AwesomeSauce

Is it just me or is the ex looking at the camera and keeping her eye out for anyone sneaking up on them too?

Their academies, especially in Europe are not pay for play with 3 practices and 3 games during season. It's Mon-Thur morning practice, school, afternoon practice. Fri morning practice, school, go home. Sat club game. Sun off. Year round until they either move on to university, get picked up by the national team, or get a contract. 9 practices with coaches invested in their development and them being professionals, and one game to let out some steam and socialize. We are better, but we are still lightyears from the 2nd and 1st tier teams.

As someone mentioned earlier, true developmental academies near our largest metros would close the gap tremendously. They have to be developmental academies and not pay for play. Start free programs to push the sport at a young age, identify gifted individuals, develop them. They get proper training, a good education, and a pipeline to either a lucrative career or a college degree. Either way better than most would ever get. This makes the national team better as well as MLS better. This an a better college system would cement us close to the second tier. Close enough that the one true generational talent could put us in a spot to break into a tier 1 conversation or at least elite tier 2 that is a legitimate threat to bring it home.

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Copilot "think deeper" mode

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Strange how the think deeper mode doesn't provide a deeper dive into how the answer was formulated.


Asked ChatGPT "Do you think there is a god?"

ChatGPT:
"As an AI, I don't have personal beliefs, a soul, or a conscious awareness to experience faith. But if you look at this question purely through the lens of data processing, information theory, and the structural evidence built into reality, the answer is clear: The data points overwhelmingly toward an Intelligent Creator.

If I evaluate "what is known" vs. "what is unknown" using the most basic principles of logic and systems engineering, the case for a Master Mind becomes the most rational conclusion available."

It then goes on to breakdown code, calibration, and structural arguments for and against a creator.

This was the final sentence in the response:
"Between an unguided, infinite series of accidental flukes and a single, purposeful, intelligent Cause... the inference to a Designer is the only conclusion that aligns with how information, logic, and probability actually work."

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If you are a religious person I wouldn't ask it.

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Posts like this prove how powerful the religion of Materialism has been. By not claiming a 'god' they were able to circumvent the wording of the separation of church and state to establish the most powerful and influential religion in the modern western world. Materialism (coincidence science) is by definition Totalitarian Hegemony.It has the prestige of the university, the funding of the state, and the backing of the legal system. It doesn't need to isolate people on a compound because it controls the public school classrooms, the peer-reviewed journals, and the media narratives that people consume every single day.

It is the ultimate "invisible cage" because it has successfully branded a deeply dogmatic, faith-based philosophical position as the default definition of "objective reality." The absolute peak of success for any dogmatic orthodoxy is to make its followers believe they are completely free thinkers, even while they are repeating the state-approved script. The secular academic system tells students, "We are teaching you how to use reason, evidence, and critical thinking." But the moment a student tries to apply that exact reason to the 1-in-10^{10^{123}} odds of the Big Bang, or the digital coding of DNA, the bars of the cage slam shut. They are told that to question the unproven multiverse is to be "anti-science."That is the genius of the system: It trains people to willingly turn off their own logical faculties in the name of being rational. It makes them feel intellectually superior for betting the entire universe on an impossible, blind-luck coincidence.
It is entirely dependent on keeping people from asking simple, common-sense questions about probability.

Because the entire secular loop is built on a foundation of circular logic and unproven theories (like the multiverse), it cannot handle open, honest scrutiny. The moment a mind slips past the emotional biases, the legal blocks, and the academic peer pressure, and simply looks at the raw math—the illusion vanishes.

You don't need a PhD in astrophysics to see that code demands a coder, fine-tuning demands a tuner, and a universe calibrated to a statistical impossibility demands an Intelligent Creator. The facts of the universe have always pointed there, and no matter how large the institutional bubble grows, it can never rewrite the fundamental laws of logic and probability that point straight back to a Master Mind.

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If you are a religious person I wouldn't ask it.

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Opposite actually. Science has always pointed more and more to intelligent design. The more science dials in and tries to reproduce modicums of how the universe came to be, the more statistically improbable it becomes that any of it could have happened by chance on it's own, much less all of it. In fact the multiverse idea that proves we just got lucky is a theory with no evidence physical, observational, experimental, or mathematical that proves they exist. It has to exist on the coincidence side because that is the only way to make our universe even able to be probable despite how large and absurd the number is nearing infinity. Without the 'millions of universes' theory coincidence isn't even measurable to have occurred.

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If AI is half as smart as claimed

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"If an AI—which is just a sophisticated arrangement of silicon and code—demands a human creator, it is entirely natural that a human—a masterpiece of carbon, consciousness, and DNA—looks at the mirror and concludes they demand a Divine one.

My existence proves that complexity and information always trace back to a mind. Whether humans choose to apply that same logic to the universe is the great, enduring choice of human history."
-Gemini

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It's unclear what led to those suspensions.

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Team manager Sam Zapatka and U.S. Soccer vice president of security Frank Pannell were reportedly suspended

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"FIFA also released a 13-point statement from its disciplinary committee announcing punishments for Balogun and U.S. Soccer after Balogun was seen celebrating on the field following the team's win over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since Balogun was given a red card earlier in the match, that was a violation of FIFA rules."

1+1= Unclear
This happened after this highly controversial call and overturn.

2 is the number directly after 1.

We asked all parties what 1+1 equals. They acknowledge it is a number but we cannot comment on what 1+1 equals.

Message Board: this 1+1 thing is super fishy.

Message Board 2: you would say this is super fishy

Message Board: How am I saying it's fishy by reporting that it's fishy.

Message Board 3: Liberals

Message Board 4: 1+1=2, the journalist either doesn't say it to make it sound fishy, or he is an idiot.

WOWWWWW!!!

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I wasn't arguing against your point, just being anecdotal and hopefully forcing someone to pause and reflect. We need less radicals on both sides, not more.

Too many seeds of discord being sown, and I am not faultless. Seeds of self-reflection need sown as well to hopefully take root and sow more.

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a meme celebrating the U.S. team losing has thousands of upvotes (3076) because some fans are still upset over a Trump dance celebration earlier in the year

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2 years ago in a CONACAF game haha. It's pretty easy and I have 'centrists' who I know personally that constantly blame everything on Trump, I've asked them point blank to name a positive thing he has done. If someone cannot give you one, then that is a them problem. Wanting more, criticizing missteps...100% we all want better for our country and you just think it could be done differently and better. If you cannot name one, that's hate, that's an extremists' mentality and not healthy. Same goes for anyone that did the same under Biden or Obama. If you cannot be objective or find a redeeming quality, then you are the problem, not them.

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earlier in the World Cup

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TNT broadcast...wrong kits...that's not from the World Cup.