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@EthelSm98911536 @ZannSuz @samstein What did she say that was false? We shouldn’t be using tents for state events.
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This position from yesterday's round in Rejkjavik-open-2026 looks very suspicious for Black. The thematic 18.Nxf7 is in the air, and it was wrongly rejected by GM Maurizzi. Can you see the consequences?
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Last year I sent my kid a serialized story as letters to him summer camp based on the Hatfield/McCoy feud, and I think this year I'm going to try to do House of Leaves.
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@BigDickBarclay Jamie Lee Curtis can’t act her way out of a cardboard box. How on earth did she get the role?
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Thank heavens that we succeeded in moving fertilizer production to low-cost countries. We are all wealthier as a result, and this aspect of globalization had no downsides whatsovever
I have it on good authority that I am a moron for questioning it sometimes. Trust the economists
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
BREAKING: The nitrogen trap just closed. Three locks snapped shut simultaneously. The planting window is closing behind them. And the food the world eats next year is now being decided by molecules that cannot reach the soil in time. Lock one: the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC permissioned corridor allows oil tankers from friendly nations to pay $2 million in yuan and pass. It does not allow fertiliser vessels to pass at any price. Zero approved fertiliser transits in 24 days. The Gulf supplies 49 percent of the world’s exported urea and roughly 30 percent of traded ammonia. That supply is not delayed. It is denied. The gate opens for molecules that fund the gatekeeper. It stays closed for molecules that feed the planet. Lock two: Russia. The world’s largest exporter of ammonium nitrate just halted all AN exports until after April 21. Three to four million tonnes per year, gone from global markets at the exact moment the Northern Hemisphere needs it most. The official reason is “domestic priority.” The strategic effect is leverage. Russia earns windfall revenue from the oil price spike its ally’s war created, then removes the fertiliser that farmers need to plant through the crisis. The disease and the cure, again, from the same address. Lock three: China. Beijing has banned exports of nitrogen-potassium blends and phosphate fertilisers through August 2026. China is the world’s largest phosphate producer and a major nitrogen supplier. The ban removes the last alternative source that could have compensated for Hormuz and Russia. Three locks. Three countries. Three deliberate decisions timed to the same biological calendar. The biological calendar does not negotiate. Corn requires nitrogen at the V6 to VT growth stage or kernel set is permanently reduced. Wheat requires it at tillering and jointing or grain fill collapses. Rice requires it at transplanting or yield drops 20 to 40 percent in low-input systems. These are not economic models. They are cellular processes. The plant either receives nitrogen during the window or it does not. If it does not, no subsequent application, no price increase, no policy reversal can recover what was lost. The damage is written into the biology of the seed. The US Corn Belt window closes mid-April. European top-dressing is happening now. Indian Kharif preparation begins in May. Bangladeshi Boro rice transplanting is underway this week. Every one of these windows is closing while the three largest sources of nitrogen on Earth are simultaneously locked: Hormuz by military blockade, Russia by export decree, China by trade ban. The USDA Prospective Plantings report arrives March 31. The FAO Food Price Index publishes April 3. These will quantify what the molecules already know: the nitrogen did not arrive. The yield loss is locked in. The 5 to 10 percent global drag will concentrate where the buffers are thinnest: subsistence farms in Bangladesh, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, where a 20 percent shortfall does not mean lower profits. It means hunger. Sri Lanka banned synthetic fertiliser in 2021. Rice yields collapsed 40 percent. The government fell. In 2008, fertiliser and oil spiked simultaneously and food riots erupted across 30 countries. In 2026, the strait blocks fertiliser while Russia and China withdraw the alternatives, and the planting windows close on a planet with nowhere else to turn. The war is fought with missiles. The famine is fought with molecules. The molecules are trapped behind three locks on three continents, timed to the one calendar that cannot be paused, extended, or negotiated: the calendar written into the DNA of every seed in the soil. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@RoizMichael83 Exhaustion and clock maybe too. g5 would have been fun for him
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In the game IM Suleimen,Ergali (2408) - GM Sarana, Alexei (2683) White managed to totally outplay his strong opponent. Black is completely paralyzed, but...Draw was agreed (after 1.Qd7 Kf8 2.Qe6 e.t.c). Undoubtedly, huge rating difference plays a role! 😱
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@Geniustechw “Abortion doula” is just horrifying. What a sick and evil mind.
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"Jesus would be a clinic escort."
A Presbyterian Minister just dropped a "New Beatitude": "Blessed are those who end their pregnancies."
The Church is officially unrecognizable. Is this even Christianity anymore?
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@RoizMichael83 I think for once I might understand one of your positions. e5, followed by Rd7 and Qh5
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In yesterday's GM clash Kraus, T - Travadon, L Black played the ambitious 20....Bd6? (20...Rd8 would have equalized). What's wrong with it?
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White didn't handle the opening well, and now Black could have seized initiative. What was missed by strong GM Sanan Sjugirov few days ago?
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every woman on booktok and instagram: you need to read ACOTAR you need to read 4th Wing
every guy on booktok and instagram: you need to read Red Rising you need to read Stormlight Archive
me, playon with my junk scrolling on my phone for hours: i gotta learn to read
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@andrepensar @xxChessMaster Also, at c8 or a8, the black queen is protected, so white has to give up the rook to take the queen.
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A very impressive play by 11 y.o prodigy! He managed to positionally outplay a strong GM over 2600, and then he was precise enough in the technical phase!
GIF
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