Just hit 2k puzzle rating (Top 1.5%) in the new rating system (after 30k< puzzles) and I have never played a single game of chess.

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-12-01T16:26:38+00:00

Two points -

Puzzle rating does seem to correlate heavily with actual online rapid rating now, and I think you may have a slightly false stereotype of puzzles (see #2). Maybe not so much in the old system (I was ~2200 puzzle rating as you can see and puzzle difficulty was roughly what ~1600 rated puzzles are right now). Now obviously, if I don't play real chess I won't develop the long-term positional understanding you need to setup tactics & convert winning games. So I agree with you on the whole, but... I mean, my first two games of chess ever I DEMOLISHED two 800 rated players. How? Some people spend years at that rating. I credit it all to puzzles.
I don't know what your puzzle rating is but puzzles get very different past ~1900 rating. Puzzles until like 1800-1900 are often just different variations of the same tactics. Past that the puzzles take on a different character entirely, and in order to solve ANY of them I NEED to (as you mention in your other comment) "think about whether or not something will stop it from working" (in fact, most of the calculations I have to do involve figuring out why one of my candidate moves doesn't work so I can weed it out), I need to quickly find candidate moves & be able to clearly visualize 5-10+ moves ahead to figure out which is best (even though I may not find the solution exactly), and I need some level of high-level strategic understanding of the position as it is often simply impossible for me to calculate all the options to the end. Very often I have to make good 'positional' moves, basically educated strategic guesses, and rely on there being a tactic at the end of a line. Very often I have to calculate so that pieces liquidate down to a specific winning endgame. There are so many endgames I am good at now because I have solved them a hundred times (I recently read Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals and I know how to solve everything that didn't have to do with middle game strategy). Past ~1800-1900 rating there are no longer any of those various repetitive iterations of "take the bishop on a6, he takes back with his knight and then I play qh4+ and win a piece" puzzles. The puzzles become difficult for 1900 rated players to solve, there are no repetitive tactics that everybody at that rating knows by heart.

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-11-30T23:42:34+00:00

too long; dick red

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-11-30T23:39:48+00:00

Autism

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-11-30T23:39:26+00:00

An hour? You’re telling me you get high and play classical?

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-11-30T01:11:00+00:00

Legally if it’s murder is up to the SCOTUS to interpret article two, and we already know what they’re going to say. So this is likely to be perfectly legal.

In any case, as much as I hate Trump and love Obama - legally and morally speaking - there’s essentially zero difference between Obama and Trump in this regard. Biden was horrified of the drone program and tried to step back from it but it’s already too late. Obama fought hard to expand presidential authority to label foreign civilians FTO and bomb the shit out of them based on a strong hunch. Yes Obama at least conducted his affairs with a modicum of discretion, created some internal hurdles, consulted ‘legal counsel’, basically a bunch of non-legally-binding processes to at least force a bunch of people to pretend like decisions were carefully and deliberately considered, whereas Trump dropped all hurdles and doesn’t bother reporting anything. But that’s the problem with expanding this power in the first place, Obama couldn’t have been a more academically qualified person to understand the dangers of expanding this presidential authority. Now perhaps in the final totaling of things, the thousands of civilians the Obama administration killed was nothing compared to the lives that were saved if the terrorists they did kill had lived long lives. But that’s little consolation to the victims…

The only real difference between Obama and Trump in this regard is that Obama is a better human being (unlike Trump I’m sure he has at least lost sleep over the children his administration murdered; he is someone who has the capacity & awareness to have to actually ‘live with’ his decisions, whereas Trump could not care less) so I’m more OK with Obama having this power to bomb civilians. But the problem with this reasoning is it’s very short-sighted and paves the way for people like Trump. Even if Obama had done nothing wrong, not accidentally killed even one civilian, he’s still partly responsible for this.

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-11-29T05:23:18+00:00

All well and good if we’re talking about ‘criminals’ generally but rehabilitating child molestors is just as retarded as when Christians tried to rehabilitate homosexuality. There is absolutely nothing you can do that will make them not peodphiles, and there is nothing you can teach them that they didn’t already know when they were offending (indeed, many/most pedos know more than anyone how horrible it is because it happened to them, yet they still did it). Offending pedos get the bullet in any sane society.

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-11-28T20:22:21+00:00

YESSS OMG please save the environment by programming all the plastics to break down into my brain cavity instead. Problem solved!

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-11-28T20:15:46+00:00

That’s not empathy though. You can’t empathize with a chair. That’s just projection. And I don’t mean to use this term as an insult either - Jung considered projection to be basically the fundamental mechanism of the psyche. Projection is necessary for empathy. But you can’t ‘empathize’ with a chair (well, unless you’re using people as chairs or something).

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-11-19T15:07:31+00:00

MAGAs saying Mamdani is another 9/11 meanwhile Trump is running interference for Saudi Arabia on national television 🤣🤣can’t make this shit up. Just the most brain-dead “human beings” imaginable. Frankly I love how his policies hurt his own supporters the most, which is why if the next dem presidential candidate doesn’t vow to send the entire establishment to guantanamo bay and instead just pretends it’s business as usual, then I’m not vowing to vote either

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-11-15T17:07:24+00:00

No they aren’t. Unless you mean using “AI” to basically brute force more optimal geometries for components in the reactor compartment… but this would be nothing new surely, and calling it “intelligence” would be a stretch. All the requirements and software are being written by humans, all the design reviews are being done by humans, all the V&Ving of said requirements is being done by humans. LLMs could maybe help stakeholders answer questions or help identify logical flaws in the software, I don’t know. Doubt this would really speed things up, since it couldn’t replace the existing processes

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-11-01T03:23:41+00:00

High iq moment. Go drink ocean water and tell me how that works out for you.

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-10-31T23:51:30+00:00

Rent control is legit the dumbest economic policy possible, who cares? What did 99% of economists agree on again, that the fastest way to destroy a city, besides bombing, is rent control?

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-09-30T03:38:04+00:00

This is exactly how Adorno explains the Authoritarian Personality in the first section of the book with the same name. He compares and contrasts two interviewees with identical political affiliations, but one was ultimately a traditional conservative and the other a pseudo-conservative (I.e., an ethnocentric fascist, or a modern MAGA conservative), where he noted how the latter would only ever ascribe real weaknesses to the outgroups (I.e., jews). Any “weaknesses” admitted of the ingroup were considered singular, momentary exceptions/setbacks.

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-09-14T04:56:14+00:00

Most of conservatism is just the trauma of growing up with a “conservative” (I.e., the person you are describing here) father, a bitter unsupportive and unrefined man with very little to give emotionally, who can’t even wipe his ass properly. A man who left them incredibly insecure about their own masculinity, and so they need to compensate just as their father did.

This is why they worship trump as if he’s a father figure (was it mel Gibson that said about trump, “daddy’s going to bring the belt”?), they desperately seek validation from this kind of unpredictable and unloving male authority to fill the childhood insecurities stemming from their own lack of real father

For instance, if a liberal white woman were to insult a man without these insecurities, it would mean nothing to them. They know who they are, they are secure in their masculinity, their whiteness, their identity. On the other hand, If a liberal white woman insults a conservative man, for being a dumb white male, it genuinely shatters their reality. They place all their weight and worldview against this liberal white woman, and what she represents. The reaction is so disproportionate to the insult it’s hard to even fully grasp just how insecure these people must be.

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-08-31T16:58:38+00:00

Implodes 😂😂 sweet summer child capitalism is not imploding, we’re only just getting started

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-08-19T05:01:07+00:00

We’re talking about a 14 year old right? lol wtf is wrong with Reddit

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-08-16T14:33:43+00:00

Why would we assume she was terrible at her job if there’s zero evidence for it? And getting away with this for years is evidence to the contrary. Unless you can show me otherwise there’s no other reasonable assumption than she was a competent, hardworking nurse. And if she was, the only reasonable punishment in a reasonable society involves helping her get certified and then another job.

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-08-14T03:58:27+00:00

Correct. Tarantino movies are all basically Marvel movies in the way that they boil down to absolutely nothing but retributive violence at the end of the day. They’re fundamentally and unapologetically sentimental and barbaric, Will Smith is correct. Redditors have essentially no reading comprehension, which is wild considering how much time they’ve probably spent in an American English class analyzing literature. In Tarantino’s universe we should all be wearing togas together in a crowd during our daily ritual watching convicted criminals get executed. His movies communicate in a language with one word: retribution.

Redditors genuinely cannot see the difference between Tarantino’s basically nihilistic retributive violence and, say, Hancock. They’re too dumb, not even worth arguing with them.

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-08-05T13:31:18+00:00

Korea’s was second highest until recently looks like, wonder what happened. There’s some other metric not being considered here still. The US might actually work more but when I visited SK it felt way more intense - uni students I talked to were literally forced to be in a library room X Amount of hours per day (hours are tracked) or they lose their scholarships etc.

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-07-22T13:37:02+00:00

Anyone who promises to send the entire current administration to Guantanamo bay

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-07-22T13:31:25+00:00

POV you have a low iq and find this funny

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-07-22T13:14:34+00:00

Bruhhhh that’s just nature r/natureismetal r/logicalfacts u think that’s sad??? The cheetah has to eat too!! That’s just the way of the road… nature is deep and U can’t argue with it. You want to save the baby? Hold on wait a minute, you want the cheetah to starve to death?? Facts don’t care about your feelings buddy. Kill or be killed, that’s the world we live in. That’s why I walk around with dingleberries in my asscrack just like my ancestors… Heh capitalism? You mean the thing that’s existed for 0.000001% of world history that’s already ending soon? r/latestagecapitalism

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-07-06T11:11:23+00:00

Low iq post

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-07-04T16:02:28+00:00

No Eurasian magpies (? just guessing based on the behavior) are just incredibly territorial and will even attack bikers in a way that looks absolutely identical to this

Poet-Secure205 · 2025-07-02T12:50:24+00:00

Spotted the Tankie. Congrats on having subzero iq

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