Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2)

Just be careful you don’t get stuck there.

Didn’t this first happened just about a year ago?

I hear they have impeccable traffic striping, though.

Hint: if you are registering an online complaint and asking for a change in traffic striping - saying that another city does it better will not help you as much as you might think.

If Bill Gates goes. I will immediately lose all respect for him.

If we had a thumbs up for posts I would give you one.

Wow, he really is Elon’s little bitch, isn’t he?

“Please Elon, please won’t you come?”

OpenAI says the definition of AGI is “an app that makes us $100 billion in profit”.

Magnus Carlsen gets booted from a chess tournament for (checks notes) wearing jeans.

There was obviously a well known dress code so he should have followed it.

On the other hand this code sounds snotty,…But it was there.

I would guess now, since he is the former champion in that organization, most people will think of the new official champion with a little asterisk beside their name. Maybe that is what Carlsen was after.

Looks to me like both sides being idiotic there.

There’s a decent chance it was deliberate provocation on his part.

He’s been pushing FIDE to basically modernize and appeal more to the current generation by doing things like changing up tournament formats and, apparently, dress codes. He’s popular enough that it actually stands a pretty good chance at working, too. It makes more of an impact when the consensus best player in the world does something like this.

I’m not inclined to take FIDE’s side these days considering their boneheaded stance on trans players. There’s not even a reason for chess, of all things, to be gender-segregated in the first place.

Steal bottle of booze, drink some, pass out IN liquor store.
https://www.kctv5.com/2024/12/28/burglary-suspect-accused-drinking-half-bottle-stolen-fireball-falling-asleep-aisle/

I had no idea. Thanks for info.

@glee is a noteworthy chess expert and may have some input on the FIDE / Carlsen debacle.

Two Portland men have died of exposure after venturing into the woods of southwestern WA on Christmas Eve in an attempt to meet Sasquatch.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/portland-men-found-dead-search-sasquatch/283-c38052b4-c25b-4f51-b997-4d7836b81b92

That sacrifice is accepted. Sasquatch has been sated, and will rest on His forest throne… for now.

So it’s fair to say that Sasquatch ghosted them?

I didn’t know chess was gender seperated. For God’s sake why? It’s not the sort of sport in which bodily strength plays a role.