🚨 Thibaut Courtois: "We have PUNISHED the DISRESPECT that the Americans have shown us in the last few days.
I was way more confident we'd beat the USA than I was of beating Senegal, simply because Senegal are a MUCH better team than the USA."
If we’re going to recreate the Roman triumph, we should be allowed to parade around the other team’s best player like Vercingetorix. Imagine Wemby being dragged through the streets of New York as part of the Knicks’ conquest
I can place my earliest memory to roughly 1997.
Now I am nearly 32 years old, I see that money has HALVED in value. It's literally worth half of what it was when I was three years old.
If I live to be 95 years old, and at this rate, money will lose 98% of its value from 1997.
I really wish I could’ve been one of Alexander’s guys. Or a Xenophon, marching through Persia. The world was more interesting back then. Instead, I have to go to work tomorrow.
Another fundamental error is to even see Greco-Roman history as our own. Despite the focus on their literature, we are a distinctly different civilization. Christian Good and Evil has no relation to heroic virtue
The fundamental error of modern historiography is that we believe every war is between good and evil. The modern mind cannot comprehend a war that’s not between good and evil; where both opponents are virtuous, nobly pursuing their tragically conflicting ends.
I do wonder if the Lost Cause myth is simply an affirmation of Jeffersonian-Jacksonian America, a nostalgia for how America could’ve been, a rejection of modernity that doesn’t necessarily require slavery
Diversification is the biggest lie in finance. If you know what the best asset is, owning weaker ones “for safety” is just diluting your returns. Diversification forces you to hold dogshit so you can feel intelligent while underperforming. There is no reason to have anything other than Micron in your stock portfolio…🚀