🇯🇵 BAJ has released the selection criteria for Bird Japan 2026.
Will consists of
MS/WS: 4 players each
MD/WD/XD: 4 pairs each
Selection criteria:
1. All Japan Championships 2025 champions ONLY
2. 1st ranked player from each sector in national ranking after AJC2025
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Most people think a windfall makes life easier.
But 70% of inherited wealth is gone by gen 2 and 90% by gen 3.
Not because the math is bad - but because no plan + old habits = wealth evaporation.
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Something I think people continue to have poor intuition for: The space of intelligences is large and animal intelligence (the only kind we've ever known) is only a single point, arising from a very specific kind of optimization that is fundamentally distinct from that of our technology.
Animal int...
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bookmark this GIGATHREAD so you know how to take full advantage: ...
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Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies.
Today the State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration....
CW// Inanimate TF, Vore, Bad-end
Your birthday party was ruined before it even began. Sure, the weather was great, and almost everyone you invited said they were coming. But your best friend who had organised it all with you forgot the birthday cake, of all things!...
