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Robin, who's your favorite chess player?

Kasparov play against computer called Deep Blew and win. I watched on Your Tube. But then he play again and lose. It was scary. What if machines rise up? Will they make pies of us or won’t they. Well, I guess I dead already. Happy times. Yes. Then Deep Blew is my favourite chess player, I guess. And I can win it easy. I have way with electrics. Hueehh.

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What's everyone's favorite holiday?

My days, there no such thing as holiday. Maybe only when you catch big mammoth and can eat a lot. Modern holiday is funny thing. I don’t know what is. Every year a god is born and then dead after three month? That excessive, if you ask me. Or Bank Day. They say people put money (you know, the shiny things, they later made them paper  to play that they bigger) in bank. And then celebrate it? I know saving is important, but why that much.

I gotta say I like East Year. Never tried chocolate, but it looks funny. Because brown, round, come from bunny. Very stupid that children eat it. And right after god died? Very strange. But respect it.

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best time to watch a show 5 years after it was popular thats weak and overeager best time is at least 15 years ideal situation is 30-50 years

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instead of saying self deprecating, suicidal jokes, try saying "im going to milk myself" like my autocorrect suggested

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Omggggg just started watching foreign films! Starting off with what's supposedly really big over there. So far, these marvel films are really interesting. I wonder if all American media is like this... Really seems heavy handed on the industrial war complex and maintenance of the status quo but that's just their culture. I wonder if there are any big actors in these movies. Haven't heard of any of them. Watching and learning

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Pareidolia

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Mahler (1974) dir. Ken Russell

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georgina hale in mahler (1974)

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Mahler (1974)

Catholic-convert Ken Russell depicts the life and career of Catholic-convert Gustav Mahler—the iconic Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer whose Jewish heritage threatened to thwart his musical success — in his trademark offbeat style.

Director: Ken Russell

Cinematographer: Dick Bush

Starring: Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, and Lee Montague

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adults disciplining children: i think i will communicate with this brand new human in the loudest, rudest, most obnoxious and socially off-putting way possible

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But I wonder if we also ignore illness because of our bias toward agency and control. We would like to imagine that we captain the ships of our lives, that human history is largely the story of human choice. Perhaps this is why rumors have swirled for millennia that Alexander the Great died of poisoning even though he almost certainly died of typhoid or malaria. We simply don’t want a world where even the most powerful emperor can be felled by mere infection.

John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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I can’t explain why this image is so funny to me but it is.

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iconic!

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this is a video about a Yakut summer

it features keeping a vegetable garden, gathering hay for cows and horses, foraging for berries, swimming in a river, and fishing

I'd say most Yakut families do all of these things

we kept a vegetable garden in the 90s, during the times of crisis. my parents went haying for our relatives back then too. my brother and I were kids.

gathering berries and mushrooms was huge back then too, now it's more of a hobby for my family. we live in the city of Yakutsk for the last 15 years, my mother is a doctor, my brother and I both work, my dad has a pension, so we buy berries, vegetables and fruit now. no need to sustain ourselves by farming, hunting, or gathering.

but even for us it's within our living memory. we might live in a city and work in IT, but this traditional life style is very much near us.

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sometimes, in the summer I will watch videos about winter in Yakutsk (where I live) that are made for international viewers.

this one is very well made and shows a local's perspective