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Ulcerative colitis ๐Ÿค whatever you have

Shitting myself ๐Ÿ˜ž

Solidarity โœŠ

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I wish someone filled my mouth (with c*m)

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I have a bag in my wardrobe with washbag, rollmat, sleeping bag, chargers, and spare clothes, in case I need to head somewhere in a hurry

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Thank you! Glad someone pointed it out.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

America, given the spelling of neighbour!

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Today we're preoccupied with getting rid of the Tories -- so finally we'll be able to unite in celebrating 4th July!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

He's pledged to set up a nationalised green energy company, increase funding to the NHS, and build 300,000 new homes per year. That seems a fairly decent start.

Issue is the Tories have tanked the economy and cut taxes, so Starmer's got fuck all money without raising taxes (unpopular, even though I think it's the right thing to do). Post election and with a massive amount of political capital to spend, I think we will see tax rises on those that can afford it, to help fix some of the damage.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

Eh, still better than the Tories. Supermajority begins the process of dragging the overton window back left, which I'm all for

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Depends if you want to imply you'll fund their penis enlargement.

[-] [email protected] 78 points 6 days ago

pesophilia

love of the Mexican currency.

[-] [email protected] 100 points 6 days ago

For what it's worth, I think it's an excellent horror novel told from the perspective of an unreliable narrator.

I would not describe it as a great romance novel.

[-] [email protected] 126 points 6 days ago

"There are two books whose final lines make me cry without fail, irrespective of how many times I read them," Rowling told BBC Radio 4. "One is 'Lolita.'"

(The other one, based on the context of the interview, seems to be "Emma.")

Like many other admirer's of Nabokov's novel of a pedophile who pursues a 12-year-old girl, Rowling loves it for the writing style.

"There just isn't enough time to discuss how a plot that could have been the most worthless pornography becomes, in Nabakov's hands, a great and tragic love story, and I could exhaust my reservoir of superlatives trying to describe the quality of the writing," she said.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/jk-rowling-favorite-books-2016-7?op=1#lolitaby-vladimir-nabokov-19

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How do you distinguish between romantic attraction and strong friendship? Something I struggle with and when romantic attachment is suggested to me I don't know whether/how to say yes/no.

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Thank you.

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For those of you that haven't come across him, GM Sadler is active on mastodon (@[email protected]), and posts some really exciting and interesting content on his YouTube channel (https://m.youtube.com/@SiliconRoadChess/videos).

I'd summarise his videos as using a variety of engines to produce unique, engine approved yet human comprehensible attacking ideas, often in opening/middle games, but he's also analysed some famous human endgames with these engines. While they're not necessarily good videos for beginners, I think anyone over ~1200 OTB will get a lot out of his videos.

If you want a good example video to see if it's for you, his/Dragon's Qd2 idea in the Pirc is a great example (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DuFfJwBgMD8), though I'd encourage you to flick through and find a video on an opening that you play.

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The main chess community on .world has fuck all subs and I'm not asking reddit, so I'll brick my pipi, shit my pampers, and ask it here instead. Club has a (very friendly) blitz night coming up, and I'd like to scrape some points against the top player (who's about 2150 FIDE), who plays the czech benoni. To give context I'm about 1900, so much worse but in with a shot if I put something fun together. Any ideas for some neat lines to look at?

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