No I think it’s only when it goes wrong. They are meant to look more like this.

You were browsing potential pets to get for your kids. Or maybe reading about Deadpool.

Nope they’re fairly obscure, it’s just I’ve noticed over the years that any pup that wins Ugliest Dog is almost invariably some kind of Chinese Crested mix!

Recent examples: Scooter and Mr Happy Face

But I really should add a link to Sam from 2005.

I know what you mean, I’m like that with the irl chess club. I kind of want to join but I’m way too chicken.

Tried backslash but it didn’t work…

I had the feeling that link was going to be to some kind of a Chinese Crested cross but I hadn’t seen that particular one!

Back when we had a cat I used to play agario and then slitherio and I swear about 30% of my in game deaths were from the cat wanting attention! Would be way harder with kids!

That’s the other thing about chess being all ages tho, you can turn off the chat altogether on the big chess sites and they also have a button (automatic “good game” on chess.com, my favourite site lichess.org has buttons for hi, good luck, good game, gtg and bye). Also no one talks at all in most of the 1 to 3 min speed chess.

Sheesh I’m beginning to sound like some kind of shill for Big Chess.😄

Edit; wait, how do I stop it autolinking?

Yum!

I didn’t think of that! I know I should pay the dog tax but it’s probably like uploading a photo of someone else’s kid.

Ah that makes sense. Kind of like the old AI problem where it thought fish had fingers because most of the training material had people holding up the fish.

I don’t think anyone minds the other person quitting as long as they hit the resign button. A lot of people quit when their queen dies. Also there are thousands of players so it’s quite rare to even play the same person again.

I’m so bad at chess that I’m pretty sure some of my opponents quit when their mum calls them for dinner. 😃 (after you play a few games to calibrate it matches you with people at the same skill level).

I think they more likely thought I’d heard Transpower gossip. 😃

I’m super impressed that you were able to deduce it!!!

They move pretty slowly because they have to get membership votes on these kinds of decisions. It does not work in their favour when it comes to news cycles.

Meanwhile, the media seem to be forgetting the fact that even though they had issues with it the Greens ultimately did vote in favour of waka jumping legislation so it’s not actually quite the crossing-the-rubicon moment eveyone is making out.

Would it help if you photoshopped a bunch of trees with different superficial characteristics but kept the defining traits of the subspecies and trained it on those images?

Yes they cost an arm and a leg.

Looks like it’s below the high tide line, my guess is it fell off a yacht or something.

I watched a documentary about these dolls once and one guy used to dress his doll in clothes and take it for rides in his car and the public mistaking it for a dead body was definitely a thing that happened a bit.

We are dogsitting a cute dog!

Just had a broccoli and cauli bake the other day, sooo good!

I’m with your kid on this one, broccoli is the best. As a kid I never understood why some kids don’t like vegges!

I don’t have the capacity for a lot of memorization either so I play openings that don’t have much “theory”/memorization, like the london system (unlike normal openings, with a system opening you more or less play the same moves no matter what), or weird openings. That we we get off book and into having to think for yourself more quickly.

I just play against humans on lichess, with a time limit like 5 or 10 minutes.

We really heard it here first!

Mentioning your suggestion to a couple of people made me look like someone “in the know” when the headline came out ha ha.

She definitely won’t resign. The Greens seem to be really invested in internal democracy so it’s hard to predict without talking to some of them.

What? I hadn’t heard about this before now but… surely most people learn how insulation works in Intermediate school. What a bizarre claim.

Managed to go to Pak n Save today. It was quite exciting because all the green veges were cheaper than they used to be so we got broccoli and cauliflower and leek. It’s like the good old days!

Only one monarch caterpillar in the garden that I know of. But I did see a heap of Gypsy Moth caterpillars who were super cute, they sort of have a top knot effect and can walk really fast. I wish we could grow veges but unfortunately it’s not an option. Still, there’s tangelos and mandarins so am happy.