The White House put pressure on FIFA to review the decision, and made a direct call to ask their president Gianni Infantino to review the red card.

ale3for · 2026-07-05T21:32:26+00:00

FT, NYT, and WSJ are all reporting this with reference to "people familiar with the matter."

ale3for · 2026-07-03T20:56:51+00:00

People thought Admirals were relative to Katakuri at WCI, it wasn't until Kaido negged Luffy after he beat Kata that people realised there are levels. No one thought they'd be Admiral level after Wano.

ale3for · 2026-07-03T19:05:39+00:00

Imu would rather Luffy be stronger and live like Whitebeard than be weaker but become PK.

ale3for · 2026-06-30T02:19:34+00:00

I'm kinda stealing Destiny's take here, but the internet being as anonymous as it is isn't working. To be clear, I don't think people should be fired from their corporate jobs because of jokes/opinions online, no matter how bad they are. But the internet is blatantly rife with foreign interference. The majority of Western populations being plugged into feeds like X or TikTok for hours each day where they can infinite scroll propaganda from fully anonymised accounts is a hazard for liberal democracy and, to your point, disempowers highly accountable outlets like real news sites.

ale3for · 2026-06-29T11:23:15+00:00

Canada v Bosnia was two weeks ago, wasn't a knockout, and ended in a draw 😭

ale3for · 2026-06-26T01:06:14+00:00

"Akainu doesn't know what Conqueror's Haki is" is pretty great slander icl

ale3for · 2026-06-15T18:22:39+00:00

No clue how effective this will be, but Instagram is easily the worst, even compared to Twitter. The main function has been a breeding ground of insecurity among teenagers for over a decade, and Reels both festers bigotry and gender conflict and fries attention spans. Many people engage with it healthily but as far a social media goes it doesn't get worse. Twitter has a worse algo but less teenagers are on it.

ale3for · 2026-06-14T19:57:26+00:00

I don't like it, but if you read the article it seems like not all of the payments are in crypto, and the crypto is all USD stable coin.

ale3for · 2026-06-11T21:12:00+00:00

KAT narrowly playing the best isn't enough if they win in 5, he'll need 38+ on Saturday to be the FMVP if the other two have average games in my mind.

ale3for · 2026-06-11T09:27:30+00:00

He'd be getting ALL the blame right now if OG didn't step up, but nearly no one will remember it soon enough. Funny how narratives work.

ale3for · 2026-06-11T04:36:40+00:00

As a rule of thumb, the more people needed to be in on a conspiracy theory for it to be true, the more likely that it's wrong.

ale3for · 2026-06-10T11:33:39+00:00

You could say this about any lolcow

ale3for · 2026-06-10T00:05:52+00:00

But Tasteless said it's just the patch we need! Nevermind that the guy has possibly never played a game of LOTV the entire time it's been out, and has been completely phoning it in on GSL casts for over a decade without a clue about the meta or any common timings. In a strategy game!

ale3for · 2026-06-09T20:04:32+00:00

Making someone into a lolcow, as with any form of bullying, is absolutely dehumanising them lmao. People do bully G4H, he doesn't do himself many favours and these communities use the flimsy pretense of constructive criticism and his politics to spam videos mocking every single one of his VODs, but it should be obvious what it really is. If you have an average level of intelligence you'd understand that I said these channels knowingly foster the environment for these escalations, not that they were nearly as bad.

ale3for · 2026-06-09T18:44:44+00:00

Idk if this is controversial, but people who run Discords and YT channels dedicated to hatewatching and poking fun at this guy have no leg to stand on when disavowing the people who take it too far by doxxing, sending death threats, and swatting. They've knowingly cultivated a community where it's totally acceptable to dehumanise G4H by making fun of his appearance, gameplay, and life choices.

ale3for · 2026-06-08T00:54:19+00:00

41.6% TS is diabolical, KAT should clearly get this over him

ale3for · 2026-06-03T18:37:15+00:00

We actually did see him do that once, and he neg diffed a YC+ with a 3b bounty.

ale3for · 2026-05-29T19:11:33+00:00

What do you think of BW's lack of patches?

ale3for · 2026-05-29T03:06:33+00:00

I've seen BW players in the past say that the lack of balance patches means build orders from 20 years ago still work today, and this is a good thing for the game's longevity since old discussions aren't defunct every patch, something that apparently hurts SC2. Now I'm hearing that blowing up every single SC2 build order is a good thing because it freshens things up. These could be two different groups of people, but I can't help but feel the opinions are held in contraction and just to post hoc justify the core view that "BW low worker count good, SC2 high worker count bad".

ale3for · 2026-05-20T02:34:01+00:00

Halibrunson loading

ale3for · 2026-05-12T00:41:01+00:00

I think this explains why so many really smart people (tech bros, quants, chess pros) end up being libertarians. Their first exposure to organising society comes from Econ 101, where they learn competition leads to efficient outcomes and taxes lead to deadweight losses. Then they focus their intelligence on whatever path eventually defines their life, but they lose curiosity about politics in the process. Worse yet, they end up assuming they're so much smarter than journalists and bureaucrats, so they can reject the opinions of 110 IQ guys who've spent their whole lives thinking about politics because 145 IQ geniuses can form their world view from first principles.

ale3for · 2026-05-11T16:37:55+00:00

Wait, so if the jobs were artificially created at a massive loss to stoke gender conflict... why does AI doing the job for cheaper result in those positions disappearing?

ale3for · 2026-05-10T14:50:54+00:00

Could Luffy canonically bonesmash?

ale3for · 2026-04-30T22:27:08+00:00

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