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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • But they do have a pr department. The holy see is a political organization. They are an internationally recognized government with diplomatic relationships. While not a member state of the UN they are permanent observers and influence decision making on a worldwide scale, and it’s not a secret that the church, which is run by the same person as the holy see (the Pope) has had its fair share of controversy.

    I don’t think it’s a stretch to think the holy see spends time and effort in order to make their appearance, and the appearance of the church, look better.







  • Are people really not aware that you don’t have to have notifications for everything?

    You can turn all the notifications off on your phone and watch.

    The value the watch brings can be found in other places, for example, being able to stay connected and have music and emergency contact without needing to lug your phone with you during a run or if you lose your phone.

    A smart watch means you can leave your phone at home more often in general while still being available to those who genuinely need to be in contact with you, which is great for reducing doom scrolling and the like.




  • If you want to beat all of your friends at chess:

    learn how to mate in endgames with a few different combinations of pieces.

    Castle early and on the same side of your opponent.

    Learn to defend scholars mate.

    Focus on piece development early on, get you back rank pieces out (bishops knights)

    Fight for the center

    When attacking a square, just count how many other pieces are attacking and defending that square and see if you have more than your opponent, this is a great way to quickly analyze an attacks value.

    Trade when you have a piece advantage, this is like taking a math question and simplyifing the terms. It greatly simplifies the game and brings it in to the the end game with an advantage.

    Learn any one opening system just a few branches that can consistently bring you into tactics (static analysis of the board state) even or with a slight advantage.

    These tips can be accomplished in a week and will dominate anyone who ‘just knows the rules’







  • I mean sure, whatever.

    I meant subtitles and I stand by subtitles. But I’ll be sure in the future to say ‘open captions of the language in the audio stream’ so that you don’t get offended.

    Understand that it didn’t need to be an argument and there wasn’t really much of a reason to be defensive.

    I stated something, it got muddied in the context, I clarified within the context of the conversation, and now you are mad. Contextually I would have been wrong before it was very much clarified.

    If your point is about translations, I never made a claim about them, I don’t have an opinion one way or the other. I also think it’s helpful to understand the community you are in, which is not an anime focused one.

    Additionally I often watch anime with English dubs and subtitles, is that not an equally valid scenario? I understand that colloquially the term can be used to mean translation, but the conversation is broader than niche insider discussion.

    And finally, I really think I made myself very clear after an initial confusion, so I don’t really even get what’s happening here.

    Edit: also, the conversational word is pretty firmly ‘subs’. I would say specifying the whole word actually indicates that it isn’t the colloquial usage, but I get that that doesn’t really matter.