Caveman

I’d spend more time playing guitar and chess and spend more time with my son.

FUCK YEAH, YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

You’ll need to have 500k shares total for the valuation to be 1M

The commonwealth is just another club for countries like the G7 these days. A lot of countries have been joining recently.

Another interesting fact is that “cake” comes from the old norse word “kaka”. (proto Germanic kuohho). English are also eating shit 💩🎉

The image is overblown comparison but she wasn’t that far left. She cut a lot of government spending and focused hard on fiscal responsibility with the debt brake. She’s pretty much the reason why trains are not on time in Germany.

She also had to moderate the CDU/CSU position to form a coalition with SPD so there’s no way to know if she would have done things differently with a CDU/CSU majority government.

But yeah, the picture implying nazi stuff is pretty far from her policies of pro immigration, inclusive economic growth and generally holding up democratic values.

If you want to get into openings I recommend getting a set of openings for yourself for white and black.

White: 1. d4 and then London System is easy to play and works most times to get a good setup. Super easy way to have you prepared almost 50% of the time. I personally don’t play it though, I’m an 1. e4 player.

Black:

Don’t start with Sicialian. It’s good but it’ll take a long time to learn enough lines to handle whatever the opponent throws at you since they almost decide which variation you play.

Against 1. d4… King’s Indian defence allows you a straight forward path to casting and develop 2 pieces. Then strike in the center. For a more spicy option there’s the Benoni which has traps for people who blindly go London System.

Against 1. e4… French defence is pretty straight forward since you end up doing the same stuff every game. Attack the pawn on d4. You could also go for 1. … e5 but since it’s the most common move you can get opening knowledge advantage way faster by playing French or Scandinavian. You’ll have to know both if you decide to play 1. e4 at some point and play Italian or Ruy Lopez which IMO are more fun to play.

After learning the main move order for the first 4 or 5 moves then watch some videos on each of your defence. Remote chess academy is a very fun channel on YouTube for learning openings.

Good at tactics?

Try some gambits. You sacrifice a pawn and come out guns blazing. If people don’t know the gambit you’re playing they’ll have to spend a lot of time calculating. You force them to thread the needle or at the minimum lose a piece.

If you want to know how it looks like check out some games with Paul Morphy. He’s winning against players that would 2200+ FIDE rating with the King’s gambit. That opening develops wicked fast but has the King naked.

Use a filter and remove everything dedicated to US politics and Reddit to reduce the quantity by 80%

It’s because of the network effect. If you only know your local language and want to unlock speaking to the rest of the world when learning English gets you pretty far.

A lot of people start learning English because a lot of people speak English. Since now Europe, North America, half of Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Latin America, Oceania speak English to some extent that I know of.

It’s absolutely bonkers how far English has gotten in one generation so learning anything else as a second language is pretty weird.

That will depend on what type of Home Ownership Association the house is on. Some of them mandate a well kept grass lawn and you get fined for not moving.

I stick to few sources that generally cover major without the doom and gloom. Generally YouTube channels are pretty good imo.

• TLDR News (UK, EU and Global) is a great series of channels for that.

• Caspian report on YouTube for some geopolitics/strategic outlook.

• Real life lore for couple of deep dives on non-current issues.

• Money and Macro for macro economic news.

• Just have a think for climate science and energy transition news.

• “Good news” is just nice feelgood news.

Traditional media for closely following elections when they come out such as exit polls.

For the Gaza issue I did break the cycle and check on Al Jazeera which is the best for middle East news.

If you think that’s bad you don’t want to know what they put inside the fake meat. Let’s just say that it’s not a coincidence that there are now more genders. /s

Short circuit overheating comes to mind

Aliexpress quality control is much better than Stein and Temu. It’s reflected in the price. You have to toe the line or get removed as a seller if the product doesn’t match the description. I’ve bought phones of Aliexpress and a laptop and they all matched the brand and specifications. The laptop did come with a Chinese windows but a Linux install fixed that easily.

A hercules coffee cup I’ve had since I was around six.

If there are no buyers for treasuries it’ll tank the dollar value and go a long way to remove it’s status as a reserve currency. Trump insist on rocking the boat that has been working for the US.

You could also get away with 4x8GB that will double the speed instead of spending the money on total capacity.

Oh, gotcha, yeah, shourd be removed globally if possible and replaced with a fediverse alternative that doesn’t promote fear mongering shitposts

Nah, I’m from Iceland maaang

I’m all for free speech but when it’s heavily skewed and unfairly moderated I support a ban. Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and Xitter should just be removed.