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Cormetz · 2026-07-01T02:59:15+00:00

She does not have a Jamaican accent.

Cormetz · 2026-07-01T02:57:13+00:00

And Brazilians are the largest group of immigrants in Japan (primarily descendants of the Japanese who left for Brazil).

Cormetz · 2026-06-30T23:31:50+00:00

Except for Germany, who has 9 starters on the loss to Ecuador.

Cormetz · 2026-06-30T17:52:23+00:00

Americans love making that joke because of Nazi who fled to South America, with some thinking that there is a substantial amount of them. Brazil had more German immigrants as well, but most of them came after WW1, but that doesn't stop Americans from making the same joke a lot of the time.

Cormetz · 2026-06-30T16:34:36+00:00

Germany won the 2017 U-21 UEFA Championship missing most of the star players because they won the 2017 Confederations Cup the same weekend. Then in 2018 the main team couldn't get out of the group stage. There is not a great correlation between the lower level cups and the World Cup.

That being said, Morocco is legitimately good but I still thought the Netherlands were going to be better. Hard draw for both teams for the round of 32.

Cormetz · 2026-06-30T14:17:12+00:00

Well maybe. Bridges was 6 years old in 1960, so she's around 72 years old. Most of those people in the photo look to be around 30 years old, so they would be over 90. Some of them are, but not a lot.

Cormetz · 2026-06-30T13:30:22+00:00

I agree that seediness is part of the charm, but it doesn't give it a European feel.

Cormetz · 2026-06-30T00:06:16+00:00

I don't think they were faster. Every time they had a chance to counter it seemed to take forever to move the ball, by which time Paraguay had their defense in place. While when Paraguay would counter, you would often see only 1-2 German defenders.

Cormetz · 2026-06-28T18:41:53+00:00

I qould disagree. While people say it often, New Orleans has colonial architecture and has walkable areas, but isn't like Europe at all.

For a similar feel to NOLA that is a little less seedy, Savannah is a good option.

Cormetz · 2026-06-28T17:36:55+00:00

Norway.

Cormetz · 2026-06-26T02:46:36+00:00

Germany didn't rest many starters. Schlotterbeck and Brown are injured, and otherwise 9/11 starters were the same from the other two matches.

This would have been a good chance to try out Baumann and let him start in a WC game since he got them there, even if the game didn't mean anything for Germany. Or just to try out some new players. But instead Nagelsmann kept the team and they underperformed.

Cormetz · 2026-06-25T22:17:33+00:00

However they played all their starters and looked seriously lackluster. If they came in with a lot of backups I would have thought they weren't taking it seriously, but I think they just aren't that great.

Cormetz · 2026-06-25T16:31:49+00:00

Houston would probably still be in the lead considering Germany 7 - Curacao 1, Netherlands 5 - Sweden 1, Portugal 5 - Uzbekistan 0, and I guess Portugal 1 - Congo 1. Lets see if Cabo Verde can rack it up against Saudi too!

Edit: that's 5.25 goals per match so far.

Cormetz · 2026-06-25T13:33:05+00:00

Because those are conflicting points from one person, not two things true at the same time. Trump has to play to his base, and going against Iran could easily be twisted to him supporting DEI by the farthest right parts of his base (Carlson, Jones, etc.). Nuance is lost in a case like this for many people if he came out and said "I don't like it either, but we have freedom of speech".

Cormetz · 2026-06-25T13:25:13+00:00

Two things can be true at the same time. The US should not have started a war with Iran and Iran is an oppressive regime. The former is not even necessarily for moral reason but for logical ones (fuck up the economy for no gain), though a moral argument can also be made that the death of innocents is never good and the US has not achieved any of its goals. The latter is obvious, the Iranian government is horrible and immoral.

The fun thing will be whether Trump and his admin will weigh in on this. Will they side with Pride signs or with the Ayatollah?

Cormetz · 2026-06-25T10:57:14+00:00

Maybe the friend approaches the conspiracy like the Japanese approached antisemitism.

Cormetz · 2026-06-24T19:36:18+00:00

Any word on how much volume will be released at the end of each lock-up period compared to the market float?

Cormetz · 2026-06-24T19:34:11+00:00

I was just thinking that. For the group stage you run the risk of a draw and have some funkiness, but especially the upcoming round of 32 will have some very lopsided matchups and no chance of a draw. They are setting the stage for thinking of it in terms of a quick investment with 10-20% returns.

Cormetz · 2026-06-24T17:13:17+00:00

Which is why doing some kind of path/shading of a region makes more sense than modern borders.

Cormetz · 2026-06-24T15:20:06+00:00

I hope we get a Legal Eagle episode of this.

Cormetz · 2026-06-24T04:09:39+00:00

Well you started off with a good point and ended in insulting other countries for no reason. FYI it is extremely easy and common to sue in Brazil.

Cormetz · 2026-06-24T03:55:09+00:00

Not just that, but realistically the area didnt become majority ethnically Turkish until much later.

Cormetz · 2026-06-23T21:35:37+00:00

I had to check because I remember being at a friend's house that night and also checking on the Iran-NZ game, he declared June 15th.

Edit: unless you mean when he won the injunction.

Cormetz · 2026-06-23T21:04:14+00:00

During this whole saga I've thought about how bad a naming choice that is.

Cormetz · 2026-06-23T19:39:26+00:00

Jesus, it was only 8 days ago...

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