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    Liberalism is failing

    That wasn't because of vaccine mandates. It was the omicron variant that did it for us mostly (gave most of the unvaccinated natural immunity if they hadn't already). Plenty of countries didn't mandate vaccines and it was the same story there. So sars-cov-2 probably isn't the best argument for...
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    Liberalism is failing

    Sars-cov-2 vs liberalism One challenge for liberal systems is how to deal with problems that are more collective in nature. In the case of sars-cov-2 some countries contained the spread relying on very draconian measures such as lockdowns and this causes a lot of debate in western liberal...
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    Liberalism is failing

    'liberal' democracy and rights Often in 'liberal' democracy attempts are made to limit the scope of what the government is allowed to do but that cannot really be enforced. O Fundamentally you need the voters themselves to respect the rights of others but as we have seen that tends to not...
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    Liberalism is failing

    Both ideologies have the same roots. Both promote liberalism (with limitations) and feminism. But young males tend to be stupid (not that other groups are much smarter if smarter at all) so they still support people like Trump because of optics. Trump comes off as someone very much opposed to...
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    Liberalism is failing

    Trans rights post liberalism Instead of framing transitioning merely as something people have the right to do we need to argue for it based on benefits for the individuals pursuing it and benefits to society as a whole. You can for example justify allowing MtF transitions with "we have an...
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    Liberalism is failing

    Failing to fulfill human needs While many liberal democracies do fine in terms of getting decent GDP figures (mainly thanks to capitalism) they tend to utterly fail when it comes to actually meeting the real biological desires people have...
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    Liberalism is failing

    Societal survival of the fittest A great example of liberalism not working out too great is the Ukrainian effort to defend themselves against russian aggression, despite putins military being hilariously corrupt ukraine has struggled a lot and has as of late gradually lost more and more land...
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    Liberalism is failing

    "my body, my choice" This used to be the norm (except for people viewed as mentally ill) but it was quickly abandoned during covid-19 in most so called liberal countries in order to try to force people to get vaccinated. Then the same people who were in favor of vaccine mandates got upset when...
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    Liberalism is failing

    Over the years it has been increasingly clear to me that liberalism in general (not just specific forms of it) is doomed. I used to assume that other people could be trusted to make important decisions but increasingly it's clear that it simply isn't like that. Sure if people in general were...
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    The Theory of Soviet Skepticism: Why Russia Refused Peace with Hitler

    They still did the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact which hitler broke further illustrating how he couldn't be trusted. We do see something similar now with russia where nobody in the right mind trust them to uphold any peace agreement after they flagrantly violated past ones. Still there are plenty of...
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    9x10 chess with centaurs

    Me vs fairy stockfish Fairy stockfish is actually stronger than most humans even at depth set to 1 (lowest possible difficulty searth depth) and i probably tried over 10 times before finally beating it. Later i challanged Fairy Stockfish again but at 1000 nodes per move, that's a lot harder...
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    9x10 chess with centaurs

    10 billion nodes / move test Surely now we will stop seeing black wins, right? d3d5 f8f7 a3a5 e8e6 c3c4 b8b7 i3i5 c8c6 f3f5 e6f5 d5c6 d9b8 c6b7 g9b4 b1c3 a8b7 c2f5 a9a5 a2a5 b4a5 b3b4 a5b4 g2b7 b10d9 a1a10 b8a10 g3g4 b4f8 h1g3 h9g7 d1b3 f9e8 f5c2 h10f9 b2d3 a10b8 i5i6 b9c7 c1b2 d8d6 h3h5 c10b9...
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    Symmetric 8x8 chess

    Fairy Stockfish versions While i did get a version working with fairy stockfish i did not find any way to make the promotion system like i wanted. [8x8symmetricw:chess] maxRank = 8 maxFile = 8 centaur = c archbishop = a chancellor = h amazon = w nmoverule = 50 customPiece1 = p:fmWrmWfcFrbcF...
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    Awesome card games

    Cardchess6 full fusion This is a card game inspired by chess and the Yu-Gi-Oh anime. In this game you take turns doing one of the following 0. Attacking a card (you can use one or more cards to attack with) 1. Moving one card 1 step in the attack direction 2. Adding a new card (from your hand)...
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    Private trackers

    Super hard to join trackers, are any of them actually good? Note that PTP is not actually super-hard to join, i myself was offered a user invite to it in the past (which i turned down of course) and i should be able to join it officially at some point if i want to (i basically never watch movies...
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    9x10 chess with centaurs

    Why a 250-move rule without exceptions is fine for human games Of course you should still be able to claim draw if you only have a king left and your opponent lacks material to checkmate you but that will very rarely come into play with real matches. That however is not actually an exception to...
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    10x8 chess variants

    10x8 archbishop Settings used: [10x8archbishop:chess] doubleStepRank = 2 maxRank = 8 maxFile = 10 promotionRank = 8 centaur = c archbishop = a chancellor = h promotionPieceTypes = acqh nMoveRule = 100 stalemateValue = win startFen = rnbaqkcbnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBAQKCBNR w - -...
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    10x8 chess variants

    One particularly well-tested variant is trice chess aka gothic chess. https://gothicchess.info/ This game should be played with a 100-move rule, not 50-move rule.
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    9x10 chess with centaurs

    Forcing early draw instead of doing 250 moves Turns out we don't actually need to have a special rule for when checkmate is no longer feasible, you can force your opponent to repeat moves way before that if they only have the king left. [9x10endgame57:chess] doubleStepRank = 3 maxRank = 10...
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    9x10 chess with centaurs

    100 million nodes / move test nmoverule = 250 (regardless of material) 1 million nodes/move if niether player has any more material than a single knight or a single bishop or two bishops confined to the same color (does not have to be set to that right away). f3f5 d8d6 c3c4 i8i6 i3i5 e8e6 f5e6...
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