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  • Self burns. Those are rare!!

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  • I would absolutely cry about it. Who are you trusting to enforce the death penalty? The same people who are 1) in government, and 2) accuse queer people of being groomers?

    Even without arguing over whether the state would abuse/abuses the death penalty, there’s the fact that the punishment is irreversible, which in the event of a mistake means you execute an innocent person.

  • Man posts his incorrect opinion online

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  • I’m illiterate. I stand by the fact that very few people wear shoes in the home, however.

  • Man posts his incorrect opinion online

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  • They got it wrong in the message — uk is shoes off on the map (and no one wears shoes inside!)

  • REMAIN PALM MADAM

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  • Actually I could use a little help from a temporobotanist. I can see some horse tails around — what epoch does that make this?

  • IYKYK

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  • This also functional. Pull skin taut around eyes by stretch cheek skin

  • Your mom likes to have these:

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  • Yeah? Well I took your mum here

  • What are some 'rules of thumb' you've found most useful for chess?

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  • I like this one. I mean, I’m a filthy little pawn grabber who will throw away any positional advantage in favour of clinging grimly to cold hard material, but I do aspire to this level of restraint.

  • Beginner questions

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  • +1. I’ll make a post about maxims like this actually.

  • Book recommendations, please!

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  • I mean obviously Fahrenheit 451 and The Handmaid’s Tale if you liked BNW and 1984!

    Personally I enjoyed a lot of HG Wells’ work for similar reasons — War of The Worlds, for example, is an obvious allegory for colonialism, (with the aliens as the empire builders). The original book is excellent. I binged a tonne of his works, including the Time Machine, the invisible man, the sleeper wakes and the island of dr Moreau. They’re quite short books. Easily read in a day (though I am a fast reader).

    Otherwise I quite enjoyed for whom the bell tolls (Hemingway; set during the Spanish civil war, in which he fought, as well as Orwell funnily enough).

  • Beginner questions

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  • Yes, Aman is good. The gold standard is of course Daniel Naroditsky, who sadly passed away last year. His speedruns are very good, but tough for me to watch now.

    In terms of general resources, I’d also recommend lichess.org/practice. These introduce a lot of the basic skills (e.g. simple checkmates and tactical motifs like pins and skewers). These help a lot with getting the piece coordination instilled in your brain :)

  • Beginner questions

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  • Personally I find that improvement follows the conscious/subconscious competence cycle.

    I’ll be exploring a new concept — maybe a new opening, integrating a new middle game concept, learning about a new pawn structure — and my rating will drop a bit as I’m not as smooth in using it and it’s not well oiled. Then I get better at it, and it slowly beds in as something I don’t have to think about, and my rating goes up to more than it was before.

    I’d recommend not playing to destruction, however. If you want to improve, I’d recommend having a look at a few videos of GMs playing and explaining concepts. It’s like science — you wouldn’t expect to reach an understanding of relativity using the scientific method from scratch in one lifetime; you attend a few lectures to get the grounding you need to then build on. Happy to recommend specific resources if you’d like.

  • Andy Burnham blocked from standing in by-election by Labour NEC committee – LabourList

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  • Yeah, as someone who had Dan Norris (🤮🤮🤮) as metro mayor, it’s a shitty thing to do to try and dump your role as mayor the minute an MP slot opens up. We want mayors who are committed to the region and solving the challenges (transport in particular) in their remit, not people who have half an eye on Westminster. I’m no Starmer fan, but trying to dump Manchester at this point has soured me a bit on Burnham.

  • Definitely more than one hundred

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  • George bush ass post (affectionate)

  • Screamin' Rebel Angels - Baby Gets Down

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  • If I were in the states I’d def see them! Will have to keep an eye out for a UK tour haha. Shame no-one was buying merch, as they have an aesthetic that’d work great for Ts. Also I’ve listened to the album about 4 times since the first comment haha

  • White to Mate in 2 - Composition by Александр Васильевич Галицкий

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  • Very pretty puzzle — ty for sharing!

    Nc3 Rxc3 Qb7#? Wait the rook blocks facepalm. I have a feeling it’s Qb1 — will check the variations at my next coffee break

    Qb1

    If the rook leaves the rank then Nc3#; if the rook leaves the file then Qb7#

    If the e knight moves then Nf4#

    If Nxe2 (or indeed anywhere other than e4) then Qh1#

    If Ne4 then Qxb3#

  • Bet that hurts

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  • Women fear me. Fish want me.

  • Yeah it was a ritual

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  • Imagine I bothered to look up the Matt Damon rapidly aging gif, and put it in this reply. If it’s not too much trouble.

  • Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died (live)

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  • I can do this one by heart haha. Other great ones for this era are ‘Enough is enough’, their acoustic rendition of ‘Bella Ciao’, ‘mouthful of shit’… the list goes on.

    the day the nazi died link

  • Byther Smith

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  • I do! Violin to a decent level, and a passing familiarity with the bass guitar (first song I learned was ‘Born under a bad sign haha). And yourself? Is it mainly guitar?