For those wondering why NATO exists and why countries want to join the defensive alliance.

A related but separate issue is that lichess blogs get ridiculously large numbers of readers and there’s really no good reason to keep using nazi-promoting sites like Substack for that purpose.

Probably just means bsky is having a few problems and you should ignore it :-)

No, it's true if 20 is the average number of PhDs generated by professorial positions. If you don't like the number 20, please suggest your own, but unless it's 1, then there will still be an excess of candidates over positions.

That's a big number but a win's a win and I think I can see white picking up a pawn or two quite quickly. Meanwhile black's kingside majority probably isn't going anywhere. My opponents would not resign at this point however!

Oh I reckon it's winning

I think it's a very common issue that there's often money for projects but never money for maintenance. No-one ever gets promoted or kudos for merely maintaining something.

I'd choose white, Ba4 and Re7 coming. Rde1 and/or Ra7 etc. The b file has no entry for black and the extra pawns don't look that good. Mind you I'm a patzer.

Well the difference between 5% and 1% is large in some ways but the difference between 95% and 99% not so much. And we all know what to say to a history PhD with a job <insert your own punchline here>

That one’s easy enough for even me to spot :-)

I hope your field is open and honest about the fact that a PhD in history is not primarily an avenue into become a history professor and never has been. That's not to say it isn't worth doing (says a maths PhD who also left the university sector).

If every prof supervises a total of 20 phds through their career then 95% of them have to do something other than become a prof in that field. That's true for all subjects and all times other than possibly during a (necessarily brief) period of exponential growth.

A few classical draws and a blitz tiebreak (whatever format) is pretty crap too. I mean, WC was a fun contest but no-one thinks the winner was the best player.

"KO" by itself isn't a format, what design of KO (number of games, tiebreak...)? Do you think it would be possible to have an "armageddon" classical tie-break, ie one player gets 90+30 with black and draw odds and the other bids for white with a smaller initial time?

Yes is winning on 58%

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.

Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Might have been more polite to wait until you’d finished :-)

'Unhinged' and 'disgraceful': Hillary Clinton lambasts Trump’s vulgar social posts Former Secretary of State weighs in on the president's latest social media posts, including an overnight post portraying him as Jesus. Clinton also discusses the war in Iran and how allies feel about ...

Trump has become fully unhinged and we should talk about it.

www.ms.now/morning-joe/...

I don't think that's a UK vs USA thing. It's quite acceptable to use quite in either sense in UK english (IMO).

The Scientology building in milan

Passed the Scientology building on the way to a parkrun in Milan this morning. This evangelising cult with thousands of obsessive adherents worldwide was started in bushy park in London and arranges free, friendly 5k events every Saturday.

It's luck because Bayesianism.

I'm baffled as to how any light could have escaped her density

Well….to be fair, a party to the left of the current Labour Party has topped the polls plenty of times…probably including every single time the Labour Party has topped the polls in British history :-)

LOL I had trouble even finding a way black could lose there.

Replying to an attempted Chinese domain name registration scam with "Frank Lee my dear, I don't give a damn"

Childish I know.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.

Yes I believe so. So it’s a subtle difference that quite probably undermines a whole lot of opening theory…

But it’s not because castling is different! (I also got this wrong initially)

Sounds more like an episode of The IT Crowd!

Tradwife movement ‘attracts men who are hostile to women’ The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"

Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...