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TIL each pawn in chess had a specific name/profession based on its starting position on the board
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"In medieval chess, as an attempt to make the pieces more interesting, each pawn was given the name of a commoner's occupation:
Gambler and other "lowlifes", also messengers (in the left-most file, that direction being literally sinister)
City guard or policeman (in front of the left-side knight, as knights trained city guards in real life)
Innkeeper (in front of the left-side bishop)
Doctor (in front of the queen)
Merchant/money changer (in front of the king)
Weaver/clerk (in front of the right-side bishop, as they worked for bishops)
Blacksmith (in front of the right-side knight, as they cared for the horses)
Worker/farmer (in front of the right-side rook, as they worked for castles).
The most famous example of this is found in the second book ever printed in the English language, The Game and Playe of the Chesse. Purportedly, this book, printed by William Caxton, was viewed to be as much a political commentary on society as a chess book."
Gambler and other "lowlifes", also messengers (in the left-most file, that direction being literally sinister)
City guard or policeman (in front of the left-side knight, as knights trained city guards in real life)
Innkeeper (in front of the left-side bishop)
Doctor (in front of the queen)
Merchant/money changer (in front of the king)
Weaver/clerk (in front of the right-side bishop, as they worked for bishops)
Blacksmith (in front of the right-side knight, as they cared for the horses)
Worker/farmer (in front of the right-side rook, as they worked for castles).
The most famous example of this is found in the second book ever printed in the English language, The Game and Playe of the Chesse. Purportedly, this book, printed by William Caxton, was viewed to be as much a political commentary on society as a chess book."
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Empire of Lies = Not the Good Guys
Andrew Anglin explains why he believes the Chinese – yes, the terrible Chi-Coms – are observably the good guys at this current juncture in the space-time continuum: The Chinese are the good guys, but it’s important to note that they are not the good guys because they want to do charity for the world out […]
https://voxday.net/2024/08/19/empire-of-lies-not-the-good-guys/
Andrew Anglin explains why he believes the Chinese – yes, the terrible Chi-Coms – are observably the good guys at this current juncture in the space-time continuum: The Chinese are the good guys, but it’s important to note that they are not the good guys because they want to do charity for the world out […]
https://voxday.net/2024/08/19/empire-of-lies-not-the-good-guys/
"Never could anyone have predicted Disney might take this approach to cinema; a live-action film of a theme-park ride that was somewhat of a comedy but was a Stephen Sommers styled adventure-horror story about love, heroism and rising to greatness."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-147530400
https://substack.com/home/post/p-147530400
Bros Krynn’s Newsletter
Twenty Years On - Analyzing Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl & Its Legacy
And why it still matters
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Extremely high difficulty levels here.
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Forwarded from Battleground (Jerm)
Let’s make this as clear as possible.
If you still believe that vaccines have any benefit, then you really don’t think critically.
https://jermwarfare.com/conversations/roman-bystrianyk-vaccine-history
If you still believe that vaccines have any benefit, then you really don’t think critically.
https://jermwarfare.com/conversations/roman-bystrianyk-vaccine-history
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Forwarded from Robin Monotti + Cory Morningstar
When someone looks like a conman, acts like a conman, and behaves like a conman, maybe they are a conman...
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2024-07-28/the-mystery-of-argentinas-gold-milei-admits-that-it-was-transferred-abroad-without-specifying-the-quantities-or-destination.html
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"Mr Lynch sold his company Autonomy to American computing giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011 for $11bn (£8.6bn).
"But an intense legal battle following the high-profile acquisition loomed over Mr Lynch for over a decade. He was acquitted in the US in June on multiple fraud charges, for which he had been facing two decades in jail.
"The sinking of the yacht came on the same day that Mr Lynch's co-defendant in the fraud case, Stephen Chamberlain, was confirmed by his lawyer as having died after being hit by a car in Cambridgeshire on Saturday."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k4751jrm8o
"But an intense legal battle following the high-profile acquisition loomed over Mr Lynch for over a decade. He was acquitted in the US in June on multiple fraud charges, for which he had been facing two decades in jail.
"The sinking of the yacht came on the same day that Mr Lynch's co-defendant in the fraud case, Stephen Chamberlain, was confirmed by his lawyer as having died after being hit by a car in Cambridgeshire on Saturday."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k4751jrm8o
BBC News
UK tech tycoon among six missing after yacht sinks
A total 22 people were on board the superyacht when it went down off the coast of Sicily.
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Forwarded from Cultured American
The Puritan Dress Code and the Outrage of Slashed Sleeves
The Puritans took the issue of dress very seriously. In England, the king and court set the styles, and Charles I adopted a very showy look. Slashed sleeves topped the list as the height of fashion.
In 1634, the General Court in Plymouth decried “the great, superfluous and unnecessary expenses occasioned by reason of some new and immodest fashions, as also the ordinary wearing of silver, gold and silk laces, girdles, hatbands, etc.”
Plymouth’s General Court banned lace and silver and gold thread. Further, it decreed: ‘No person either man or woman shall make or buy any slashed clothes, other than one slash in each sleeve and another in the back.'
By the 1680s, however, the Puritan dress code lost ground as wealth grew in the colonies. English fashions also exerted an even stronger pull on men and women.
Wigs and fancy dress still outraged the Puritan leaders. But their influence was waning.
The Puritans took the issue of dress very seriously. In England, the king and court set the styles, and Charles I adopted a very showy look. Slashed sleeves topped the list as the height of fashion.
In 1634, the General Court in Plymouth decried “the great, superfluous and unnecessary expenses occasioned by reason of some new and immodest fashions, as also the ordinary wearing of silver, gold and silk laces, girdles, hatbands, etc.”
Plymouth’s General Court banned lace and silver and gold thread. Further, it decreed: ‘No person either man or woman shall make or buy any slashed clothes, other than one slash in each sleeve and another in the back.'
By the 1680s, however, the Puritan dress code lost ground as wealth grew in the colonies. English fashions also exerted an even stronger pull on men and women.
Wigs and fancy dress still outraged the Puritan leaders. But their influence was waning.
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Forwarded from MurderTheMedia
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This year all 32 NFL teams will start using facial recognition to verify the identity of people entering the stadium.
This is a clip that was posted recently on the Dallas Cowboys website. It shows how easy it is to identify someone in these large crowds.
This is a clip that was posted recently on the Dallas Cowboys website. It shows how easy it is to identify someone in these large crowds.
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Forwarded from Mediterranean Man (plant ☦🇱🇧)
Palantir CEO says it's “very likely” the US will fight 🇨🇳 🇷🇺 🇮🇷 in a 3-front war; supports connoscription
«[Palantir CEO Alex Karp] thinks the United States is “very likely” to end up in a three-front war with China, Russia and Iran», writes the New York Times (August 17).
«So, he argues, we have to keep going full-tilt on autonomous weapons systems».
«“I think we’re in an age when nuclear deterrent is actually less effective because the West is very unlikely to use anything like a nuclear bomb, whereas our adversaries might,” he said. “Where you have technological parity but moral disparity, the actual disparity is much greater than people think. […] [Given that] we don’t have parity morally, they have a huge advantage.”»
«Mr. Karp said that we are “very close” to terminator robots and at the threshold of “somewhat autonomous drones and devices like this being the most important instruments of war. You already see this in Ukraine.”»
«Mr. Karp believes the Democrats need to project more [military] strength.»
«He said he would support class-based affirmative action and declared himself “pro draft”.»
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Palantir was founded in 2003 by five persons, including Karp and Peter Thiel, to resurrect the DARPA project TIA “Total/Terrorism Information Awareness”, which was suspended in late 2003. Its only client until 2008 was the CIA. Its first funder was the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel.
Alex Karp's Jewishness is manifestly central to his activism: 1) His support for Israel is «adamantine»; «The company took out a full-page ad in The New York Times last year stating that “Palantir stands with Israel”», NYT writes. 2) Karp supports the “populist-left”; he fears fascism; when he lived in Germany, «he often thought about the young men from Iowa and Kansas who risked their lives “to free people like me” during World War II.» 3) His donations are «in multiples of 18 because it’s “in the tradition of Kabbalah”». 4) He «enjoys being a provocateur onstage and in interviews» because “I’m a Jewish, racially ambiguous dyslexic, so I can say anything”, he said.
«Palantir’s tech» is thought to have helped Israel shoot down «scores of Iranian missiles and drones in mere minutes» in April.
Palantir is thought to be behind IDF's killing algorithm, Lavender AI.
«[Palantir CEO Alex Karp] thinks the United States is “very likely” to end up in a three-front war with China, Russia and Iran», writes the New York Times (August 17).
«So, he argues, we have to keep going full-tilt on autonomous weapons systems».
«“I think we’re in an age when nuclear deterrent is actually less effective because the West is very unlikely to use anything like a nuclear bomb, whereas our adversaries might,” he said. “Where you have technological parity but moral disparity, the actual disparity is much greater than people think. […] [Given that] we don’t have parity morally, they have a huge advantage.”»
«Mr. Karp said that we are “very close” to terminator robots and at the threshold of “somewhat autonomous drones and devices like this being the most important instruments of war. You already see this in Ukraine.”»
«Mr. Karp believes the Democrats need to project more [military] strength.»
«He said he would support class-based affirmative action and declared himself “pro draft”.»
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Palantir was founded in 2003 by five persons, including Karp and Peter Thiel, to resurrect the DARPA project TIA “Total/Terrorism Information Awareness”, which was suspended in late 2003. Its only client until 2008 was the CIA. Its first funder was the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel.
Alex Karp's Jewishness is manifestly central to his activism: 1) His support for Israel is «adamantine»; «The company took out a full-page ad in The New York Times last year stating that “Palantir stands with Israel”», NYT writes. 2) Karp supports the “populist-left”; he fears fascism; when he lived in Germany, «he often thought about the young men from Iowa and Kansas who risked their lives “to free people like me” during World War II.» 3) His donations are «in multiples of 18 because it’s “in the tradition of Kabbalah”». 4) He «enjoys being a provocateur onstage and in interviews» because “I’m a Jewish, racially ambiguous dyslexic, so I can say anything”, he said.
«Palantir’s tech» is thought to have helped Israel shoot down «scores of Iranian missiles and drones in mere minutes» in April.
Palantir is thought to be behind IDF's killing algorithm, Lavender AI.
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Forwarded from Jack Posobiec
As Democrats cede the high ground and keep viciously attacking Trump from the main stage of the convention, there is a deeper through-line emerging in their programming: Democrats are revealing their kryptonite. They are concerned about losing working class voters. The speeches from AOC and from the UAW’s Fain betrayed this concern of theirs, and seems to indicate they understand that this election will in fact come down to working class voters in three particular states: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. If Trump holds everything he had in 2020 and flips back Georgia and Arizona and flips Nevada as polls indicate he will, all he needs is one of those three states to put him over the top of 270 electoral votes.
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/08/19/dnc-livewire-night-1-bidens-to-sing-swan-song-hillary-clinton-to-crow-about-glass-ceiling-eight-years-after-defeat/
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/08/19/dnc-livewire-night-1-bidens-to-sing-swan-song-hillary-clinton-to-crow-about-glass-ceiling-eight-years-after-defeat/
Forwarded from Sigma Game
Higher Education and Hypergamy
Why college-educated women can't marry up anymore
https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/higher-education-and-hypergamy
Why college-educated women can't marry up anymore
https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/higher-education-and-hypergamy
Forwarded from Vox Day
The Narrative Shifts
It’s fascinating to see that while historians have completely disproven the old Black Legend about the Spanish Inquisition and corrected the number of people prosecuted and executed by several orders of magnitude, Clown World is still trying to present what was a very minor and non-noteworthy exercise in successfully maintaining the social order into one […]
https://voxday.net/2024/08/20/the-narrative-shifts-3/
It’s fascinating to see that while historians have completely disproven the old Black Legend about the Spanish Inquisition and corrected the number of people prosecuted and executed by several orders of magnitude, Clown World is still trying to present what was a very minor and non-noteworthy exercise in successfully maintaining the social order into one […]
https://voxday.net/2024/08/20/the-narrative-shifts-3/
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Forwarded from 𝕱𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕭𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝖆𝖙 𝕻𝖗𝖆𝖞𝖊𝖗 (Ancilla Mariae 👑⚔️🐉)
"Because it was both professional and efficient, the Spanish Inquisition kept very good records. These documents are a goldmine for modern historians who have plunged greedily into them. Thus far, the fruits of that research have made one thing abundantly clear - the myth of the Spanish Inquisition has nothing at all to do with the real thing." https://www.catholicity.com/commentary/madden/03481.html
Forwarded from The Vigilant Fox 🦊
Media is too big
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The Hepatitis B vaccine is mandated for children to attend public schools in 47 states.
Hepatitis B is transmitted through needles or sexual contact, so why is this vaccine pushed on babies their first day of life?
Doctors don’t have a valid answer. In fact, if you ask them why your child needs the Hep B shot on the first day of life, they give you the lame excuse that there could be a hepatitis B-infected needle on the playground.
The thing is, there are ZERO documented cases of a child contracting Hepatitis B from an infected needle found on a playground.
Mothers are tested for Hep B beforehand, so the disease poses no risk to the baby. Yet, we are injecting them to prevent Hep B on the first day of life?
What doctors also don't tell you is that the Hepatitis B vaccine wears off by the time children become teenagers.
So, there's literally no point in injecting a newborn baby with a Hepatitis B shot.
Watch Calley Means and Casey Means explain this in detail. This is a must-see conversation.
Full Interview: https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1824556181915902240
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Hepatitis B is transmitted through needles or sexual contact, so why is this vaccine pushed on babies their first day of life?
Doctors don’t have a valid answer. In fact, if you ask them why your child needs the Hep B shot on the first day of life, they give you the lame excuse that there could be a hepatitis B-infected needle on the playground.
The thing is, there are ZERO documented cases of a child contracting Hepatitis B from an infected needle found on a playground.
Mothers are tested for Hep B beforehand, so the disease poses no risk to the baby. Yet, we are injecting them to prevent Hep B on the first day of life?
What doctors also don't tell you is that the Hepatitis B vaccine wears off by the time children become teenagers.
So, there's literally no point in injecting a newborn baby with a Hepatitis B shot.
Watch Calley Means and Casey Means explain this in detail. This is a must-see conversation.
Full Interview: https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1824556181915902240
Follow @VigilantFox 🦊
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Forwarded from Vox Day
Liberalism is Dead
All of its supposedly good points that justified it have been proven to be false. The so-called neoliberal world order turned out to be Clown World: What remains of the supposed upsides of liberalism? Human rights? You aren’t a Somali rapist facing deportation, you don’t have human rights Freedom? Tell it to Sam Melia Democracy? […]
https://voxday.net/2024/08/20/liberalism-is-dead/
All of its supposedly good points that justified it have been proven to be false. The so-called neoliberal world order turned out to be Clown World: What remains of the supposed upsides of liberalism? Human rights? You aren’t a Somali rapist facing deportation, you don’t have human rights Freedom? Tell it to Sam Melia Democracy? […]
https://voxday.net/2024/08/20/liberalism-is-dead/
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