Taft

Stacker_Sports

A two-time world chess champion has said she will not defend her titles at a tournament held in Saudi Arabia because of the way the kingdom treats women as “secondary creatures”.

Anna Muzychuk says: 
>Exactly one year ago I won these two titles and was about the happiest person in the chess world but this time I feel really bad. I am ready to stand for my principles and skip the event, where in five days I was expected to earn more than I do in a dozen of events combined.

>I am going to lose two world champion titles, one by one. Just because I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia. Not to play by someone’s rules, not to wear abaya, not to be accompanied getting outside and altogether not to feel myself a secondary creature.


https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/dec/27/chess-champion-to-miss-saudi-arabia-tournament-over-womens-rights

Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women's rights

Bitcoin_Travel

My Trip Diary, Pt 1

siggy47

I would love to go to Las Vegas one day. Have a wonderful trip!

ideasfromtheedge

![](https://m.stacker.news/61734)
This isn't a photo montage. A photographer for Reuters took this photo at a regional airport in Pittsburgh during the days of the Halloween campaign in the year 2020.

One of the social media sites reminded me of this photo.



When you’re the pumpkin chosen to run for president

Stacker Saloon

saloon

bitcoin

Will Trump create the strategic Bitcoin reserve?

tomlaies

I don't know if he'll do it, but if he does, it'll be a fucking bad thing...

aliens_and_UFOs

Part #3 of Saloon Nut 🌰

BlokchainB

This manual bot is reacting faster than a real bot 😂😂

Politics_And_Law

The US elections offer many lessons

![](https://m.stacker.news/61336)

One of them is that the virtual reality created by the media and their motivated polls is far from the actual truth.

Where have the polls gone that showed the candidates "neck and neck" or that favored Harris? What happened?

This shows that a large part of the American media was against an individual, but that individual has the majority of American voters behind him. This part of the media wasn't projecting what was happening, but what they wanted to happen. Their polls seem to have created a fictional reality.

An illustrative example of this illusion was the reaction of a Sky News journalist who, even when she saw the numbers, still refused to accept reality, saying: "It's not a vote for Trump, it's a lack of support for Harris."

Meanwhile, the numbers show that Trump has improved his vote share in many states compared to 2016, unexpectedly flipping some counties from blue to red.

What do you call this kind of journalism?

mostly_harmless

A shocking statement on cancer patients

In the public oncological hospital, there's no medicine for cancer patients because the money that was supposed to buy it has been stolen.

No, just a non-religious public figure, who shares shitty opinions on public. 

A bitcoin experiment

Who is counting which was the last comment? 😂

Why are scientists suddenly interested in UFOs?

IamSINGLE

UEFA Champions League: Week 4. Submissions open.

Carresan

Sporting Lisbon vs Man City 0-2
Liverpool vs Bayern Leverkusen 2-1
Real Madrid vs AC Milan 3-1
Inter Milan vs Arsenal 1-1
Sparta Praha vs Brest 2-1 
Bayern Munich vs Benfica 2-0

Golden Oldies #19

AskSN

What do you think about positive psychology or positive thinking trends?

02879c7d869

Positive psychology and positive thinking are not the same thing. 

On a television talk show discussing a scandal that had occurred at the National Oncology Hospital in my country, one of the invited analysts made the following statement:

>People diagnosed with cancer are individuals whom God has condemned to death, and eventually, these people will die.

This person, who refers to himself as an analyst, essentially claims that God condemns every person diagnosed with cancer to death.

Who in their sane mind would dare to say such a thing?

No one. Only a despicable person, a vile individual, or someone with no sense of reason—a madman—would say something like that.

However, the aforementioned commentator is not mad. So why would he make such a statement? Because he is vile, a piece of shit, a fucking idiot defending the government, which was implicated in this major scandal involving the abuse of medications intended for cancer patients.

This commentator, and others like him, are not irrational people. They may lack empathy and morality. But they are not without reason. They have a reason, but they put it at the service of political power to secure as many personal gains as possible at the expense of the suffering, the sick, and the unfortunate.

He and others do this to create a distraction so that the audience focuses not on the real issue and the facts, but on the idiotic statements they make.

These vile people should understand that before they speak like this on a television show, they should filter their thoughts. Their words reach many listeners, and among them may be people fighting cancer who, upon hearing such things, could feel demoralized and deeply hurt.

I remember my father’s battle with cancer (which I shared with you a few months ago [here](https://stacker.news/items/569991)), and I try to imagine how he would have felt if he had heard this vile analyst on one of the main TV channels, in prime time. I can't imagine how hurt he would have felt.

Cancer patients already have a difficult journey, so making it worse with insensitive comments is just heartless, cruel, and despicable.

To show this analyst how dehumanising his statement is, let me share something a relative once told me:

>In the UK, at the hospital where cancer patients are treated, including those in terminal stages, students from the Academy of Arts bring various musical instruments and play different artistic pieces for the patients before each chemotherapy session. They do this several times a month to bring positive energy to them.

This statement made me feel terrible, and I can only imagine how cancer patients who heard it must have felt. But what made me feel even worse was the lack of response from the broader public.

It’s so sad!

Post Scriptum: Cancer patients are warriors of light, inspiring us with their strength at every moment.
