You’d call most people who play chess “absolute beginners”. Most people would hang their king if they could and would never remember the stalemate rule until it was too late.

That’s only true because Kings can’t move into check. This is an unnecessary rule that, like stalemate, makes little difference to high level players, but is a bad rule for low level players.

They are an important part of the game, but they aren’t a good twist. If you got rid of stalemate, then the losing player would just resign. Nothing wrong with that in a game that’s effectively over.

There’s a whole level of players who simply weren’t thinking about stalemate at the moment. They know the rule, they just weren’t thinking. Trapping the king so he can’t move and nothing can be done should be a win.

The first part of your comment doesn’t justify the second part. But it also isn’t true that it rarely happens randomly. It rarely happens randomly in high-ranked games. Bad rules like stalemate have a much stronger effect on low ranked games, which is what most people play.

Stupidest rule in chess.

Scare them with a threat of Medicare cuts.

The first rule of the road is “right-of-way won’t help you when you’re dead”.

“Lefty Loosey righty tighty”

One arrow points up to the left, one points down to the left.

Washington’s roads could degrade significantly and still be better than all its neighbors.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DIsOHWkUfkg&t=9s&pp=2AEJkAIB

Are you kidding? One of the big attractions of Trump is to prove the shittiest white man can beat a qualified black woman.

I guess I don’t know. Whenever something tempts me to R, I quickly find that Python’s got a good-enough solution.

Best scientific packages in the open source by far, a library for everything, everybody knows it. Works on all kinds of systems. Available by default in many OSs.

You might not like it, but you can’t leave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Varah

Here’s the story from 1953

Legend is the first suicide hotline was created after a girl killed herself because she had her first period.

People kill themselves for lots of reasons, but some of those reasons are just ignorance. I feel certain any suicide hotline could have helped her out if she’d called one.

I can buy that. I live in the North West and this description doesn’t fit MAGA here.

He’s white, Christian, and male. That’s a about where the similarity ends.

He’s a professional making good money, drives a nice car has a nice family, never watched NASCAR or wrestling, doesn’t care about sports, went to college, comes from a line of immigrants who “made it” in America by the sweat of their own brow which is a source of pride, without even a tangential connection to slavery, and weirdest, hated Trump. He thought Trump was disgusting in 2015. Now won’t hear a bad word about him.

Exactly. If anything, the anti-trump media “bubbles” are going easy on the guy.

I hear what they say I still don’t understand them.

There’s some truth to this, but if you take the effort to break out of your media bubble, to find original sources, to read documentary evidence, indictments, transcripts.

To go the other direction and track down evidence for Trump’s accusations against others,

the guy comes off even worse.