Bode Akura

[Bode Akura @SamuraiAkura]

@InternetH0F Was he found guilty of pulling the trigger or being the one to plan it all out?

[Bode Akura @SamuraiAkura]

@facelesspeak Send me a DM when you get around to hiring people. I just wanna know further details before giving a firm answer

[Bode Akura @SamuraiAkura]

@EnzoVerse7 Cap

[Bode Akura @SamuraiAkura]

@moviehubnow All it took was giving Tom organic webs, huh?

[Bode Akura @SamuraiAkura]

@_FarmercistP_ Where's Tobey?

[Bode Akura @SamuraiAkura]

@the_blind_thing They will barely survive Doomsday, then will lose in Secret Wars (because of the MCU Reboot).

[Bode Akura @SamuraiAkura]

@possiblities07 I mean, his daughter? Maybe Pepper? There were a few years that passed after Infinity War.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The US Navy operates a 50,000 acre forest in Indiana whose entire job is keeping one wooden ship from 1797 afloat.

The ship is USS Constitution, still a commissioned warship with an active-duty crew. Cannonballs bounced off her in 1812 because the hull sandwiches a wall of live oak ribs between two layers of white oak planking, nearly 2 feet of solid wood so dense it barely floats. British 18-pounders hit it and dropped into the sea. A sailor yelled "her sides are made of iron" and the nickname stuck.

Here's the problem with owning a 229-year-old wooden ship: you can't buy the parts. Hull planks run up to 40 feet long and 7 inches thick, cut from single white oak trunks. A white oak takes over a century to grow that big. No lumberyard on earth stocks it.

So the Navy grows its own. Constitution Grove at Naval Support Activity Crane holds trees over 100 years old, reserved exclusively for this ship. Foresters there are managing oaks today that will become hull planking in the 2100s. The maintenance plan literally runs on tree time.

Every 20 years or so she enters dry dock and shipwrights swap out rotted timber. After two centuries of this, estimates put original 1797 wood at maybe 10 to 15 percent of the ship. The Navy keeps replacing her plank by plank because Congress mandated her preservation and because she's the only active US warship that has sunk an enemy vessel.

Every other asset in the Navy has a decommission date. This one has a tree farm.

[Skscartoon @skscartoon]

I just realized why the Europeans are so mad that Trump got involved in that FIFA red card reversal — because the idea of a leader standing up for his country and people is such an alien concept to them

[Primeiro Front @PrimeiroFront]

Vídeo raro mostrando pessoas assistindo o brasil ser campeão da copa do mundo em 2002, faz jovens ficarem emocionados.

"Eu nunca vi o Brasil ser campeão".

[B @utdbrxy]

It’s been a pleasure

[John @WohnJesley]

Eu vi o Neymar tomar uma joelhada criminosa em 14

Eu vi o Neymar chegar lesionado e ainda assim ser o jogador mais agudo em 18

Eu vi o Neymar driblar a zaga INTEIRA voltando de lesão e CLASSIFICAR o Brasil

Ele tem o direito de perder a cabeça, de brigar, provocar, chorar.

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

Funny thing about the whole red card hub bub is 99% of the world knows FIFA is corrupt — it might be the single thing people across the globe believe and tell you, regardless of if you ask — and then Trump blasts in, without any care, like the kool aid man, and does some small fry FIFA corruption, and everyone is like “Woah . The integrity of the game. It’s gone. It’s ruined forever”

[𝐵 @marilbws]

so it’s all over now huh……

[𝐀𝐧𝐮𝐣 @anujfcb]

.@neymarjr

I was 9 when I first watched u play. You made me fall in love with football and gave me some of my favorite childhood memories.

Thank you for the magic, the joy. A piece of my childhood retires with u ❤️

[Bode Akura @SamuraiAkura]

@xsphyre Inject them into my VEINS

[Leen @natalinabrea]

So let me get this straight, FIFA is rigged for overturning the wrong decision, but the VAR who broke the rules and reviewed the play in slow motion and the already accused corrupt referee who gave the red card weren’t trying to rig the game against us?? Ohhh ok got it!

[Bode Akura @SamuraiAkura]

@GoodingTuba @B_2TheLankman @RobCollinsTV As per your image, the clause at the end stipulates that "normal speed should be used for the 'intensity' of an offence or to decide if it was a handball offence"... The ref used slow-mo and still imagery to determine the intensity of the offence. That's the fuckery that's afoot.

[Bode Akura @SamuraiAkura]

@GingaBonitoHub Greatest national team of all time? That's a lil rich, and I love the line-up we had this year. Arguably a top 5 world cup line-up from Brazil in world cup history, maybe. Not even close to the best, though.