It was probably Hans Niemann then

If you have objectively proven that atheists are wrong, that means that you must have proven that God exists right? I do not think that is possible without God showing himself, and not just to you, but to others too. If these atheists have not seen God, you have in fact, not proven that they are objectively wrong.

Also, there are many arguments that atheists use. For example, some atheists believe that the Bible can not be right because parts of it were written long after the events that they describe (for example gospels written maybe 50 years after Jesus’ death, meaning most if not all eyewitnesses have died).

As a Christian myself, I do not believe you can objectively disprove atheism. And to claim not liking God is the only reason for their beliefs is ignorant, if not worse.

I completely understand the weather thing. In the Netherlands it doesn’t get that cold, but the rain is really annoying (it rained basically non-stop from october till late february). In the city where I live however, there is also a pretty good bus service, so you can avoid cycling longer distances in the rain. For me I find cycling in good weather so good for my mental and physical health that I wouldn’t want to go without it.

You say an e-bike doesn’t quite do it for you, and I’m curious what you mean. Is it that it doesn’t have the range, that the engine isn’t strong enough for hills, or something else? I would love to learn about more disadvantages of micromobility, so I can create more nuanced opinions.

It is getting a lot better, but traditionally chess was a game for men only. Until the 2000s women were seen as inferior by most top players, like Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov (AKA Gary Chess, inventor of chess). Right now 95 percent of members of the Dutch chess federation is men. In my local chess club the average ratio men/women is provably like 90/10, with the difference between children being a lot less than adults.

If you haven’t seen it, the series “The Queens Gambit” does a pretty good job portraying the difference between men and women at the top of chess: maybe one woman, hundreds of men.

The gender gap is coming down, but it is still there.

Also, pro chess players only sacrifice their queens, but not their kings. I do both

I don’t mind seeing the country name uncensored, but it is a tradition in chess to not only be sexist, but also racist (at least against one country)

It is an album by the famous Frnch singer Jean-Jacques Goldman. Even though he is not known for anything chess related, he is Frnch. The Fr*nch are looked down upon in chess for some reason, so anything in chess related to this nation has been called “en passant.” This includes capturing a pawn that moved two squares, throwing a croissant on the board and starting a revolution turning all pieces into pawns.

In the Netherlands we always outperform you stupid Belgians. As you can see, we are higher than you on this map too!

Maybe, but alcohol works fine. Intellectual research at my local chess club shows that three beers is the optimal amount, massively increasing intuition, without significantly decreasing intelligence. So for beginners I would recommend starting there.

Your world vision is too narrow. It is time for you to expand your horizons, move across borders, explore new worlds, new planets, new lives! Start with checkers. Maybe some day your board will be big enough to see the squares you can only dream of.

Chess generators would never invent a name as glorious as “grob opening, double grob variation, Coca-Cola gambit”.

!reclaimedbynature@lemmy.world vibes here

I am studying something related to biology, so I know something about this stuff. However, i am no expert either and there is some speculation in this comment.

Fish populations can grow at a certain rate. When there are very few fish, there are not enough fish to breed effectively. On the other hand, when there are too many fish, there is not enough food for everyone, leading to a smaller growth. Somewhere between this is the Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY). This is the point where the growth in population is the highest. If you want to do fishing sustainable, you need to make sure that at the end of the season, there is exactly as much fish as the MSY needs. This way, there will be more new fish next year than otherwise.

However, if you catch too many fish, rhe population will drop below the MSY-treshold. This means that next year, there will be less newborn fish, which means you can’t catch nearly as much. If you continue overfishing, the population will very quickly die out. So after a few years of overfishing, there will barely be any fish left, which means that fishing sustainably leads to more fish in the end. It is a bit more complicated than this, and fish population depends on more factors, but this is the basic idea. This is what I know fairly certain.

I think the big difference between farming and fishing in this case is that with farming, you have less risk of the population dying out. Fishing is more like hunting: if you hunt too much Bison, they will die out. But with breeding cattle, the risk of cattle dying out is small.

There are a few other things though. If you farm crops unsustainably, the soil will lose its fertility, meaning you will in the end not farm as many crops, or you will need a lot of manure, which is not sustainable either.

On top of that, I believe I have heard some time ago, that sustainable farming does lead to better meat, but I may be mistaken I’m this.

Top left? I believe that’s Billy Joel, but I may be mistaken

In the Netherlands beavers had been hunted into extinction by mid 20th century (I don’t know exactly when they went extinct). In the 80s beavers were reintroduced from the DDR and now there are over 5000 beavers in the country. In western Germany populations have been rising too, and these are just what I know from the top of my head.

Beavers are definitely doing great right now around the world and that is uplifting news indeed!

On top of that it avoids Bg5, pinning the horsey, which could otherwise maybe be annoying. Also, I thing you meant Qa4+ instead of Qh4+, which is the anarchychess idea in this position for white.

Someone from my local chess club has an account on Lichess where he only uses Bongcloud-like openings. He has reached a rating of over 2000 and crushed some 2200’s (that’s almost professional level for those who aren’t familiar with ratings).

Coca-Cola gambit for the slightly more advanced (even though I have invented a brilliant countergambit against it). For black the fried fox defense is pretty OP too.

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No, Picasso, pronounced Pizza-so.