Friday, January 22, 2021

Chess International Master Levy Rozman Destroys Blatant Cheater


We love nothing more than to see a cheater get outed on their antics. Sit back and enjoy the show as an international chess master Levy Rozman proceeds to absolutely destroy a blatant cheater beyond repair. On that note, catching a cheater is one thing, but if you're able to checkmate them in the process....there's the golden moment. 

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Man Impersonates Dinosaur, Should Be In Next Jurassic Park


Humans will do all kinds of silly stuff to keep each other entertained and pass the time while on this crazy planet. Sometimes, that boils down to a guy unleashing a phenomenal dinosaur impersonation. Homie really lets himself go. 

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Karate Guy Attempts To Chop Coconuts On Live TV, Fails Ensue


While we have an impressive series of fails take place in this video of a karate dude attempting to chop coconuts, at least we can rest easy knowing that no coconut homies were harmed. Also, the fact that they set this up with a metal rail boggles the mind just a bit. 

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Tall People Problems From The World's Giants


Being tall ain't all that it's made out to be. In fact, there's a whole lot of the stuff that we use in our everyday lives (cars, toilet seats, doorways) that is absolutely not tailored to account for abnormally tall individuals. On top of that, if you're extra tall you're bound to run into all the spiderwebs that other people never come close to touching themselves. 

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Twitter Thread: Speech-Language Pathologist Helps Out Kid In Need On Flight


Man oh man, it's heartwarming stories like the one we have here from a mindful speech-language pathologist that manage to keep our faith in humanity alive. Dr. Rachel R. Romeo found herself seated next to a dad and his son who had severe nonverbal autism. She decided to seize the opportunity to offer up her expertise, and proactively worked to bring the kid peace of mind while on their flight. It's a beautiful little story. 

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Font - Rachel R. Romeo @RachelRRomeo I just had such an affirming experience. On my 8hr intl flight back from a conference, I sat next to a father/son. In broken English, the father began to apologize/ warn me that his ~10 yr-old son had severe nonverbal autism, and that this would like be a difficult journey. 1/ 2:59 p.m. · 28 Aug. 19 Twitter Web App

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Font - Rachel R. Romeo @RachelR. · 18h v Replying to @RachelRRomeo I told him not to worry, I was a speech-language pathologist with lots of experience with minimally verbal kiddos. Challenging behaviors began even before take off: screaming, hitting me, and grabbing for my things. The father repeatedly apologized, but did little else. 2/ 55 27 813 19.2K

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Facial expression - Rachel R. Romeo @RachelRR.. · 18h I asked him how his son preferred to communicate. He didn't seem to understand. Perhaps this was a language barrier, but I think instead the child had very little experience with communication therapy. I put away the talk I was working on & asked if I could try. He nodded. 3/ O 11 t7 705 O 18.1K

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Font - Rachel R. Romeo @RachelRR.. · 18h v I tried to see if he was stimulable for a communication board. I started by pulling up some standard images for basic nouns on my computer but I could tell that screens really bothered him. So I summoned my god-awful drawing skills and tried to create a (very!) low-tech board. 4/ 13 27 680 18.3K

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Facial expression - Rachel R. Romeo @RachelRR. · 18h v And by god, it clicked. I made symbols for the things he was grabbing, for his favorite stuffed penguin, and for his dad. He took to it very quickly. I introduced way more symbols that I normally would, but hey, how often do we get an 8-hour session?! 5/ O 20 17 768 O 22.6K

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Smile - Rachel R. Romeo @RachelRR.. · 18h v By the end of the flight, he had made several requests, initiated several times, & his behaviors had reduced quite a bit. The father was astounded - clearly no one had ever tried an AAC approach with him. I gave him the paper & showed him how to use it, and he nearly cried. 6/ 105 27 992 28.5K

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Font - Rachel R. Romeo @RachelRR..· 18h v This was the human desire for communication, pure and simple. To connect with another person and share a thought. Communication is a basic human right, and I was overjoyed to help someone find it. What a privilege and a gift. 7/ 172 27 2,713 O 48.5K Rachel R. Romeo @RachelRR.. · 18h v As I face the upcoming job cycle and the nearly endless imposter syndrome of academia, this was precisely the reminder I needed about why I love studying language/communica

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Tumblr Thread: The Plague Village That Pulled a Bro Move


Leave it to Tumblr to find some freaky historical outliers. Here's the tale of a tiny village that found itself with plague and what happened after. Could it be described as a "total bro move?" Maybe in a very understated way, yeah. For more fun history junk, here's Tumblr's thread on why mundane people are important to history, as well as some tumblr gems of the historical persuasion.

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Font - what-even-is-thiss I keep hate-reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed as makes me there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bittersweet and I like to revisit it. That's the story of the village of Eyam. what-even-is-thiss Eyam today is a teeny tiny town of less than a thousand people. It has barely grown since 1665 when its population was around 800O.

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Property - Where the story starts with Eyam is that in August 1665 the village tailor and his assistant discovered that a bolt of cloth that they had bought from London was infested with rat fleas. A few days later on September 7th the tailor's assistant George Viccars died from plague.

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Font - what-even-is-thiss Back then people didn't fully understand how disease spread, but they knew in a basic sense that it did spread and that the spread had something to do with the movement of people. So two religios leaders in the town, Thomas Stanley and William Mompesson, got together and came up with a plan. They would put the entire village of Eyam under quarantine. And they did. For over a year nobody went in and nobody went out. They put up signs on the edge of town as warning and le

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Water - what-even-is-thiss Over the 14 months that Eyam was in quarantine 260 out of the 800 residents died of plague. The death toll was high, the cost was great.

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Font - However, they did successfully prevent the disease from spreading to the nearby town of Sheffield, even then a much bigger town, and likely saved the lives of thousands of people in the north of England through their sacrifice. So I really like this story, because it's a sad story, because it's also a beautiful story. Instead of fleeing everyone in this one place agreed that they would stay, and they saved thousands of people. They stayed just to save others and I guess it's one of those

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Font - auroranibley It gets better. Here's the thing. One third of the residents of Eyam died during their quarantine, but the Black Plague was known to have a NINETY PERCENT death rate. As high as the toll was, it wasn't as high as it should have been. And a few hundred years later, some historians and doctors got to wondering why.

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Font - Fortunately, Eyam is one of those wonderful places that really hasn't changed much in hundreds of years. Researchers, going to visit, found that many of the current residents were direct descendants of the plague survivors from the 1600s. By doing genetic testing, they learned that a high number of Eyam residents carried a gene that made them immune to the plague. And still do.

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Font - And it gets even better than that, because the gene that blocks the Black Plague? Also turns out to block AlIDS, and was instrumental in helping to find effective medication for people who have HIV and AIDS in the 21st century. Here is a lovely, well-produced documentary about Eyam and its disease resistance, It's a little under an hour. Trigger warning for general disease and epidemic-type stuff, but also, maybe it will help you have some hope in these alarmly uncertain times.

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Micromanaging Owner Cuts Chef's Pay, Backfires In Righteous Fashion


There's nothing we love more to see than a micromanaging owner get greedy and end up having it backfire in glorious fashion. This owner was trying to keep his fragile ego afloat while cutting his hard working kitchen staff's rightful pay, and ended up ultimately spending the same amount of money that he would've (if not more) if he'd just left things alone. 

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Font - r/MaliciousCompliance + Join u/CopChef · 30d 11 2 5 e 3 3 14 8 1 Change me from hourly to salary to cut my раy. ОК... L This takes place in the "before times" when people could eat out and gather in large numbers. I used to work as a chef, for an owner who liked to micromanage things and was a bit narcissistic. I'd been working there about 3 years, getting good reviews, customers loved me, updated the menu. Made everything from scratch, people used to think the place was open box/heat, se

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Font - The increase in sales and income went to the owners head. He was always spending money on frivolous things and squandering cash. Sound system, stage for the event space, ect. One example, I needed a new Alto-Sham, a used one would have sufficed, nope he bought the top of the line one that could be used as a smoker too $12k vs what I wanted could be gotten used for $1,500. Granted I enjoyed that piece of equipment, which after I left they no longer use the smoker function. Years later I st

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Font - I was hourly, but then the owner realized during the busy season I and my Sous Chef put in 70-80hr weeks. Doing this he realized I made more take home pay from his business than he did. At peak times he'd maybe work 40-50 hours a week. So to save money he puts me and my Sous on salary effectively cutting my pay by about $10k a year. My Sous netted a loss of $2k/yr, if we were to work at our current level of effort.

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Font - During all of this the owner is saying he is not expecting us to work over 40 hours a week, EVER. He even has this written into our contracts. So with the extra time off at home with family it is ok, I still like the job and my staff. During the slower time this was great. Also during this time I had won a local award for my cooking, and the narcissistic owner was not too pleased. He was no longer recognized as the creative force in the kitchen that bears his name, so his meddling and mic

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Font - I tart writing the holiday schedule, Sous is on vacation, I have my 40 during key prep times and peak business times. The rest if my staff gets serious overtime. Basically the Sous and I carried a lot of the weight in the kitchen and could out preform most of our small staff. So with Sous on vacay and I only pulling 40 full time staff is now working 60ish hours a week, and part timers are getting 40. Things are running pretty smoothly until the owner realizes l'm not there like I always a

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Font - Now with my Sous returning, I'm burned out from the constant micromanaging & gaslighting by the owner I hand the reigns to my Sous and change careers after 25 years in the industry and never look back. TLDR, micromanaging owner cuts my pay by $10k a year to save money, due to owners stupid spending habits. Says in contract not required to work over 40hours a week. Busy holiday season only work 40, rest of kitchen staff gets overtime, and no money is saved. 4 16.9k 395 ,↑, Share

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Companies "Improved" Products That Are Objectively Worse


Because we're human beings, we're entitled to our hyper judgmental rejection of anything new and "improved." Sometimes companies work hard to make their beloved products legitimately cheaper and inferior, especially in the case of Cadbury Eggs. Those used to be great. Now everything is too marked up for its own good. Sometimes things just change with the times, like cars not having CD players anymore, which is inarguably worse. Who the hell wants to buy a digital copy of Hybrid Theory when there's a perfectly good physical copy of it somewhere around here.

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Font - footleatherfist 15 hours ago My favorite frozen pizza brand used to have round pizzas that were packaged in a cardboard box that could be used to slide the pizza onto and then be used as a plate, no fuss, no mess. NOW, it is a frozen RECTANGLE in a BAG! The shame Totinos, the shameee.

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Font - validusrex 21 hours ago · edited 15 hours ago O A 63S & 91 Re Cosmopolitan, the magazine. As a teenager I read one my GF had in math class once, and for some reason just kept reading them. For 10 years, TEN YEARS, I bought it every month. When I was deployed I had my wife buy it and send me a copy each month. On my bookshelf, I have them all lined up, because if you have an entire year of cosmo, the spine of the magazine actually has a guy on it. Its usually their "hot guy of the year" or

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Hair - billyandteddy 17 hours ago e 3 52 O Adobe products becoming subscription based. I want to just pay once for Adobe Photoshop not every single month...

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Font - UnconstrictedEmu 22 hours ago · edited 2 hours ago 2 e 3 5 E 4 I miss when video games had instruction books that actually told you about how to play the game and maybe had some lore. I know a lot of the time all that's in the game itself but still.

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Rectangle - FartKilometre 19 hours ago 2 S 2 the original Xbox let you rip CDs to the hard drive so you could have custom soundtracks in a lot of games. Burnout and GTA 3/Vice City/San Andreas were so much fun with your own killer soundtrack.

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Organism - warmkittenmittens 18 hours ago 2 S 2 E I have severe skin allergies, so finding soaps and cosmetics that don't cause irritation is difficult. When I find something that works, the worst thing ever is seeing, "New & Improved Formula" stamped on the bottle.

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Font - Wooshter 18 hours ago 3 e4 3 E Many years ago on Xbox 360 you could watch netflix with your homies. Your avatars would show up in a movie theater and you could even emote to the movie. So many good times were had just bullshitting watching random shitty netflix movies back then. Then out of nowhere, they just took it away :(I still get sad thiniking about it

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Font - Fly_Boy_1999 20 hours ago · edited 14 hours ago O 9 5 e11 3 6 & 7 More Old LEGO club magazines. I remember when I first got them as a kid I would flip through the catalog pages of all the available sets. There were specific ads for themes as well as comic books, but the set catalog was why I was there. Then in 2010 or 2011 (I do not remember). They got rid of the catalogue portions (which made the magazines pretty fat) and only left the ads, announcements and comics. I liked flipping thro

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Font - Subbend 21 hours ago · edited 15 hours ago 3 2 Back in my day (just even ~3 years ago), you were able to buy smart phones where the user could easily remove the battery and replace it themself. Broke my LG G5 (at the time, the last LG phone with a removable battery by owner) and went with a Samsung S20. That LG lasted me 3.5 years until I dropped it and broke its screen. When my battery started losing its charge quickly, I bought another battery from the retailer and it was practically go

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Font - OwlStretcher 18 hours ago I searched this whole thread, and I don't see a big one. Craftsman altering the lifetime warranty of their hand tools so much so that it's a shell of what it used to be. There was a time not so long ago you could take any busted Craftsman tool, no matter where you got it or how you broke it, and get it swapped out. It truly was a tool for life. Can't do that anymore.

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Font - DomesticApe23 17 hours ago B 5 28 3 6 E2 In Australia, Heinz removed the classic 420g can of baked beans and replaced it with three different sizes, none of which are the appropriate amount of beans. I no longer eat Heinz beans.

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Font - Bikeboy76 19 hours ago 2 3 2 Cadbury Dairy Milk no longer exists; the recipe is the product, you can't change the recipe and expect us not to notice. Shrinkflation isn't even a problem if the recipe hadn't been changed. CDM is supposed to have a slight crumble, but it is now a squidgy palm oil filled mess. Kraft/Mondelez have adulterated something that although not gourmet was a gold standard of the mass market. It is now just cheap crap like everything else. Nobody asked for this, I was

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Font - BlueKat25 18 hours ago · edited 10 hours ago O 2 2 e2 S 3 & 3 More One of my favourite German words is "Verschlimmbesserung". It's the word "Verbesserung", improvement, merged with the word "Verschlimmerung", deterioration. Improvioration. It's used for when people try to improve something but actually make it worse overall.

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Rectangle - Cyanide_Revolver 19 hours ago O 3 2 Most CD booklets don't have much artwork anymore. I used to listen to albums whilst looking at the artwork and reading the lyrics. Very few albums have that now

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Font - xcesiv_77 20 hours ago COD multiplayer lobbies are no more. It resets every match. After the match, those players are gone. The better graphics aren't worth what we lost...

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Smile - Satures 22 hours ago S The cars I had so far all had a "traditional" parking brake lever. It took me a few weeks to trust the electronic parking brake.

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Mammal - e36 22 hours ago I just got a Tesla electric vehicle, and nearly everything is controlled on this big iPad thing. There are days when I wish that they had added a few more manual controls, like for the headlights and windshield wiper speed.

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Eye - MycelliumMinty 22 hours ago S PlayStations aren't backwards compatible and I've got my favorite ps1 and Ps2 games just sitting around.

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Font - ocrohnahan 16 hours ago 3 E Cars with no spare tire. Many new cars with no dipstick to check the oil. Downward spiral of not being able to fix your own things is outrageous, but people keep buying this shit.

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Human body - theclansman22 21 hours ago McDonald's eliminating the dollar menu. I want cheap, shitty food, and I want it now!

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Hair - MerylSquirrel 21 hours ago · edited 8 hours ago Everyone removing the T9 keyboard so now my tremor and I have to deal with tiny qwerty keyboards on touch screens.

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Font - SilentMunch 21 hours ago · edited 19 hours ago 32 8 They changed the 5 flavor Lifesavers! No more lime or pineapple? What the hell? Similarly, replacing lime with green apple in Skittles. I don't know what the obsession with green apple is, but I'm not happy with the change.

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Font - Witness_me_Karsa 17 hours ago · edited 2 hours ago Why the fuck does music in all of its forms not come with Lyrics? Used to come in some cassettes and CDs. But why can't spotify play full lyrics (i know some songs have that partial lyrics/story bullshit). Furthermore, why don't artists release full lyrics with all of their shit? It would be so fucking easy, 10 minutes of asking/typing. But no, if I look up the lyrics to any song, its always gonna be some crowd-sourced bullshit that is us

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Organism - 2 tenehemia 18 hours ago The current state of Pyrex products. Ugh. 774 Reply Share Report Save CTRL-D- 15 hours ago Oh I know my MIL has all her original Pyrex from the 80's, and I told her to write those in her will for me lol

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Font - MsEvelynn 18 hours ago The altoids from about 15 years ago in the metal tin that weren't just powdery mints, but little candies coated in powdered sugar. I realized one day I never saw them anywhere anymore and haven't been the same since

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Font - sannabiscativa 20 hours ago Taco Bell discontinuing the Volcano Burrito! 648 + Reply Share Report Save FigMcLargeHuge 18 hours ago Taco Bell can fuck right off. They also removed the Mexican Pizza, and the Taco Salad. And now you have reminded me of how much I miss Volcano Burritos.

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Font - TheLeapingLeper 17 hours ago Game consoles going fully digital. No longer can you skim through your library of game discs and pop one in and be playing within 30 seconds. Now you have to download the game from the internet all day, and can only store 8 games at once. Rubbish.

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Dress - MongooseProXC 21 hours ago Cars don't have CD players anymore. :(

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