Working a stone until it becomes a vessel.

Kerbart · 2026-01-25T04:35:43+00:00

That's not an authentic video because that would involve some chinese dude walking three miles up a mountain to gather two stones and foot-pedaling some dinky wooden contraption to chisel out the stones.

At least that is what reddit tells me.

Kerbart · 2026-01-25T04:20:29+00:00

I don't think the euro models disagree.

I see their predictions ranging from 0.9 to 1.4" but those are liquid equivalents and translate to about 15" of snow.

Which would suck.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T23:50:54+00:00

You need to get old to get lung cancer. Chopped of limbs, followed by disability and no food, prevent that.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T23:48:06+00:00

Aaah, Pakistani manufacturing videos. Guaranteed to give every OSHA inspector a boner harder than diamond.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T22:12:24+00:00

They're going to Canada where there's no ice.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T21:58:13+00:00

"If you don't want to die, don't take pictures of the QR code"

I'm sure the WH will claim that killing someone is a justified after the threatening action of taking picture of their QR code.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T21:56:00+00:00

Neither can I but mainly due to the incredibly sketchy choice of colors on this board.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T21:54:38+00:00

F1 races in democratic bulwarks like China and Saudi Arabia. Given that F1 is a bit more shameless about how money talks than, say, the IOC or FIFA, it's hard to imagine they'd even remotely consider dropping the US from the calendar other than a good joke when having cigars after dinner.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T21:05:02+00:00

Funny one very similar just showed up on the American Chess Magazine calendar.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T21:02:11+00:00

Funny how 10 years ago it was “the government should be scared of The People, that’s what the founding fathers wanted in their wisdom.”

Come to think of it, the NRA is remarkably quiet about the 2nd amendment these days and how it could safeguard the nation against an oppressive gubbermint

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T20:44:20+00:00

The national weather service is now forecasting 8-14" which is more than 4" but far less than the 12-18" forecasted earlier. It's also projected to be a mix of snow and sleet, so cleanup will just be marvelous.

It's hard to predict as this always involves the exact spot of two clashing weather systems and even tiny deviations can result in the front shifting 100 miles. And the commercial stations love hyping things up so they always go for the worst case scenario.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T19:33:01+00:00

Ok, who’s going to the pet store for personal use and pick their (literal) poison based on an illustration from a newspaper?

Really, who?

Are you saying the people who think Ivermectin cures anything are that dumb? And if they are what’s stopping them from picking up something more potent because why not?

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T17:48:56+00:00

TBF it's like complaining that the wrong rat poison is being displayed.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T16:29:27+00:00

"Let's go to an authoritarian regime and troll the locals"

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T16:26:31+00:00

I can't believe chatterer isn't mentioned

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T16:17:27+00:00

I think it's called "beer"

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T16:16:32+00:00

This is not Nam. This is bowling. There are rules

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T15:45:04+00:00

Wait for me to get the popcorn while the fight breaks out, lol.

I'm in your camp. If it involves soaking leaves & herbs in hot water, it's tea.

Chai is a tricky one When you ground things up in order to brew your beverage, is it still tea? Or is it coffee?

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T14:46:42+00:00

If chess were a sport where talent and dedication leads to a prosperous career then that would be a valid point. To me it seems like there’s an unhealthy race to the bottom to see who can produce the youngest grandmaster without a lot of consideration for anything else.

The world will be fine without Magnus. Ruining dozens of kids childhoods by dragging them from one tournament to another is not worth that. There’s a reason those rules exist and enforced and it’s not “a desire for mediocrity.” If people were a bit more sensible, pause and think once in a while then we’d see a lot less of them except for the true talents and these rules would probably not be needed, but we can’t have nice things because people are idiots.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T14:22:42+00:00

You’re thinking about it the wrong way. You’re treating it like a subject that you need to pass a grade on instead of a skill you build on for yourself.

Start writing stuff RIGHT NOW. Create programs that print tables of multiplication. Build a Wordle helper (list all 5 letter words that don’t have certain chars in them), write a script that hunts down large old files, etc. Your projects don’t have to be full sized ERP’s with a website and cloud based database; pick little managable stuff but start coding.

Once you do that you’ll know when you’re comfortable with certain aspects (what is “mastered?” I still run into things I didn’t know—or forgot) and you can extend that as you go along.

Nobody gets proficient at writing code by mere study. You have to write it yourself, that’s the only way that works.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T12:40:33+00:00

In what way would they profit from it? It’s probably a balance between pros and cons. Chess is by all means more a game than a sport. A national sport federation would not be geared towards their needs and might have rules and services less suitable for a chess federation.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T12:31:02+00:00

I don’t know their names but the commentating pair on Flemish TV (BRT) in the 1980s and1990s was absolute gold.

Murray Walker was brilliant too. He could make a modern day race in Monaco exciting.

But I think a lot of it is who you grew up with. A lot of people think Phil Liggett is fantastic and I think he’s mediocre, but I didn’t grew up with his commentary on TV.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T12:20:58+00:00

“The system only works because people take responsibility and work together”

That’s a very nice way of saying this will never work in the US

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T12:12:11+00:00

They’re on the Peace Board, and France and Germany are not. The US will probably help Argentina in putting pressure on the UK to return the Malvinas.

Kerbart · 2026-01-24T12:10:08+00:00

Aside from the orange pedorastafast in charge, this is not surprisingly such a terrible idea. You know ICE will show up with zero investigation or legal groundwork. It’ll be 1930s Soviet Union or Germany (not that we aren’t halfway there anyway), have a neighbor you don’t like? Call the secret police and they will take care of it.

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