Leo Gura

Call it whatever hippie label you want. In the end nations are determined by a gun to your face, not your hippie Yankee logic. The gall of Americans to complain about imperialism.

To really understand this situation it's easy, you just gotta look at it from Putin's POV: Why the fuck would I allow Slavic Ukraine -- the birthplace of Russia -- to fall into Western Yankee hands? What shit is this?! Fuck these Yankee interlopers. That's what this war is about. Yankees are too ignorant of Russian culture and history to understand any of this. It's as if Texas fell into Chinese hands. That's the closest analogy.

I was a master marketer. I just choose not to use it.

The warmer, the more of a developmental clusterfuck it is. I guess Australia and New Zealand are nice.

So what. Texans have a distict identity. Doesn't mean you would let them form their own nation. And in some sense that is valid. Since the world doesn't come divided by borders, they have to be invented through war. The problem with Hitler was not his aims with regard to Austria and Hungary, but his invasion of totally different cultures like France, Britain, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, etc. Basically you can see these differences by looking at langauge groups. Those are the "natural" borders between peoples. Ukraine is a Slavic land. That's just your construction. Putin has a different construction.

Culturally, Ukraine is deeply intertwined with Russia. Don't act like this is Russia conquering some foreign land or people. That's the whole reason why Putin doesn't want to just cede Ukraine to the West. Because Ukraine is so connected to Russian culture and identity. Why would Putin allow what is essential Russia to get into the hands of Westerners from across the globe? If you think this is analogous to conquering some foreign people you just don't understand Russian culture. Ukraine is not like invading Germany. Ukraine is Russia, basically. A piece of Russia that broke off.

Scandinavia, Switzerland, Netherlands.

Middle East and Africa is lower.

Plot twist! -- most adult girls still do this.

Russia doesn't have to be imperialist just because it fights some wars around its borders where many Russian people live. It's not like Russia is trying to conquer Poland or Kazakhstan. Russia is fighting for geopolitical influence in its own sphere of the world where is has been historically dominant. Russia is trying to stop Western encroachment into its sphere. You can call it wrong, but it's not really imperial. At least not yet.

@r0ckyreed The real traps are in Fischer Random.

No PUA sleeps with 100 girls per year. That's virtually impossible unless you are paying for sex. The best PUAs get maybe 30 girls per year.

No one is going to be like Osho. He was a genetic freak.

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Don't worry, it's just Santa. He's testing out some new drone tech.

It's the difference between finite and infinite games. Computers are good at finite games.

Yeah, I don't like how bots make very stupid blunders. Their difficulty doesn't scale down intelligently as one would expect. It's kinda sad that Chess.com doesn't have higher quality bots which play at typical human levels. I like that with bots I can play at my own pace. I treat it as entertainment.

So just like every war ever fought

At one point every country in the world was dominated by very conservative ideology. But progress happened regardless. You can't stop progress, though conservatives will certainly die trying.

When it comes to war, legitimate does not exist. It's whatever you can get away with.

You can but the more you do that the higher your risk becomes of doing something stupid or dangerous. It's a very bad idea to allow yourself to dose while you are tripping because your judgment will be impaired, so you are likely to re-dose a lot more than you should because when you're high you stop caring about being careful and you will feel invincible. I recommend you get a timed lock-box and lock away your chemicals so you physically cannot re-dose during a trip. This is an important safety protocol.

Some good analysis:

I'm learning quite well from my blunders against bots.

Oh God, please don't spread her content. She is an epistemic pervert.

How well does your ELO carry over into Fischer Random?