Akasazh @ Akasazh @feddit.nl

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Don't forget Putin...

Fuck thes old, power-hungry war-mongering pieces of excrement. Their death will be celebrated by millions.

Please put an age restriction on politicians, it would solev sooo much nonsense.

That was an other occasion, mom gave him a passing grade.

My dad had oral exams, we can go back to that

Eek! The cat

Wild at Heart

Wow, thanks for the explanation!

Jameson Joyce

Did you know Steve Buscemi helped out as firefighter during 9/11?

I'm always curious about strange language related jokes and know quite a bit of French, yet this joke eludes me. Care to explain?

Governments are usually inhabited by older folks, that aren't too tech savvy.

I'd protest your own governement rather than enlisting

I must comment that I down voted not because of the content of your initial comment, but because of the tone of your edit.

Insulting people doesn't get your point across, I understand that there's a lot of anger, but communication is really key and the time it takes to percolate is glacial. Yet by abuse understanding walks the other way.

I'm this case it's better to embrace the common consensus that the USA is fucked, where you agree, rather than focus on the throwaway 'rn' that you go off on.

Jack Torrance from the shining

Percy Wetmore from the green mile

Warden Samuel Norton from Shawshank Redemption

Without their context they have little power.

'it's done form of elvish, I can't read it'

The OPSEC will be uncanny, one reckons

I don't buy clothing with any kind of text on it. What most designer put on clothes is either so bland or just advertising.

That's before Boeing started implementing no-holds-barred kapitalism, in an attempt to race to the bottom.

It's a onomatopoeia!

Standardization of rules

The modern rules and appearance of pieces evolved slowly, with widespread regional variation. By 1300, for example, the pawn had acquired the ability to move two squares on its first turn, rather than only one at a time as it did in shatranj. But this rule did not win general acceptance throughout Europe for more than 300 years.

Chess made its greatest progress after two crucial rule changes that became popular after 1475. Until then the counselor was limited to moving one square diagonally at a time. And, because a pawn that reached the eighth rank could become only a counselor, pawn promotion was a relatively minor factor in the course of a game. But under the new rules the counselor underwent a sex change and gained vastly increased mobility to become the most powerful piece on the board—the modern queen. This and the increased value of pawn promotion added a dynamic new element to chess. Also, the chaturanga piece called the elephant, which had been limited to a two-square diagonal jump in shatranj, became the bishop, more than doubling its range.

Until these changes occurred, checkmate was relatively rare, and more often a game was decided by baring the king. With the new queen and bishop powers, the trench warfare of medieval chess was replaced by a game in which checkmate could be delivered in as few as two moves.

The last two major changes in the rules—castling and the en passant capture—took longer to win acceptance. Both rules were known in the 15th century but had limited usage until the 18th century. Minor variations in other rules continued until the late 19th century; for example, it was not acceptable in many parts of Europe as late as the mid-19th century to

From https://www.britannica.com/topic/chess/History

Orly?