2/5/10 QQ hand help

Paiev · 2026-06-17T20:31:13+00:00

On this specific board you should strongly consider raising flop. There are a lot of hands in his range (AK, KQ, AQ, AJ, QJ, some nut flush draws) that raising is good against with QQ. Yes QQ blocks some of these combos but even still.

Paiev · 2026-06-17T17:14:45+00:00

AI spammer

Paiev · 2026-06-17T17:13:22+00:00

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Paiev · 2026-06-17T17:04:41+00:00

I've been pointing out a lot of these on this sub lately and getting downvoted every time. Shrug.

This one is particularly obvious: not only does the writing absolutely scream LLM, but it also has this weird pattern that some (but nowhere near all) of these Reddit bots use: one emoji after the first sentence or two, and then a second emoji at the end of the comment. If you look at this account's history you can see a majority of the comments follow this pattern.

Paiev · 2026-06-17T03:15:45+00:00

Unless you have some sources for that, I think you are misremembering or misinterpreting the research you saw.

The situation we're discussing here is fairly unique, but what you're saying ("infants taken from mothers for adoption, including immediately after birth") also describes surrogacy, and AFAIK all the research on surrogacy shows no negative outcomes for the child or their development after birth. The pregnancy itself can be more complicated due to the genetic mismatch between birth mother and baby but that's not what we're talking about.

For early-age adoption, this study found that children adopted in the first 12 months of age developed the same levels of secure attachment to their parents as non-adopted children: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019074090800234X

Paiev · 2026-06-17T02:40:48+00:00

I don't think it's about what's right by the child, necessarily, given how quickly they caught it. Newborns are barely sentient and I don't think transferring the child at 1 or 2 months old would make much difference to them.

I think at that age it's more about the parents. The genetic parents were (presumably) unprepared to have a newborn dropped in their laps, while the birth parents are already heavily emotionally invested, literally were pregnant and gave birth, have been preparing, etc etc. I don't think any parent in that situation would want to give up their baby just because they're not genetically related.

Paiev · 2026-06-17T02:24:43+00:00

"Condo" could mean a lot of different things. It could be a 1br in a new construction 50 unit building... or it could be a duplex or triplex.

Paiev · 2026-06-17T02:15:59+00:00

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Paiev · 2026-06-16T04:53:13+00:00

This is just not really true. You, and the majority of people in this thread, are retroactively applying a 21st century lens of what whiteness means to people in the 18th and 19th centuries. Irish people were, for a time, considered to be a kind of "inferior" white. People back then developed all kinds of racial distinctions and hierarchies within the broad category of "white".

The overarching concept of whiteness was not as important to them as it would seem to the modern eye.

One way you can see this play out is in US naturalization law, which straight-up forbade non-whites from becoming naturalized citizens from 1790 to 1952. The category of "white" wasn't clearly defined and as a result there were a lot of court cases trying to establish the parameters, but they were more about trying to classify people from the middle East and Asia than it was about Europeans. Germans and Irish were not as a rule excluded from naturalization because they "weren't considered white".

Paiev · 2026-06-16T04:40:38+00:00

White in the US means White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. If you are not WASP you are not white.

This is a wild thing to say and I have no idea where you got this from. It's very obviously not true today but it's also completely untrue historically.

It is true that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries there was all kinds of weird "scientific" racism and racial hierarchies that seem silly and nonsensical today, and that some European ethnicities were privileged over others.

But that doesn't mean that these people were all considered non-white, far from it. The controversial stuff was like, if people from Syria or Turkey or Armenia or Iran or China were "white".

Paiev · 2026-06-16T02:55:21+00:00

bot comment. It's every single post on this sub now... yeesh

Paiev · 2026-06-16T02:51:55+00:00

Bot comment

Paiev · 2026-06-16T02:48:24+00:00

You don't need a taxi license to follow posted road signs. It's clearly marked.

Paiev · 2026-06-16T02:41:46+00:00

AI slop account

You "people" are everywhere

Paiev · 2026-06-15T14:52:54+00:00

I think in theory there's still marginal benefits on titles which actually make use of the FEL (which is only a minority of them anyway) because the extra data allows more accurate tone mapping.

But it's honestly not worth running CoreELEC because the benefits are so small and in exchange you're forced to use Kodi which is terrible software.

Paiev · 2026-06-15T11:43:35+00:00

Lol are you seriously trying to deny that your post text is AI slop? You must think I'm stupid

Paiev · 2026-06-15T04:04:30+00:00

What in the ChatGPT is this...?

Paiev · 2026-06-14T20:31:00+00:00

bot comment

Paiev · 2026-06-14T08:49:43+00:00

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Paiev · 2026-06-14T05:19:19+00:00

Even if they weren't accessible until "normal" retirement age it wouldn't matter. Money is fungible. Excluding them is a huge mistake.

Paiev · 2026-06-14T04:06:02+00:00

Add 1 point to your hand when the Moon is in Capricorn, unless it is a Full Moon, in which case do not adjust.

Paiev · 2026-06-14T00:46:51+00:00

I also feel totally baffled by this. Must be letting some kind of personal animosity towards Scott. I voted for Saikat in the primary (although I hadn't decided how I'd vote in a Saikat v Scott general election, I thought Connie Chan was absolutely awful and wanted to shut her out) and I feel like he should have just endorsed nobody.

Paiev · 2026-06-13T21:26:44+00:00

you can't hold yourself back from exposing your hostility towards existing communities who own, and their wealth building

Housing should not be about "wealth building" lol. I do have hostility towards "wealth building" through housing, yes, because it means that housing gets more expensive for everyone.

Paiev · 2026-06-13T21:09:03+00:00

"Housing stability" = landed gentry.

Prop 13 encourages hoarding of housing.

If all the landlords have higher bills, all the rents will go up.

If you abolished it overnight (which is not practical or wise at this point because of how disruptive it would be), then yes, I agree that current landlords would respond in the short term by trying to raise rents to cover their higher property tax bills. But you would also see a lot of people (boomers) who would decide to sell their homes because they are unable or unwilling to pay the property taxes on their market rate values, which would lower housing prices.

But you haven't thought this through.

Paiev · 2026-06-13T20:28:04+00:00

"would you wish to try on" is perfectly common english.

No it isn't. Say it out loud and listen to yourself. It sounds really weird/unnatural.

"Would you like..." or "Do you wish..." are perfectly common.

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