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Biscuits

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Bellum_Romanum said:
Man, Israelis are top notch and hardcore when it comes to defending and attacking what it deemed as an existential threat to their fundamental rights to exist.
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If you're top notch and hardcore when it comes to defending and attacking, you don't take more than 1 year and counting to take a city the size of Mariupol. Against people that don't even have manpads or real atgms.

You're insulting the people who are at the forefront of protecting their nations when you compare them with idiots and low iq inbreds who mostly waste time harassing civilians.

The equivalent of saying "hey there were many hardcore and top tier ww2 units, but one of the best among them must have been the 36th waffen SS!"
 
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steemdrice

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Bit disappointed that Ding Liren lost to Gukesh at the world chess championship. It was so close to going to tiebreaks where Ding was favoured. However Ding screwed up at the last moment so here we are.

But to be fair Ding was ranked like #20 because of his bad form and people didn't really give him much chance. So getting this far despite being out of form and wanting to no longer be active is already something.

Personally I kinda get why chess under it's grueling 4+ hour game format will never take off in significant popularity. A lot of games were draws and that's going to kill interest. It takes far too much effort to prepare and honestly if you were that smart, you probably could be using your brains to actually contribute more in a technology field to make a difference.

The USSR kept boasting about it's chess talent. Yet the country for some reason decide to commit a game ending blunder in 1991 and kill itself. So that chess talent didn't help it's government much did it.
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Ding has done 10x more than anyone ever expected of him after the year that he's had.

While it's heartbreaking to see him blunder a drawn game to lose, honestly he has overperformed completely and there's nothing more we can ask of him, especially considering the team that Gukesh had.

It helps that Gukesh has been a generally humble and gracious young man too. One can't be too sad about this result.
 
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Bellum_Romanum

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Biscuits said:
If you're top notch and hardcore when it comes to defending and attacking, you don't take more than 1 year and counting to take a city the size of Mariupol. Against people that don't even have manpads or real atgms.

You're insulting the people who are at the forefront of protecting their nations when you compare them with idiots and low iq inbreds who mostly waste time harassing civilians.

The equivalent of saying "hey there were many hardcore and top tier ww2 units, but one of the best among them must have been the 36th waffen SS!"
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Well, in comparison to the countries that surround them, Israel is absolutely top notch - regardless of how I actually THINK AND FEEL about their actions against innocent people.

I am looking at this situation with from a dispassionate perspective view.
 
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GulfLander said:
"Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta donates $1m to Trump’s inaugural fund in latest attempt to rebuild bridges"
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I remember the time he tried to pander to Xi as well.


Biden is going on a pardon spree. Party favors galore.
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The White House described it as the most acts of presidential clemency issued in a single day. It comes after Biden made the decision to pardon his own son, Hunter Biden.
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Biden previously had a record of pardoning fewer people than most presidents in modern US history.
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Beautiful to see the sexpats and spies kicked out. Nature is healing.
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Lan Kwai Fong’s post-Covid makeover has seen legacy nightclubs and bars make way for hot pot and karaoke joints to serve a more mainland Chinese clientele.
“I love mainland customers, the Westerners they come and order two beers and sit all night,” he said. “Those rich mainlanders come in and order expensive things, Moutai, they open a bucket of champagne and spend crazy — some of the bills are like HK$400,000 to HK$500,000.”
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It takes far too much effort to prepare and honestly if you were that smart, you probably could be using your brains to actually contribute more in a technology field to make a difference.

The USSR kept boasting about it's chess talent. Yet the country for some reason decide to commit a game ending blunder in 1991 and kill itself. So that chess talent didn't help it's government much did it.
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Good points. I feel the same way about "international math olympiads" and similar competitions. Not a smart way to spend your very valuable time if you're at such a high level of math talent. A bit like the massive waste of talent that's going into quant finance when those smart people are more needed in science or tech.
 
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