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because of the scandal over the red card suspension being deferred, i am hoping belgium just refuses to take the field. there is no way a disgrace like this stands. let us see how the referee is going to give a card against the usa now.

what really runs a relationship is the fear in it. whoever is more afraid of losing something, the relationship takes shape around their fear. the one who's afraid of being alone constantly gives in. the one who's afraid of being abandoned constantly controls. the one who's afraid of being seen as inadequate constantly proves themselves. two people's fears determine the entire dynamic between them. that's why if you want to understand a relationship, rather than looking at who's dominant and who's timid, you have to look at who's afraid of what. because what runs a relationship isn't a person, but the thing that person runs from the most.

what sharply sets this guy apart from cristiano is this: for this guy, his teammates are ready to give their lives, they'd die for him. cristiano ronaldo? he's got quite a few people who hate him, bruno fernandes chief among them, if you ask me.

a scandal that took place on us soil and will go down as the biggest disgrace in us history.
the scandal: https://x.com/.../status/2072571826274750773?s=20

for those surprised that it has the third largest water reserves in the world, i'd like to remind everyone that the amazon isn't just the name of a shopping website.

look how japan's explosive speed and disciplined play gets results against brazil's loose, languid, ambling style. i'd say the japanese are playing at 100% efficiency if not for the misplaced passes, but when two-thirds of the stadium is yellow and the opponent is a brazil carrying 5 stars on its chest, that much nervousness is bound to happen.

just because messi scored 5 goals in 2 matches, all the footballers started banging in two or three each and joining the race for the golden boot. the match where dembele scored 3 goals.

a 16-year-old kid built a prototype of starlink and made 300,000 dollars. what's more, the device can pick up satellite signals and works everywhere in the world. even if spacex tries to block this, the kid has already taken his precautions. what he did isn't as complicated as you'd think. he developed it almost entirely with claude's help.

first let's clarify this: he isn't stealing starlink's internet. what he's using is the radio beacon signals broadcast by spacex's satellites. he uses these signals like a free positioning system. this way he can determine location even in regions where gps doesn't work or is being jammed.

every starlink satellite continuously broadcasts a beacon signal. these signals can be picked up with a small dish antenna and a 35-dollar sdr receiver. triangulation is done using at least three satellites, and location can be calculated even without gps. this method is being tested by the us military too. the kid turned this into a portable device and sold it to hikers, sailors, and emergency teams.

the equipment he used:
rtl-sdr blog v4 usb receiver — 35 dollars
small dish antenna — about 50 dollars
ku-band lnb converter — 20 dollars
raspberry pi 5 (8 gb ram)
bias-t adapter
5000 mah usb power bank
total cost: 180 dollars.

he had claude write a python program that captures the starlink beacon signals and calculates location using tle data and doppler shift. when the program runs, the raspberry pi tracks the satellites and shows coordinates with roughly 10-30 meter accuracy. no gps. no phone signal. no internet.

afterward he made a case with 3d printing and sold the product under the name hikers & sailors gps backup.
unit cost: $180
sale price: $899
profit: $719
he sold 350 units.

among his customers are fire crews, pilots, skiers, and yacht owners. spacex can't file a lawsuit because picking up publicly broadcast beacon signals is considered legal.

it's definitely not telling their spouse, don't worry, not out of any dishonor. things turn around in such a way that (depending on the gender of the one telling) if you're a woman your name turns into the whore trying to break them up, and if you are a man into the dishonorable bastard who "slandered an honorable woman's honor." with some of the people being cheated on there's a peculiar kind of foolishness, not stupidity, they believe so much that their partner wouldn't do it that without seeing it firsthand or having concrete evidence, they won't let a speck of dust settle on them.

according to idiots, people are divided into more than eight categories, chief among them race, sex, nationality, age, status, color, religion, and language. but the matter isn't this complicated. people are divided into only two: good people and bad people.

(see: albert einstein)

it's already known that from spacex to nvidia, from google to openai, it's all a circular ponzi scheme. the most important factor determining whether or not all that speculative capital investment will pay off is the productivity trend of the flagship model. but that's a long-term prediction. by the time that horizon arrives, you've taken the company public, collected money from the public, and inflated the share price as much as you want based on public expectation rather than experts. as long as the derivative of productivity sits at a certain slope.

anthropic is already used to doom-marketing along the lines of "now this model is gonna mess everyone up, don't forget to ask for it at your dealers tomorrow." the well-known ipo is at the door too, and this has time-bombed reasons like the market collapsing once trump turns into a lame duck. but fable was probably measured at a performance that's a harbinger of the structural model plateau, meaning that the trillion dollars of capital buried into it won't turn over quite that many trillions, and a receiver had to be appointed to public perception.

they had already started giving away some of the problems by changing their pricing and mechanisms. then before fable came out, they prepped the ground in advance by going on and on about oh no, cybersecurity, some object or other is approaching. that way, when the model was released with such a badly excessive amount of guardrails that it was unusable, nobody would get suspicious. i'm sure they got some marginal improvement out of all the user data and such, but the rest of the model's visible productivity, in my opinion, mostly amounts to flooring the engine right at release time, internalizing the market's harness stubbornness into their own harnesses. (making it burn tokens like an ox with a supervisor prompt along the lines of "try ten times until you find it, don't ask the user" instead of saying "i couldn't find this, what should i do" isn't a skill, but it isn't productivity either. people who use openclaw and the like will get what i mean.)

if the amount of profitable work that can be done per unit token or dollar or time isn't rising as fast as the capital investment being made, those shares are going to fall there. normally this is a healthy thing. but if what you've got on hand is bloat and circular pumping, then this truth coming to light has very unpleasant consequences. especially when you consider that the american economy has nothing else whatsoever that promises any hope of growth. and this national security matter in question is exactly that.

this is not investment advice, but it's the method elon musk has come up with to nibble away at the money of completely ordinary investors, people who invest in indexes, and the money in pension funds.

the s&p made the right call by not adding it to the index. yes, with this rush, it'll bring money to those looking for action who'll hit and run in a day or two, but the money of most individual investors and people with investments in pension funds is going to get nibbled away too.

the company is already going public at twice the valuation it should be, it has never seen a profit and is constantly posting losses, and it's impossible for it to see a profit anytime soon.

but elon knows where he'll find the money, and spacex investors, with their shares in a firm that has never seen a profit since the market opening, will fleece the ordinary investor like always.

even while wrestling with hunger, disasters, and death, somebody off in a corner was carving stone, raising a temple, sculpting a statue, smearing paint on a wall. maybe what makes us human began right here. because from that moment on, we stopped being just a creature trying to stay alive and turned into a being that wanted to make sense of what it saw and leave a trace behind.

take the people who chased mammoths, for instance, we don't know their trace or trail, but we can still come across what that first homo sapiens guy drew when he sketched a bison on a cave wall with charcoal.

maybe that's exactly why art can never be a luxury. today, in the middle of economic crises, wars, and the rush of daily life, there are still people writing novels, shooting films, composing songs, putting paint to canvas. there isn't as big a difference as you'd think between the person who left the print of their hand on a cave wall and the sculptor whose back is bent from carving marble, the master craftsman working a pattern into a dome, and today's artist. despite all the hardships, what's eating at all of them is really the same thing: "if i'm going to vanish one day, how will i tell anyone that i lived here?"

"advice given to someone in front of others is not advice, it is an insult."

kintsugi is a japanese art form based on the idea that when something breaks, it can be repaired in a way that makes it even more beautiful and valuable than it was before. the cracks and fractures are filled with gold, turning the damage into a visible part of the object’s history rather than something to hide. instead of pretending the object was never broken, kintsugi highlights the break and honors it as part of the story. kintsugi