TSA are as alert as their paycheck dictates. I told both TSA and CBP that I was attending a meeting for three weeks, so my tourist visa was fine. It was an obvious lie, and they obviously didn’t care. (It was before I got my C1/D).
“Business and meetings” is the magic word when you haven’t gotten around to sorting out a work visa before hand. Take away their chair or any other source of work place comfort, and chances are they’ll care even less.
A clown with bangs… how do you like my haircut? And does this nose make my nose look big?
Sounds like something shoutcast can do.
Remember the time before apple acted as if they invented audio streaming and built a walled garden of podcasts? We had shoutcasts long before podcasts.
Came here to say this. Plus, Budapest is a pretty cool city. Had the pleasure of spending a few weeks there in 2003
I vaguely recall enough to confirm it. Yeah, that didn’t age well. “Men can’t be raped, bro”
Terrible or not, psyop or not, vote!
That movie was so forgettable… remind me what she did again?
Trust me, it takes A LOT of time. I’ve been playing for around a decade, I’m ELO 1400ish, and I still consider myself a nooblet.
The problem with chess is that it’s an ancient game where anything you might try has already been done by someone. Randomly move a horsey, and a skilled opponent will recognize it as either a blunder, or part of a well known strategy. “Ha, I can see you’re trying to play a Venetian Sodomy Gambit, but I already anticipated this, so by moving this pawn you fell for my Cleveland Steamer Trap. Eat dirt, noob. Also, check!”
Chess is truly an unforgiving game to 99.999% of us.
You will never master it. I sure as hell never will. But as long as we’re having fun, that’s all that matters.
Now, with that out of the way, I find that most people stagnate at around 700 ELO, because that’s about when the common opener traps stop working. A little beyond that level, and countering them is not only easy, but punishing them is expected. And to move past this level, a basic theory knowledge of the game is important: Learn an opener, and then master that. Not the entire game, just the opener sequence of your choice.
Once you’re able to arrive at midgame without already being behind, you can start developing your more generalized skillset.
My suggestions is that you learn King’s Indian Attack (as white) and Purc Defense (as black). They’re very similar, and they put you in an easily defensible position, and it works against pretty much any opener your opponent might try.
Doubt it. LoN was pretty much UN but with a lot fewer members and even less teeth
I stick to brain based. I have a system that makes it easy for me to remember which password is for where. Step one is to use passphrases instead of password. Obligatory reference: xkcd correct horse battery staple
The guy who claimed Stealth was obsolete because of lider + AI.
Yup, he forgot clouds exist and will now be predicting future military tech. I’m sure this will go brilliantly.
Somehow that reminded me of this gem
Whatever I put in the fridge. I work from home, and I enjoy cooking, so the cantina at work is great.
Ace Ventura teams up with the cop from The Fugitive, so Iceman has to team up with that guy from NCIS:LA to defeat them
Thank you for this. I still have many questions but at least they’re fewer now.
Also, “smuggling raisins around” is a new favorite term of mine
I remember seeing here on Lemmy a while back that a good boyfriend/girlfriend is a best friend where there is also an erotic angle.
This too sounds like “gender affirming self care”
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Glad it works for you. Remote tele health is an actual doctor, right? As in, all the credentials, just not in-person appointment? That makes it immediately more legit than the banner ads I saw on shad6 websites eons ago…
I actually like Mondays. I work from home, and that’s when I get to have the house by myself.