• whaleross@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      A toddler can pretend to be good at chess but anybody with reasonable expectations knows that they are not.

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        Plot twist: the toddler has a multi-year marketing push worth tens if not hundreds of millions, which convinced a lot of people who don’t know the first thing about chess that it really is very impressive, and all those chess-types are just jealous.

        • xavier666@lemm.ee
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          Have you tried feeding the toddler gallons of baby-food? Maybe then it can play chess

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              “If we have to ask every time before stealing a little baby food, our morbidly obese toddler cannot survive”