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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

We kind of did create israel in utah. But for people who thought Jesus came over to America with the pilgrims and that they have magic underwear that will shield them from harm rather than for the people who thought that their God told them to cut part of their kids' penises off, they couldn't eat shellfish, and used to commit genocides on the reg but has inexplicably stopped for the last couple thousand years or so.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Having potentially thousands of years of embarassing moments of social awkwardness to think about. And, over the aeons, being relieved when the people you know and love die because they won't remember the things you're so ashamed of.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Weekend at Bernie's for president

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Many people have auras before and during migraines. These can be visual (seeing colors or black spots or colors/lights look brighter or dimmer), sensory (sensitivity to light/sound), speech-related (difficulty speaking or understanding speech), motor (impairment to movement), and brainstem (vertigo, tinnitus, ataxia, decreased consciousness, etc).

I get sensory, speech related, motor, and possibly some brainstem aura symptoms. You kind of just learn to recognize when a migraine is coming on and not a regular headache.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"Oh, but I don't actually go outside - so he doesn't mean me," he said communistly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah yes, IPAs, the least manly of beers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm super critical of gender. Let's get rid of all those. Gender vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's fucking crazy to me that this is a hot take these days. I just want movies to be good. Throwing unnecessary sex scenes into a movie to drive ratings up usually does not achieve that.

Edit: And by unnecessary, I don't even mean just not plot relevant. Only that they should add to, not detract from, the characterization, tone, or plot/story. Fucking loved Challengers (check it out, it's great) and that had a sex scene like every 5 minutes. I just wanna watch some good fucking movies. If I wanted to watch good fucking-movies, I'd just find those online.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Thank you ma'am

...s and sirs of the economics community for writing such a helpful and thoughtful letter to the American voting public.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, and it makes total sense. The brigading, insofar as it happens, really shouldn't. But also, as someone who espouses left wing views, I always want to give critical support to left spaces - even if they're imperfect. And .ml and even hexbear have a lot of valuable discourse - I comment on hexbear threads regularly with less radical points of view than their users often have, and I get good responses and engagement usually because I'm good faith.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Wow, this is super interesting. I don't know if these sequels would have been successful (premise seems removed from the realism that made the published books so great), but if anyone could pull it off, it's Butler.

It'd have been a sad but potentially interesting critique of power to show Olamina become a darker character, as was suggested. Idk how I feel about the next book jumping to Earthseed having fulfilled its mission (in part) - seems like there'd need to be a transitional book with them making all the preparations under potentially new leadership first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wildberry poptart army

 

Pretty much the title. I've been training for 5 months, injured for 4 weeks in there - just came off of a 2wk recovery from a knee injury. I'm relatively young, 6ft 175lbs, in pretty decent shape.

But I overexert myself to the point of vomiting nearly every class. It's frustrating and embarassing.

I've started doing more cardio and have improved a lot in that regard, but it doesn't seem to help at all on the mats. Do I just need to do more cardio? Is there something nutrition-wise that could help? Open to any and all suggestions.

Edit: Thanks everyone for the advice. I will try 1) not try so hard and ask partners to help me with that, 2) advice to talk to my doctor - I have in the past and he wasn't much help - but it got me to do some research... some medication I'm on can cause hyponatremia, which can cause nausea and vomiting especially after exercise... so I'm going to try a saline solution before/during class and may report back if it works.

Edit 2: took a 3% hypertonic salt solution to class today and it seems to have worked. I asked a higher belt to really push me in a difficult roll after class to test it. Not certain yet, but seems to have fixed the vomiting

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I have been playing Go with my friend (who has a Chess background) for a while now. We started on 19x19 boards but he found it really overwhelming and struggled. He wanted to switch to 9x9 and we have now played several 9x9 games.

These games are just for fun and I don't think he has much intention of ever playing seriously, so it doesn't really matter, but I feel like the skils developed playing 9x9 are really not all that applicable to a real game other than just basic life/death, some endgame stuff, etc.

I started on a full sized board, and I ran a successful club where we started beginners off on full sized boards, so I don't really know how others do it. What do you think about starting beginners off on 9x9? When do you think they should transition to larger boards?

 

I've been using AI to review my games for a while, but how do you personally use AI to learn?

I've found it really helpful in strengthening my joseki as well as general game-sense/intuition. Re-training myself on which moves feel correct.

One weird result has been that a lot of my intuitions that I used to brush away in favor of moves that I felt were more big-brained, turned out to be the moves that the AI prefers. So I'm having to work through when I'm overthinking moves.

The main problem I find is that it is so much better than I am that I can't understand the logic sometimes - so I walk away with "Well, that move was just better, I guess" and fail to get a good understanding.

 

Portrayal of the Physician Hua Da Scraping the Bone of Guan Yu to Treat an Arrow Wound (Hua Da hone o kezurite Guan Yu ya-kizu o ryoji suru zu), Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1853

"Guan Yu was once injured in the left arm by a stray arrow which pierced through his arm. Although the wound healed, he still experienced pain in the bone whenever there was a heavy downpour. A physician told him, "The arrowhead had poison on it and the poison had seeped into the bone. The way to get rid of this problem is to cut open your arm and scrape away the poison in your bone." Guan Yu then stretched out his arm and asked the physician to heal him. He then invited his subordinates to dine with him while the surgery was being performed. Blood flowed from his arm into a container below. Throughout the operation, Guan Yu feasted, consumed alcohol and chatted with his men as though nothing had happened." (Wikipedia)

 

I'm not entirely sure how Go plays into this story, but it's a wild print that shows Minamoto no Yorimitsu, who had apparently been in the middle of a game of Go, fighting the legendary Yōkai Tsuchigumo (土蜘蛛, i.e. Earth/Dirt Spider), a giant spider demon that lives in the earth.

I'm not sure why so many fights broke out while samurai were playing Go in feudal Japan. But, Minamoto no Yorimitsu is Minamoto no Yoshitsune's (whose retainer, Sato Tadanobu, beat a bunch of samurai to death with a floor goban) great, great, great, great, great uncle (5th great uncle), so it must run in the family.

 

First published in 1855, Sato Tadanobu Bravely Resisting Arrest (左藤忠信勇戦芳時が勢を移る圖) depicts a man fighting off a number of attackers with a Goban. But who was he and what is his story?

Satō Tadanobu (佐藤 忠信) was a samurai in service of Minamoto no Yoshitsune who lived between 1161AD and 1186AD. There are two accounts of his death, but which one is real may not be as important to us as which makes for the better story.

The first part of the story is the same in both accounts and is recorded in the Gikeiki (義経記, or Chronicle of Yoshitsune) and involves Tadanobu retreating with his master Minamoto no Yoshitsune's forces to Kyushu, fleeing the advance of his half-brother Minamoto no Yoritomo's army. Sato, serving as rearguard with a few of his men, aided the retreat by donning Yoshitsune's armor and, acting in disguise as Yoshitsune, killing twenty of his pursuers. Though his companions died in the fight, Tadanobu escaped and continued on to Kyoto to take refuge in the house of a woman he knew there.

This is where the stories diverge, and where the subject of this painting comes from:

Telling #1: While staying at his acquaintance's house, he was discovered and attacked. He committed seppuku before he could be captured alive.

Telling #2: Sato Tadanobu was enjoying a game of Go at his acquaintance's house, when he was suddenly attacked by Yoritomo's men. Unable to reach his weapons, he grabbed the Goban he was playing on and proceeded to single-handedly beat a number of armed and armored samurai to death with it before he was able to reach his weapons and commit seppuku, thus evading capture by the overwhelming force.

In the Kabuki plays (such as Yoshino Shizuka Goban Tadanobu and Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura) and Ukiyo prints inspired by this event, Tadanobu is implied to be a Genkurō (fox spirit) due to his cunning impersonation of Yoshitsune.

 

And if you haven't played yet, what's stopping you?

 

I found Gomagic from the YouTube channel of the same name. It's a really nice way to do high to mid-kyu Go problems (there's a 9k - 1k section under development too). They have a wide variety of types and it walks you through a bunch of different skills.

The downside is you only get a limited number of free problem sets each day if you don't pay for a subscription, but it's like 15 free sets of 5-6 problems per day or something pretty generous.

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Great tutorial for anyone who wants to learn how to play. Gomagic does a great job with all their videos.

 

Breakdown of Lee Sedol's famous ladder game

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