🇪🇸 Spain trying to break through Cape Verde's defense is like trying to change your password on a government website. 25 attempts, everything is correct, but it still says "Incorrect Format, please try again." 💻😭
From footballing obscurity to sharing the biggest stage with the giants, Cape Verde's story is a reminder that rankings, budgets, and history don't always decide the game.
FOOTBALL IS BEAUTIFUL. ⚽❤️
Historic nights like these are why we love this sport
Cape Verde end the match with a draw.
Back in 2020, they were ranked 180th in the world. Today, they stand 67th.
Making their first-ever FIFA World Cup appearance, they faced none other than Spain-- the world No. 2.
And they didn't lose.
There is no other way of guarding against adulation than to make people understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth. On the other hand, when everyone feels at liberty to tell you the truth, they will be apt to be lacking in respect to you.
There is a certain type of person everywhere now, especially online.
He consumes endless information every day: philosophy, psychology, productivity, spirituality, neuroscience, business, self-improvement, history.
He knows a little about everything and deeply experiences almost nothing.
His entire identity becomes built around understanding instead of living.
He watches videos about confidence instead of speaking confidently. Reads about discipline instead of becoming disciplined. Studies relationships instead of learning how to love. Consumes motivational content instead of taking action.
He feels intelligent because he is constantly mentally stimulated. But stimulation is not transformation.
Most of the time, knowledge becomes emotional protection. Reality is unpredictable. Reality humiliates. Reality exposes weakness. Books and ideas do not.
Inside information, he can continue imagining himself as intelligent, deep, insightful, different from ordinary people. So he remains trapped in preparation.
He constantly feels as if he is "becoming" someone, while his real life remains strangely untouched. He develops sophisticated language for problems he never confronts directly. He can explain human behavior beautifully while being unable to handle ordinary discomfort, rejection, uncertainty, loneliness, or risk.
He slowly turns life into observation instead of participation.
The internet rewards this personality heavily. He receives validation for sounding aware rather than becoming capable.
Eventually, he begins confusing self-analysis with growth and information with wisdom.
But beneath the intelligence usually exists the same thing: fear. Fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of reality answering back.
Because action destroys fantasy. The moment he truly acts, he can no longer hide inside potential.
"The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books (...) You know what Lenin did, in 1915, when World War I exploded? He went to Switzerland and started to read Hegel."
- Slavoj Žižek
The second John Wick tournament just happened where two guys in suits throw martial arts moves at each other to get to a gun on the floor and the first to shoot wins.
“So… I’ve met someone new. She lives in Germany and-”
expected prejudice: “she”? you’re dating a girl?
my Brazilian family: AFTER WHAT THEY DID TO US IN THE 2014 WORLD CUP SEMIFINALS?
We had the Dancing Girl in our textbooks our entire high school age and not once did anything naughty or creepy cross our minds. Not once. So the Retard Janata Party thinks more than 25 years later into the 21st century, kids have regressed beyond their seniors from the 90s?