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my $600 stimulus check came the other day. it was actually $429 for me, because apparently the way they calculated it used my 2019 income
so to be clear: i received a check in 2021 because of an event that happened in 2020, which uses 2019 numbers to decide exactly how neglectful they're allowed to be
https://t.co/ILQUXXz9aA new bill wurtz n.n
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i've been really liking adam ragusea's videos. as a perpetually low-executive-function person who also doesn't know how to cook, his approach - "here's what i do, here are some substitutes, here are the things you have to be precious about and the things you can just be creative or less careful with" - makes me feel a lot more motivated to try things
now i just gotta, actually go and try things. maybe next week
this is the face of a man who has just gotten a professional like 40-50 year old chess commentator to say "he started with king e2, aka the bongcloud, what would you have done against that"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qATl41Ofjuo
here's the madman doing it, and then winning, in a tournament
oh and here's the world's second best chess player playing the bong cloud on stream as fast as possible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOd222WIEk8
he has an entire playlist of just playing this terrible opening
however, the greatest player in chess right now (magnus carlsen) likes to take this a step further
he plays the Improved/Inverted Bongcloud.
you move your two pawns out of the way, and then circle your queen all the way around before bringing it back to right next to where it started
thus you spend the first 6+ moves of the game doing NOTHING BUT SWITCHING THE PLACE OF YOUR KING AND QUEEN. NO OTHER MOVES HAPPEN. YOU GAIN NO GROUND. YOU FUCK YOURSELF
and yet he wins games with it
to explain this: the bongcloud is a joke opening where you move your king forward within the first 3 moves of the game. this is basically never, ever a good idea, it's called the bongcloud as a joke
however, some of the best chess players in existence like to play stuff like this just to kinda. flex on their opponents and make the game harder for themselves because they're just that fucking good
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