If Joe doesn't like it the office cubicle awaits. I wouldn't expect people to pay me to swan around the world living a Bitcoin inflooencer life. You get paid by controlling access to some resource people want or need. Or you sacrifice your time doing something someone else with money would rather not do themselves. Then, yes, there's begging, but that's never really been the royal road to riches.

I play on Zen Mode Lichess because I get tilted if losing rating points. I like how you seem to have reached your own zen state whereby you have turned the ratings grind into something enjoyable to you. I like the comparisons to Bitcoin price too. I try not to check the price like I try not to see my rating. I wish Clarke moody had Zen mode but then I suppose that would defeat the point.

Pomp's SN burner identified

Probably a canary in the coalmine for apps in general. People are sick with the gamification. People are sick with online. The trend of the latter half of the decade may well be a return to the offline world, at least for the well off.

Love to see chess content on SN!

I also enjoyed following the WC watching breakdowns on the GothamChess and also Chess Vibes YT channels.

The stuff was way beyond my level but I appreciated little things, like Ding playing the London which is an opening I have been trying to learn. Also appreciated the close nature of the matches and how brutally competitive top level chess is.

Looks really good.

The tranny stuff for me. It made me realize that the entire LGBT acceptance thing was a mistake. We'd opened Pandora's Box of degeneracy. There is a reason for every verse, every word of the Bible. We might not understand why things are what they are but God's word is never wrong. The whole progressive narrative of tolerance and "love" sounded great in theory. Turns out it was just another Tower of Babel.

When I see all these 100k parties and the self congratulating, Oscar award like "I held for so long when everyone said I was stupid but now I feel so validated" narcissistic Nostr posts (and accompanying bottles of champagne/expensive whiskey etc) it makes me think we deserve price dumps, Trump rug pulls and 6102s.

This. Too many who've never played competitive sports where the golden rule is to never celebrate until the final whistle. And with Bitcoin, there is no final whistle.

Another Western blogger who is an expert on Japan after a two week holiday here.

The t440p can be upgraded to a decent daily driver (4 core CPU, 16GB memory) running Linux with the advantage it's cheap and you can run Coreboot which has the option to disable Intel ME. (Intel's backdoor). It's over a decade old now but as far as I know is the latest model which allows this. All CPUs after this date are backdoored (AMD has PSP) Now, it's not perfect as it's a tank so not good for carrying around. It also guzzles power especially if you upgrade to the 4 core CPU. And you will need to fully open the case to get to the motherboard chips to flash Coreboot which is a pain, and also, you will need to use binary blobs for a few things (wireless etc) so it's not 100% FOSS. If you DDG or YouTube search you should be able to find out more info as it has a bit of a cult following. This is also a pre Lenevo model so it's ThinkPads how they used to be back in the good old days--built to last.

Not thrilled with the direction SN is going these last few days with gambling ads masquerading as legitimate posts popping up. Bookies aren't anyone's friend. They are predatory in a similar way to central banks. Don't give your corn to these people. Even if you yourself can enjoy gambling without it becoming a problem, you are funding an evil vampire squid which will suck the life out of others (perhaps close family and friends of yours) who are not blessed with your impulse control.

Fischer Random is starting to gain a bit of traction now it seems. At the top level players are apparently burned out on the enormous amount of opening study needed to compete in tournaments. Personally I find regular chess hard enough, and am usually out of opening prep by the second move!

I also read that rumor about him playing online, but I don't think it's true. He barely played (regular) chess in his later years and although he would regularly analyze games (mainly to "prove" one of this pet conspiracy theories that the Karpov Kasparov world championship matches had been entirely prearranged) he always used an analog set, usually a leather pocket set he carried around with him. So I don't believe Bobby ever embraced or so much as entertained using computers for chess.

There is a question to be asked about Israel's influence over the US government. A look at the background of the majority of Biden's cabinet is enlightening. With that said, as far as my research revealed, Bobby never had a particularly sophisticated or cogent argument to make when he was ranting about "the Jews". It was more like him ranting a general dissatisfaction against the world, as far as I can tell. Also, regarding 9/11, yes, of course there are many sides to the story and many different viewpoints, just like there are to be asked about the US civil war, or WW2. (Curtis Yarvin does a good job with this, along with Darryl Cooper for WW2) But, again, Bobby lacked any kind of tact or sophistication when ranting about the subject.

It's amazing how a chess player could have attracted the level of excitement he did. And even now, 50 years later, after what he became (or didn't become) and after his untimely death, him and his story still inspire such curiosity. Truly a complex and fascinating figure--a one of a kind. I'm reminded of the Hunter S Thompson line: "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."

I don't think you meant it but that's a pretty questionable use of the (I assume RHR inspired) "freak" term of endearment 🙈

"I'm still upset by the election result" which might work if you work for a woke tech company.

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Never forget the ones who supported or went along with this madness. 1000s of kids lives have been destroyed by unethical and predatory medical procedures which have mutilated and rendered them infertile. Many before the age they are considered mature enough to drive/smoke/drink/join the military. Children sacrificed to Baal. AOC at the very least went along with that and gave cover to it. The blood of those children is on her hands, now and for eternity. You can't wash away that sin by just updating a profile.

Your friend would probably have been fine but for you doxxing his setup here and incentivising SN autists to scour Twitter for bip39 words. Accounts were probably made at a similar time and have a similar post count. Posts were probably made within a certain time zone. Don't even have a Twitter account so don't know how the search works. Probably manipulated by algos and no API access do despite your best efforts here your friend should still be OK, unless someone is an insider at X or has some kind of API access for some reason.