The question was "deserve to win"
The USA do not deserve to win it (yet)
Nations like Portugal or the Netherlands have spent generations building football culture from the ground up. Their players grow up breathing the sport. Their fans live and die by it. Their systems produce technical skill and football IQ that can’t be mass-manufactured in a decade.
The U.S. can’t fake what it doesn’t have yet: true football heritage. Not the crowds, not the grassroots, not the deep national obsession that turns raw talent into world-class players. Winning a World Cup requires more than athleticism and funding, it demands decades of obsession, culture, and identity.
The U.S. won’t be lifting the trophy anytime soon. Maybe eventually, but not soon, and not for a long time. Football greatness isn’t bought or fast-tracked. It’s built over generations, and the U.S. is still on page one.
Hi @LawrenceLepard If you only fast for 48 hours, you’re just beginning to enter ketosis. Push past 72 hours and you’re not just running on ketones, you’re triggering autophagy, allowing cells to clean themselves out and recycle damaged material. To make that metabolic switch faster, it’s better to go low-carb and moderate-protein for a few days before the fast. Mix in some steady state cardio to burn any reserves. That keeps glycogen low without spiking glucose through protein conversion, so you enter ketosis sooner. Once you’re fully in that state, cells start repairing at a deeper level, and mitochondrial quality improves as the body prioritizes healthier, more efficient energy producing mitochondria over damaged ones. I do a 5 day water fast every 3 months and try and follow a low carb diet after and the weight falls off. Cold plunges or cold showers can help speed things up. Get ketone sticks from your local pharmacy to see if youre in Ketotis. go for purple! Hope this helps
@AgedTinder@JOKAQARMY1 Predictions are cheap. If your thesis is that Bitcoin’s value collapses, the rational move is to short it. If you’re not doing that, the thesis is noise and you have zero conviction.
@AgedTinder@JOKAQARMY1 Math doesn’t care whether people believe in it. Consensus determines price, not validity. Bitcoin’s rules hold whether you cheer for it or hate it. Fiat collapses when trust fails; Bitcoin keeps producing blocks regardless.
@kevinhou22 - congrats! but there seems to be a bug with SSH. struggled for a day to get Antigravity to connect to a remote server with no route to host despite it working fine outside of AG and perfectly in VS Code. Users on Reddit saying the same thing so its not an isolated incident.
I disagree. Most XRP "investors" are all "BUT BANKS ARE GONNA USE IT BRO!" and cannot give a compelling argument. I am not using "most" loosely. Most XRP holders when asked cannot tell you the difference between XRP, Ripple Labs and XRPL. They hold because a friend that used to work with Satoshi back at the CIA told them to buy.
@IOL you’re running sponsored scams like this? “Retiree earns $7,500 daily from BTC mining” Seriously? This isn’t journalism, it’s predatory trash. Do you even vet your “partnered” content or just take the ad money? It's a scam and you know it. - https://t.co/BiZ7ZZ5Ufh