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'Get them the hell out': Trump says deporting US citizens could be 'next job'
  • Over 50%. Voter turnout is low & is higher among Republican voters (who are on average more able to vote due to economic and voter suppression factors). Not to mention that they aren't the ones who'd be deported.

  • 'Get them the hell out': Trump says deporting US citizens could be 'next job'
  • I would hope that Canada would accept refugees persecuted by an oppressive dictatorship the same as any other country. Not only do I hope that, I'm pretty sure they would.

  • The tragedy of the commons
  • I think it's a refutation of unregulated production & resource distribution in general.

    In socialism, distribution would be handled by the state or locality, by the producers themselves, by a work coupon system, with money (a la market socialism), or theoretically in a sort of free-for-all all where people just request what they need. Only the last one is really implicated in a tragedy of the commons type scenario, with the money and work coupon systems potentially causing a smaller degree of that sort of an issue (as there would be less inequality, so less possibility of overproduction due to demand). Producers would, in that case, be encouraged to produce more to fill the increased demand, but there wouldn't be a profit motive for doing so, and so a consumer-side tragedy of the commons is less likely. Also, producers' access to resources would theoretically be more tightly regulated than in capitalism, but that isn't necessarily the case.

    In capitalism, distribution is dictated by the money system obviously and due the massive inequality there is a big disparity among people's buying power - but more importantly companies consume the vast majority of resources and are encouraged to grow infinitely in a world of finite resources - creating demand where it doesn't naturally exist to squeeze more profit out of folks' savings, make them take on debt, or cause them to deprioritize other purchases.

    In capitalism, people are not encouraged to consume infinitely more because it is not possible. You only have so many needs and so much income as an individual. The market invents new needs with advertising and such (you need makeup, you need the newest smartphone with ten cameras, you need glasses that let facebook spy on you), but consumers' buying power is limited. People can't really cause a market-wide tragedy of the commons, only companies can because they have the vast majority of the access to resources and the ability and motive (profit motive) to acquire them.

    Tragedy of the commons, or some iteration of it, seems inevitable under capitalism, but is mitigated or eliminated under socialism

  • ‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis
  • Yeah, Lyme Disease can potentially cause that. It's weird they're saying "meat allergy" and not lyme disease, but lyme is pretty bad and can cause lifelong complications (post-treatment lyme disease syndrome)

    Edit: guess I'm wrong

  • The ADHD genie ain't ever going back in the lamp...
  • It's a pretty common occurrence for ADHD and Autistic folks. I'm a little bit autistic (Aspergers) and come from a family where literally everyone but me has ADHD, but I was always generally NT passing due to a lot of anxiety and really high levels of masking. I still am NT passing, but when I was informally diagnosed (by psychologists not psychiatrists) and agreed/identified with the label, I stopped masking as much. I don't know how much other people noticed (they probably didn't), but it was a big difference for me and allowed me to be more aware of the reasons behind some things that I feel and do - and to be able to forgive myself more for not being "normal".

    I don't mask as much now, but I'm able to tell people things like "I'm sorry if what I said came off as me being angry or rude, I have a hard time monitoring the tone of my voice and I didn't mean to come off that way". So I have a better level of self-awareness and can still help other people understand my intentions & can communicate better without flat-out outing myself as autistic to other people.

    Also though do please try to brush and floss regularly. Tooth pain/cavities/decay are no joke - you only get one set of those bad boys, gums don't grow back, and you can't really imagine how much it sucks to get nerve pain whenever you eat or drink things until it happens to you - then it's too late. (No shame, only F E A R )

  • The Harbinger of the Dystopia
  • Brutalist fast food restaurants? Don't threaten me with a good time. Fuckin love me some brutalism

  • How dumb of an idea would it be to become a throuple?
  • It really depends, but ultimately a lot of social interactions can only happen between two people at once. Say you and your wife get into a fight. Instead of fighting it out & making up, she now has the option to stop fighting you and go hang out with your co-husband - and you aren't invited. She also has the option to emotionally strong arm you to get her way by not only stonewalling you/withholding affection, but also by threatening to push you out of your marriage for another guy who literally lives with you both. Conversely, she does the same thing to the other guy.

    Basically, now all those 2-person social interactions that happen in a marriage become much more complicated due to the presence of a 3rd person.

    You'd need to have a lot of trust in your wife (and this other guy too) - she'd need to have a tremendous amount of emotional stability and be non-manipulative. She'd suddenly have a lot more power in the relationship in a very inequitable way.

    My wife and I are very into monogamy. But she has a serious temper and can be very manipulative when she's angry (she's gotten better about this, but it's a known issue). It'd be very easy for her to do something hurtful. I'm not talking about sex, just the emotional threat of turning to someone else for relief from me - and the implied threat of pushing me out.

  • Massachusetts considers scrapping religious exemptions for vaccinations
  • Based. Putting your kid's life at risk should not be allowed just because you think your religion says so.

  • Minnesota Shooter Wrote Letter Claiming Tim Walz Told Him to Kill Amy Klobuchar
  • Bro, it's the original Lemmy instance. It does not matter what instance you're on. I have two accounts with the same name one on dbzero and one on ml - feel free to peruse.

    You didn't give me anything to respond to except for: "MAGA and Marxist-Leninism are equally incoherent" - and you gave nothing to substantiate that point, ergo it is a "braindead take" because it required no thought. If you want it to not be a braindead take, then make an argument rather than an unfounded (and probably uninformed) statement.

  • Minnesota Shooter Wrote Letter Claiming Tim Walz Told Him to Kill Amy Klobuchar
  • Okay I'll bite. Meet the burden of proof. Explain what you mean. How are the MAGA ideology (to the extent that there is one) and the Marxist-Leninist ideology equally incoherent? And, similarly, in what ways are potential views on this particular issue as expressed in that letter shared by MAGAs and MLs?

  • Minnesota Shooter Wrote Letter Claiming Tim Walz Told Him to Kill Amy Klobuchar
  • I am not an ML, but this is a brain-dead take

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    playing war thunder
  • Fake: is living a lie

    Gay: jerks off to guys

  • CRISPR used to remove extra chromosomes in Down syndrome and restore cell function
  • It's fine and not at all contradictory to care for existing people with Downs and also work to eliminate the condition.

  • Ted Cruz Suggests US Is Involved in Israeli Strikes on Iran, Despite US Denials
  • I appreciated the ball tanning context. Well anyway, gotta go tan my balls now

  • Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos
  • There's a documentary somewhere ( this might be it ) about the town of Asbest, Russia (where like all the asbestos comes from) that interviews people who live there (they mostly mine asbestos). The miners are real macho guys who think asbestos is perfectly safe. The cancer rates in Asbest are really high, unsurprisingly.

  • NAS Server OS/Software Suggestions

    I want a NAS solution to back up my PC and host media files, but prebuilt NAS solutions are incredibly expensive and underwhelming and so I'm planning to build one. Does anyone have recommendations for a NAS interface?

    I'm brand new to server management and would prefer something user friendly. I have used linux mint, but currently use windows as my daily driver (planning to switch to mint soon). I'd be fine with a dedicated NAS OS or with something I could run on mint since I'm already familiar with that distro.

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    Opinions on 9x9 for beginners

    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?

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    How do you use AI to train?

    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.

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    Go in Art: Guan Yu plays Go during bone surgery

    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)

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    Go in Art: Minamoto no Yorimitsu and His Retainers Defeat the Earth Spider

    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.

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    The history behind the community banner and a little piece of Go lore: Sato Tadanobu Bravely Resisting Arrest

    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.

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    What first got you interested in Go?

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

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    Go Problem Tree for Absolute Beginner to Double Digit Kyu (30k - 10k) - Like Duolingo for Go

    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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    How to Play Go - Beginner Tutorial [7:59]

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

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    Real board Kifu-Spread on Lee Sedol's infamous "The Broken Ladder"

    Breakdown of Lee Sedol's famous ladder game

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