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For some reason, this is the week when GenXers woke up, looked around, and realized it’s not the world they grew up in anymore. Specifically the Internet is not the same! Shock! Horror! How come these people’s formative experiences in high school or college aren’t preserved in amber for all future time?! There oughta be a law!

Weird how today’s surveillance capitalist internet flowed directly from the California Ideology of these people, and yet it’s not their fault at all the world looks like it does.

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🔗🇸🇪 SVT: Pricerunner stämde Google – får över 14 miljarder i skadestånd

Pengarna går rakt ner i Klarnas ficka, om inte domen överklagas.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 – 🇨🇩 2–0 England advances, because it’s not a major championship without them losing spectacularly in penalty shootouts.

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🇸🇪 åker vi ut ikväll är vi i gott sällskap med Nederländerna och Tyskland…

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🇸🇪 har pungat ut med 69 spänn för att se Sverige förnedras i realtid

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🇫🇷 – 🇸🇪 3–0 Sweden did ok in the first half with some good saves, but les Bleus could not be denied.

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🔗 Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Labour’s Love Lost

It’s a besetting temptation to play laudator temporis acti, pining for the good old days, but sometimes the old days really were good. Look back fifty years. Harold Wilson resigned as prime minister and Labour leader in March 1976. […] The candidates to succeed him were Michael Foot, Roy Jenkins, Tony Benn, Denis Healey, Anthony Crosland, and James Callaghan, who was elected and became prime minister. All apart from Foot had served in the war: Callaghan in the Royal Navy, Benn in the Royal Air Force, the others in the army; Healey and Crosland had seen action as junior officers; Jenkins had worked at the Bletchley Park code-breaking center. He, Foot, and Crosland wrote books of considerable value. Looking back, they seem a race of giants.

And today? […] The Guardian quotes one Labour MP saying, “We have to face up to the fact that every single one of them is fucking useless.” That’s perhaps a little blunt, but it does seem that although the country is full of clever, gifted, energetic people, not least young people, they don’t go into politics anymore. And that’s a problem for all of us.

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🇯🇵 – 🇸🇪 1–1 Sverige vidare i typisk stil - går in i turneringen med skyhöga förväntningar som krossas, klarar sig ur gruppspelet med nöd och näppe, för att sen bli krossade igen i utslagningen.

Knappast en repris på detta dock

Japaner, japaner försvarande japaner, från sig vilt slåendes japaner och lika vilt angripande svenskar. Japaner som hoppar, japaner som kastar sig, japaner som gör allt för att bärga segern för Nippon.

– Sven Jerring, 1936

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google/android ruining our evening by being buggy heaps of shit

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🇨🇼 – 🇨🇮 0–2. You gotta love an underdog, but in the end it was not enough.

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everyone playing along the not-so polite fiction that “hydration breaks” aren’t actually ad breaks

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🔗 MJD: Deciphering basmala

As I mentioned before, “al-” means “the”, so you see it at the beginning of many Arabic words. It also survives in many English words that are descended from Arabic, such as alcohol, alcove, algebra, algorithms, and alchemy.

(Not, however, “alligator”, where the “al-” is the Spanish word for “the”.)

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 – 🇬🇭 0–0 kinda boring match tbh

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🇦🇷 – 🇦🇹 2–0 kinda cool to see Messi make most goals ever in world cup tournaments

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🇫🇷 – 🇮🇶 3–0 Mbappé inching up on Messi’s record by scoring 2 goals

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🇳🇱 – 🇸🇪 5–1 Well well well, NL trounced Sweden with the same score that Sweden trounced Tunisia. There’s a clear pecking order in international football and we’re at the bottom.

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🇫🇷 – 🇸🇳 2–0. Some really good goals by les Bleus.

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