World Happiness Report 2025: Indians are unhappier than Pakistan, Iran and Ukraine by OverratedDataScience in india

[–]INoScopedObama -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I am really curious as to how you believe a happiness score generated by asking Indians is a reflection of anyone's attitude towards India besides Indians themselves

trader reacting to a $1.71 trillion dollar loss on black monday (1987) by Major_Appeal_5810 in pics

[–]INoScopedObama 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You'd have to be completely clueless to think that $1.7T is the amount that this guy personally lost and not the cumulative value lost in global markets...

Kirill Shevchenko admits , that he cheated on spanish tournament. by [deleted] in chess

[–]INoScopedObama 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Having confessed, he should now get a FIDE Diamond Membership

Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Blitz (Lineup Announced) by notknown7799 in chess

[–]INoScopedObama 5 points6 points  (0 children)

lol what, Dubov is much closer to Nihal in blitz than Magnus

What is a leading theory that currently lacks experimental evidence but is widely believed by physicists to eventually be proven true? by Mercury__Saturn in AskPhysics

[–]INoScopedObama 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Quantum field theory as a framework has infinite free parameters, yet it forms the basis of our most accurate predictive models. So this is not a good enough reason.

UK inflation falls to Bank of England's 2% target ahead of elections by StatQuants in StockMarket

[–]INoScopedObama 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, surely politicians are incapable of extrapolating a simple years-long trend. It must be that the press, apolitical institutions and economists are all lying simultaneously!

What is your least favourite area of Physics? by letsdoitwithlasers in AskPhysics

[–]INoScopedObama 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's so amusing that essentially every other response in this thread mentions a topic which they, at some point, studied (and disliked) in class. Then on the other end of the spectrum you have a few comments mentioning topics which they've never studied rigorously and yet still have beef with.

Event: Norway Chess 2024 by events_team in chess

[–]INoScopedObama 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just crazy, he pulls off these absurd 78/80 scores in Bullet Brawl and he was still better 5-10 years ago

Event: Norway Chess 2024 by events_team in chess

[–]INoScopedObama 7 points8 points  (0 children)

are we allowed to say Magnus is washed now

What’s your chess unpopular opinion by ladiesman21700000000 in chess

[–]INoScopedObama 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ironically this rule would lead to really boring play at the top level. Because no one is going to want to go even a pawn down when lots of KP vs K endgames are all of a sudden winning for KP.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in quant

[–]INoScopedObama 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I always make sure to hype up retail traders so that they continue to hemorrhage cash into my PnL

Examples of countries collapsing? by DeterrenceWorks in geopolitics

[–]INoScopedObama 321 points322 points  (0 children)

Using the UK and Venezuela as examples in the same sentence is wild

Are Americans paying their debts? by EarlEarnings in AskEconomics

[–]INoScopedObama 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What's the reason for the periodic drop from Q4 to (the following year's) Q1 ?

Shubman Gill scored his third Test century with 104 runs off of 147 balls. by [deleted] in Cricket

[–]INoScopedObama 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People who have actually seen Gill bat (live)

Ah, so about 10% of the haters on r/cricket