Nick Wilkinson

Head Football Coach at the University of Nebraska

[Nick Wilkinson @gentlenick_]

How and why was Breaking Bad not filmed in North Platte, Nebraska?

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[Frank Michael Smith @frankmikesmith]

The USMNT will be stuck at the World Cup until it adopts Germany's blueprint

In 2000 Germany finished last at the Euros and decided it was time overhaul the system. They built 390 regional training bases to make sure one was within 25 km of every kid in country. They hired 1,200 full-time coaches, invested €48 million per year and mandated that every pro club build a certified youth academy or lose its license

The cost to families was $0 and 14 years later, 21 of the 23 players who won the World Cup came directly from the system

[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.

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@expertwith_AI Claude

[Jami @expertwith_AI]

My girlfriend asked why I was smiling at my phone at 3AM.

I lost my job last week.

Rent due in 4 days.

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No finance degree. No trading desk. Just a method every meteorologist uses and every trader ignores.

The method: meteorologists never forecast tomorrow with a single model. They run 31 and count the votes. He applied that exact framework to Bitcoin.

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→ Collects market data 24/7 without breaks
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→ Operates fully autonomous with zero manual input
→ Every trade executes only when consensus hits threshold
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That is the entire edge.

Not prediction. Consensus.

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@ShaanVP Real estate investment/development

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@LiamKircher Cashflow

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@Husker247BC 34-0. Bold prediction is the shutout

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@CorinnaKopf Chocolate cake if they are anything like me.

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“Defamed” lol more famous than ever
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@faraz_tx Spot on. It’s a numbers game.

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For all you nerds that want to pay less tax…

[Mitchell Baldridge @baldridgecpa]

It’s not what you make - it’s what you get to keep.

I have helped thousands of entrepreneurs save hundreds of millions in tax.

A framework for tax planning:

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@Driggs_12 Stay safe

[John Collison @collision]

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

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@realEstateTrent 😂😂

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@TabbyNt90 Everything but the man cave

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@stoolbenchmob Iowa

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@Driggs_12 @Target Put ‘em in jail!!