Something to keep in mind with studies are outside social factors such as less women playing chess and less women being exposed to chess at a young age. There are fewer women in chess and fewer girls learning chess, for probably centuries. This will have a factor when comparing two demographics.

The Princess Bride, and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Both have so many great lines they still crack me up every time!

You’re right, I think of all his paintings of farm workers, its most similar to The Red Vineyard in Arles but like you said there are quite a few.

Farm workers and peasant life became a fairly popular topic for artists mid 19th to early 20th century, as popular culture moved away from the idealistic art of flowery Rococo portraits to realism, and then to impressionism (with other isms in between of course).

Yeah I’ve had YouTube premium for a long time, and I don’t mind paying for it, but the fact half the people I follow are getting copyright claimed (unfairly) or taken down is really a huge bummer. It’s been hitting the true crime & film review communities particularly hard. I’m hoping more of my fave creators start using Odyssee or rumble because I don’t really like supporting a platform who treats their creators like shit.

It’s because they’re bringing back r/place

I love he guy trying to take a pic with his iPhone, sweat patches on his chest.

It is very reminiscent of a realist painting by Jean-Francois Millet called The Gleaners

Clearly they’re saying you should hop in a hot air balloon and travel around the world spotting breaking news with your own eyes.

A bunch of morbid and medical subs like morbid curiosity, medizzy, medicalgore, thegrittypast. I always have found those subs super interesting and filled with discussion about stuff I don’t usually encounter in my day to day life so I’ve been missing that.