 @AstroCounselKK]

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I lack civic sense.

They can overturn cars, burn streets,
and vandalize a city after a championship game.
I dance at an airport excited about my first foreign trip, and suddenly I am the face of poor civic sense.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I steal jobs.

They move factories across oceans,
shift profits through tax havens,
and automate entire industries overnight.
I study, compete, earn a visa, work 18 hours a day, sometimes multiple jobs and somehow I am the one stealing jobs and scamming the system.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am everywhere.

I build your software,
treat your illness,
teach your children,
drive your taxis,
and open your stores.
The world became a village,
yet my presence remains a problem.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am too loud.

The evening news screams outrage.
Political rallies shake entire cities.
The internet echoes with anger day and night.
I celebrate a wedding, a festival, a victory,
and I am told my joy is too loud.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I smell of curry.

The world smells of gunpowder,
of hatred,
of division,
of endless arguments about race and religion.
I carry the fragrance of spices from my grandmother's kitchen,
and somehow that is what offends.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I have no culture.

I come from a civilization that counted the stars
when much of the world was still learning maps.
I speak languages older than nations.
I celebrate hundreds of traditions,
yet I am told I have no culture.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am backward.

I send missions to the Moon.
I build vaccines for millions.
I run companies across continents.
Yet a viral video of one fool becomes evidence against a billion people.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I worship celebrities.

I celebrate my favorite actor's success
with flowers, music, and a few glasses of milk.

Others worship influencers who sell outrage, turn every disagreement into a battlefield, and every opinion into a war.
Yet my celebration is the one that makes headlines.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I gather in crowds.

We walk together in processions,
celebrating our faith, our culture, our traditions.

Everyone is welcome.
No shops are looted.
No neighborhoods are burned.
No one is threatened for thinking differently.

We sing.
We dance.
We pray.
And somehow our gathering becomes the problem.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I bring my culture everywhere.

I light a lamp in a foreign land.
I wear a saree in the snow.
I teach my children the language of their grandparents.

Others build walls between neighbors,
argue endlessly over identity,
and forget where they came from.
Yet I am told I should leave my culture behind.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I live in the past.

But my past gave me yoga,
mathematics, philosophy, meditation,
and the idea that the world is one family.

The future keeps borrowing from my past,
while telling me to be embarrassed by it.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I should be ashamed.

Ashamed of my accent.
Ashamed of my food.
Ashamed of my festivals.
Ashamed of my traditions.
Ashamed of existing.

But I am not ashamed.

I am the child of farmers and philosophers,
scientists and saints, workers and dreamers.

I come from a land that taught the world
that truth can be many-sided,
that all paths deserve respect,
and that the entire world is one family.

Yes, we have flaws. Every nation does.

But judge me by my actions, not by your stereotypes.

For I am an Indian.

And before you tell me what is wrong with me, look honestly at what you have normalized in yourself.

For I am an Indian.

The world may mock my accent,
question my customs,
laugh at my celebrations,
and judge me through a thousand stereotypes.

Yet I stand tall.
For I belong to a civilization older than empires, a culture richer than prejudice, and a people whose spirit refuses to bend.

Jai Hind

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[The Notorious AKG @NotoriousAKG]

THIS IS FALSE - ALL DEGREES ARE VERIFIED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY.

H-1B filings are heavily scrutinized you piece of shit.

Consulates do not even see the diplomas. Their role is limited to security checks and verifying the USCIS approval.

DHS (USCIS) adjudicates H-1B petitions and they DO verify the diploma. They will deny the case if they suspect fraud.

Any physicians must have their credentials evaluated by the ECFMG and pass all USMLE steps. (Very few nurses will qualify for an H-1B.)

Companies seeking to be profitable don't tend to keep employees who have no skills regardless of what their degree says.

Once again, you are free to be a bigot. You may be a white supremacist. That's allowed in this country. You don't have to invent convoluted bullshit justifications.

Just admit you hate Indians. All of this would be so much easier.

[OSMOSES😎 @Osmoses_1]

This “naturally gifted” narrative is one of the most misleading takes in football.

When someone reaches a level that seems impossible, people suddenly act as if talent alone explains everything. Cristiano Ronaldo did not win five Ballon d’Or awards and score over 950 goals just because he worked hard. If hard work alone was enough, football would be full of players with those numbers.

What separates the truly great is the combination of elite talent and an elite work ethic. Ronaldo is not proof that hard work beats talent. He is proof of what happens when extraordinary talent meets extraordinary dedication.

People need to stop using Lionel Messi as the example of someone who succeeded purely because of natural talent. Messi’s genius is obvious, but talent alone does not sustain excellence for two decades, win multiple Ballon d’Or awards, or keep a player at the very top of the game year after year. That level of consistency demands sacrifice, professionalism, and an obsession with improvement. We've seen talented players waste away and never attain this height because they lack the consistency and hard work to replicate such heights.

Sometimes the simplest explanation is the correct one. Messi is one of the most naturally gifted footballers ever, but he is also one of the hardest working. The idea that he simply relied on talent while others relied on effort is a lazy and inaccurate way of looking at greatness. The greatest players combine both at a level most people cannot comprehend.

[Danish Sait @DanishSait]

Thanks man. Spoke from the heart. We all deserve a victory, in whatever form it comes.

[Harsh @voldemortscore]

Funny moment when Kohli went for a big swing and missed his 3rd ball, AB on comms was horrified and was like "No no take it easy, play along the ground, no need for shots like that with this target" and then pauses for a second and goes "but what do I know, he's the chasemaster"

[deutsche thepla @maybesarthak]

HOW THE HELL DID KOHLI SEE THAT BALL TOUCH THE GROUND FROM THE PITCH