That opening is worth about a million bucks.
I find it’s best to play ridiculous moves then that don’t show up in any books, you may end up in a strategically worse position but they have to work for their win now instead of just doing memorised plays. It’s better to burn out, than to fade away!
I don’t know if there is a website dedicated to making it easier for folks to jump ship
https://joinfediverse.wiki/Welcome_to_the_Fediverse_Quickstart_guide
USSR
Communist
Uh hu… And any ideology?
Do we only have a binary choice between capitalism and communism now? Despite there being multiple forms of both, nevermind systems outside of those two.
Capitalism has proven itself to be utterly disastrous for the environment, what do you gain from whataboutism trying to defend it by comparing it with the USSR? The USSR doesn’t exist, we need to deal with the problems we have now, not blethering on about the past. And the problems we have right now are caused by capitalism.
Over the course of the last decade, each year has seen an average of 2,685 new laws - the equivalent of almost seven and a half a day or one every three-and-a-quarter hours
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/jun/04/houseofcommons.uk
This was in 2007 in the UK. But I imagine it’s much the same in the US. Literally impossible for anybody to follow every law, but that doesn’t matter because as you say they’re selectively enforced
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday through Friday, five days a week, from morning to night, outside work, I’m actually a really good person.
Let me give you an example…
Aye, we’ve almost all learned digital skills. And as time passes the skills required to perform digital tasks reduces as user interfaces and automation improve. What many of us don’t have however is digital understanding.
This is from a speech by the founder of lastminute.com and now member of the UK’s House of Lords
We have let these things come upon us, but it is not too late to wake up. If we want to change this dynamic and shape the future, we need to recapture some of the internet’s original promise and more of its positive transformative power. That means we need to understand – at all levels of society – what our digital world really is. We need to address the challenges that already exist and preempt the ones we don’t know about.
We live our digital lives this way because we have the skills to do so. 91% of us in the UK have the ability to use the internet. This is a remarkable achievement – and it’s important to continue the work to close the remaining gap and include those who are still without the skills or the access to use the internet.
But we also need to move beyond skills to understanding. Nearly all UK internet users have the digital skills to use a search engine, but only half know how to distinguish between search results and adverts. Around two-thirds of our digitally skilled population can shop and bank online – but a third don’t make any checks before entering their personal or financial information online. More than 1.4 million of us work in tech-related jobs – but, as the recent WannaCry attack showed us, hardly anyone is investing the time, resources or expertise to keep our systems safe. The list goes on.
Becoming a nation of people with digital understanding will be different and more complicated than becoming a nation of people with digital skills. For starters, digital skills are tangible and teachable: download this app, program this device. They also reinforce the idea that digital is something we do – time-bound and transactional.
But in a world where we spend more time online than we do asleep and where everything from our televisions to our kettles can connect to the internet, digital is something we are. Understanding is not a race to be run and won. It is a lifelong process of learning, one unique to each of us.
The full speech is available here. It was given in the House of Lords and is obviously directed towards UK parliamentarians but the concepts apply globally. I recommend reading the whole thing.
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Hmm…
Contributing isn’t just posting. This is social media, not just media. Comments are as much a contribution as posts.
I’m sorry, but all of us here on Lemmy have agreed that we need to see your official ID, a 20 second video of you turning your head left and right while blinking, a certificate of your DNA and any other relevant biometric data, a complete list of everyone you’ve ever had sexual relations with, your passwords to all online accounts, and the account number and sort codes of all bank accounts you hold.
If you don’t provide this information within 2 hours we’ll just have to assume you’re a paedophile terrorist and terminate your access to socialising with any other human being online.
Thank you for your attention on this matter.
Please do not upload any of this information! If it wasn’t obvious enough this comment is in jest! For the love of Christ burritos do not do what a fellow student at my university did and upload your password onto a publicly visible forum!
Here’s the great thing, nature is something to behold in most parts of the planet. We don’t need to travel across oceans to be wowed by it, we have our own. Sod going to the USA ever again.
Lemmy.world admins: “this is a direct threat to me personally”
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings. … Power can be resisted and changed by human beings; resistance and change often begin in art
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
And art is being destroyed by AI
How else do you differentiate between a gym bench and a park bench?
And when you don’t know what 80:20 rule means, that’s when Wikipedia comes to the rescue.
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80:20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity[1][2]) states that, for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the “vital few”).[1]
Maybe in the 90s/early 00s, certainly not now.
Almost every pub offers mocktails and “blue” beer (ie alcohol free) now because the demand for alcohol has plummeted. There’s even entirely alcohol free night clubs in some cities. Although I think they’re more of a trendy gimmick, they’re only possible because of a lack of demand for alcohol.
https://youtu.be/aV0d_5GES0A