Dragon

Chess, Books and Movies.
Doctor of Medicine.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

You may have noticed that the word for ‘night’ in many languages appears to be that language’s word for ‘eight’ with an ‘N' in front of it.

English: N + eight = Night
German: N + acht = Nacht
French: N + huit = Nuit
Spanish: N + ocho = Noche
Italian: N + otto = Notte
Portuguese: N + oito = Noite

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[💣✿🗼Међед𓌏𓉥🇳🇫🇲🇪🇪🇺 @MountainMan185]

*Hungarian excellence*

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

Hillary Clinton on Julian Assange:

“Can’t we just drone this guy?”

[Julian Assange @JulianAssange]

I'm back.

[mîhai 🇺🇦❤️‍🔥 @puredunce]

Five years before Serbian Christians shot 8,000 Muslim civilians in a single day. They saw their victims, looked into their eyes, spoke the same language, and murdered them. So yes, Christian extremists are able to do so.

Doesn't fit the ex-muslim narrative, but it's what it is.

[Dragon @_aliidrak19]

If i guess it right, will i also be showered with gold coins.

[David Llada ♞ @davidllada]

Chess culture test #5. If you see this position, can you name:

A) The winner.
B) Both players.
C) Both players, plus the year and the venue.
D) None of the above.

(Please just comment A,B,C or D, don't give away the answer!)

[Billy Rice @dangerrice]

FIFA to investigate Argentina as they make another Falklands gesture by having no shots on target.

[Dragon @_aliidrak19]

Fischer v Spassky.
First chess game i ever actually studied.

[David Llada ♞ @davidllada]

Chess culture test #3. If you see this position, can you name:

A) The winner.
B) Both players.
C) Both players, plus the year and the venue.
D) None of the above.

(Please just comment A,B,C or D, don't give away the answer!)

[;ira.exe @dessriell]

why is S even considered the "best" in tier lists instead of A who came up with dat dumb shit

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[out of context house m.d. @telyhouse]

Hugh Laurie responded to a criticism of House

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱 A West Bank council has finally admitted Israeli settlers have been systematically raping kids as young as three and four.

After years of denial, the Gush Etzion Regional Council acknowledged ritualistic sexual abuse cases in its communities following a bombshell Kan 11 investigation.

The abuse spanned years and is emerging as one of the most organized and disturbing sexual abuse cases ever exposed in Israel.

For years, allegations were met with denials and deep skepticism, but in a complete 180, the council is now acknowledging the problem, calling it "pure evil and moral depravity that has no place in human society."

Source: Kan 11

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

Do you ever think about how basically every animal loves being petted and then think maybe we don’t pet each other enough, as humans

[Dr sahiba @notabaddygurl]

DHQ GUJRANWALA CT scan machine is out of order from past 13 days patients refers to GMC for city scan and govt terminate a HO for using mobile during duty hours waaowww what a great achievement shame on you punjab government strategies and on health department @GovtofPunjabPK

[farrukh saleem @SaleemFarrukh]

Pakistan’s most dangerous division

Here’s the hard truth: Pakistan’s Power Division has the power to bankrupt the economy. Yes, the Power Division has formally announced more than two hours of daily loadshedding. Lo and behold, Pakistan does not have a power shortage, Pakistan has a power management failure.

Pakistan has an installed capacity of around 45,000 MW. Peak demand rarely crosses 25,000-28,000MW. That is a surplus of 17,000-20,000MW. And yet, the Power Division is switching off power. Why?

The Power Division offers a justification. Loadshedding, it says, is to “reduce the use of costly fuels” and “prevent a sharp increase in tariffs.” This is a deeply flawed argument. To begin with, it confuses price with cost. Switching off cheaper available electricity during peak hours does not eliminate cost. It merely reallocates cost. Capacity payments, now exceeding Rs 2 trillion annually,do not disappear when plants are shut. They continue to accrue.

The truth the Power Division won’t state: This policy does not control tariffs. It guarantees higher tariffs over time.The Power Division has made demand destruction its explicit policy. It admits the system can meet full demand. It cuts power regardless. Call it what it is: not load shedding, not shortage management, deliberate curtailment. Electricity exists, the Division simply decides you cannot have it.

Pre-2006, circular debt was essentially zero. In 2006, it stood at Rs111 billion. Today, power sector circular debt stands at around Rs2 trillion, with total energy sector debt (power plus gas) exceeding Rs5 trillion. That is a 17-fold increase in 20 years.

The reality: Circular debt has been compounding at an annual rate of 15 per cent per year for two decades https://t.co/V2fcaiUjJQ its current rate of growth, Pakistan’s circular debt will cross Rs8 trillion by 2030. No war, no flood, no external shock, just 25 years of the same policy, compounding at 15 per cent a year. That is what makes the Power Division the most dangerous institution in Pakistan.

The Power Division is running a parallel fiscal deficit. It is hollowing out the federal budget. It is killing growth. None of this is abstract. Electricity at Rs50 per unit has pushed large parts of industry to the edge. Textiles, steel, chemicals -- scaling down. Households choosing between food and electricity -- scaling down. Pakistan is not facing a power problem. It is facing an economic contraction. And the Power Division is driving it.

Red alert: The Power Division is not just draining rupees. It is destroying dollar-earning capacity.Pakistan is not running out of electricity. Pakistan is running out of paying consumers. Pakistan is not running out of electricity. Pakistan is running out of money -- and the Power Division sits at the centre of that drain.

[Iranian Zaitunay Bay @IRANinZB]

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[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

Iran's position is being misrepresented by U.S. media.

We are deeply grateful to Pakistan for its efforts and have never refused to go to Islamabad. What we care about are the terms of a conclusive and lasting END to the illegal war that is imposed on us.

پاکستان زنده باد

[rameen 🐝 @rameenwhile]

do u guys think there is a correlation between having unrebelling and non-confrontational teenage years and then suddenly wanting to fight people in ur 20s

[Rana Ihsaan Afzal Khan @IhsaanaKhan]

“The likelihood is that if the Afghan Taliban remain in power, they will turn against Pakistan. They will combine their political Islam with the nationalism of ‘Pashtunistan.’ I have met some of them, and I felt that beneath their ‘Islamic skin’ lies Afghan/Pashtun nationalism. When the threat from local enemies over the Taliban diminishes, their anger will quickly shift toward the Pakistani state, because Islamabad will not be able to fulfill their expectations of aid and money. Unwittingly, Islamabad is setting the stage for a new Pashtunistan movement in the coming decade.”

(Excerpt from a 1998 article by the renowned Pakistani intellectual Eqbal Ahmad, titled “What’s After the Strategic Depth?”)

@KhawajaMAsif