@gnobgoblin @LoudOutside If it’s truly public land then they can fish there and the guy is being an ass. If this is a private neighborhood and they’re breaking the community rules, gtfo.
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vanGoghsEar
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@GreatTerror36
I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
เข้าร่วม Ekim 2023
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@GreatTerror36 @LoudOutside Nope the lakes there are manmade they are filled with fish for the eco system and they are monitored by the rangers. As long as the boys do not keep what they catch and they throw them back in they can fish. It's actually not trespassing it's public land.
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Man loses his temper and breaks a 15-year-old boy’s fishing rod after spotting him fishing in a community pond in Tennessee
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A surprising amount of people are named dick sucker and dick nutter
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vanGoghsEar รีทวีตแล้ว
Vincent van Gogh accidentally solved a complex physics problem while inside an asylum.
In 2004, scientists analyzed The Starry Night, they found something magical.
His swirling brushstrokes perfectly match Kolmogorov’s formula for fluid turbulence. This formula describes how energy flows through the universe. Physicists of his time could not prove it, Van Gogh did it with paint.
Through pure intuition during severe psychosis, Van Gogh’s brush captured the universe's invisible, chaotic geometry.
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@aakashgupta Sounds to me like he was writing about his wife.
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Stephen King wrote some of the most famous horror novels of the 20th century and has no memory of writing one of them.
Cujo came out in 1981. King was drinking a case of sixteen-ounce tallboys a night and using cocaine to keep going. He has said plainly that he barely remembers writing the book at all. It exists, sold millions, became a film, and the man whose name is on the cover was somewhere else the whole time.
He kept producing through all of it. Christine, Pet Sematary, IT, The Tommyknockers, all written in the same stretch. The output never dropped. That was the frightening part. The work stayed good while the man behind it came apart.
His wife ended it. Tabitha emptied his trash can onto the rug in front of him: beer cans, cigarette butts, grams of cocaine, Valium, Xanax, NyQuil, Robitussin, mouthwash. Everything he had been hiding, in one pile. Then she told him to choose.
Here is the part nobody talks about. Right as he was getting clean, King wrote Misery. A famous writer wakes up held captive by a woman who calls herself his number one fan. She drugs him, isolates him, and will not let him stop producing pages for her.
King later said Annie Wilkes was cocaine. The number one fan who fed him, trapped him, and never wanted to leave. His mind had been screaming for help through his own monsters for years, and he only saw it after he put her on the page.
He got sober in the late 1980s and never went back. The writer made it out. He just had to turn the drug into a character first, then write the scene where she loses.
Creepy.org@creepydotorg
Stephen King snorted so much cocaine during the 1980s that he had to stuff cotton balls up his nose to keep blood from dripping onto his typewriter. His cocaine addiction got so bad that he barely remembers writing some of his own books, and said his heart would race at 130 beats per minute while he worked late into the night.
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In laws are arriving shortly and while I get along with him, I've had a tumultuous relationship with the mother. I posted about it during Christmas. We sort of hashed things out and are definitely on much better terms. I no longer hate the woman, but I wouldn't say I like her either.
We're heading back to Italy soon and are going to be gone until winter and I thought I'd be the bigger man and have them come with us. They've never been. Figure 10 days doing touristy BS like Rome, the Vatican, Venice, etc. I covered their room and flight. I'll buy all the meals even if they volunteer. I'm really trying to be nice and that's hard for me.
They're booked on the same flight as us, I booked them in coach. I didn't upgrade their seats, they're going to be stuck in there alone. I'm bad at situations like this because of autism, but also I don't really like her mom. I'd upgrade the dad's seat and leave the mom in coach, but I doubt that'd go over well.
Is this something I should feel bad about? It'd be different if we were sitting there with them. It feels really strange and awkward to say "well, enjoy your flight, see you when we land."
I hate that X has become my "is my autism making me have terrible social graces" meter, but I like being validated in my awkward choices.
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Went and replaced my Samsung s25 Ultra today with the s26 Ultra. I get home and my wife asks to see it. Let me preface this with the fact she's gone through three iPhones in the last year. One she dropped in the parking lot, one fell off the top of the fridge after she put it on there putting away groceries and one she put on the hood of her car in the driveway, it fell off and when she came back, she drove over it. I've never broken a phone. She has a phone curse.
Don't you dare drop it I yell at her. She starts laughing and fakes almost dropping the phone. She does this for about 10 seconds. Then she stops fake dropping it and actually drops it. The look of horror on her face was hysterical. She immediately tries to stop it with her foot. She didn't stop it, she soccer kicked it across the room. We watched the phone launch through the air. I was mentally preparing to drive back to the store and buy another.
It landed on the couch, screen side up, on a throw pillow. The Samsung screen illuminated, as if it was meant to be sold on the pillow, like a wedding ring.
Maybe it's my lucky day.
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vanGoghsEar รีทวีตแล้ว
There’s something really disgusting about having to watch a fat person eat, especially when they are really enjoying it.
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“We’re going to get pastors to write a letter” 😂 Bro, what year is this!?
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After 50 years of black privilege, guys like this are realizing the “n-word” is no longer sacred and nobody cares about racism. They are not giving it up without a fight.
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@FischerKing64 I’m less than the average voter because I can’t tell you what they’re doing.
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The establishment has decided Rubio is its vehicle to reassert control over the GOP after Trump. Talk radio pumps him. These polls are pretty meaningless and probably manipulated - the average voter couldn't tell you what either Vance or Rubio is even doing right now.
Citizen Free Press@CitizenFreePres
Rubio stock is rising in republican polls.
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This all started over an intense disagreement about whether Wittgenstein was a genius or someone who led subsequent generations of philosophy students astray.
Katelyn Caralle@Katelyn_Caralle
Bystanders (including young children) get cornered as teens break out into a violent altercation at the Navy Yard Chipotle in SE Washington, DC.
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vanGoghsEar รีทวีตแล้ว
This is kind of interesting. The British painter John Constable did this - he would throw in a splash of red just to liven things up, draw the eye. Like in this painting The Lock - you notice the lockkeeper’s jacket:
Arquiteto João Gabriel@arqjoaogabriel
VERMELHO INESPERADO Uma teoria que surge no design e que faz muito sentido pra arquitetura, principalmente a de interiores. Uma coisa chama atenção nesses ambientes e os pontos de vermelho são responsáveis por isso. Nessa teoria diz que quase qualquer ambiente ou composição visual fica mais interessante quando você adiciona um pequeno elemento vermelho inesperado, mesmo que o restante da paleta não tenha vermelho. Não é uma lei científica, é uma heurística estética: um toque vermelho pode deixar algo comum mais memorável. Isso acontece porque o tom de vermelho cria uma tensão visual no espaço e leva seu olhar a focar por mais tempo.
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Galveston, Texas 1927
Before processed foods & Tex Mex
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@FischerKing64 @Cernovich Same with stuff like pool and darts.
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It’s interesting that chess - which doesn’t require any physical prowess - has distinct sections for men and women. Chess organizers allow women to play in open tournaments against men, but they mostly don’t because they would get wiped out.
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling
Today's ruling by the IOC means a welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves supremely virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women.
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A woman can now buy a vibrator in a CVS. They advertise that ‘97%’ of users report an orgasm. Couple aisles over you can still buy a plastic chess/checkers set for the kids. You can also get your Percocet at the pharmacy and buy a $4 bottle of wine. Drug stores have it all.
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@FischerKing64 I’m guessing you’ve read it, but if not, check out Ayn Rand’s Open Letter to Boris Spassky.
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Bobby Fischer was able to defeat the Soviet school of chess by copying it, and then subverting it through a long term plan. He learned from reading their magazines, studying their games. In the 1960s learning certain openings and structures inside and out was the way to victory. This is something Botvinnik was teaching all the Soviet masters. And they passed this training on. Fischer picked it up in their literature. He didn’t have a Soviet teacher - which is another reason to admire his achievement.
Beyond opening analysis - the USSR masters would focus on consistent endgame play. Fischer became proficient in winning endgames where he had a bishop and his opponent had a knight - he studied this endlessly and became unbeatable in such situations. And he mastered rook endings - which every GM must do.
But his masterstroke to the World Championship was hiding his ideas until 1972. Fischer was so good that he beat everyone to become the challenger to Boris Spassky. But in doing so he played the openings everyone expected him to play. What he had been playing for a decade. The Soviets knew what he would do, prepared for it - but Fischer beat them anyway.
Then he shifted course.
When he played Spassky for the actual World Championship in Iceland, he unleashed new ideas in the Benoni, the Alekhine, the Queen’s Gambit. These were openings he mostly avoided his entire career. He had planned this stuff for years. For one moment in 1972. And he delivered.
It’s an extraordinary achievement. It was a feat of great planning. And Fischer was the GOAT because he put far more distance between himself and every other player than anyone else - including Kasparov and Carlsen - has ever achieved.
Endgame AI@EndgameaiChess
Why Russian chess is declining, according to Karpov In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov 🇷🇺 gave a blunt take on why Russia no longer dominates chess. He says the core issue is the disappearance of the Soviet chess school, a system that once produced generations of elite players through structured training, top coaching, and strong institutional backing. Today, nothing has replaced it. Karpov also pointed at the state, noting the lack of a serious development program and limited initiative from the Ministry of Sports. In his view, rebuilding success wouldn’t be difficult, if there was real political will. The results show it: Russian players are now barely present in the world top 10, something once unthinkable. According to Karpov, this decline isn’t random. It’s the consequence of a lost system, while other nations continue to invest and rise.
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What’s the best Chuck Norris movie to watch with your 15 year old son in remembrance of the legend?
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vanGoghsEar รีทวีตแล้ว
Schindlers list is a great movie minus the ending. It’s a real feel good holiday film. I don’t get why they used so much sad music tho, doesn’t really fit the happy nostalgic vibe of the classic date night movie.
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@loganclarkhall @MattWalshBlog This is the passage I usually think of when I think about this book. "death hilarious"
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Reading Blood Meridian. I wonder if there will ever be an author like Cormac McCarthy again, or if we’ve seen the last of the truly great writers. Every sentence he composes is art, like a painting. You see and feel what he’s trying to convey. He wrestles with big things, the human condition, good and evil. He doesn’t give you answers but he leaves you with a lot to think about. An absolute master of his craft. Not the last, I hope, but I don’t know.
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