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You're in NYC. Just go into any downtown bar on a Thurs or Fri (when the bridge and tunnel girls are out) and happen to drop that you work at a hedge fund. You'll do fine.

Don't live in the financial district if you can help it. Even if (especially if) you work there. Its dead on weekends except for tourists and there's nothing really down there. Go somewhere interesting- even a 10 minute train ride will take you to lower east side, Tribeca, little Italy, etc. Even Brooklyn. Get a flavor for the real NY - you won't get that in a brand new condo in Financial District.

Stunning comeback by Argentina. @raveslayer, have you recovered yet?

It says the FA reached out to him to see if they'd support the time change. He said no.

I completely agree with that. Which is why FIFA probably would have acted unilaterally anyways. They need the viewers in the US.

I completely agree with that. Which is why FIFA probably would have acted unilaterally anyways. They need the viewers in the US.

So that was a unilateral decision by the governing body. No idea if it was right or wrong but im guessing the Argentinean president didn't call FIFA. The point is not whether FIFA got it right or wrong its that the US looks like sore losers when they would have had most of the world agreeing with them.

Only because its amazing how he manages to fuck up everything he gets involved with, usually making the US look foolish.

Because the ruling only came after intervention by the US President (and FIFA Peace Prize recipient). If FIFA did it unilaterally, great. But does anyone still think it was unilateral? Hence the asterisk.

"Unilaterally" is doing a lot of work in this case.

Im far from a FIFA expert but was just going by the fact that they have an Appeals Committee and Belgiums response: "To date, the RBFA has still not received any grounds for this decision, nor has it received the information it has been requesting since the start of this procedure for a copy of the decision and the motivation declaring the player eligible as well as the referee’s report. Which is a breach of FIFA regulations"

I have yet to see anyone suggest that it was a good, fair call. And if it was overturned under the normal appeal process, everyone would probably have gone "good" and it wouldnt be an issue. Its the fact that FIFA bypassed the appeal process and didn't give Belgium a fair chance to respond that is the issue. Not to mention that all of that happened after the President (and FIFA Peace Prize winner) publicly announced that he called the FIFA head to overturn it. Ironically most people would have been on the US's side on this and now, as you point out, the US will have a big asterisk next to their name regardless of outcome.

Following the rules is acting like cowards but having your president call the head of FIFA is integrity? As @Castanza pointed out, it is the US that are going to have the asterisk next to their name here not Belgium. We look like sore losers regardless of how bad the original call.

So the reporting is wrong? Looked pretty factual. You could find 10 other sources for the same info.

They are lobbying to have the rules followed. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7424790/2026/07/06/folarin-balogun-red-belgium-explanation/

But thats not whats happening. In fact its the opposite with the US actively lobbying to overturn well established rules to give themselves an advantage. Every team plays by the same rules. It's a long tournament and the carryover of yellow and red cards is part of it. Its not the best team for 90 minutes its the best team over a month of games.

Thats not the case. Playing with the integrity of the game means following the rules of the game start to finish. No changing the rules after the fact because you dont like the outcome. I only follow soccer every 4 years but even i thought the red card was way too harsh (esp given the stuff that went on in the France/Paraguay game). But like the offside rule, thats the game and the rules were set out out long before the tournament started. If you start applying "best team regardless" the rules go out the window.

Depends on your age and marital status but moving to NY is like going to college. Your experience is what you make of it. You can embrace the chaos and energy and go with it or hunker down and ride it out. And you need to be a bit careful because anything and everything is available in abundance and its easy to get sucked in. Its crazy expensive but try and forget that if you can and take advantage of whats available since you probably won't be there for decades. Go out a lot.

Interesting that they waited until a multi year low in broker multiples to IPO. If they'd done it 18 months ago the same results might have received double the value. And doing it at the same time that BWIN is rumored to consider going private again.

Apple TV has Formula 1 thru 2030.

Have you not read the posts here? Socialists aren't the opposition to Trump, people with common sense and integrity and values are the opposition to Trump. Which is why so many former Republicans oppose him. To try and claim everyone who dislikes Trump is a Socialist is like saying everyone who didn't like Biden is a MAGA. Again (and again and again) you are avoiding the list of things where you think Trump is wrong. Because you are in a cult.

Thats funny! I am the farthest thing from a socialist and am (or was) someone who voted republican for a long time. And I've stated many, many times there were promises by Trump that I fully supported (cost cutting, balanced budget, full Epstein release, no new wars) but his blatant lying and incompetence made the problems even worse. So lets hear that list of things you think Trump is wrong about. Can we start with removing the cap on overdraft fees.

Maybe better for the Netflix thread.but this is exactly what killed the cable bundle. If you go a la carte there isnt enough demand for individual product to make it work at low prices - especially if that product is for a small portion of the year. The Sunday Ticket on YouTube can cost up to $450 per season. And sports is a mess. Prime has Thursday Night Football, ESPN has Monday Night and the rest is spread between networks (with Netflix getting the Christmas games).

Same argument over and over yet never actually doing it.

Name 2 things you disagree with Trump on. You wouldnt even admit to disagreeing with him on an issue where he came out in opposition to your stated support. Do you support his cancelation of caps on overdraft fees?