Chumbo

I eat mostly plants, play games, and participate in other nerd things.

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@midnightskies98 A win for civilized society

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@JewishWonk https://t.co/A2e5foeOxq

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FIFA world cup semifinals: THE JEW VIEW.

Four countries left. One question that actually matters: Who should Jews root for?! Let's see...🤔

A completely objective, deeply petty, historically rigorous ranking.

🇫🇷 France:
✔ Expelled the Jews in 1182. Let them back.
✔ Expelled them in 1306. Let them back.
✔ Expelled them AGAIN in 1394. Practice makes perfect.
✔ Framed the only Jewish officer on its General Staff for treason (the Dreyfus Affair) — a trial so antisemitic it inspired a journalist named Theodor Herzl to invent modern Zionism.
✔ Then Vichy France helped deport 75,000 Jews to the camps.
⚽ Points for: 3rd largest Jewish community on Earth. Accidentally created Zionism. Excellent kosher wine.
📂 Current form: Record antisemitism. Aliyah applications through the roof.

JEW VIEW SCALE: 4/10 for inventing modern Zionism (by accident)

🇪🇸 Spain:
✔ Invented the Inquisition (1478). Nobody expected it.
✔ Then 1492: convert, leave, or die — fifteen centuries of Spanish Jewry ended with one royal signature.
✔ The expulsion decree stayed legally in force for 476 years.
✔ Spain revoked it in 1968. Yes. THAT 1968.
⚽ Points for: Offered citizenship to Sephardic descendants in 2015. Only 523 years late. Great tapas (we checked — not kosher).
🇮🇱 Current form: ~40,000 Jews left, and a government going for Western Europe's gold medal in anti-Israel hysteria.

JEW VIEW SCALE: 1.5/10 for knowing what they did, but refusing to admit or talk about it. Ok

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England:
✔ Invented the blood libel — Norwich, 1144. History's worst export.
✔ First country in Europe to expel its ENTIRE Jewish population (1290). The ban lasted 366 years.
✔ In 2025, Jews were murdered outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur.
⚽ Points for: The Balfour Declaration. 5th largest Jewish community in the world. Readmitted the Jews in 1656 because Cromwell heard we were good for business — flattering AND insulting.
🥯 Current form: Despite scyrocketing record of antisemitism, multiple shootings, stabbings, and bombings, the North London bagels are holding the line.

JEW VIEW SCALE: 3/10 – "giveth the blood libel, giveth the Balfour"

🇦🇷 Argentina:
✔ Opened the door to thousands of Nazis after WWII. Eichmann. Mengele. A whole retirement plan.
✔ In 1994, the AMIA bombing killed 85 people — the deadliest attack on Jews outside Israel since the Holocaust.
✔ Iran and Hezbollah. Still unpunished.
⚽ Points for: The Mossad caught Eichmann in Buenos Aires anyway — thanks for the address. Largest Jewish community in Latin America. Current president studies Torah, wept at the Western Wall, and says he wants to convert. The most philosemitic head of state on Earth.
✡️ Current form: From Nazi haven to "is the president having a bar mitzvah?" in one generation.

JEW VIEW SCALE: 7.5/10 for “character development”

So, who are YOU rooting for?

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@summoningsalt I both really do and really don’t want you to cover outer wilds

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@JewishSpaceLazr This predates the Trump admin…

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@whitesideburn Late this year

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@JewishSpaceLazr Even if this was easily possible without creating a large scale conflict, china doesn’t really hurt all that much here. The potential for serious conflict itself is the theoretical main benefit for this “axis” as explained in the linked video. It’s a long watch but worth it.

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@JewishWonk @Clockrelativity If you’re at 800 in rapid don’t worry about opening theory. Develop your pieces, castle, play simple chess.

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@JewishWonk General case AI isn’t very good for opening teaching short of regurgitating what’s already out there. If you’re interested in serious study use a chessable course or do some study using a games database and stockfish together. Not sure on your rating range though for specific rec

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@JewishWonk @jewishmemequeen Personally I enjoy a variety at the Seder. The earlier cups merit decent bottles but when you’re stuffed with food and on the later cups it’s worth dropping quality for ease

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@JewishWonk Mentioning Pesach food before Purim is a micro aggression

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You know it’s cold outside when you go outside and it’s cold.

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@JewishWonk As malacha is typically prohibited for Jews in galut on Nittel, preparation can often be required in advance. Note that you also gain the benefits of isru chag over the entire 12 days of nittel should you be unable to consume your portion of the requisite meal on the day of.

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@JewishWonk The absurd irony of the Cornell situation is that the kosher dining hall there is also the *only* halal option on campus and is regularly used by Muslim students for dining too.

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@Legend_Niniste GG

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Today I learned that the closest #Wawa to me now is well over 2000 miles away in Florida. The sense of grief I have as someone who grew up in Jersey over this is palpable.

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Turns out, chatGPT will try and give you lots of invalid solutions to the 3 utilities problem despite being aware of Kuratowski's theorem. Not sure what to do with this information but maybe the twitter-sphere cares #chatGPT #graphtheory #math

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@JewishWonk You don’t have to even leave the Ten Commandments to run into issues for many. Not making idols/images comes to mind especially

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@abney317 Absolutely insane. Well done Abney!

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@EvanGottesman Always a classic