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@CarnegieMellon '08 💻🐒 — Let's Go @NJDevils! 👺

🤓 I like hockey, Econ, and general nerd stuff.

[bax to the future @jeffbax]

"From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty.

You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’ — Astronaut Edgar Mitchell" 👨‍🚀🌎☮️ https://t.co/D0qwzEoxz7

[Dan Walker @mrdanwalker]

Mexico have only lost 2 games at the Azteca in 56 years 😬

England are going to have to be at their best at 2,200 metres above sea level.

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[bax to the future @jeffbax]

Fucking incredible, thank you Supreme Court this week 🫡 🇺🇸

[JAKE SING @jakesing_]

Happy birthday America.

[Murls @mattmurley19]

Has to play til he gets 1000 goals

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

Me and the boys going to FIFA Headquarters to appeal Balogun’s red card so he can play against Belgium 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[jess ⚡️ @JessNoFace]

as a soccer fan of 3 weeks it is unforgivable what these refs are doing to our beautiful game

[greg @greg16676935420]

Shoulda pulled this move when the ref handed him a red card

[The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦 @Rob_ThaBuilder]

Lots of England fans clearly have no idea the absolutely massive advantage that playing at Aztwca gives the Mexican side. Put aside for a second the sheer size of 100,000+ fans and intimidating atmosphere (thats only the minor advantage).

The true advantage is purely physiological, in ways that cannot be countered.

Fans of MLB baseball know that Coors Field in Colorado is an outlier stadium. The elevation is so much higher than any other stadium that games at Coors generally scores 20-30% more runs than the rest of the league. Below is a pictograph of the altitude of Coors vs the other stadiums. Coors sits at 5194 ft.

Azteca is at 7200 ft.

England can mitigate the advantage somewhat with oxygen tanks, but they simply wont be able to change the physiology of their bodies in a week the way the Mexican side has changed theirs. There is 24% less oxygen at 7000 ft than at sea level, which means the English players will be struggling to catch their breath the entire game.

The body does adapt, but over time. The Mexican squad will have been practicing at Azteca for months, which has changed their bodies. Their blood will have 20-30% more red blood cells than the English players blood. Of course, its not impossible for England to win, but the advantage for Mexico is enourmous. In practical terms, it is as if the entire team has been placed on an aggressive doping program (doping for endurance sports such as cycling or soccer is almost always related to increasing red blood cell count).

If England manages to win the World Cup, the game vs Mexico will likely be their toughest, for reasons that have nothing to do with the skill level of either team.

[bax to the future @jeffbax]

* as long as the fuel prices don’t keep a lid on things instead, which is what I thought kept airlines from pushing too hard for faster anyway 🤔

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your 6-hour flight from LA to New York is about to become a 3-hour flight. And it's legal because engineers figured out how to bend sound.

Since 1973 it's been a federal crime for any passenger plane to fly faster than the speed of sound over American soil. That's why your cross-country flight takes the same 6 hours it took your parents in the 80s. Planes got safer and more efficient. They never got faster. The law made faster illegal.

The original reason was real. In the 60s the government flew supersonic jets over Oklahoma City 8 times a day for 6 months to test public reaction. The booms cracked plaster, broke windows, and generated nearly 10,000 complaints. So the FAA banned the speed itself.

Here's what changed. The speed of sound isn't constant. It shifts with air temperature, which shifts with altitude. Fly high enough and fast enough in the right conditions and the shockwave physically bends, curving back up into the sky before it reaches the ground. The boom still happens. It just never lands.

NASA measured what people underneath actually hear: a faint rumble about as loud as normal street noise. No crack. No broken windows.

So the FAA's new rule flips the logic. Instead of banning the speed, it caps the sound allowed to hit the ground. Stay quiet and you can fly as fast as the plane will go. Boom already proved the tech works in a real test flight last year.

The last time you could fly supersonic, a Concorde ticket cost about $12,000 round trip and only crossed the ocean. The next version flies over land, over your house, and you'll never hear it coming.

[hamsters🌐🐹 @sigmahamster2]

We’re in the rationing stage of socialism.

[BDub @Wongtimer]

I mean this whole heartedly. The only thing that could prevent them from winning the cup is Jacob Markstrom.

[bax to the future @jeffbax]

Communists to the left of me, national socialists to the right… 😵‍💫

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I remember this system where, in order to “smooth relationships” with the government and allow your company to operate, one had to give the government a controlling stake in successful companies.

It was how the Eastern Block & USSR operated.

Not a controlling stake, but damn:

[Shafeeq @Y2SHAF]

i really wish we only had news like this on the internet

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

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[bax to the future @jeffbax]

The state of the GOP is beyond lamentable, and yet the lunatic communist jihadis slowly taking over the DNC sure own the production of one thing… Republicans 🫠

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Confirms what I’ve been saying:

Patriotism must transcend politics.

I’m deeply grateful and proud to be a citizen of this great country.

Happy 250th birthday to the best nation, now and forever. 🇺🇸

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

American anti-data-center populism is a tool of the CCP.

If you’re a politician in the middle of a political fight about data centers, pick a side. Do your duty as a leader and as an American!

[dom 📈 @domluszczyszyn]

Nico Hischier is a perfect example of what a $12M player actually looks like.

[NJ Devil @NJDevil00]

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[bax to the future @jeffbax]

@PlayStation But if going all digital, is PlayStation going to honor backward compatibility in what will become a decades-long library as well as Valve and Microsoft have shown themselves to do?

What happens to physical copies of PS1-5 titles people had when PS6 hits?

[bax to the future @jeffbax]

@BR_OpenIce @KevinWeekes Won more face-offs than anybody last year, 1008 and one of only 20 players to win that many in a season ever. Which was still 169 ahead of second place.

Basically takes all the most difficult situations for the team shutting down the best in the league. Overrated? No way!

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

When Mexico scored their first goal against Ecuador, the announcer might have broken the record for the longest “gooooooooooal” in commentating history