Thanks for the response. I phrased the original question rather poorly, but I was glad to learn a bit about the FIDE World Cup. I hope for the safety of this year’s Cadidates’ tournament.

Thank you. A few of the responses made me realize that I didn’t phrase the question very well initially. I appreciate the response, and I think the sentiment you shared is at the center of my question.

I phrased the question poorly, and should have clarified that I was asking if anyone that had planned to attend a match was reconsidering. Maybe I’ll edit it later, and I appreciate the response.

Thanks for the response. I work in an area where the my bosses are frantically trying to “get ready” for the massive crowds anticipated for World Cup, and lately I’ve been wondering why anyone, much less a crowd, would be planning to travel to the US if they didn’t absolutely have to.

Not with that attitude

Hell yeah! America is now the number one exporter in highly qualified workers!

Kidz Bop volume 1 launched an empire of children performing family friendly covers of pop songs that continues to weaken the fabric of humanity to this day.

Quick! Look it up on AltaVista!

Mr Beast. Can we please?

Naive question, but would bit-flip also be a problem without the atmosphere to shield (some) radiation?

Silicon Valley really seemed to pave the way for a lot of toxic tech bro culture. Part of me wants to still like the show, but there’s a lot of it that sucks now.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

There was a moment in the pitch meeting when the producers read, “then Willem Dafoe dresses up like a female prostitute to seduce the guards”, and they were like yeah, let’s fuckin make this movie.

With no poorly copied Getty Images watermark in the corner?

This paper has the eighth highest circulation in the whole wide world.

Primarily had my ring camera as a deterant to some dickish neighborhood kids doing some vandalism. Since they’ve stopped their hijinks, maybe I’ll just point the camera at a print of goatse for a while until it runs out of battery.

Devil Man Crybaby

Berserk '97

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Hamtaro

Ninja Scroll

Pubert has a lovely ring to it.

I accidentally put in the hardware code to reset my phone to factory settings once by jamming it into my car console. It sucked at the time, but made me appreciate that I could use this code in the future if needed.

You may have this option on your device as well.

There was a brief moment when broadcast television networks just put their shit on the internet for free. Like you just had to go to their website, and then like the whole catalog of Scrubs or something was just there to watch.