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good luck.

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nb f | 31 | wretched
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Journalist: It might be inconvenient to interrupt our profound discussion and change the subject slightly, but I would like to know whether extraneous, abstract thoughts ever enter your head while playing a game?
Tal: Yes. For example, I will never forget my game with GM Vasiukov on a USSR Championship. We reached a very complicated position where I was intending to sacrifice a knight. The sacrifice was not obvious; there was a large number of possible variations; but when I began to study hard and work through them, I found to my horror that nothing would come of it. Ideas piled up one after another. I would transport a subtle reply by my opponent, which worked in one case, to another situation where it would naturally prove to be quite useless. As a result my head became filled with a completely chaotic pile of all sorts of moves, and the infamous "tree of variations", from which the chess trainers recommend that you cut off the small branches, in this case spread with unbelievable rapidity.
And then suddenly, for some reason, I remembered the classic couplet by Korney Ivanović Chukovsky: "Oh, what a difficult job it was. To drag out of the marsh the hippopotamus".
I do not know from what associations the hippopotamus got into the chess board, but although the spectators were convinced that I was continuing to study the position, I, despite my humanitarian education, was trying at this time to work out: just how WOULD you drag a hippopotamus out of the marsh? I remember how jacks figured in my thoughts, as well as levers, helicopters, and even a rope ladder.
After a lengthy consideration I admitted defeat as an engineer, and thought spitefully to myself: "Well, just let it drown!" And suddenly the hippopotamus disappeared. Went right off the chessboard just as he had come on ... of his own accord! And straightaway the position did not appear to be so complicated. Now I somehow realized that it was not possible to calculate all the variations, and that the knight sacrifice was, by its very nature, purely intuitive. And since it promised an interesting game, I could not refrain from making it.
And the following day, it was with pleasure that I read in the paper how Mikhail Tal, after carefully thinking over the position for 40 minutes, made an accurately calculated piece sacrifice.

— Mikhail Tal, The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal.

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nolanfa

And all of them together in one pic, and each of the individual pics below. Happy new year! May it... be... Hm. May unexpected good things happen in it.

(prints are for sale)

snake spotted!!

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Humans have a big cluster of dead keratin tendrils growing from our heads and we arrange them in different configurations and worry about whether other people find our keratin tendril arrangements aesthetically pleasing.

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jettkuso

Real observations since I started wearing a wizard hat daily:

- Brim is so wide that I stay BONE DRY taking walks in the rain

- Brim can be positioned to block the sun from ever getting in my eyes AND keeping it off the back of my neck

- The pointed top part creates an air pocket, keeping my head from getting hot or squishing my hair as it might in a ball cap

- Hat can easily be pulled down over the tips of my ears without looking dumb, protecting them from wind chill

- Strangers say they like my hat, giving me the chance to tell them that I am a wizard

- When you’re wearing a wizard hat, ALL OTHER FASHION CHOICES become secondary, allowing you to branch out with style

Embrace ego death. Stay protected from all elements. Wear a wizard hat.

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doubleca5t

getting into rap is actually really easy because once you hear a song with a beat that goes sufficiently hard, any preconceived notions you have about why you can't get into hip hop go right out the window and the appeal snaps into place. like I was a fucking obnoxious egghead nerd in high school who would give the old "everything except rap and country" when asked what kind of music I liked but the minute I heard Hard In Da Paint and started vibing I was like ohhhh yeah I get it now

10 songs that make you say "ts goes hard" off the top of my head in no particular order:

  1. Hard in Da Paint - Waka Flocka
  2. Lumberjack - Tyler the Creator
  3. Humble - Kendrick Lamar
  4. Shabba - A$AP Ferg
  5. Man of the Year - Schoolboy Q
  6. Thot Shit - Megan Thee Stallion
  7. Really Doe - Danny Brown
  8. Old English - Young Thug
  9. Ric Flair Drip - Offset
  10. Goosebumps - Travis Scott
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Oh boy. Nursing strike update, the RNs of all eight hospitals on strike voted overwhelming to reject what Providence said was the best offer that they were going to give. Back to the negotiating table. The union tells us to prepare for an entrenched strike. The word "months" is floated. Today (2/13), this is the email we get:

"Since the beginning of the strike, Providence and ONA have been clear that health care benefits for striking caregivers would not continue indefinitely. Benefits have remained in place for January and February.

Now, given the extended timeline of the strike, health care benefits will lapse for striking caregivers as of Feb. 28. These caregivers will receive information about COBRA in the mail.

Those striking caregivers who return to work by Feb. 28 will not see a suspension of their benefits."

I guess we're not using soft language anymore.

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tamamita

The US is truly incomprehensible

The sponsor, Earl Carter, is doing this to distract from the bill he sponsored immediately before this, H.R. 1160, which appears to classify all traveling doctors and "advanced care practitioners" as independent contractors (can't be 100% sure as the text hasn't been released yet, but it sounds like it's gonna be exactly what it says on the tin).

If you've ever seen a post about doordash or lyft drivers being overworked and underpaid, this is basically the same thing but for doctors. Here's an article about why independent contractors are bad for the worker, but here's the cliff notes:

  • shit pay
  • no benefits
  • social isolation (coworkers changing frequently, so you don't have time to make friends or even proper acquaintances)
  • not actually independent workers/still tied to a company

They dressed it up by adding this reasoning to the end of the title "to help alleviate physician shortages, including in underserved areas," but it's just political theater. Any physician would still need proper licensing, and there are already systems and travelling doctor companies in place designed to address underserved areas. The only difference is that the companies would be "required" (i.e. CEOs have been chomping at the bit to do this) to make all these doctors ICs instead of salaried employees.

All this to say, when you see some outrageous shit like this, look for the stuff that's been released at the same time. That's what they're actually trying to get passed.

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fucked up and evil that i Have been drawing and writing all through january but none of you are allowed to see it

fuck it. for you guys

I love this, and I know nobody asked me, but muzzles need to allow for panting. Please 🙏

i used to be a dog bather, this is not a piece accurately reflecting adequate and ethical treatment of dogs, it is reflecting my own emotions about intimacy and discomfort with being touched. hence the choice of a well known guard dog that people unfamiliar with them assume to be inherently aggressive or dangerous. i understand your concern but there is a time and place

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st5lker

cream cheese bagel ending explained

i love when redditors try to explain posts i dreamed up and posted right after my alarm went off when i was still half asleep

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ratliker1917

The concept of "spyware" has disappeared from the common internet lingo after it became the case that the word could now be used to describe nearly every major website and a huge percentage of the most commonly-used software.

We should intentionally bring it back and start curating anti-spiware tools. Actually, let's start calling adblock "anti-spyware". We NEED to force the line here.

I use AdGuard Home with the "WindowsSpyBlocker" and "Firebog Easy Privacy" lists to block spyware across every device in my home network. all you need is a low-power computing device that you're okay with leaving on 24/7 - something like a Raspberry Pi (even an old model 2 or 3) will do the trick, or you can use any old laptop you have gathering dust. AdGuard Home does not run on Windows, so you'll need a Linux OS - I use Ubuntu Server.

despite the name, you don't actually have to block ads with it. I leave ad-blocking to each of my devices individually, so I can override it easily when I need to. for example, AdAway on Android will block you from reaching the unsubscribe page for some email lists, and hitting a "proceed anyway" button on my phone is easier than going and temporarily switching off something running on a different computer.

the statistics page gives you some really interesting data. for example, you can easily see here that the main entity trying to spy on me is Microsoft, with live.com making up almost 3/4 of blocked requests.

meanwhile, I have just discovered another server I probably want to block, because my washing machine, which I only connected to wifi so I could get notifications when it finishes a cycle, has phoned home to its manufacturer almost 3000 times today

and yes, this is the same washing machine that tried to kill me

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j4gm

big fan of "one william" as a quantity. keep it up

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lumu

It makes me think of the mysterious Williamcoin I received in the mail recently.

Behold, One William.

holy shit, you found it. one william dollar.

So, very unfortunate news. I actually received a follow up in the mail, too.

Forbidden Williamcoin
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this tweet has given me more motivation to stretch than any "it's good for you" post ever will

I want to recommend qigong, and particularly shifu Yan Xin's youtube channel. He has GREAT energy. Qigong especially is amazing for working your lungs and other core muscles, and it's low intensity so it's relatively easy to do. For someone like me that didn't start doing regular stretching until I was 30, it's a great way to begin!

Even gnarled old wizards can benefit from a little stretchy ritual, a little stretchy stretch for your old decrepit wizard bones

Draw Stronger by Kriota Willberg

ISBN: 9781941250235

A graphic novel for artists

offers advice to prevent injury and focus strength when you're in an "ah beans I am hurting"

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