🚨🗣️New: Lionel Messi on why he started crying after receiving the silver medal despite the World Cup final defeat to Spain:
“I wasn’t just thinking about losing a final. I was thinking about everything that brought me here… every sacrifice, every difficult moment, every time people doubted us, and every time this shirt gave me the strength to continue.
“When I heard the Argentina fans chanting my name after the defeat, that was the moment that broke me. We had just lost the biggest game, but they didn’t turn their backs on us. They didn’t see a silver medal… they saw the journey. They saw the heart, the fight, and the pride we gave them.
“I looked into the stands and I saw families who travelled thousands of miles, people who dreamed with us, people who cried with us. That love is bigger than any trophy. Football gives you many victories, but moments like that remind you why you play.
“I cried because I felt the weight of the shirt, the love of my country, and the responsibility of wearing this badge. A medal can be silver, but the memories, the connection with the people, and the pride of representing Argentina… those things are priceless.
“Sometimes football gives you the perfect ending, and sometimes it gives you a painful chapter. But I learned that greatness is not only measured by lifting trophies. It is also measured by how you stand when your heart is broken.
“And hearing Argentina sing my name after losing a World Cup final… that was a victory of another kind. I will carry that moment with me forever.”
—🎙️Mixed Zone
Spain had over 40 attempts to score and 1 eventually went in. They played the better game- With Messi and Ronaldo leaving, the torch has officially passed to the next generation.
Messi was arguably the best player on the planet at 19 years old and he’s still arguably the best player on the planet at 39 years old. Do you know how fucking nuts that is?
Just take a minute and let all of this sink in.
How on earth does a 39-year-old step onto a pitch filled with players like Bellingham, Harry Kane, Rice, and some of the biggest stars in the Premier League and Europe… and still come out as the best player on the field?
9 successful dribbles.
Most duels won.
2 assists.
Do you realize how absurd 9 successful dribbles in a World Cup semifinal is? Many players don’t reach that total over 3 or 4 games. Messi did it in 1 game—on the biggest stage.
And he didn’t do it while comfortably leading.
Argentina were 1–0 down against England. Messi created the equalizer, then assisted the winner.
With those 2 assists, he also became the all-time leading assist provider in World Cup history.
Take a moment to truly process all of that.
Only then will you understand the greatness of Lionel Messi.
Tom Brady reveals the brutally honest talk he had with a Michigan sports psychologist that turned him from a benchwarmer into the GOAT.
Brady's transformation started with one change: the way he thought.
"I sit on the bench my first year, and I really had—I would call it—a lot of self-defeating attitudes and behaviors. I always had an excuse. 'Coach doesn't want me in there.'"
"I had a sports psychologist. His name was Greg Harden. I would go into his office every Tuesday, and he would say, 'Tom, I like you. You work hard, but you have a shitty attitude.'"
"'How about you start worrying about what you can control and stop talking about the other quarterbacks, stop talking about the coaches not putting you in.'"
"If they give you three reps, you do the best with the three you get. Quit bitching about you only getting three or you going in there with the backup receivers. No one cares.'"
"'You treat practice like it's a game. If you throw a touchdown in the two-minute in practice, you celebrate like it's the game.'"
Brady never approached it that way before. Then "sure enough" everything changed.
"Mmy energy started getting way better. I was bringing juice; I had the right attitude."
"Then all of a sudden, I'm bringing the juice, man. Every day, boom."
"That [mindshift] really helped me get better."
The road to 7 Super Bowl rings didn't start on the practice field; it started in that very office…
Elon Musk was asked by a room full of Stanford students what single trait separates people who change the world from people who don't. Everyone expected him to say intelligence. Or work ethic. Or vision.
He said pain tolerance.
The room wasn't sure if he was joking. He wasn't. He explained that intelligence is common. Ambition is common. Even good ideas are relatively common. What is genuinely rare is the ability to absorb punishment day after day, year after year, and keep building anyway.
He said most people he's met who are smarter than him quit after the first real failure. Not because they weren't talented. Because the pain of failure exceeded their tolerance for it. They found something easier and redirected their intelligence there.
He said the entire history of SpaceX is just a story about absorbing explosions, literally and financially, and refusing to interpret them as signals to stop.
Nobody writes that on a motivational poster. Nobody puts "pain tolerance" on their LinkedIn profile. But it's the actual filter. Not who can dream the biggest. Who can bleed the longest.
I was clearly wrong about Anthropic. They are obviously currently the leader in AI. No company has released a model as good as Mythos/Fable and they will undoubtedly have Mythos 2 ready soon.
And I would never cut them off in a way that hurt them badly, even as a competitor. That’s not my style.
Tesla open sourced its patents and we made the Supercharger network available to all competitors, even though we could have made it a walled garden.
SpaceX launches competing satellite systems with no increase in price or use of unfair terms.
Even my worst enemies can attack me on this platform.
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@JamesMac_Fit My kids get 1 day of screen time. 2hrs in that day is the limit.
Rest of the time they get to run amuck destroying the house. I mean, playing games and using their imagination like kids used to do before tablets were a thing.
Both are hard, but you gotta choose your hard.
I was traveling internationally for business a few years back and this exact thing happened to me (also arriving in the middle of the night). @Airbnb pretty much told me to kick rocks.
I now only book hotel rooms when traveling to other countries.
On Sunday evening, I had the worst experience I’ve ever had with @Airbnb.
A few hours before arriving in Hamburg for OMR, a conference that brings more than 70,000 people to the city, my booking was suddenly cancelled.
I immediately contacted customer support, expecting them to help me find another place.
Instead, they told me they couldn’t assist because “Airbnb didn’t cancel your booking, the host did.”
Excuse me?
This happened around 11 PM.
I spent the entire night on calls with customer support and did not sleep at all.
At around 1 AM, things got even worse.
I received a message saying I was no longer allowed to make bookings on Airbnb because my account had been flagged as potentially dangerous.
I honestly couldn’t believe what was happening.
I was traveling with my three-month-old baby. I explained that multiple times. It made no difference.
No meaningful help.
No travel credits.
My account was blocked.
And by the time I arrived in Hamburg, I had to scramble to find a hotel on my own.
The ironic part?
There was no AI involved in this experience. Only humans following scripts and passing me from one person to another.
And, Brian, I genuinely wish I had been dealing with AI instead.
It would have been faster, more logical, and probably far more empathetic than the people I spoke with that night.
What shocked me most was realizing how few real alternatives there are to Airbnb.
At midnight I was completely on my own trying to solve a problem that should never have happened in the first place.
Worst customer experience I’ve had in years.
I’ve heard of this strategy, and this is the first time seeing how it plays out in court. Wish the @BrainFlakesToy much luck, I’ll be rooting and supporting with a purchase!
After the publishing of this article, my company was sued in bankruptcy court.
That case was just dismissed along with 2nd bankruptcy.
So now we are returning to district court for the 4th time in year 8.
Situation is getting so interesting that we might need a part 2!
I’ve always wondered why channels like this exist on YouTube. The only reason they get views or subs is due to using IP from billion dollar companies.
You can’t expect that you should be able to monetize “spiderman” just because you did a voiceover and a cool edit.
⚠️ @TeamYouTube necesito ayuda.
Mi canal ZhuRafa (1.4M suscriptores) lleva más de 4 meses desmonetizado y no he logrado obtener una revisión clara de mi caso.
Todo comenzó el 27 de noviembre, cuando mi canal fue desmonetizado por una supuesta infracción relacionada con contenido de menores. Apelé, y me rechazaron cuando era erronea, decidí esperar los 90 días y en lugar de devolverme la monetización, mi canal fue marcado como “contenido no reutilizado”, algo que no corresponde con mi contenido.
Todos mis videos son 100% originales. Yo mismo escribo los guiones, uso mi propia voz y realizo toda la edición. No reutilizo contenido sin transformación.
En mi apelación, incluso hice un video explicando todo mi proceso de creación (guion, edición y producción), pero fue rechazada.
Desde entonces fe intentado contactar soporte varias veces, solo recibo respuestas automáticas o copy-paste sin una explicación clara ni una revisión real.
YouTube es mi trabajo, yo hago contenido por más de 8 años y esta situación me está afectando seriamente, creo que esto puede ser un error de clasificación y solo pido una revisión más detallada por parte de un especialista.
Si alguien de @YouTube@YouTubeCreators@YouTubeLATAM puede ayudar a escalar mi caso, lo agradecería muchísimo 🙏
@chrispavlovski I really wanted to try rumble. I have and educational channel on YouTube approaching 500k subs. I spent the resources to manually upload my best videos to rumble. (Videos on YouTube got 300k-500K views) those same videos on rumble started by getting me 30K. But now 1-10 views?
Everyone is pointing fingers at who was responsible for Spirit Airlines collapse. However the real question is, what airline will be considered the low cost alternative now?!