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@DanteTheDon Someone said something, obviously it must be true!
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Amy Eskridge Mystery Thread -
The anti-gravity propulsion researcher claimed antigravity has been discovered 4 different times. And each time, was shut down and dismantled.
In this interview, she says on camera she was warned THREE separate times by agencies and officials to stop her anti-gravity research. Shortly after this interview in 2022, she was found dead at 34. 'Self-inflicted gunshot wound.' No investigation details ever released. She is now the 11th scientist linked to this suspicious pattern. Watch this.
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One time in college I blacked out and when I woke up I had tanked my chess.com Elo by over 400 points and when I explained to my roommates why I was nearly in tears they just laughed at me
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@NealBruceBC Black usually plays 6...d5 though when it's useful to remember 8. Qg3 is the best move.
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I occasionally see this line in Blitz from players under 1400.
Worth knowing this pattern.
#chesspunks
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@upholdreality They fell partly due to an incorrect understanding of the way the world works, a great example of which we can see here.
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@RuxandraTeslo The same reason people in a bad marriage randomly go off with the first person who comes along, which usually also ends in disaster.
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@owenjonesjourno Bad argument not to mention typical pie in the sky. Some ex-Soviet states have done very well, and they democratically voted to leave, which I guess you don't care about since doesn't fit your agenda. Russian problems are, as is the norm, largely of their own making.
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12 million people are estimated to have been killed by economic 'shock therapy' in Russia alone.
Russia suffered the worst peacetime economic collapse of a major industrialised nation in history.
The Russian economy nearly halved.
The fall in Russian output was much worse than that caused by the Nazi invasion in the 1940s.
Russian male life expectancy fell by 6.5 years, to 57.6 - back to its mid-1950s level.
The overall fall in life expectancy was on the scale of Vietnam during all-out war in the 1960s.
The suicide and homicide rates doubled.
Real incomes collapsed by 40%.
At the time of the Soviet collapse, one in fifty Russians lived in poverty. By the end of 1998, that surged to nearly one in every five.
Full employment gave way to mass unemployment.
As healthcare funding collapsed by a third and poverty surged, disease such as diphtheria, tuberculosis and syphilis rampaged.
Russia was taken over by oligarchs, gangsters implicated in serious crimes who stole the country's resources.
Murderous conflicts in the former Soviet territory included Chechnya, where potentially hundreds of thousands were killed.
Yeltsin's contempt for democracy was underlined by his bombing of the Russian legislature - and the undemocratic farce of the 1996 election.
Putin came to power after the Russian secret services almost certainly staged apartment bombings which killed hundreds.
The invasion of Ukraine has killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Need I go on? Yes, the collapse of the Soviet Union was one of the great catastrophes of our age.
An alternative would have kept the USSR together (Baltic states aside) on a democratic basis, without ruinous shock therapy.
Notably, a Soviet-wide referendum in March 1991 overwhelmingly voted to keep the Union together (although it was boycotted by six of the fifteen republics - in the Baltic and three small republics).
RNC Research@RNCResearch
Hasan Piker: “The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century.” This is who Democrats are embracing.
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@SteveDavies365 @adwooldridge The main problem I've found with those thinkers is their arguments are basically crap.
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@adwooldridge There’s always been a tendency like that on the European right. It was concealed, initially by the Cold War and anti-Communism, latterly by the tidal wave of US money and culture. Expect a lot of people to discover De Benoist, Sunic. A civilisational turn on the European right.
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just spent 2 weeks in china. went into it thinking we're cooked. came back more bullish on america than ever. here's why:
1. chinese citizens are way more chronically online. on the subway, train, anywhere, literally everyone is glued to their phone. gaming, short form, wechat. "don't walk and look at your phone, it's dangerous!" announcements flood crowded areas. their tiktok isn't any better, its still garbage, soft-core porn, etc.
2. everyone's using AI — deepseek, kimi, doubao. but nobody's afraid of losing their job to it. here it feels like there's an existential crisis every week. in china, nothing. i think the CCP won't let companies mass-layoff workers. great for short-term stability. terrible for long-term competitiveness on a global scale.
3. china doesn't produce weirdos. i sat in on a class at tsinghua (china's MIT). not one student spoke unless the professor read their name out loud. no questions. no debate. chinese education produces world-class executors, not contrarians. it does make it a safer place to live though.
4. china doesn't have christianity but it has something america doesn't have: a shared story everyone believes in. every person age 25-70 watched their country go from abject poverty to skyscrapers in one lifetime. that kind of collective proof has a deep unifying effect. compare that to how divided we are right now. america has a huge meaning vacuum that needs to be filled.
nevertheless, i return back to my home in america reinvigorated. because everything i saw confirms one thing: china optimizes. america innovates. and the innovators always win.
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@CNinetys @HannahSayce Gemini says 200-400, which is also my experience. 500 seems excessive.
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@st89758 @HannahSayce Online is inflated by around 400-500 points.
I’m 1700 OTB and 2100-2200 blitz and 2300+ rapid online.
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IM LOOKING FOR A GM COACH (not cheating on my current coach) I WANNA WORK REALLY HARD AND FULFIL MY DREAMS SOMEONE HELP!!!!!! #chess ( rn I’m 1915 FIDE and 2400 online, goal is to make Olympiad team next time and WGM eventually) 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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@chetellik @Byron_Wan Yeah, I'm sure that's 'not' the reason. Chinese people have heard of Ireland lol.
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@st89758 @Byron_Wan Probably because most Chinese people don't know what Ireland is so it's simpler to just say the UK
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@chetellik @Byron_Wan She say's she's from the UK in the video.
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@Byron_Wan According to XHS she is Irish and came to China with her husband fleeing a debt. Her husband died in China and she has been homeless there for over a year (maybe more)
no idea how nobody noticed before now, but apparently the police are helping her get home
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@justalexoki Everything generalizes to 'some extent'. It's just a lazy answer to say there is zero correlation. The only interesting question is what exactly the correlation is.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl….
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because its not, being good at chess is a sign of being good at chess. that's it. these people generally don't seem to be too good at literally anything else. it does not generalize at all
EP@eptwts
if being good at chess is a sign of high intelligence, why isn't the average grandmaster rich?
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@UziCryptoo Plenty of people probably regret having kids. People can regret anything, life's too rich to have a simple answer to everything.
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Friend of mine is 35 years old, married and doesn’t want kids.
His household income is roughly $300k/yearly and his house is nearly paid off.
They invest a good portion of their income for retirement, take multiple yearly vacations and live a nice life.
I think people like this are going to regret not having kids in their future.
One day when he’s old all he will have to look back on is the random stuff he bought and wasted money on.
Instead of putting that money towards having kids and building a family he’s choosing consumerism.
This just seems so wasteful and boring to me.
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