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yesterday.... after 2 classical, 4 tiebreakers, 1 armageddon, and aging 5 years, caruana defeated sindarov, sending him back into obscurity. my 4 bets went in drain along with him. (i still have one caruana bet with me)
Finals: leg 1
after wasting 5 mins god knows where, vincent opened with c5. now im not gonna post annotated lines & maneuvers cuz im no 2200 rated strag who knows whats going on. just assume it is a good opening because it is supposed to be bad for black. why would white play a move that's good for black duh?
it took them good 30 min to get to this whatever symmetrical mess you call it 
even the commentators were bored out of it and werent covering the match. YES they said it themselves that it was slow af and felt offing themselves livestream. only the thought of being posted on kiwifarms probably convinced them out of it
vincent stabbed the knight defending the corner pawn and grabbed it with his queen. actually he grabbed it with his hand but you get it. (he did it before fabi could do it to him)
carry saved his knight, vinny opened the file for his bishop to eat that horse meat.
vincent gives up his hanging pawn and prepares to welcome the upcoming rook down the highway (up or down is the matter of perspective).
predictable things happen, pieces are attacked, they run, they defend. vincent castles g-side to escape the incoming rook-king pin from the bishop. it leads to this 
caruana make a plan to move his pawn and lifts his rook 
but apparently (woah cuz idk how) its a huge time wasting blunder because the real battle front of this allies-axis battle is on the right hand side & the centre. (all quiet on the west front heh)
fabi goes to sleep again with his clock running (poor fella thought it was an alarm clock) and vincent executes his plan to poke the horse near the queen and then push his own to the centre 
the kraut executes an excellent pincer blitzkreig 
. desperate fabi gives up his rook for the crazy horse but he has neither any soldiers nor time left
he tries to eat the pawn tail with his active bishop but the white queen returns to put him on the naughty list. he attempts this one last trap 
the rook wards it off, bishops are called to the frontlines. queeny handles it swiftly 
this capture seals it for white 
and the axis forces defeat the allies! sieg heil!
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My doctor recommended me wellbutrin/ bupropion after I told her about my depressive symptoms. One side affect is increased libido. As a single female with an healthy s*x drive I don't actually want to increase it! So I was wondering if someone was actually helped by wellbutrin and how it's affected their libido.
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Evidence about child's picky eating helps convince immigration tribunal that being forced to leave UK would be unduly harsh
An Albanian criminal was allowed to stay in Britain partly because his son will not eat foreign chicken nuggets, The Telegraph can reveal.
An immigration tribunal ruled that it would be "unduly harsh" for the 10-year-old boy to be forced to move to Albania with his father owing to his sensitivity around food.
The sole example provided to the court was his distaste for the "type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad".
As a result, the judge allowed the father's appeal against deportation as a breach of his right to a family life under theΒ European Convention on Human RightsΒ (ECHR), citing the impact his removal might have on his son.
The case, revealed in court documents, is among a record 34,169Β outstanding asylum appeals. The number represents a five-fold increase in two years from the 6,386 appeals outstanding at the same point in 2022.
The legal challenges, largely on human rights grounds, threaten to hold up Labour's efforts toΒ fast-track the removal of thousands of migrantsΒ with no right to remain in the UK.
They also risk undermining the Government'sΒ efforts to appear tough on immigrationΒ in the face of the rise of Reform.
The revelations come as the Government launches a campaign to counter claims that Britain is a soft touch for migrants by announcing the results of a blitz on illegal working.
Data to be published on Monday show there were 609 arrests last month for illegal working, 73 per cent up on January 2024, and a 48 per cent rise in raids from 556 to 828.
The Home Office will also publish pictures and videos of migrants being deported from the UK and forcibly placed on planes.
It comes as both Labour and Tories are tryingΒ to head off the electoral threat from Nigel Farage's Reform UK,Β whose hardline "freeze" on non-essential immigration and turn back the boats plan has helped his party overtake both Tories and Labour and top the latest opinion polls.
Commenting on the chicken nuggets case,Β Robert Jenrick,Β the shadow justice secretary, said it was "mind-boggling" that food was being used as an argument to prevent deportation.
"It's ludicrous that a judge would entertain it. Cases like this make us a laughing stock.
"It's an insult to the British public that our immigration laws are being abused in such an outrageous way," he said.
Chris Philp, shadow home secretary, said: "This case shows how bogus asylum seekers and foreign criminals are ruthlessly exploiting human rights laws and weak judges to stay in the UK when common sense clearly shows they should be kicked out."
A Home Office spokesman said: "Foreign nationals who commit heinous crimes should be in no doubt that we will do everything to make sure they are not free on Britain's streets, including removal from the UK at the earliest possible opportunity.
"Since the election, we've removed 2,580 foreign criminals, a 23 per cent increase on the same period 12 months prior."
Sir Keir Starmer andΒ his Attorney GeneralΒ have said that they will not withdraw from the ECHR and that the Government is committed to upholding the rule of international law.
Albanian Klevis Disha, 39, came to the UK illegally in February 2001 as a 15-year-old unaccompanied child. He used a false name and falsely claimed to have been born in the former Yugoslavia.
Although his asylum claim was rejected, he secured UK citizenship in 2007 after being granted exceptional leave to remain, and thenΒ indefinite leave to remain.
He met his partner, another Albanian who had gained UK citizenship, in 2006, with whom he had two daughters and a son.
However, in September 2017, he was jailed for two years after being caught with Β£250,000 cash, known to be the proceeds of crime.
Dame Priti Patel, then home secretary, ordered he should be deported to Albania and stripped of his UK citizenship as it had been acquired through deception.
Disha appealed and was backed by a judge at a lower-tier immigration tribunal. The judge ruled that it would be "unduly harsh" for his 10-year-old son -- known only as C -- to remain in the UK and be separated from his father, or to be forced to go with him to Albania.
The case centred on C's "additional" needs, which were supported only by evidence from a trainee educational psychologist for whom, the court noted, no CV had been supplied, as well as evidence from a neighbour and a family friend.
The court was told there was no formal diagnosis of special educational needs for the boy, but he did have an educational plan to deal with his "emotional regulation, independence; reading and writing."
Child has difficulties with socks
Disha's lawyers said that the needs of C, whose first language was Albanian, also included "sensory difficulties" with some clothing, such as socks in particular, and certain types of food which meant he would seize up and "refuse to do anything."
Disha's appeal was granted. However, a judge in the upper tribunal disagreed with the assessment that his additional needs could not be met if he was returned to Albania.
The judge, David Merrigan, said the only example of why the boy could not go to Albania was that he "will not eat the type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad".
"We are not persuaded that the addition of this sole example approaches anywhere near the level of harshness for a reasonable judge to find it to be 'unduly' so," he said.
He remitted the case to be reheard by a different judge in a lower tribunal to decide the "sole issue" of whether the consequences of deportation would be unduly harsh on the 10-year-old boy. The case is ongoing.
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Woman sues fertility clinic for implanting wrong embryo β forcing her to hand over baby five months after giving birth
A devastated Georgia woman is suing a fertility clinic for implanting the wrong embryo inside her, resulting in the baby being "ripped away" from her five months after she gave birth and bonded with the child.
Krystena Murray, from Savannah, underwent in vitro fertilization two years ago and only discovered the fertility clinic's "reckless" mistake after she delivered a healthy baby boy in December 2023.
Murray and her sperm donor are both white
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She said she "knew something was very wrong" when the child was born because she delivered a
"dark-skinned,
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The data privacy company Onerep.com bills itself as a Virginia-based service for helping people remove their personal information from almost 200 people-search websites. However, an investigation into the history of onerep.com finds this company is operating out of Belarus and Cyprus, and that its founder has launched dozens of people-search services over the years.
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If you want to see some terrible acting, watch a K-drama from the 2000s that has a white "American" character in it. It's always some guy with a moderately thick accent (probably central European) who seems like they just grabbed him off a college campus, forced to memorize a few lines of dialogue, and then put in front of the camera. I strongly suspect it seems like that because that was exactly what they were doing.
The woodenist performance ever is Kim Tae-hee in Love Story at Harvard. It's like teak. She's as bad as the random white people. But she's one of the most beautiful women in the world so they kept casting her and eventually with experience she got pretty good.
And the writing was done by some gook who knows English about as well I know French. Sometimes they're so incoherent you can't even understand what the character is trying to say even though they're supposed to be from your country. Why did you not get a fluent English-speaker to look over this dialogue before you put in a big production worth millions of dollars? It's not like they're a rare commodity. There's about 25,000 American troops in Korea and God knows how many there for college, business, heck even tourists. (It's probably because of fricked-up labor laws, but that's a story for another time.)
I wanted to show something really really badass but google doesn't even give you relevant images these days.
You could go to Gwanghwamun Square and grab some random American tourist and give them a sheet of paper with the white guy scene and ask them to make it more natural. They take 10 minutes to fix your mistakes. You reward them by making them extras. They're the scary soldier with a gun standing behind the "American" character or something. They go home and watch your drama and are beyond overjoyed when they see themselves on the screen.
Yi Sun-Sin. Now there's a chad for you. Defeated the Japanese, a fierce and worthy opponent, on many occasions despite the odds. Right now he's up there on the couch with Nelson and de Ruyter rewatching the first season of 24.
They show it to all their relatives, of course. One is a college student who tells her friends that they have got to see this. Another is some kid who goes to friends and says "dude, look at this weird chingchong stuff I found". Soon it becomes a cultural phenomenon. Ordinary people walk around wearing gats and saying "anyang" to each other as a greeting. By 2015 Americans are mostly making dramas now, shows that actually bring the story to a conclusion at the end and don't try to set up a new season. Netflix's selection now: K-dramas, telenovelas, these new American dramas, Star Trek, or the Rockford Files.
How the average American man dresses in 2025. (He actually made it himself which I think is pretty cool.)
In this new interplay of cultures, while we're under Korean tutelage sometimes the teacher learns as much as the student. Concepts like:
How to tell a story where there is no romantic relationship at the core of it.
Eating food that actually tastes good, not what your grandmother did.
How to not eat dogs. (Remember our fantasy is in the 2000s when that was still not completely over.)
Aspects of Christianity beyond just pissing off your neighbors with a gigantic neon cross lit at all hours.
Why building codes are supposed to be followed, not considered a challenge to be beaten.
How to use the advanced features of the dishwasher. It does more than just store your dishes!
Why it's better for your kid to actually learn than just bribe their teacher.
Men and women can actually get along reasonably well sometimes if they want to.
Long after our cultures have fused, when brave men and agassis roam the stars, they will look back at this time and think "Aigoo! Who were our people back then? The Koreans or the Americans?" What a silly question. It's like trying to decide if Goryeo, Baekje, or Silla were the real Koreans. Is this a story about nations, or is it a story about all people learning that we have one common heart?
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Very little drama, skip to the bottom two links for the actual drama But this subreddit's janny is pretty hands off and the last slap fight got a reply 15 minutes ago so it might pick up.
Cook's Illustrated is a magazine featuring extremely well tested but labor intensive recipes for upper middle class 
while America's Tesk Kitchen is the PBS show featuring their recipes. Cook's Country is a spin off that features regional American recipes that are slightly simpler in both a magazine and PBS TV show. The entire company was started by an extremely WASPy nerd, Chris Kimball, who got pushed out in favor of more diverse individuals after selling to a private equity firm (mid 2010s).
He then recreated the whole enterprise as a new competing company called Milk Street (which is another drama).
After the 
induced moral panic of 2020, the company replaced the editor of Cooks' Country with a 
for both the magazine and TV show (the previous editor never appeared on the TV show as far as I can recall).
In the newer seasons, Toni Tipton-Martin opens the show with a monologue about the featured recipes' hisotry and explains how these recipes (as well as ALL other recipes) were created by Black women. She then awkwardly supervises while the actual cooks make the recipes.
Unfortunately some uppity dared to notice this 
The uppity mayos are a little too comfortable and start agreeing:
Where did she come from anyway? She just appeared one season like some sort of expert.
Luckily a 
ally lets the mayos know "this is ain't it, chief" :
Finally fully puts the and 
in their place:
I've always assumed she leaned more towards the academia side of things. Being a bit stiff until one can relax in a hosting- type role is not unexpected. Not everyone is going give the same vibe on camera. Perhaps she's getting her sea legs when it comes to the cooking segments v the history bits she does.
But yeah, calling her fake, scary (?), etc. Harsh af.
She's not white. Hence the criticism.
exactly
She doesn't fit in because she's not white.
That's not it. Lan isn't white. She's enjoyable to watch. Elle isn't white and she's charismatic. It's not her race. It's her demeanor.
Agree - non white woman here and I'm not a fan of Toni. Way too little energy and sometimes she comes across like she's new to a kitchen
non white woman here
So you're not black. POC solidarity doesn't exist.
Um okay - that is an interesting take on my comment
You're not a fan of the only black person on the show along with Elle. Tap dancer.
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!bumpkins woke up yesterd no fricking water pressure
well tank had another blowout
decided I might as well fix the old one while I was at it, a screw jammed in there with putty had held for years
but the new one was a 1/2 inch monster, putty wasn gonna work anymore
so I brought out the harbor freight welder and a portable battery
turns out its really hard to weld a pressure vessel when there's nowhere for the steam ur boiling to vent but the tiny hole ur trying to close.
and the fricking electrod keps shocking me standing in the mud
so it kept turning out like this. after 3 tries I said frick it it was leaking before 
so I boogered them up and they turned out like this @ 50psi
no worse than they've been leakign for a decade
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