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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

We cannot trust any information and media reports coming from any source, doing so is a fools errend

That's quite a stretch. There are neutral sources reporting the conflict, including UN.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Of course. Those kids in refugee camps, hospitals and ambulances have their hands soaked in blood.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

In that picture Ewan McGregor was 50 years old and Alec Guinness was 63 years old.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If Israel intentionally targeted civilians not around the enemy because they elected Hamas as their government this enabling state sponsors terrorism, it would be considered collective punishment.

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/30/1209308436/west-bank-israel-jenin-palestinians-killed-raids-airstrike-mosque

Israel is also attacking the West Bank, where there is no Hamas.

Hiding amongst your own civilians

I have never understood this argument of terrorists "hiding" amongst civilians. Terrorists are people, that live in residential buildings, that pray in temples, and that go to hospitals when they are injured or ill.

My country, Spain, had a huge problem between the 1970s and the 2010s with the terrorist group ETA. But nobody was ever so fucking psycho as to suggest bombing the places in the Basque country were the terrorists lived. There are other ways of fighting against terrorism that don't include the killing of civilians.

They are targeting the enemy.

No. They are targeting civilian areas where there are maybe some enemies.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Or the residents of Gaza strip

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

“We note that there are contrary requirements on drivers in that they must respect the minimum [sic] time, they are attempting to create manageable gaps to cars in front, yet they are also required to avoid unnecessarily stopping at the pit exit or driving unnecessarily slowly. It was also particularly noted that the race director accepted that these contrary requirements exist.”

This is such a load of bullshit. Respecting the maximum lap time is a requirement set by the director's race notes. Avoiding stopping and/or driving unnecessarily slowly at the pit exit is a requirement set by the rulebook. Creating a manageable gap to cars in front is NOT a requirement. It is a competitive advantage. And as such, drivers and teams are free to pursue an advantage as long as they are within the requirements. There aren't contrary requirements. You either set a lap earlier than everybody else when the track is not in optimal conditions, or you wait till the last moment and take the risk of traffic.

If I were Leclerc or Hamilton, I would use this ruling to challenge last week's DSQ. After all, there are two contrary requirements if we follow the stewards' logic: the requirement of the wear of the planck and the requirement of running low to maximize ground effect.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 years ago (9 children)

can live on [...] soil nutrients

Except they don't. Carnivorous plants evolved in soils that are poor in nitrates and/or phosphates, so they get them from their preys.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

What is the ratio of Stanley Nickels to XBucks?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Israel has full control over the airspace, seaports, and TV transmissions, in addition to imposing a blockade. Doesn't sound like "separated" to me.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The entire strip is Hamas according to the IDF

The IDF issued an order to evacuate the north part of Gaza. So anyone that didn't evacuate? Hamas. And the people who evacuated? Hamas using human shields. Sadly this isn't satire, it is the IDF's actual justification.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (6 children)

They will use this law to deny citizenship to people from Palestine

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

For a long time, it was believed that Hawking radiation is thermal and doesn't carry information, except for the mass/radius/temperature of the black hole.

In 2004, Hawking conceded that, due to the holographic principle, information wasn't lost. The basic idea is that the infalling matter can gravitationally deform the horizon and thus modify the distribution of Hawking radiation from the pure thermal emission. And the interesting point is that the entropy of the black hole is proportional to its area and not its volume (holography), so the deformation of the horizon is sufficient to recover all the "missing" information.

 
 

Position from yesterday's game Carlsen vs Pantsulaia, Round 2 of the World Cup

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FIDE World Chess Cup 2023 (worldcup2023.fide.com)
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The 2023 FIDE World Cup is a 206-player knockout taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan from July 30 to August 24. The top 3 players qualify for the 2024 Candidates Tournament.

Format

Each match consists of two classical games of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with increment of 30 seconds per move. No draw offers are allowed until after move 30.

In case of a tie, a play-off is played the third day, consisting in two 25+10 rapid games, then two 10+10 games and then two 5+3 games. If still tied, individual 3+2 games until a player wins.

Players

206 players are participating in the open section, and 103 in the Women's section. The top 50 are seeded directly to round 2.

The list of players includes Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Ju Wenjun and many others.

Schedule

  • Round 1: July 30-August 1
  • Round 2: August 2-August 4
  • Round 3: August 5-August 7
  • Round 4: August 9-August 11
  • Round 5: August 12-August 14
  • Round 6: August 15-August 17
  • Round 7: August 19-August 21
  • Final & 3rd place match: August 22-August 24

Links

 

The restriction is he is not allowed to play players from Russia or Belarus. Ivanchuk says he will honor the restriction.

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PogChamps 5 (www.chess.com)
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Players

16 content creators and amateur chess players are participating in this tournament

  • CDawgVA | Variety, YouTube
  • Daily Dose of Internet | YouTube
  • Franks-is-heres | Variety, TikTok
  • Fuslie | Variety, YouTube
  • Ghastly | Musician
  • I did a thing | DIY inventions, YouTube
  • Jarvis | Variety, YouTube
  • Jinnytty | Variety, Twitch
  • Papaplatte | Variety, Twitch
  • QTCinderella | Variety, Twitch
  • Sapnap | Gaming, YouTube
  • Squeex | Speedrunner, Twitch
  • Sykkuno | Variety, YouTube
  • Tyler1 | League of Legends, Twitch
  • Wirtual | Trackmania, YouTube
  • xQc | Variety, Twitch

Format

The tournament features a Group Stage followed by a Championship and Consolation single-elimination brackets. All games are 10+5.

In the Group Stage, players are divided into four groups of four players. Each group plays a single round-robin, with participants playing a two-game match against every other player in their group. If a match ends in a tie, players contest a 3+5 game, with the player with the highest accuracy score starting with White. Players keep swapping colors and playing 3+5 games until a decisive game decides the winner. Players receive 3 points for an outright match win, 2 points for winning a match in the tiebreaks, 1 point for losing the match in the tiebreaks, and 0 points for losing a match without tiebreaks.

In the Championship and Consolation brackets, matches consist of two games and tiebreakers are the same as the Group Stage.

Links

 

Format

  • The Play-in is open to all grandmasters.
  • Play-in consists of a nine-round Swiss and a "Match Play" stage.
  • The time control is 10+2.
  • The top-ranked players from the Swiss advance to the Match Play stage.
  • The top four players in the Swiss pick their opponents for Match Play one by one from the players placed between fifth and eighth.
  • The pairings for the remaining Match Play are determined by the final rankings of players in the Swiss round.
  • Two games make up each match in Match Play.
  • A bidding armageddon game with a 10-minute base time breaks Match Play ties.
  • After the Match Play, players move on to the Knockout stage, where they are placed in one of three divisions depending on their performance.

Players

156 players are participating in the event, including Fabiano Caruana, Alireza Firouzja, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Rauf Mamedov, Levon Aronian, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov,...

Links

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