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jake
16m ago
The others are right, chess at its highest level doesn't feed into anything but itself. If your daughter had that rare acumen and you wanted to support her and she made WGM, chess would be her work and her life. I think you might wonder if this would be so bad. WFM Anna Cramling is the daughter of WGM Pia Cramling and GM Juan Manuel Bellón López. There's this video of her watching as her mother plays an amateur at a chess bar in Paris, and it's idyllic. Titled chess players also generally come from moneyed families; there are worse people to fall into crowd with.
But there are examples of highly successful non-career chess players who were good at it, namely Stanley Kubrick and Peter Thiel. I'm not attributing, obviously it's that the traits that made Kubrick a superb filmmaker as an adult, saw him interested and successful in chess as an adolescent, same with Thiel. Maybe chess is the nascent flame of something much brighter in her future, why not encourage it?
If you want to brush up yourself, IM Jeremy Silman wrote the best general book: How to Reassess Your Chess
pigeonburger
21m ago
Honestly, Japan, India and Australia are pretty much the only ones whose answer matters, having a navy in the general area.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
25m ago
Spectating, voyeurism is bad, robs you of life, time.
anti_dan
31m ago
They dont need to be all powerful, they were in power. While in power they used every bullet they could, and even fabricated evidence to use against Trump and invented novel legal theories to try and nail him. All that tilting at windmills could have been avoided if they had a video of him having sex with a 15 year old prostitute.
phailyoor
37m ago
Yet you still won't provide a link to the tweet or even make the slightest attempt to justify your interpretation.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
53m ago
pied piper of Hamelin
What's the moral of the tale, to you? (This is a 20 year mystery for me.)
Blueberry
55m ago
they couldn't be sure if the blood donated from gay people at the time could have infected people with HIV so he ordered the blood thrown out
Wait, what? This is insane revisionism, the bloody scandal was in the other direction!
https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762
Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying.
"Any country that bought contaminated blood from the US in the 1980s was affected," said Wherry.
In Canada, 2,000 people contracted HIV and 60,000 people developed hepatitis C. … in France, more than 4,000 people contracted HIV.
In Germany, a scandal erupted in 1993 after government officials tried to cover up reports of HIV/AIDS in people given infected blood. Over 400 people died, and a third of the country's hemophiliacs (2,000 people at the time) were infected with HIV.
China also saw HIV infections from contaminated blood bought and sold internally. An estimated 300,000 people were infected with HIV through blood selling-schemes in the 1990s.
People are still being infected with diseases by contaminated blood products. In 2016, more than 2,000 people in India contracted HIV from contaminated blood transfusions
Yes you can screen blood, but this was only developed in the mid 80s and had high failure rate, for example it detected antigens which are made by the body after months of infection, so a freshly infected could still contaminate the blood supply.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
58m ago
Is Donald Trump an inner city kid who got into trouble, the way you're blaming society for his crimes?
Seriously, bro, what are you doing here? You could have just ignored this thread if it didn't interest you, if you think the whole Epstein obsession is tinfoil-hat stuff. Instead you've jumped in to say "It doesn't matter that Donald Trump is lying about a bunch of stuff because, you know, there was this one thing that happened in a different country on the other side of the ocean, and as a result you're not allowed to care about anything else until I say you can" followed up with "actually Donald Trump didn't do anything wrong because it was society that was set up the wrong way or all this never would have happened."
WandererintheWilderness
1hr ago
Oh, there's potential, but it's not going to scratch that whodunnit itch. It's something else.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1hr ago
Most of the homicides are boring and obvious but some of them are really funny because of how dumb the criminals are. 'The gun just happened to go off'. They did their drug deal under CCTV. Or the dumb, crass nicknames they have on 'encrypted' messaging for drug importation. Or how they brag about killing this guy in their chat group. Or how they realize only when prompted by a judge that while they're trying to cheat on tax they're only making it worse for themselves, so they completely reverse their story.
Dumb people lying badly is funny and makes the audience feel superior. I'm not a good storyteller and don't remember too much of what I've heard but there's great potential.
AvocadoPanic
1hr ago
That wasn't a great area when I was young. The Florin mall was always a bit iffy. That Costco is 2.6 miles from where this happened in 1991 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Sacramento_hostage_crisis
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
2hr ago
So obviously (well you didn't link the tweet because of course not) the author of the tweet meant that, not meant any actual agreement with the libs. I can't see any other way to interpret this statement at all.
Your interpretation is not correct.
flitter
2hr ago
Similarly I suspect it's good for a kid to have something that they are better than adults at, for giving a sense of "being adult like".
They can play in competition at an adult level without being condescended in skill. And in theory learn how to gracefully win as well.
TitaniumButterfly
2hr ago
Yes! But I wanted to double-check for you and it was this one. 7981 E Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95823
AvocadoPanic
2hr ago
Elk Grove has certainly seen demographic change.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
The foster system is horrible everywhere. Broadly, the system doesn't care much to improve it and the public outcry is... limited.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
2hr ago
The Soviets were great at espionage but at the end of the day, they were outmatched. USA + Western Europe + Japan > USSR + Eastern Europe + poor China. And China switched sides to the US camp late in the Cold War, which is almost forgotten today. USA + Western Europe + Japan + poor China >>> USSR + Eastern Europe.
And the Soviet system didn't work either, they were consistently behind in basically all fields of technology with rare exceptions. Temporary lead in spaceflight (but not missile force), temporary lead in tanks with the T-64. Far behind in semiconductors, submarines, guided weapons. They had talent but weren't good at innovation. Regardless of ideology it's tough when you and your allies are the poor countries who got hit hardest in WW2 and you're facing the industrialized, rich countries.
China is the biggest manufacturer in the world, they have scale the Soviets never had. Over twice US electricity production, 3x US car production, 13x US steel production, 1.5x more industrial robots per worker. And their system works in that they can do high-tech.
phailyoor
2hr ago
Libs are right: there is enormous danger of misinformation and disinformation.
Wait Alex, are you even reading what you are writing here? It's right wing 101 that "yeah disinformation is bad, but acktually the media and journalists are spreading it, not witches on twitter ad 4chan." People all the way from boomercons to hardcore white supremacists and neo nazis would agree with that statement.
So obviously (well you didn't link the tweet because of course not) the author of the tweet meant that, not meant any actual agreement with the libs. I can't see any other way to interpret this statement at all.
phailyoor
2hr ago
It seems like journalists and government officials have been spreading disinformation since before the invention of the telegraph.
Journalists have been spreading disinformation since the invention of writing.
phailyoor
2hr ago
Jason Kessler, the organizer of the Charlottesville goon march.
Who is that? Do you have a link to the Tweet?
Why does it matter that he's "right" about something? You know the saying about a broken clock?
there's no downside at all to every random person with a two-digit IQ having a social media megaphone.
So you think the libs are right about this. Maybe you should explain your reasoning instead of seething that right-adjacent tech bros don't agree with banning all the conspiracy theorists off the internet.
TitaniumButterfly
2hr ago
May have technically been Elk Grove.
HereAndGone
2hr ago
We do have a lot of Brazilians working in the meat processing industry over here (something that surprised me when I learned it). One of the GPs in the practice I attend is Spanish/Brazilian (so I guess that means Portuguese-speaking, though he went to Spain before he came to Ireland - he'd be "White Hispanic" by US census categories) and he was telling me about when he first moved here and the landlord was the 'cash in hand, no rent books, no contract' type that can kick you out in the morning.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2hr ago
Eddie started classical piano at 6. And, for that matter, had a paper route as a kid.
Jimi worked as an usher in a local theater, as a stage hand at a local music club, and as a construction laborer before he joined the army.
Yes, the guy who founded the Nazi planet in that episode explicitly believed that Nazi Germany was an extremely well-organised society. He says that it was the "most efficient state Earth ever knew". He thought that he could save this society by giving it a social model that had all the benefits of Nazi organisation and cohension while stripping out the evil goals.
This is not, I believe, a historiography that any competent modern historian would agree with. The Third Reich was quite inefficient in many ways, and frequently made poor decisions. Where the message of 'Patterns of Force' is something like "you can't separate the good from the bad, and the advantages of Nazism cannot outweigh its disadvantages", I think the message you'd get from a modern historian would be that Nazism is just bad overall.
I would normally say that it's possible John Gill is just meant to be wrong, IC, and his belief about the efficiencies of Nazism are wrong, but the episode does seem to take his side. The problem with Ekos is not that Nazism is ineffective; it's that Nazism is evil. Gill's failure was thinking he could remove the evil, not in thinking that Nazism is effective. Spock himself agrees with Gill's first judgement:
And it delivers the moral pretty blatantly at the end:
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