Skyblivion better

For further reading on this agreement it's called the Bretton Woods agreement if anyone is interested.

All of those numbers mean absolutely nothing. As soon as the price is higher than shipping it through Singapore it's useless.

I had a pentel pen and it was just amazing. Very good for finger spinning

For people who don't know Ken Cheng is satire and making fun of LinkedIn people.

I'm gonna cast doubt on this. It happened too conveniently after people figured out long distance sea travel.

If they would have floated it's much more likely that it happened somewhere in the last million years rather than the last 500.

That's such an Ataturk policy to have.

You'll need to have 500k shares total for the valuation to be 1M

The commonwealth is just another club for countries like the G7 these days. A lot of countries have been joining recently.

Another interesting fact is that "cake" comes from the old norse word "kaka". (proto Germanic kuohho). English are also eating shit 💩🎉

The image is overblown comparison but she wasn't that far left. She cut a lot of government spending and focused hard on fiscal responsibility with the debt brake. She's pretty much the reason why trains are not on time in Germany.

She also had to moderate the CDU/CSU position to form a coalition with SPD so there's no way to know if she would have done things differently with a CDU/CSU majority government.

But yeah, the picture implying nazi stuff is pretty far from her policies of pro immigration, inclusive economic growth and generally holding up democratic values.

If you want to get into openings I recommend getting a set of openings for yourself for white and black.

White: 1. d4 and then London System is easy to play and works most times to get a good setup. Super easy way to have you prepared almost 50% of the time. I personally don't play it though, I'm an 1. e4 player.

Black:

Don't start with Sicialian. It's good but it'll take a long time to learn enough lines to handle whatever the opponent throws at you since they almost decide which variation you play.

Against 1. d4... King's Indian defence allows you a straight forward path to casting and develop 2 pieces. Then strike in the center. For a more spicy option there's the Benoni which has traps for people who blindly go London System.

Against 1. e4... French defence is pretty straight forward since you end up doing the same stuff every game. Attack the pawn on d4. You could also go for 1. ... e5 but since it's the most common move you can get opening knowledge advantage way faster by playing French or Scandinavian. You'll have to know both if you decide to play 1. e4 at some point and play Italian or Ruy Lopez which IMO are more fun to play.

After learning the main move order for the first 4 or 5 moves then watch some videos on each of your defence. Remote chess academy is a very fun channel on YouTube for learning openings.

Good at tactics?

Try some gambits. You sacrifice a pawn and come out guns blazing. If people don't know the gambit you're playing they'll have to spend a lot of time calculating. You force them to thread the needle or at the minimum lose a piece.

If you want to know how it looks like check out some games with Paul Morphy. He's winning against players that would 2200+ FIDE rating with the King's gambit. That opening develops wicked fast but has the King naked.

Eating sugary stuff that sticks in your teeth continuously throughout the day is the worst possible you can do for the teeth.

Binge eating sweets is pretty bad for blood sugar.

So to balance it out eat a third after every meal for max health and enjoyment.

Use a filter and remove everything dedicated to US politics and Reddit to reduce the quantity by 80%

Park and ride people.

It's not that far, it looks further on the map due to the map projection. A flight takes 6-7 hours from Ottowa to the UK and with the opening of the Bearing Strait sea lane it'll become feasible to ship non-perishable goods from Canada to EU and back from both sides of the Canada.

It's a nice idea but the EU needs to do a treaty reform to do that. There'll also be a major issue with integrating since Canada is a part of NAFTA and will have to potentially produce labels and hold standards of both. There are probably some regulations that contradict each other somewhere.

I mean, having a kill switch would be pretty weird since it'll open the jet to cyber warfare. It would probably be it's weakest defence then.

It's because of the network effect. If you only know your local language and want to unlock speaking to the rest of the world when learning English gets you pretty far.

A lot of people start learning English because a lot of people speak English. Since now Europe, North America, half of Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Latin America, Oceania speak English to some extent that I know of.

It's absolutely bonkers how far English has gotten in one generation so learning anything else as a second language is pretty weird.

One blindspot is that the ear is not good at determining whether the sound comes directly in front or back of the head.