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- Comment on Iran’s New Leader Is More Open to Pursuing a Nuclear Weapon, U.S. Intelligence Says 3 days ago:
Maybe blowing up the old leader wasn’t such a great idea, do you think?
- Comment on Trump’s Kiss of Death 5 days ago:
NYT link doesn’t work for me but found the article here: dnyuz. com/2026/07/21/trumps-kiss-of-death/
Article kind of misses the point imho.
- Comment on Three World Leaders. Three Incredibly Bad Decisions. 6 days ago:
Friedman. The 3 leaders are Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu, who have “blundered into dead-end wars”.
- Comment on [2023] Some Transgender Women May Be Barred From Women’s Chess Competitions 1 week ago:
Maybe you should avoid posting in public forums if you don’t like the responses.
- Comment on [2023] Some Transgender Women May Be Barred From Women’s Chess Competitions 1 week ago:
As is usual in a public discussion, the thread including my post isn’t entirely about you.
- Comment on [2023] Some Transgender Women May Be Barred From Women’s Chess Competitions 1 week ago:
No they got rid men-only tournaments in the 1980s. Women can enter “men’s” (now called open) tournaments now, just not the other way around. Women’s tournaments exists because open tournaments are still almost entirely male events and male chessplayers are just like any other males. So they want to encourage women to play chess by giving them a way to stay away from us while they play. It’s understandable imho.
US Chess (the US federation) allows trans players in women’s tournaments with the rule that you can only transition once (details: new.uschess.org/…/us-chess-transgender-policy.pdf ). I think that FIDE (the international federation) that doesn’t allow MTF in women’s events. The biggest chess country is still Russia and so Russia has a big influence on FIDE policy and the FIDE president (Arkady Dvorkovich) is from there. So you can’t really blame this one on Trump if you have a problem with it. Maybe talk to Putin.
- Comment on Five Words That Changed America 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it goes into that.
- Comment on Five Words That Changed America 3 weeks ago:
Spoiler: “All men are created equal”, from the US declaration of independence.
- Comment on Texas Politician Said He Sabotaged Release of US hostages to defeat Carter’s Re-election 2 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Ben_Barnes_(Texas_politician)#…
NYT article is from March 13 so not news.
- Comment on ICE Agents Barred From Wearing Masks in New York Under State Budget Deal 2 months ago:
Sounds like they took that into account. They don’t stop the feds from wearing masks, but they withhold local agency cooperation from those who do.
- Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work? 3 months ago:
I thought part of the legend was that his parents were killed but they had arranged for him to be cared for and educated, probably at a level that the average orphan can’t get anywhere near. Plus there’s all that physical training that he has to do all the time. Like in this story he (at one point) beats the crap out of Harry Potter even though Potter is an Auror with tons of magical combat tricks. I’m unfamiliar with Rorschach so can’t compare.
- Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work? 3 months ago:
Batman has to be free from the need for a real job, plus be able to run the Batcave research infrastructure that developed the Batmobile and all that. Plus keep Alfred on staff and in on the secret, plus stay with his backstory of Thomas and Martha Wayne being murdered.
Spider-man isn’t rich. If you want a non-rich superhero, you might check him him out.
Or heck, I’m old enough to remember Reid Fleming, the World’s Toughest Milkman.
- Comment on Is 71° F (21° C) the ideal weather to wear shorts? 3 months ago:
It depends on you, of course. You won’t freeze though, especially if you are walking around.
- Comment on Whatever you feel about Bond Films, Do you think it wouldn't be best they just ended it with the last film. 3 months ago:
I’ve seen a few of them, don’t know what the last one was. The studios will keep milking the character as long as there’s money in it, so it doesn’t matter what we think. It can play out in any number of ways–use your own imagination. But there could be clones or reincarnations of Bond, or maybe some period pieces like Bond in WW2 (he was in the Navy before he was in the Secret Service), or whatever.
I read most of the Fleming novels and of the movies I saw, I liked the ones that stayed reasonably close to the books, plus the wacky 1967 Casino Royale with Peter Sellers. But I’m not a movie buff and haven’t seen the more recent ones.
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 3 months ago:
It’s close to certain. We actually did a calculation in HS physics class, “how many atoms of Cleopatra are in each of us?”. This is similar but multiply by many thousands.
- Comment on Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail 3 months ago:
Not giving Trump any benefit it’s about someone (even a bad person) using the options they have available. People here love saying gotcha but in this instance it’s illogical.
- Comment on Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail 4 months ago:
Shrug, I’m not a fan of Trump but I still don’t see the issue there. If he got mail-in voting banned and then skirted around the ban himself somehow, that would be scammy. If he wants it banned for everyone including him, but as long as it’s available to everyone he’s gonna use it, then whatever. The thing about postmark not being good enough to authenticate voting date is just crazy though. Postmarks are used for all kinds of legal authentication and voting isn’t special that way.
- Comment on Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail 4 months ago:
I don’t think anyone is seriously opposed to absentee voting when the person doesn’t have a practical way to vote at the polls, due to being away from their district on election day, being medically unable to leave their home, or that sort of thing. They just want to curtail it to such necessary cases. Trump presumably voted from Washington DC for Florida election and that would qualify.
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 4 months ago:
In my day the food was never good but it was usually reasonably edible and that’s all anyone expected from it. It’s probably worse now.
I still remember “Turkey 2-Hydroxy Tetrazzini”.
- Comment on Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reject Mississippi Law on Late-Arriving Ballots 4 months ago:
A ruling by the court’s conservative majority could invalidate state laws that allow ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they arrive later. President Trump has called for restrictions on mail-in voting.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 4 months ago:
Hmm ok, maybe you could write up a quick summary. Yes it’s possible that I mis-read it. I thought that LP had rejected the PR. Thanks.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 4 months ago:
Yeah there was some back and forth. It got approved by someone from Microsoft then unapproved by Lennart Poettering. Basically temporary kerfluffle. There’s a writeup from yesterday, I think this: itsfoss.com/news/systemd-age-verification/
There’s now an unpopulated field to hold a birthdate but it’s not being used by anything. I guess that is sub-optimal though. This kind of thing if it’s to exist at all should be on individual user accounts, not anything system-wide.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 4 months ago:
Some random foolishly submitted a systemd patch and it got rejected after some back and forth. I think there’s not much more to it so far.
- Comment on How do you play Poker with just 2-person text messages or DMs? 4 months ago:
There’s a family of fancy cryptographic protocols for doing stuff like this. See:
- Comment on Judge Orders Prosecutors to Testify 4 months ago:
Can anyone explain what this is about?
- Comment on Do people actually need a place to confess things anonymously? 4 months ago:
You mean an internet venue? Hell no, absolutely not needed, we got by without it for thousands of years and it was fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
But getting it published is a very difficult proposition. Indie artists struggle like hell, even if they do their own site and distribution.
Getting retail distribution beyond your locale is difficult, making a profit is very difficult, but publishing in its own right is quite easy ;).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
We can’t find out whether a story is stupid til after it’s written. But wasn’t the Harry Potter series about a wealthy superhero who spent his early childhood in privation as a plot device?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Quit reddit, problem solved.
- Comment on Trouble Dating? Bill Ackman Is Here to Help. 4 months ago:
Uggggghhhh.