War Room Lounge v139: Trump has an IQ of at least 140 because he went to Wharton

[tonni]

*Toronto

That's in Canada Proko

 

[Prokofievian]

The puzzles have gotten more interesting and like you said, one move tends to be the only way to win or even keep an advantage. Since the puzzles have leveled up, only a few have been the most straightforward tactics from the start, and most require at least a somewhat clever move to set up the easy (or hard) combination.

The level that you're at now is, IMO, the best level to practice tactics. As you level up, and you will level up, the depth and trickiness of the problems becomes totally impractical.

...that being said, it sure would be sweet to hit 2500 someday.

 

[Prokofievian]

That's in Canada Proko

Is it really though? They're just a little too far south for my tastes.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

A lot of the white identity politics come out of Canada.

Do you have an example ?

 

[tonni]

Do you have an example ?

Lauren Southern and Square Egg.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

@Prokofievian after nosediving to an 1180 puzzle rating a few weeks ago, I'm up to ~1630.

I get jammed up at around 1000 , I see a good move and have trouble moving off of it to see the best move , it's quite frustrating

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

Lauren Southern and Square Egg.

Lol , they are virtually unknown up here , they find an audience to the south , that's like blaming us for Nickelback , it's not our fault Americans like shitty music

 

[tonni]

Lol , they are virtually unknown up here , they find an audience to the south , that's like blaming us for Nickelback , it's not our fault Americans like shitty music

Jordan Peterson?

 

[senri]

Jordan Peterson?

He is rejuvenating...

 

[Prokofievian]

Jordan Peterson?

Clean your room bucko, or else the marxists will getcha!

 

[tonni]

Clean your room bucko, or else the marxists will getcha!

 

[lsa]

I think you're wrong about Canadians, but in any case the reason there doesn't seem to be that many racists here is exactly because of decent moderation.

LOL " Canadians"

 

[BEER]

Lol , they are virtually unknown up here , they find an audience to the south , that's like blaming us for Nickelback , it's not our fault Americans like shitty music

I'm 90% sure the popularity of Nickelback is a psyop.

 

[tonni]

He is rejuvenating...

No he isn't! Shut up Senri!

 

[lsa]

wait is Kanye running forreal?

this late in the game?

Trump winning is a lock now.

'I'm the greatest human artist of all time'

He will soon be the greatest human president of all time

 

[Trotsky]

Why is the country still segregated geographically and institutionally? Seems like something that would have been dealt with in the last 50 years.

It's very complicated, obviously. There are a lot of issues at play.

If you're interested, I would highly recommend reading this book:

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation—the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments—that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.

Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as "brilliant" (The Atlantic), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning, as millions of African Americans moved in a great historical migration from the south to the north.

As Jane Jacobs established in her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, it was the deeply flawed urban planning of the 1950s that created many of the impoverished neighborhoods we know. Now, Rothstein expands our understanding of this history, showing how government policies led to the creation of officially segregated public housing and the demolition of previously integrated neighborhoods. While urban areas rapidly deteriorated, the great American suburbanization of the post–World War II years was spurred on by federal subsidies for builders on the condition that no homes be sold to African Americans. Finally, Rothstein shows how police and prosecutors brutally upheld these standards by supporting violent resistance to black families in white neighborhoods.

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited future discrimination but did nothing to reverse residential patterns that had become deeply embedded. Yet recent outbursts of violence in cities like Baltimore, Ferguson, and Minneapolis show us precisely how the legacy of these earlier eras contributes to persistent racial unrest. “The American landscape will never look the same to readers of this important book” (Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund), as Rothstein’s invaluable examination shows that only by relearning this history can we finally pave the way for the nation to remedy its unconstitutional past.

 

[tonni]

LOL " Canadians"

Why are you mocking me?

 

[lsa]

Why are you mocking me?

You identify as Canadian now?

 

[Anung Un Rama]

 

[Fawlty]

I get jammed up at around 1000 , I see a good move and have trouble moving off of it to see the best move , it's quite frustrating

Some days I have full-on puzzle retardation. Like I can't see ahead at all. Same with blitz games. I'm only 1000 rated at the 10-minute time control. Definitely have a better understanding of chess than that, but over the board I'm not seeing things.