Alsjemenou

@Alsjemenou@lemy.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm 600 elo on chess dot com, what should I do to improve now?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  first, Learn the London as white and modern defence with e3 as black. Or take a pick at an opening for both sides. Do not play anything else. Do not try to learn a hundred moves in a hundred openings, stick to one. Just one.

  Actually study the opening. (just keep on playing it in the meantime.) Take advantage of common mistakes.

  Second, When behind: keep playing the entire game. Do not quit. Do not give up. Do not surrender. Your opponents most likely do not know any endgame tactics.

  When ahead: Get rid of everything, exchange everywhere, every opportunity to trade, take it. Get to the endgame asap.

  Third: Puzzle. Puzzle. Puzzle.

  Fourth: Watch high level commentary on high level games a lot.

  Fifth. Analyse yourself. What did you miss? Where was the game turned around?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t trust it, put a condom around it. It’ll be safest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The math of infinite quarterly progress towards the nearest wall⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The image description is immaculate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Star

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do some rich people date "poor" people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to work so you can’t be available. They don’t have to work so they can’t be available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lol⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks 💀 lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What belongs to who when it comes to wealthy families?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, but that’s not usual.

  And the ultra wealthy don’t have to care about money, they don’t buy things. Others do that for them. They get styled. They have managed collections. Private bankers. Private financial advisors. Private funds. They don’t live like us. They don’t think like us. They don’t exist in the same spaces as us. They are nothing like us. It’s a complete and utter alternate existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a fact. Losing in chess always makes you feel incredibly stupid because the moves are always incredibly obvious in hindsight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is AI dialogue so fucking bad?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations for figuring out that the AI hype is dumb bullshit. Welcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  people who disagree with universities, the media, corporations and Hollywood and think they are original free thinkers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would like to play a calm game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it takes a certain type of thinking muscle not everyone enjoys stretching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The internet was set up by people who all deeply, deeply, deeply believed in the idea that in a pool of ideas the best will rise to the top. That pure freedom leads to the best humanity has to offer. It was the time of Richard Dawkins memes and evolutionary thinking. Dawkins, and all the new atheïsts, presented it like this was the way nature actually worked and that we should set up the internet accordingly.

  All websites from twitter to reddit to even Lemmy has been set up in this manner… And whenever Lemmy when it gets popular, will suffer the same fate as all other publicly upvoted popularity aggregators. It’s all based on the same principles.

  We’ve figured out that freedom of expression can only exist when there are strict rules around it and the enforcement that comes with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would like to play a calm game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist

  It’s a short game, less than an hour, but fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would like to play a calm game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just came here to suggest this. It’s a great game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is poo?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  baby don’t flush me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a world⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  starts crying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  /r/violet08

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a downfall, you guys haven’t even reached the lowest point yet. You already talk about getting back up. This is what’s great about America. But the real answer is: Trump isn’t alone and was openly racist, misogynistic, dumb and indecent about it all. It’s the fact that he was able to even start considering a career in politics that needs to be addressed.

  Showering the world with gifts and promises isn’t going to change anything. If we’re all just waiting for the next fucker to arrive. You have to do something far more substantial like giving up veto rights, or something stupid like that. Which would be completely idiotically desperate lost-the-war type of concessions in peace time.

  The fact of the matter is that this isn’t going to happen and all the world can hope for is that things calm down and the internal temsions in the country come to a conclusion the world can support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the difference between communism and socialism?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production. Socialism is the public ownership of the means of production. Communism is the freedom of the means of production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone actually have a plan after Trump and clean up? Try as he might he's not in there forever. Can we be allies again with old ones while trying to stregthen ties with new one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can pretty much guarantee there are no plans.

  I don’t see the US getting kicked out of anything, unless they actively start attacking allies. This isn’t the first time they did shit like this. Anyone with any knowledge of history will understand that what happened was pretty tame. Incredibly stupid and reckless has been the MO for most of US actions abroad.

  The US has made enemies for life out of some groups and will suffer many terrorist attacks. The US has again damaged its own reputation in a lot of areas. There will be a very big movement away from American companies. And lastly American culture is no longer particularly seen as fashionable/marketable/leading.

  The world will simply move on as it must. The US and its citizens can’t be removed from the map. History can’t be erased. Apologies won’t do anything. Turning America around, towards a more inclusive, equal, just, society is the only thing that can ever hope to help return to good relations. Otherwise its relations will only ever lean on capitalistic relevance to the oligarchy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utroba Cave in Bulgaria⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Your moms so fat her entrance is in Bulgaria

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. You can put this one on your resume

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it better then or now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just asking the question is poison for the mind.

  Try making this picture for blacks or asians or any non western, non white, non heteronormative, non male performing person.

  The only way this picture makes sense is that you as a white man want to go back to the times where your oppression wasn’t questioned, while hiding behind the idea that screens are somehow worse than white oppression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is good music from past centuries. Like … How many people have been inspired by Moonlight Sonata. A few songs always survive as good songs, because that’s what they are.

  To understand Rock and Roll tou need to understand where it came from. You have to understand that it gave white youth the opportunity to make dance swing music in a highly segregated society. Moving away from big bands into smaller garage size groups, being able for the youth to practice in the suburbs. Entering high schools and becoming a subculture, mainly or basically exclusively, white. Where black cultural music moved towards hiphop and rap, talking about the reality of segregation and poverty. White youth was using RnR to protest systemic issues, racism, war, and the old way of doing things within the more socially acceptable ‘fad’ that RnR was considered to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you believe that any living soul 70 years in the future is going to look back at any of the crappy shit being produced now as worthwhile to even consider?

  No there will only be old decrepit people, that’s going to be you btw, that continues to persist in listening to it because of some sentimental value. But say stupid shit like the 10s were the best musical years ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you all know these things can be pickled???⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a big fan of pickled cutting boards or pickled linen, but to each their own i guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me try and put this into a bit of a different perspective. There is a huge effort to individualise global warming, to accomplish two things. First to guilt trip you and second to create apathy. Because it’s very easy to understand that what creates global warming isn’t going to be solved by changing your individual consumption patterns. And you’re completely correct.

  80 percent of total human made greenhouse gas production is done by 57 companies. Who have increased, not decreased, their co2 emissions since the 2016 paris agreement. Because companies aren’t countries. They actually aren’t bound by any such agreements.

  Imagine the future without those fuckers. It’s only a couple of companies. It’s not as if we need to destroy half of humanity or flee the planet. Chill out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But you’re doing the exact same thing with the same outcomes.

  Do you consider yourself a virus? Your loved ones? Friends, family? Nobody sees themselves as a blight. It’s always society at large. It’s the decisions we make as a collective.

  And then the question is why we are making such decisions. And that’s what i mean with the need for systemic change. It’s not inherent in humans to be like a virus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a big problem with that, namely that that is what Elon Musk wants you to think, it’s what Jeff Bezos wants you to think. And when you’re defending the position of ultra capital, you should at least understand why they truly want this. What they truly want is to keep this system intact, they don’t want change, they don’t want responsibility. Going somewhere else to get what you want, is the colonialist mindset, the white mindset. It’s the idea that you as a person have the right to your lifestyle, that you ‘earned’ it. It’s the way that your consumption is tied up with your identity. That your behavior is only secondary to your consumption. Your self worth is rooted in accumulation.

  That’s what they are afraid to give up, and ultimately what you’re parroting. While it’s absolutely not trivial to leave, and systemic change is very much necessary far far far before we, poor people, are remotely close to living among the stars in any form of comfort or luxury. Have set up anything close to the insanly complex international trade and knowledge base, rhat depends on billions of people to function. It’s going to take hundreds if not a thousand years. All the while being completely and utterly depending on this very planet.