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I have 10 friends I want to invite, they have 10 friends.

40 guests.

I'm 1 of 4 children. That's 8 guests. If they were the same. 16 guests.

Over half way to 100 in just friends and immidiate family.

I have a dozen cousins from both sides. 24 guests. If they did, 24 guests.

Friends, immidiate family, and cousins. 100+

I have 3 best friends and at least 7 friends that have/will/would invite me to their weddings.

It adds up quick when you double then double again.

I have an extra always clipped to my miter saw

I have one in every tool bag of mine

I feel like everyone should have at least two

It's referred to as the Botez Gambit and it fits the definition of a gambit.

Nothing is ever free in Chess, capturing a Queen will always cost at least 1 tempo.

If I can develop a piece and take a queen I do not lose tempo. You can absolutely blunder your queen badly.

Big difference between blundering your queen and giving it up for a gambit.

For example Hikaru got the enemy king out in the open and stopped them from castling. It wasn't a free queen.

Most ~2000 players can play the standard openings. Giving up your queen for a position that you understand better than your opponent is an advantage. That's the whole point of gambits.

If I knew my opponent knew a gambit then it would be dumb to play it against them because the gambit is going to get me nowhere. The gambit turns into a standard game going into the end game and depending on the gambit I might be worse off, it's not going to give me an advantage.

But I agree with you that you should never just resign because you "blundered" your queen. That's just poor thinking.

Tonal languages are probably harder to make sense.

When you say "Ma" in Mandarin you could mean 4 different things.

So if I was trying to say "I like my horse" or "I like my mother" you'd say "I like my ma". Unless you had context you wouldn't know what I was trying to say if I didn't use the correct tone.

English tones give extra information.

"I LIKE my horse" or "I like MY horse".

One you could like your horse, other you might really LIKE your horse.

"I go store" vs "I am going to go to the store now". The meaning isn't really lost.

English is hard because speaking it well is complex. There are dozens of way to say "walked"

Did the man stroll down the street? Strut, marched, trudged, shuffled, stumbled, hobbled, or etc.

Someone that doesn't know English well would understand that the man hobbling down the street means that the man went down the street. But hobbling has the idea that the man is injured. If they were trying to describe the man limping down the road they would be thrown off thinking about how they could describe it as hobbled. "The man walked with a limp down the street" or "The man limped as he walked down the street"

Then there's things like "The man hobbled down Bourbon Street" now you get the idea that he is hobbling because of being intoxicated rather than injured.

But getting the general idea is pretty simple. "Man go road"

My first computer was some kind of IBM with a floppy disk drive and Chip's Challenge.

First computers at school were the iMAC G3s with Zoombinis

Could lean even more heavily into it and make it more of a joke.

That's because it is. An artist didn't draw this. A person created it with a photo editor.

At what point is "AI" help too much?

They probably used a stock octagon shape.

Literally the thing it's trying to point out.

As someone with aphantasia and no internal monologe it makes sense to me.

So many people tell me their brains just send them images and monologe without them "thinking" it themselves first. Like to me they are reacting to what their brain is telling them. And that's what is required to be schizophrenic.

Some form of torture. The thing about torture is you can always add "and then..."

Psychological and physical

Imagine being forced to rip off your significant other's fingernail.

And you might say "There's no way I'd do that"

Sadly you will. Either to save yourself or them from more torture.

You will do it, we all would. That's scary.

I'm half Mexican half Finnish. Strange mix. Pure white.

I understand the hardship

Random people do not think my father is my father.

I've been stopped multiple times by police walking with him to make sure I was okay when I was a kid. All good, just walking around the neighborhood with my dad lol.

Edit: It's also funny growing up people asking me who our gardener was. Also my dad.

I remember my grandfather telling me a story about how he didn't know which bathroom to use when he came to the US and someone told him to use the white.

Interesting