Lovely RTL bus ride to Hulhumalé yesterday. The @mtccplc RTL app though has horrible UI and is buggy. These are the the easiest things to fix to make the experience enjoyable. Redesigned it in 20 mins on Figma 👇
Years ago, when China sprayed a green compound onto bare rocky mine slopes, hordes of online critics rushed to mock: “China’s masking environmental ruin just to fool inspectors,” “The Chinese are experts at staging fake facades.” 🙄
But the internet is merely an echo chamber for rumor-mongers; the real world, by contrast, is a vast stage for those who roll up their sleeves and get things done. Now the narrative has done a complete 180. 🔄
That much-maligned “green paint” is in fact SPF high-performance soilless hydroseeding technology. There is zero actual paint in the mixture. It’s made of shredded pine fiber, locally suited seeds, and biodegradable nutrients. The green tint? Purely a visual marker for workers to spot gaps during spraying. 🎨
The results? Seeds germinate in 3 to 5 days. Barren, lifeless mine wastelands now burst with thick, thriving grass and trees. 🌿🌳
Lies can fuel fleeting online hysteria, yet they will never bury the everlasting vitality forged by persistent labor. 💪🇨🇳
Germany v Ivory Coast is the World Cup group-stage match between the world’s biggest cocoa exporter and the world’s biggest chocolate exporter.
Ivory Coast grows more cocoa than any country on Earth by far. Germany exported more chocolate than any other country in 2024.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography(ish)-based World Cup analysis.
BBC Sport has a live World Cup knockout bracket updating after every match.
Some clever soul has made it so it automatically works out the 495 possible combinations of third-placed teams.
Right now?
Germany v Brazil
England v Portugal
Scotland v Japan
https://t.co/RnvFefXFtQ
🌍⭐ The African nations are putting on a show at the World Cup so far:
🤝🇧🇷 Brazil 1-1 Morocco 🇲🇦
✅🇨🇮 Ivory Coast 1-0 Ecuador 🇪🇨
🤝🇨🇻 Cape Verde 0-0 Spain 🇪🇸
🤝🇪🇬 Egypt 1-1 Belgium 🇧🇪
🤝🇨🇩 DR Congo 1-1 Portugal 🇵🇹
They're going toe-to-toe with some of the biggest nations in world football. 🧠🔥
Kimmich on Spain's draw against Cape Verde: "Generally speaking, it's getting more difficult to win games. The so-called smaller nations are getting better, both from a footballing and tactical point of view. Curaçao actually played football against us, I had expected more long balls. I watched Haiti against Scotland and they also played a good game. It's no longer straightforward. The bigger nations have to get even better to win these games. It shows that our 7-1 against Curaçao is not a given. You have to work for it"
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Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 ha cometido SOLO UNA falta en su partido contra España, la cifra MÁS BAJA registrada por una selección en un partido de la Copa del Mundo desde 1966 (primera Copa del Mundo televisada al completo). Los precedentes:
🇨🇷 Costa Rica - 3 faltas (vs Alemania, 2022)
🇩🇪 Alemania - 3 faltas (vs Chile, 1974)
Spain v Cape Verde is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries’ highest points are volcanoes in Macaronesia.
Spain tops out at Mount Teide in Tenerife. Cape Verde tops out at Pico do Fogo on Fogo.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
@JuneVanBloem I'm sorry but how did everyone already forget that Germany literally got eliminated 4 years ago on goal difference? and that it happened because Spain thrashed Costa Rica 7-0 in their first game? Of course they'll score as many as they can.
Oooo I’m Zohran Mamdani my wife is super hot and my football team won its first Prem in 23 years and my basketball team is about to be champions for the first time since 1973. Literally grow up man.
These guys came and hosted the World Cup here in South Africa , the the Departmemt of Home Affairs enacted special legislation—such as the 2010 FIFA World Cup Special Measures Act—which allows for the rapid processing of visas and waivers for dignitaries and essential personnel on lists provided by FIFA.......
They have the control . They just lack the testies to stand up to big nations .
This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.