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Context: The annual Tata Steel chess tournament is going on. It's generally the first big event of the year, and consists of two invitational tournaments (the Masters section, consisting of top players, and the Challengers section, consisting of younger up-and-coming players) as well as multiple tournaments for amateurs. This incident occurred in the challengers section, between Uzbek grandmaster Nodirbek Yakubboev and Indian grandmaster Vaishali Rameshbabu. When Yakubboev arrived at the board, his opponent extended her hand to shake (you do this before a chess game). Instead of shaking her hand, however, Yakubboev seemingly declined with a hand gesture and sat down. He also didn't offer his hand when he resigned at the end of the game (there's videos in the reddit post).
some random threads with lots of downmarseys:
plot twist: this might have been regular autism on Yakubboev's part, and not religious
autism. A couple people posted a video of him shaking hands with another female player at a different tournament (
update: He responded on twitter.
https://xcancel.com/NodirbekYakubb1/status/1883623565314101651#m
/r/chess reacts:
https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1iasbhn/nodirbek_yakubboev_responded_on_the_handshake/
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A Cal Fire captain was found stabbed to death inside of her San Diego County home on Monday and authorities are still searching for the suspect.
Deputies were dispatched to the 20200 block of Rancho Villa Road in Ramona at around 9 p.m. on Monday after learning of an assault that happened in the area, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Office.
Upon arrival, they found the victim suffering from multiple stab wounds, deputies said. Despite attempted life-saving measures the woman was declared dead at the scene.
On Tuesday, the victim was identified by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, as Rebecca Marodi, 49, a 30-year firefighting veteran who was stationed in French Valley just north of Temecula.
Thus far into their investigation, Sheriff's Homicide Unit detectives have yet to identify a suspect or motive in the incident, but they suspect that Marodi "knew the perpetrator and are treating this case as a potential domestic violence incident."
According to Cal Fire officials, Marodi began her firefighting career in 193 as a volunteer firefighter in Moreno Valley. She then served as a seasonal Fire Fighter I from 1994 to 2000 in San Bernardino and Riverside before she was promoted to Fire Fighter II. In 2007, she was promoted to a Fire Apparatus Engineer and to Captain in 2022.
She was previously stationed in Perris, Home Gardens, Indian Wells, Menifee, North Rancho Mirage and Temecula before ending up with French Valley Station 83.
"Beyond her operational assignments, Captain Marodi was deeply involved in Peer Support and Hazmat, always prioritizing the well-being of her colleagues," the Cal Fire statement said. "Her legacy of mentorship, service, and dedication will be felt for years to come. Her passing is a profound loss to her family, friends, and all who had the privilege of working alongside her."
Anyone who knows more is urged to contact SDSO homicide detectives at (858) 285-6330.
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A Portland Antifa member sprayed "NAZI" on a Tesla. The car is owned by Timothy H. Tees, a wealthy Portland liberal who hates President Trump and @elonmusk. He says he would go protest with the Antifa militant who vandalized his car and says the money he spent cleaning the sprayโฆ pic.twitter.com/3l2asTyiwG
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 17, 2025
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We're playing the turboneurodivergent Dawn of Civilization mod for Civilization IV that replicates world history. !g*mers
We now have Russia as a vassal (the "Province of Sarmatia") and directly control Japan, Australia, and America. Settling New Zealand as well.
Publius Valerius Publicola can be used to reform the government for free.
Fascism WINS by a whisker
We are now the New Roman Empire.
Much better for our treasury, espionage, and military. Science and great people generation took a minor hit.
We've gone from Italic Peoples -> Roman Kingdom -> Roman Empire -> Roman Republic -> New Roman Empire.
We're secular now too. We could do the Secular Religious Victory if we wanted
The cathedral goal is a little confusing - we don't have cathedrals for any eastern religions. But with Judaism, Islam, Orthodoxy, Protestantism, and Catholicism we have enough I guess
Secularism should our relations with much of the world a little. Most of the Catholic world are our vassals with the exception of Netherlands and Austria.
It's enough for Iran to open borders apparently.
Prussia still has a stick up their butt. I'm hoping when Bismarck becomes leader he'll like us a little more as Nationhood is his favorite civic. I'm going to cultivate good relations with these guys and try to influence them to become fascist too so Hitler appears, just for you chuds.
We still get penalties for "Our rivals are vassal to your empire" but it helps just a little. I realize embarrassingly late into this game session that I could just pay all my vassals to become secular as well to try to ease up this penalty.
Ultimately, fascism helps us Our domestic stability is booming and the economic recession is cooling off. We have a strong civic combo and a bonus for "contemporary civics".
At this point I'm so absurdly advanced that I decide to turn down my research funding and focus entirely on espionage temporarily to let the rest of the world catch up. I'm close to discovering nuclear weapons and we haven't had the American Revolutionary War yet. But I do want biplanes circling in my American colonies just to prove Trump right.
We can also use them to air strike injuns
Rome has hit Legendary Culture
I have to be careful because we're starting to tiptoe toward victory conditions. Vassalizing Russia was awesome but now we're 8% territory control away from Domination. I have a few other cities with Influential culture I need to prevent from hitting Legendary or I'll will Cultural. If really necessary I can just let some shit go but I turn my research funding back up to make sure I can get to space before another victory ticks.
1762, they're coming
I bring "Grippy" Agrippinia's army from Japan to Panama to prepare.
We're starting to discover Uranium deposits, which will of course be very important strategic resources.
We have mines in Ukraine and Australia. Australia is ours, but Ukraine is at risk of seceding. More would be safer.
There's a deposit in Africa we can grab with a colony, but it's a little close to Dutch South Africa.
We have an extra Great Artist we can use to create a Great Work in the city and blow up our cultural borders, getting us gem and rare earth mines as well.
Washington has arrived
I want America to capitulate, but it's going to take a while for "Rise of the Americans" to end before it will even be an option. Fine by me. With totalitarianism we don't get war weariness. America on the other hand does
With Nationhood we also actually get a small stability bonus when at war.
Interestingly America has embraced Slavery, so they're actually the Confederate States of America.
I'll contribute this to my development of the south and rich slave plantations.
It should probably at least require a capital in the south as well, but whatevs. There are some neat dynamic names for America. If they were to vassalize Mesoamerica as the CSA it would be known as the Golden Circle.
Washington attaches a general, Winfield Scott and does a successful job repelling Agrippina's army.
I'm forced to pull them back north to Concord to rendezvous with my other army. Concord is much more vulnerable.
His army marches on French New Orleans and there's little I can do I have to get my planes out.
They've rammed the ramparts and taken the airports.
Winfield Scott attempts to take Concord with my full army there and dies in the process
1810, my thinkpad grinds to a slowdown as Argentina and Mexico enter the map
Colombia shortly after
They all dislike us
And Colombia took the Panama canal away from us
These central/south American civs have some banger themes tho
Argentina:
Mexico:
Colombia:
We've researched Fission, and get The Manhattan Project started in Pella, Greece.
We're really having trouble making friends with Prussia/Germany
If we want Hitler (I assume you chuds do ) we'll probably need to convince Germany to become fascist through civic changes. Not possible if they hate us.
It is possible if they're our vassal.
For example, if we give Spain enough technologies to adopt Totalitarianism (WITHOUT a planned economy, otherwise they're commies), then encourage them to do so...
Philip II becomes Franco
If we want a pet Hitler, we'll have to get Germany to capitulate
First: America. The Rise of the Americans event is over so they can mechanically capitulate. We capture Washington almost right in 1812
It's now the Roman "Province of America". I give them back their cities and board my army to retvrn to Evrope
Interestingly, they seem to think some cities in Japan should belong to them.
I'm getting overextended, so it's worth considering
Btw, despite having almost 15k ducats in the bank we're not #1 in wealth. That honor goes to the original gangsta Mansa Musa
Dom Pedro of Brazil spawns with the smoothest banger yet
Our general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus prepares to vassalize Germany. We have tanks now
Agrippina's army from America is gonna come from the west while Magnus comes from the east
They've been trying unsuccessfully to fight the Archduchy of Austria so are gonna be a little softened up. This should be over quick.
We can speed it up even more by having our spy start a revolt in the city, removing their defenses and allowing us to attack over a river semi-safely.
Within one turn we've taken most of his territory. Get blitzkrieg'd b-word
Bismarck is quickly willing to capitulate.
Now the "Province of Borussia" is willing to accept my new government.
A few turns later and HE'S HERE!!!!
Ethiopia apparently had a Defensive Pact with Germany so we're at war again now. I have just the thing for them
Nukes are much more powerful than in base game. I finish off stragglers with some biplanes and move in to take this irradiated shithole.
Probably nearing the endgame soon. I may be touching grass tomorrow so if not Saturday maybe Sunday
In the meantime, there's a missing String for Communist Sweden - someone give me a good name for them and I'll go into the XML files and change it.
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there is an open source model stronger than your publicly available models and the weights are free. I can fine tune it to tell me how to make meth pipebombs today. I could upload those weights for anyone to use today. what is even the point of this? https://t.co/nryVv8qLff
— ๐ Shin Megami Boson ๐ (@shinboson) February 4, 2025
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I think we should commit genocide on Russia and China and Iran and North Korea with nuclear weapons.
I don't want regime change, I just don't want their government and citizens to be alive at all
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Sheehy: How many genders are there?
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 14, 2025
Hegseth: Two
Sheehy: I know that well, Iโm a Sheehy pic.twitter.com/cCqa155hjh
In the Senate hearing for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, freshman Senator Tim Sheehy decides to crack a little joke.
: How many genders are there? A tough one.
: Uh, Senator there are two genders.
: I know that well, I'm a Sheehy (pronounced She/He)
There's some polite laughs, because it's a silly little pun, and Hegseth laughs too hard like a cute twink. People are MAD
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https://github.com/deepseek-ai/Janus/blob/main/janus_pro_tech_report.pdf
USA lost, China Won, glory to the CCP!
Orange Site:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42843131
BREAKING: DeepSeek officially announces another open-source AI model, Janus-Pro-7B.
โ The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) January 27, 2025
This model generates images and beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across multiple benchmarks. pic.twitter.com/FSJkelcaYP
NEWS: DeepSeek just dropped ANOTHER open-source AI model, Janus-Pro-7B.
โ Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) January 27, 2025
It's multimodal (can generate images) and beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across GenEval and DPG-Bench benchmarks.
This comes on top of all the R1 hype. The ๐ is cookin' pic.twitter.com/yCmDQoke0f
JUST IN:
โ Megatron (@Megatron_ron) January 27, 2025
Another blow is coming from the Chinese DeepSeek AI
They launched now a multimodal "Janus-Pro-7B" model with image input and output. pic.twitter.com/akEfi9Zyzq
๐จ
โ Liang Wenfeng ๆขๆ้ (@LiangWenfeng_) January 27, 2025
DeepSeek just dropped ANOTHER open-source AI model, Janus-Pro-7B.
It's multimodal (can generate images) and beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across GenEval and DPG-Bench benchmarks. pic.twitter.com/HVB1wBns1z
DeepSeek open-sources Janus Pro, beating Stable Diffusion and OpenAI's DALL-E 3๐คฏ pic.twitter.com/C50jQGHOHl
โ Casper Hansen (@casper_hansen_) January 27, 2025
WAIT A SECOND, DeepSeek just dropped Janus 7B (MIT Licensed) - multimodal LLM (capable of generating images too) ๐ฅ pic.twitter.com/2kzaCJfLPt
โ Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav (@reach_vb) January 27, 2025
https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104075936
https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104077316
https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104077293
https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ibd5x0/deepseek_releases_deepseekaijanuspro7b_unified/
https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ibe4j7/deepseek_drops_multimodal_januspro7b_model/
https://old.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1ibfed1/news_deepseek_just_dropped_another_opensource_ai/
https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ibdyou/deepseek_just_dropped_janus_7b_mit_licensed/
https://hexbear.net/post/4363677?scrollToComments=false
https://hexbear.net/post/4364578?scrollToComments=false
BlueSky:
DeepSeek has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it claims can outperform OpenAIโs DALL-E 3.The models are part of a new model family that DeepSeek is calling Janus-Pro. They range in size from 1 billion to 7 billion parameters.Read more here: tcrn.ch/40Bc5Qm
โ TechCrunch (@techcrunch.com) 2025-01-27T21:38:20.589Z
https://rdrama.net/post/337205/deepseek-drops-multimodal-januspro7b-model-beating
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They're still seething 
so... you were able to do it in an hour, you're just used to it taking ten to twelve weeks
just 16 hours! give these poor babies some slack
DHS spooks parked at the little TSA booths
Also
How can blurmpf expect elite government functionaries to work in these compliant but outdated spaces
If they're so critical, why are "data calls" needed to determine who and where the frick your employees are
/u/el-corneador don't let the door hit your culo on the way out esรฉ
We banned their app, now they hate us
Bonus content
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskWomenOver40/comments/1i7v7g3/what_are_we_going_to_do_about_this/
Last but not least, the smartest pooner:
"no"
So masculine
Important poll !chuds !nooticers
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It's so beautiful
Also skaven are now s
It sucks to be a jew
https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1ilhf6w/gen_z_voters_are_5_times_more_likely_than_older/
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1ilc6yx/ministers_call_to_destroy_hamas_after_hostages/
Canada sucks
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskCanada/comments/1iksglo/a_brutal_view_of_trumps_america_do_you_agree/
The point of Trump's policies is to cause a famine
according to redditards
https://old.reddit.com/r/illinois/comments/1il4woi/the_soybean_innovation_lab_at_uiuc_is_closing/
https://old.reddit.com/r/farming/comments/1il50e8/were_these_people_really_helping_growers_in/
Redditards are The dumbest people on earth
One more for the road
https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1ikz74c/the_usa_is_committing_genocide_against_the/
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I think my peepee looks good, it's not the biggest but I think it looks nice and it has a big vein on it.
I like shaving my peepee and balls so the peepee is more visible and the vein really pops out
- usernaw : good drama
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A volleyball coach parked in an unloading zone during a tournament.
Someone snapped a picture and called her out in Facebook group.
Let's see how she responds
Gets into a three-way argument
Argument with a pink-haired lady devolves into who is cuter.
"You're entitled and spoiled" devolves into longposts about who's ugliest
A moid chimes in, and soon Jill is pooping on people's grandkids.
Refusing to apologize and more arguing
More random arguments
I'm sick of screenshotting, but there are hundreds of comments with dozens of people flamewarring. Feel free to click the link for more.
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In Madiba's modern rainbow nation there is a lot of intra-racism between the various races, and often it is forgotten how non-black-vs-white racism is still prevalent, and thus when such altercations does rear its head, the fireworks
starts to fly, like it did this Christmas holidays.
During a FlySafair (an air passenger company which started in 2014) flight during 26 December, from the city of Durban to Cape Town, a black woman had a massive altercation with air hostesses, which was recorded on cellphones by other passengers.
The flight crew onboard a FlySafair flight didn't want to serve her more alcohol, in response she physically assaulted the air hostess and verbally abused passengers and the flight crew. Nobuntu "Nobs" Mkhize was then arrested for being unruly, once the airplane landed.
Now this happens about once every 6 months, but what made this particular incident riling up the Coloured population was what was specifically said by the black woman, to the Coloured flight attendant during the recorded altercation: "You're a coloured from Mitchells Plain, all these gold rings but no degree. Right now when we land, I'm going to take an Uber home. You don't even have a [driver's] licence. You don't even have a car."
Combined with the fact that she was an arrogant high level SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation) employee, throwing her weight and position around, like typical ANC high level arrogant members, this really rustled the jimmies of our coloured population!!
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In several videos that have gone viral on social media, the woman is seen in a heated altercation with flight attendants who are trying to calm her down.
In one of the widely circulated videos, she is heard allegedly making racially-sensitive remarks against the coloured community.
"You're a coloured from Mitchells Plain, all these gold rings but no degree. Right now when we land, I'm going to take an Uber home. You don't even have a [driver's] licence. You don't even have a car."
The SABC released a statement on Saturday acknowledging the woman was an employee and condemning her actions.
"The South African Broadcasting Corporation has noted with concern audiovisual material circulating on various social media platforms featuring a staff member travelling on a South African airline."
The woman also allegedly threatened to get the airline employees fired and the incident broadcast on SABC news channels.
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Now during her drunken spat, the Mkhize said a shitload of racist stuff, including coloured women are only good for "spreading their legs"
Thus the DA intended to take her to the SAHRC (South African Human Rights Commission) for racism.
"Mkhize, who is reportedly the brand manager from SABC, caused a stir when videos taken aboard a FlySafair flight to Cape Town went viral on social media as she was filmed labelling women from Mitchell's Plain as uneducated and unable to drive or own motor vehicles."
This incident went so viral, that even the Patriotic Alliance ( the new ethno-nationalist party for Coloureds in Safrica, which was created last year during June 2024's election) submitted a complaint to the SAHRC (South African Human Rights Commission), to have her jailed.
Also completely fricking hilarious for me in this incident, was this one interview for the Deputy President for the Patriotic Alliance, who appears to me to be a Xhosa/Zulu dude, and lmoa this guy is fricking thirsty for coloured chicks, the way @Sneedman is for Holly
I don't know if the guy is 1st generation coloured, or if he was just raised in a Xhosa upbringing but he speaks in a total Xhosa accent.
During the interview he says "a beautiful Coloured Lady" which is so bizarre cuz it had zero bearing with the situation lmoa
Anyways comments sneed.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=925489679785507&id=100069734502518
For further context, in the past 2 decades there had been friction between Coloureds and mainstream ANC black peeps, for many reasons, but primarily due to BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) policies which promoted and gave preferential treatment of black peeps over coloureds in government positions or tenders, in a country with 25% unemployment this causes lots of friction. Whilst many whites are in the very least middle class, most coloureds are not, and thus this government mandated affirmative discrimination, which can only exist in which one racial group vastly outnumbers the others, have actively screwed over coloured populations, which in turn voted overwhelmingly DA for the past 25 years, and since the Western Cape the province of Cape Town, is dominated by the Bong and Coloured demographic, they have remained an island of DA, instead of ANC
Other sources of friction between coloureds, and especially ultra pro-ANC black peeps, have manifested itself when previously poor black women especially have lorded their power and status over coloureds. It must be understood, that while ultimate political, demographic and social power had transferred between whites to black peeps since democratization, coloureds have remained relatively as poor and 2nd class via sheer economic momentum in the Western Cape/Cape Town, and have not been enfranchised as drastically as their black peers, who they feel have excluded them deliberately through tribal wingcuckery.
A common theme is that coloureds feel they were too brown for the Union apartheid days, and now too light skinned for the ANC, so a powerful & influential black woman, lording her SABC job over an air hostess, a relatively meagre job, REALLY reinforces that salt in the wound of modern Coloured-VS-Black relationship in modern
Also of other hilarious note, is during the video of the altercation, the drunk woman, Nobuntu threw coke at the hostesses and other passengers trying to detain her in her drunken unruliness (cuz it was during a fricking plane flight mid-air), and this coke throwing is being sighted as ASSUALT by many publications and reports, which i find fricking hilarious!
OMG this racist b-word threw coke at me, this is assault ASSAULT!
Here's a chud-adjacent safrican griftoid commenter, making a massive mountain out of a molehill of the event
Interviews of DA coloured officials, and basically everybody is super upset.
"This Nobuntu must be arrested because what she did in that plane was pure terrorism. Imagine people fighting right inside the plane ." Lmoa
"As a white south african i am absolutely appalled at this element of racism that still exists in our country. Shocking"
"Me too๐ข" HAHAHAHAHA
"This is another clear demonstration how money, education and political privilege don't equate to intellect, etiquette even humanity. This coming from an whole brand manager! How tacky indeed.๐ฎ๐ฎ๐คฎ"
"You can take them out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of them." random Boer boeing along
And Uh, the IRL plane jannies perma-banned her from flying on the FlySafair airline.
And uh that's about it. ANC spokesmen condemned her, and lots of peeps were typing very angery comments on Facebook.
Meanwhile my dad was like: "as long as they are
each other, they'll leave us alone for a bit" lol
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He is kinda cute tbh
Anyways now they are seething that he boosted "YT supremacist" and "misogynist" content online
From USA Today:
a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online
Kliger is one of about a dozen men identified by Reuters and other news outlets who have been recruited by Musk and his DOGE office to reshape the federal government. Reuters could not determine the importance of Kliger's role at OPM.
In social media posts between October 2024 and January, Kliger has voiced controversial views and reposted content from white supremacist Nick Fuentes and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate.
In response to a post about New York Mayor Eric Adams possibly shutting down a migrant shelter in November, Kliger wrote: "Just leave them be for a few more months. Will be much more convenient to deport them all if they are in one spot."
Kliger has reposted comments from white supremacist Fuentes, who has at times been banned from social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for hate speech.
In the post on X, Fuentes mocks a post praising a photo of an apparently white couple pictured with two light-skinned children and a dark-skinned baby. In his post Fuentes referred to "adopted Black kids", denigrating the apparent interracial adoption. He also used the word "huzz", a pejorative term for women. Reuters could not immediately establish the identity or ethnicity of the people depicted. Fuentes did not respond to a request for comment on the post by email.
Kliger has also reposted social media influencer and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate.
The post, shared by Kliger, exhorts foreigners to "respect British culture, standards of hygiene and social norms. You operate within our parameters ... Problem? leave ... Multiple complaints of the contrary? Visa revoked."