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hsmagazine254 · 1 year ago

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Embracing Life's Difficulties - Positive Reflection Of The Week

Transforming Adversity Into Opportunities For Growth And Resilience – Article by Shahwana Life is an unpredictable journey filled with ups and downs, challenges, and triumphs. While we all cherish the joyful moments, it’s the difficulties and obstacles that often define our character and pave the way for personal growth and resilience. In this article, we will explore the importance of embracing…

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thepersonalwords · 10 months ago

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Each of us wages a private battle to thrive. Whenever a person fully immerses oneself in life’s aromatic flower garden of pleasures and encounters life’s warship of armor-plated rigors, they blend and bend to make reasonable accommodations for surviving. Scripted and unscripted encounters with superior militant forces bruise us mightily and eventually cut us to the core. Every person’s life contains a minefield of obstacles that function as potential barriers to achieving our ultimate manifestation. The expended labor of continuously hefting oneself over one contentious hurdle after another is what leads a conscientious person onto the path of needing to write in order to create emotional poultices to ameliorate painful wounds.

Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

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dinosaurwithablog · 3 months ago

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Mr. T always seems to play a very tough guy. I wouldn't want to mess with him. In real life, Mr. T helps kids every chance he gets. Here are some photos of him and the kids he helps in a hospital that he visited. He does that a lot. He does a lot for kids everywhere. He always makes time for them and makes them laugh. He tells them things to encourage them to do well. I love Mr. T!! ❤️

Look at all those smiles from those very sick kids. I love Mr. T for making those kids happy as they face adversity. He's a true hero and a great man.

I wonder if those kids keep those casts. I know that I would 😁😍 We can all learn a valuable lesson from Mr T 😁😍

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itsalwaysforyou · 5 months ago

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so i started sertraline (i think americans call it zoloft??) very recently & i’m having quite a social week so i’ve been researching if i can drink whilst taking it.

and the nhs website says that you CAN, but it’s wise to wait a while after you start the meds so you can differentiate side effects.

whereas all the american websites are like IF YOU DRINK ON SERTRALINE YOU WILL DIE. YOUR HEART WILL EXPLODE. YOUR BLOOD WILL BOIL.

so i drank a cider tonight,

#save me nhs website save me……..#it is interesting what the difference between responses is #like is it a difference between drinking culture? healthcare systems? the drug itself?#the poor person writing the webpage like …..i cant tell all these people they can’t drink that’s too cruel. have a little drink as a treat #IN FAIRNESS the nhs site said that it could make you sleepy. and boy has it made me sleepy #i do feel the same heavyish fuzziness you get whilst drunk. like i am finding it slightly harder to concentrate #but yet again that could just be the drug #ANYWAY. nhs website you better fucking be right #also i didn’t realise sertraline was zoloft this whole time. i always see about it in tik toks #is it different? or is zoloft the company name? idk. i’ve learned many things tonight #oh ALSO i want to clarify i’m exaggerating what the usa sites say #they do generally discourage you from drinking on meds bc it can cause adverse side effects #but wayyyy worse adverse side effects than the nhs mentions (feeling sleepy)

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arolesbianism · 5 months ago

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Sus quest my beloved <333333

#stars posting #the way the effect at the end is the same as when talking to the head housemaiden. tee hee.#ohhhh siffrin. picks them up and throws them off a cliff #also let it be known that the act 4 odile friendquest dialogue is everything to me as well #its delightful to me how bitter they are #I cant wait to watch it blow up #also I love how odile goes abt confronting sif abt it #because like. in act 6 I feel like odile probably assumes she was harsher abt it than she actually was #like she wasnt necessarily gentle but she didnt feel like. angry either. just upset. reasonably so #like the thing that gets me abt her speculation is when shes speculating that they might have lost to the kind before #and just like. that sticks with me so hard. even with sif actively lying to her face she doesn't assume that theyre trying to sabotage them #combined with everything else she says during the whole questline it just. feels like she truly does want siffrin to just talk to her.#with her frustration coming from him just blatantly refusing to despite how obviously super serious of an issue this is #it's always been my favorite party sub quest I love odile I am rotating her in my mind #especially in combination with her act 6 dialogue relating to it #and her act 6 dialogue in general #just like aughhhhh #it feels like to me that she assumes shes worse than she is and thats so fascinating to me combined with the rest of her character #and its like. what is this woman's deal. girlie had stalkers plural. what has your life been like.#and and! her dialogue with the wizard kid where she expressed that it feels nice to be old!! augh!!!#it just reads so much like a character whos already been through the worst period of their life and made it to the other side #and generally speaking she does seem fairly happy and comfortable with herself! but it's a learned thing!#and its just like oughhhhh what if I cried actually. over a backstory that is like 90% just pure speculation on my part #like her adversion to touch. combined with everything else. head in hands.#isat spoilers

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a-journey-to-true-self · 10 months ago

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Lessons from Surah Al-Qalam: A Deep Dive into Divine Justice and Human Conduct

Surah Al-Qalam, the 68th chapter of the Quran, serves as a profound reminder of the principles of divine justice and human morality. This Surah, revealed in Mecca, addresses both the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the disbelievers, offering lessons that are relevant to all of humanity. Here, we explore key themes and lessons from the Surah that guide Muslims towards righteousness and…

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pastel-rights · 1 year ago

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And then I finally end it off with some doodles of them… they make me feel things.

#ringmaster doodles #sona art #( they’re very much the theme of. love in the face of the neverending march of time. )#( being immortal and knowing you will outlive the man you love because someone else deemed he unworthy of eternal life. )#( he may still have tens of thousands of years left. sure. but you know that those will go by and he’ll disappear in the blink of an eye. )#( and you’ll sit there on his death bed. wondering why did things end up like this? )#( wondering what you did wrong. and if you could have done something different. you’ll always ask yourself. )#( if he lives a life of happiness and comfort or did he live a life as gruesome and miserable as the wars on earth? but you won’t know. )#( and the more you think about it. the more you realize it. how nihilistic he was. and how he never seemed to smile even in the good times.#he always seemed to have a frown or a scowl on his face. he always seems bothered and unhappy. )#( so you wonder if it was something you did. because you know you aren’t perfect. you’re hardly good. )#( you wonder if he’s mad at you. maybe he was. but he doesn’t have the heart to stay mad. )#( and that’s love in the face of adversity. knowing that no matter how bad it gets. he loves you as you love him. )#( and you wonder why he never smiles. because he truly never does. and so you ask him. honest and true. )#( and he tells you there isn’t anything worth smiling for. nothing in this whole world. )#( but he smiles at you. it’s always small. and it’s always brief. )#( but that smile. that smile means love. )#( that hug. as flimsy as it may be. that hug means love. )#( of course. he isn’t affectionate. if anything. he detests it. he hates physical contact of any kind. you’ve noticed. )#( which is a shame. you love your hugs and your kisses and your hand holding. )#( but even if he doesn’t like it. he lets you do it. because it makes you happy. )#( and you learn that when you’re happy. he’s a little less miserable. )#( of course. not all love is equal. and not all love is fair. )#( the love from a lover and the love from the father can never equate to one another. )#( no one will love you in the same way a father or mother loves you. in the same manner. no one will ever love you the way I do. )#( because my love will remain with you. long after I disappear. )#( and as bitter as the idea of my own existence coming to an end is. knowing I did all of this for. essentially nothing. )#( that I’ve gone through all this pain and suffering and hardship just for it to all amount to nothing. for it to be fucking useless to try.#I get to die knowing that you’ll always love and be loved. and that’s enough for me… )#( … maybe there is something worth smiling for after all. )

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archietransdrews · 2 years ago

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lmao at jughead being alice's jason blossom

#new riverdales keep spawning as progressively mysterious murders inspire more and more townspeople to take up pens. or i guess cameras #anyway. THEY JASONED MY BOY. i bet that won't have any adverse narrative implications (lying)#like if we learned ONE THING FROM JASON surely it's that faking your own death -> dead for real.#you can't bait the story like that! even if you wrote it!

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visenyaism · 4 months ago

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do you have any ideas about why so many students are struggling with literacy now? I know that illiteracy and reading comprehension have been issues for years and most americans read at like a 5th grade reading level but I’m curious why it seems to be worse now (pandemic? no child left behind?)

It is everything. There’s not one answer. I could talk about this forever so instead I set a five minute timer on my phone and wrote a list of as many of the many things that are causing this on a systemic level that I could think of:

It’s parents not reading with their kids (a privilege, but some parents have that privilege to be able to do this and don’t.)

It’s youtube from birth and never being bored.

It’s phasing out phonics for sight words (memorizing without understanding sounds or meaning) in elementary schools in the early aughts.

It’s defunding public libraries that do all the community and youth outreach.

It’s NCLB and mandating standardized tests which center reading short passages as opposed to longform texts so students don’t build up the endurance or comprehension skills.

It’s NCLB preventing schools from holding students back if they lack the literacy skills to move onto the next grade because they can’t be left behind so they’re passed on.

It’s the chronic underfunding of ESL and Special Ed programs for students who need extra literacy support.

It’s the cultural devaluing of the humanities in favor of stem and business because those make more money which leads to a lot of students to completely disregard reading and writing.

It’s the learning loss from covid.

It’s covid trauma manifesting in a lot of students as learned helplessness, or an inability to “figure things out” or push through adversity to complete challenging tasks independently, especially reading difficult texts.

It’s covid normalizing cheating and copying.

It’s increasing phone use.

It’s damage to attention span exacerbated by increased phone use that leaves you without an ability to sit and be bored ever without 2-3 forms of constant stimulation.

It’s shortform video becoming the predominant form of social media content as opposed to anything text-based.

It’s starting to also be generative AI.

It’s the book bans.

what did I miss.

#i’m not immune to any of this. I’m trying to read more. it’s good for me #I think that the literacy crisis is a manufactured result of a lot of different policy choices because it creates an exploitable underclass

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insightfultake · 14 days ago

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We Mature by Damage, Not by Age

The adage, "We mature by damage, not by age," encapsulates a profound truth about the human experience. It suggests that growth and maturity are not merely the result of the passage of time but are instead forged through the trials, tribulations, and scars we accumulate along the way. As the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." This sentiment underscores the idea that it is through adversity, not the mere ticking of the clock, that we truly come into our own.

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#maturity and experience #growth through adversity #resilience and hardship #emotional maturity #wisdom through pain #overcoming challenges #personal growth #learning from failure #strength through struggle #self-improvement #insightful take on maturity.

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trberman · 1 month ago

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Trusting God’s Purpose: Lessons from Doctrine and Covenants 3–5 in Church History

Photo by Rachel Strong on Unsplash Life has moments when everything feels uncertain, and as humans, we often wrestle with mistakes and doubt. Doctrine and Covenants 3–5 reminds us that God’s purposes remain steady, even when our own choices falter. These sections, given during pivotal moments in Joseph Smith’s history, teach us about trusting in the Lord, the power of repentance, and how divine…

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justsaying4041 · 2 months ago

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Pushing through Adversity - What it looks like and What it can do

Adversity is an inevitable part of life. Whether it comes in the form of personal challenges, professional setbacks, or health struggles, everyone will face difficulties at some point. However, how we respond to these challenges can significantly impact our growth and success. Pushing through adversity isn’t about ignoring the pain or struggle but rather embracing it and using it as fuel for…

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#Benefits of resilience in adversity #Building resilience during hardships #Examples of overcoming challenges #How to push through tough times #Lessons learned from adversity #Overcoming adversity strategies #Personal growth through adversity #Strength through adversity stories #The power of perseverance #What pushing through challenges teaches us

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gpstudios · 7 months ago

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I Am Open to the Lessons That Come from Difficult Situations: Embracing Growth Through Challenges

Embrace the lessons that come from difficult situations with an open heart and a growth mindset. Learn how challenges can lead to personal growth, resilience, and a deeper understanding of yourself. #Resilience #GrowthMindset #LearningFromChallenges

Life is filled with moments of joy, success, and fulfillment, but it also presents us with challenges, obstacles, and difficult situations. While it’s natural to want to avoid discomfort and hardship, these moments often carry valuable lessons that can lead to profound personal growth and transformation. Embracing the mindset of being open to the lessons that come from difficult situations allows…

#embracing change #Emotional Strength #Growth Mindset #Learning from Challenges #life lessons #Overcoming Adversity #Personal Growth #Resilience #self-awareness

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a-journey-to-true-self · 10 months ago

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Lessons from Surah Al-Qalam: A Deep Dive into Divine Justice and Human Conduct

Surah Al-Qalam, the 68th chapter of the Quran, serves as a profound reminder of the principles of divine justice and human morality. This Surah, revealed in Mecca, addresses both the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the disbelievers, offering lessons that are relevant to all of humanity. Here, we explore key themes and lessons from the Surah that guide Muslims towards righteousness and…

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literaryvein-reblogs · 8 months ago

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commonly confused words

accept: to receive except: with the exclusion of

advice: recommendation (noun) advise: to recommend (verb)

adverse: unfavorable averse: opposed to

affect: to influence (verb); emotional response (noun) effect: result (noun); to cause (verb)

aisle: space between rows isle: island

allude: to make indirect reference to elude: to avoid

allusion: indirect reference illusion: false idea, misleading appearance

already: by this time all ready: fully prepared

altar: sacred platform or place alter: to change

altogether: thoroughly all together: everyone/everything in one place

a lot: a quantity; many of something allot: to divide or portion out

angel: supernatural being, good person angle: shape made by joining two straight lines

are: plural form of "to be" our: plural form of "my"

accent: pronunciation common to a region ascent: the act of rising or climbing assent: consent, agreement

assistance: help assistants: helpers

bare: nude, unadorned bear: to carry; an animal

beside: close to; next to besides: except for; in addition

boar: a wild male pig bore: to drill a hole through

board: piece of wood bored: uninterested

born: brought into life borne: past participle of "to bear" (carry)

breath: air taken in (noun) breathe: to take in air (verb)

brake: device for stopping break: destroy; make into pieces

buy: to purchase by: next to; through the agency of

canvas: heavy cloth canvass: to take a survey; a survey

capital: major city capitol: government building

choose: to pick chose: past tense of "to choose"

clothes: garments close: to shut; near cloths: pieces of fabric

coarse: rough course: path; series of lectures

complement: something that completes compliment: praise, flattery

conscience: sense of morality conscious: awake, aware

corps: regulated group corpse: dead body

council: governing body counsel: advice; to give advice

dairy: place where milk products are processed diary: personal journal

descent: downward movement dissent: disagreement

dessert: final, sweet course in a meal desert: to abandon; dry, sandy area

device: a plan; a tool or utensil devise: to create

discreet: modest, prudent behavior discrete: a separate thing, distinct

do: a verb indicating performance or execution of a task dew: water droplets condensed from air due: as a result of

dominant: commanding, controlling dominate: to control

die: to lose life; one of a pair of dice dye: to change or add color

dyeing: changing or adding color dying: losing life

elicit: to draw out illicit: illegal, forbidden

eminent: prominent imminent: about to happen

envelop: to surround (verb) envelope: container for a letter (noun)

everyday: routine, commonplace, ordinary (adj.) every day: each day, succession (adj. + noun)

fair: just, honest; a carnival; light skinned fare: money for transportation; food

farther: at a greater (measurable) distance further: in greater (non-measurable) depth

formally: conventionally, with ceremony formerly: previously

forth: forward fourth: number four in a list

gorilla: animal in ape family guerrilla: soldier specializing in surprise attacks

hear: to sense sound by ear here: in this place

heard: past tense of "to hear" herd: group of animals

hoard: a hidden fund or supply, a cache horde: a large group or crowd, swarm

hole: opening whole: complete; an entire thing

human: relating to the species homo sapiens humane: compassionate

its: possessive form of "it" it's: contraction for "it is"

knew: past tense of "know" new: fresh, not yet old

know: to comprehend no: negative

later: after a time latter: second one of two things

lead: heavy metal substance; to guide led: past tense of "to lead"

lessen: to decrease lesson: something learned and/or taught

lightning: storm-related electricity lightening: making lighter

loose: unbound, not tightly fastened lose: to misplace

maybe: perhaps (adv.) may be: might be (verb)

meat: animal flesh meet: to encounter mete: to measure; to distribute

medal: a flat disk stamped with a design meddle: to interfere, intrude metal: a hard organic substance mettle: courage, spirit, energy

miner: a worker in a mine minor: underage person (noun); less important (adj.)

moral: distinguishing right from wrong; lesson of a fable or story morale: attitude or outlook usually of a group

passed: past tense of "to pass" past: at a previous time

patience: putting up with annoyances patients: people under medical care

peace: absence of war piece: part of a whole; musical arrangement

peak: point, pinnacle, maximum peek: to peer through or look furtively pique: fit of resentment, feeling of wounded vanity

pedal: the foot lever of a bicycle or car petal: a flower segment peddle: to sell

personal: intimate; owned by a person personnel: employees

plain: simple, unadorned plane: to shave wood; aircraft (noun)

precede: to come before proceed: to continue

presence: attendance; being at hand presents: gifts

principal: foremost (adj.); administrator of a school (noun) principle: moral conviction, basic truth

quiet: silent, calm quite: very

rain: water drops falling; to fall like rain reign: to rule rein: strap to control an animal (noun); to guide or control (verb)

raise: to lift up raze: to tear down

rational: having reason or understanding rationale: principles of opinion, beliefs

respectfully: with respect respectively: in that order

reverend: title given to clergy; deserving respect reverent: worshipful

right: correct; opposite of left rite: ritual or ceremony write: to put words on paper

road: path rode: past tense of "to ride"

scene: place of an action; segment of a play seen: viewed; past participle of "to see"

sense: perception, understanding since: measurement of past time; because

sight: scene, view, picture site: place, location cite: to document or quote (verb)

stationary: standing still stationery: writing paper

straight: unbending strait: narrow or confining; a waterway

taught: past tense of "to teach" taut: tight

than: used to introduce second element; compared to then: at that time; next

their: possessive form of "they" there: in that place they’re: contraction for "they are"

through: finished; into and out of threw: past tense of "to throw" thorough: complete

to: toward too: also; very (used to show emphasis) two: number following one

track: course, road tract: pamphlet; plot of ground

waist: midsection of the body waste: discarded material; to squander

waive: forgo, renounce wave: flutter, move back and forth

weak: not strong week: seven days

weather: climatic condition whether: if wether: a neutered male sheep

where: in which place were: past tense of "to be"

which: one of a group witch: female sorcerer

whose: possessive for "of who" who’s: contraction for "who is"

your: possessive for "of you" you’re: contraction for "you are" yore: time long past

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kaurwreck · 1 year ago

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I think you're right that it's significant, and I think Mori is clever to recognize that Akutagawa is a rook.

Like a rook, Akutagawa is powerful, but generally contained and often undercut by his predictability. However, because he's keenly aware of his own constraints, and because others often aren't (especially regarding variables they've internalized as known), he's able to play into and against his own predictability to paradoxically surprise them.

He moves within the confines of his rigidity to shape outcomes, sometimes more effectively than his more dynamic opponents and peers. Rooks do that too, if you let them.

Me, knowing nothing about chess, probably overthinking the significance of referencing akutagawa in this scene, but is going to look it up later anyways

#i have very specific chess feelings and thoughts re: rooks (which is what that piece is)#because in elementary school i was in a program for intellectually gifted students - by which i do NOT mean an honors program #i mean i displayed several specific neuro characteristics and struggled in a classroom environment such that i was referred for screening #the results of the screening flagged me for several additional tests and my results on those tests then prompted a comprehensive assessment #which was conducted by a licensed examiner who additionally administered another test chosen specifically based on my prior data #the report from which triggered a review of all of the above data by a panel of specialists who determined that I was wired so atypically #that I required specifically designed support services to avoid an adverse impact my access to education #ie I was not considered academically gifted which is what people are usually thinking of when they talk about giftedness (esp on tumblr)#i prefaced with all of that to counter misconceptions and emphasize that i was not in a program for smart and highly successful students #i was in a program for students with distinct cognitive processing needs that could not be met without specialized intervention #but inanely and entirely b/c of misconceptions the administrators at my school forcibly registered us in an annual chess tournament #which they wouldn't let us opt out of b/c there was a funding incentive for the school if we advanced far enough #ironically chess is a bad fit for this type of giftedness b/c it's rote + relies on bounded conventions instead of creative problem solving #but anyway i did not want to fucking play chess especially not competitively - it's boring and gets redundant #so i intentionally threw all of my games to remove myself from the tournament early #except my fellow indentured chess competitors noticed i was doing that and they were also bored and didn't care for the tournament #and so several of them made a game out of forcibly advancing me as far as they could by outmaneuvering my attempts to lose #horrifically they managed to corner me into winning enough that i was in serious danger of advancing #and so i started AGGRESSIVELY practicing chess in my spare time to learn how to shape the board and get confident in my ability to do so #i played against computers and then strangers online for hours a day and i studied checkmate patterns and how to subvert + reconfigure them #all so i could play well enough to ensure i'd lose even when being actively sabotaged #it worked - i narrowly escaped advancing that year and I don't think they were able to lose to me again after that #they kept trying - even playing me outside of tournaments to try and figure out how i was consistently losing #it's b/c i layered multiple strategies that involved breaking select conventions + manipulating their focus and psychology #BUT the fulcrum of my approach relied heavily on my rooks and select pawns as my most valuable pieces #i got very good at using rooks to shape the board without placing them in a position to be captured until i wanted them to be #once i had a few pawns close to promotion i would shift my rooks into bait b/c once one was taken i could just promote a pawn into a rook #and because absent a potential stalemate people almost always promote pawns into queens #my opponent would forget my additional rooks and would make choices based on the implicit assumptions that my deputized pawns were queens #rooks are treasures

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