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Why are people like this? A female mathematician in training seeks logic in an illogical world. And doesn't find it. But at least there's coffee. I have a BF.
Jun 28 β€’ 10 tweets β€’ 2 min read
@discord I just noticed a bad design choice you made. It's not a problem for me, today, but it's likely to become one someday, and to be one for other users, right now.

Let's talk about it. @discord In order to change one's contact email address on Discord, one has to be able to receive an email at that contact address. But what happens if one's email host goes out of business without warning, and one needs to replace one's contact email address with one that is up to date.
Jun 26 β€’ 62 tweets β€’ 11 min read
@SomeBitchIIKnow From: "Flame Warriors" by Mike Reed.

"Artful Dodger is a nimble and elusive Warrior. When strongly attacked he changes the subject with a diversionary counterattack."

... Image @SomeBitchIIKnow ...

"For example, if in a moment of pique his opponent refers to him to him as a "sonofabitch", Artful Dodger will not only demand a public apology for the insult to his own mother, but will castigate his opponent on behalf all mothers everywhere."

...
Jun 26 β€’ 12 tweets β€’ 3 min read
@BWLH_ "That stupid poem," as you put it was written in 1883 and put on a plaque that has been there since 1903.



It greeted generations worth of immigrants who came through when Ellis Island was still turning people away.nps.gov/stli/learn/his… @BWLH_ You're calling for the destruction of History based on contemporary political concerns. Support for open borders would have been widely considered an extreme (and irrational) position in the US as late as the 1980s.

Any reading of it into an 1883 poem is anachronistic.
Jun 25 β€’ 7 tweets β€’ 2 min read
@DarkandtheLight @henri_fjord My understanding is that they're allowed to leave a fire burning on the Sabbath, they're merely not allowed to light one.

A fire can keep burning on its own, for a very long time.

(1/2) @DarkandtheLight @henri_fjord Also, if you look up the climate for Jerusalem, you'll notice that even in the two coldest months (January and February), the average nightly low in 44 F / 7 C, and the average daily high is 53 F / 12 C or higher.

One can sleep in a 40 F room and not freeze to death.

( 2 / 2)
Jun 24 β€’ 5 tweets β€’ 2 min read
@chicago I had to laugh for a little bit after seeing this map. Like the Universe was picking on us, personally. Again.



Welcome to Chicago! πŸ™ƒ 🀣

But there are going to be people who will really need our help, and I hope we'll all try to be there for them. washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/0…Image @chicago Today's high humidity and high temperature might be funny when one is in one's early 20s, and is living in a well air-conditioned house, but if one is elderly, this weather can kill, especially if one is overheating at home, too.
Jun 20 β€’ 8 tweets β€’ 2 min read
@LioIsFinalyBack @FearedBuck @Sir3O3 That's easy, because the problem isn't a completely new one. You've heard of ghost writers, right? These people who write things that other people pay to put their names on?

The old worry was that students would have ghost writers write their theses. @LioIsFinalyBack @FearedBuck @Sir3O3 In order to keep students from getting away with that, schools make students who are going to get their PhDs defend their theses.

It's just you, a piece of chalk and that blackboard in front of a few college professors asking you hard questions about your thesis.
Jun 20 β€’ 15 tweets β€’ 3 min read
@FearedBuck Somebody, please try to find out who this was.

His career needs to be over, now. This is not even a subject that should be seen as being open to debate. This is no different than having somebody else write one's paper for one. @FearedBuck Grok did. I guess it just wasn't willing to tell people who didn't have blue checkmarks. I'll quote, and then link.
Jun 19 β€’ 17 tweets β€’ 3 min read
@allie__voss I've noticed that a lot of 30 something women, even ones who have said that they wanted children, seem to be stubbornly resigned to the idea that they'll never be able to find husbands. @allie__voss I find that many of them will remain so even when suggestions are given as to where they would have an excellent chance of finding husbands who they'd love, and who would love them back.
Jun 18 β€’ 8 tweets β€’ 1 min read
@SomeBitchIIKnow Indians and Pakistanis belong to the same "race," yet one doesn't hear similar concerns being voiced about Indians, very often. That should be enough to get any charges of racism quickly dismissed. @SomeBitchIIKnow If anything, the Pakistanis tend to be whiter, so this is about behavior, not skin color.

And Baroness Casey knows it.
Jun 14 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 1 min read
@SledgeJohns @s8n No, and I would be absolutely prepared to do my part to support the use of force to stop that future from becoming real. Even if that meant helping to build weapons of mass destruction for the Resistance to the government that adopted such a policy. @SledgeJohns @s8n Come for our elders, and it's war. Real war, the kind that ends with cities being wiped from the face of the Earth, and entire populations being wiped out, and not one bit of remorse from the likes of me for the part we played in making that happen.
Jun 12 β€’ 85 tweets β€’ 14 min read
@CuriouslyBased @LOVESD2024 @realchrisrufo Do I need to do much more than link back to the rest of that tweetstorm?



You just engaged in exactly the kind of behavior that I went on to describe, Wancil. @CuriouslyBased @LOVESD2024 @realchrisrufo Exactly as I said ... when Black and Latino people demand diversity hiring (or affirmative action), they will routinely point to their own under-representation in university departments (or various professions) as evidence of discrimination against them.
Jun 7 β€’ 27 tweets β€’ 5 min read
@SenRandPaul @FBIDirectorKash @FBIDDBongino @SecKennedy @NIHDirector_Jay Nice rhetoric, but will there really be worthwhile results?

Creating new rules and procedures will achieve nothing. The abuses of power that did take place, at the time, were blatantly unconstitutional and completely illegal, and those in power did not care. @SenRandPaul @FBIDirectorKash @FBIDDBongino @SecKennedy @NIHDirector_Jay They responded defiantly to any mention of the limits of what authority they did legitimately possessed, and barged on ahead.

Scolding them in public won't fix that. They have to be punished, at a bare minimum, with prison time.
Jun 6 β€’ 14 tweets β€’ 3 min read
@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee "It's relative,"

You have the nerve to start out with those words, after making absolute general claim (something that you will go on to do again), before continuing with a cliched bit of condescension.

"young lady.."

If you were expecting deference, it's not ... @workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee ... going to happen.

"Allow me to mansplain:"

No, I'm not going to allow you to do so, but I am going to sarcastically thank you for unintentionally making a point for me: that in this very short-lived, decidedly non-romantic relationship that we're having, that I'm the adult.
Jun 6 β€’ 26 tweets β€’ 5 min read
@DoggiePoopEater @Cluffalo @blueqchristmas "Thanks, Sigh."

You're welcome ...

"Enjoyed your answer. Very interesting."

... and thank you for your kind words. @DoggiePoopEater @Cluffalo @blueqchristmas "As I pointed out initially, however, 'Not dating but just curious.'”

That you did, but I have seen people who weren't looking for somebody to date ask me the question I was talking about, just to make conversation, so I thought I'd better say something about that.
Jun 5 β€’ 17 tweets β€’ 3 min read
@DoggiePoopEater @Cluffalo @blueqchristmas "Not dating but just curious: Do those apps have IQ filters?"

No, and that's one of the reasons why people with high IQs seldom use them, and usually stop using them fairly quickly when they do. If one needs a needle, does one go looking for a haystack?

Better options exist. @DoggiePoopEater @Cluffalo @blueqchristmas I sense that you're thinking of asking me what those options are but, at the risk of being thought of as a female body part, I'm going to refuse to answer such questions.

If you really do have a high IQ, you'll naturally find those options on your own, without my help.
Jun 4 β€’ 14 tweets β€’ 3 min read
@sylintactgrate @SomeBitchIIKnow "The problem is that the idea of 'protect and love' in your mind vs. in the minds' of many men arent the same."

Sad, but true. That having been said, I've heard that Liv is trans. She (or would that be "she") might not have our best interests at heart. @sylintactgrate @SomeBitchIIKnow I'm thinking of one guy in particular, as I write this. Remember Charles "Charlotte" Clymer? Infamously abusive "male feminist"



who left his past (and bad reputation) behind when he transitioned, thanks to the "rule" against "deadnaming."change.org/p/stein-huffin…
Jun 4 β€’ 21 tweets β€’ 4 min read
@robert64862 @ibxtoycat @3YearLetterman @USAinUK That's a copout, Bob, and I know exactly the kind of person who resorts to it: a bottom feeder.

Going to block you, and with good reason. @robert64862 @ibxtoycat @3YearLetterman @USAinUK I'm quite familiar with the way in which it gets pushed: through an attempt to establish a false equivalence of the wrongs that people do, carried out by somebody who pretends to not understand the concept of a matter of degree.
Jun 4 β€’ 5 tweets β€’ 1 min read
@ibxtoycat @3YearLetterman @USAinUK British people pretend to believe that, because of petty resentment over the fact that America has replaced the UK as the dominant world power, and remained that power for decades, at this point. @ibxtoycat @3YearLetterman @USAinUK Indian and Chinese people remind British people that their time at the top was hardly spent in the noble manner that the British of today like to pretend that it was.

Remember the Opium Wars? The Chinese certainly do, and there was nothing noble about them.
Jun 2 β€’ 7 tweets β€’ 2 min read
@Eugenia_Cooney Ms. Cooney,

I'm tempted to ask you to stop harming yourself, but that's the whole point of your self-destruction, isn't it? You've been encouraged to do this to yourself, for the attention and for the clicks.

Which is why I'm asking people to please stop replying to you. @Eugenia_Cooney Please know that this is not because nobody cares about you in the World, which is a thought that you'll probably have, should you find yourself without followers. The fact that some of us DO care is why some of us are turning our backs on you, and asking others to do the same.
May 28 β€’ 8 tweets β€’ 2 min read
@KevinS79887 @Awesome_Jew_ Flee, perhaps. One can't help but notice how many clearly mentally unbalanced people are showing up in the West, talking about their hatred of Jews. But I would question the wisdom of having them all relocate to the same small, arid country. @KevinS79887 @Awesome_Jew_ 1. The Land of Israel is only about the same size as the American state of Delaware. How many people can it support, before it starts running out of water and its aquifers start to compact?
May 28 β€’ 16 tweets β€’ 3 min read
@sylintactgrate Something tells me that Paul has spent his entire adult life in the Ocean



and will never get out of it. I just read a little of his ranting, and there was so much to unpack, just in the few tweets I saw. @sylintactgrate Let's see ... porn routinely displays sexual acts that hardly any woman would ever want to be on the receiving end of, no matter who the man was. The brutal, degrading stuff that street walkers endure, because they're paid to do so, and because they're usually desperate.