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.
Aug 27 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
@SomeBitchIIKnow H1Bs are the barely competent products of fly-by-night "degree mills" in India.
@SomeBitchIIKnow They look great on paper, and bringing them in lets American executives look like they're living up to their fiduciary duty, as they gut their own companies by firing highly skilled people and replacing them with those better suited to call center duty. Or maybe latrine cleaning.
Aug 27 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
@SamTab1048995 @rev_felix @disclosetv That's not how Science works, Sam. Intentions don't guarantee results. Remember the "radioactive boyscout"?
Do you think he set out intending to give himself radiation poisoning? But that's what he ended up doing to himself.iflscience.com/the-radioactiv…
@SamTab1048995 @rev_felix @disclosetv Projects are supposed to be screened for a reason, the reason being that as hard as this is for guys like you to understand, one can't win a test of wills with the Universe just by being passionate enough.
Aug 27 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
@Safety So, I see you guys are back to playing your adorable little underhanded censorship games. This time, I tried to reply to a tweet posted by a real life friend
"Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Of course, no matter how many shots I give it, the same thing happens. Quite obviously, this is by design. Instead of being openly censorious, you're being passive-aggressively so.
Aug 24 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
@stillgray @elonmusk Not that way, we're not. Chemical rockets are good for going from a planetary surface to orbit (or the reverse) because they are high thrust, but they're awful for travel between planets, because their thrust can't be maintained for long.
@stillgray @elonmusk For interplanetary travel, a low but sustainable acceleration will get one to where one is going far more quickly that will a high acceleration that can only last for a few minutes, after which the ship coasts all of the way to the planet.
Aug 22 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
@EthicalSkeptic This is true, and the last sentence is of particular relevance.
@EthicalSkeptic When I predict a near-future fall of civilization out loud, people keep thinking that I'm in need of reassurance, because they don't get it: I'm being optimistic.
The fall of this civilization isn't just inevitable, it's desirable.
Aug 22 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
@AK4WA Amber ... if somebody walked into a supermarket, pulled out a gun and shot up the place, and then, years later, announced his decision to clean up his act and fly straight, would you want to see him put back out onto the street, or left in prison, at the very least?
@AK4WA Those responsible for this series of outrages committed crimes that make those of a mass shooter pale by comparison. There has to be such a thing as accountability.
Aug 20 • 38 tweets • 7 min read
@strangevisitoh @s8n Congratulations on the not-quite-groundbreaking work you did, as you posted that glib dismissal of the problem of evil.
Your answer falls apart, because human beings are not a hivemind.
@strangevisitoh @s8n Even when human beings really are to blame for hunger, the victims often aren't, because they're powerless people who had no say in the making of the bad decisions that left them hungry.
Aug 8 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
@BasedTorba Giving your wisdom a little added immortality, 'Drew ...
@BasedTorba Torba speaks!
@BasedTorba Those are feminine traits you say, Drew? Really?
"Feeding on endless drama, whining and nagging, conforming to cult-like group consensus,"
Like, say, almost everything that the Incels have ever posted? Or the neo-Nazis, most of whom were male, the last time I checked?
@BasedTorba Sorry I can't be calm and restrained, like the men who keep calling for the abolition of the 19th amendment, the denial of a woman's freedom to seek higher education, and want the Government to force us to have sex with the Incels.
I'll try to do better. Want a sandwich?
Aug 6 • 45 tweets • 7 min read
@zachrowell95 @realyobservable To be exact, Asian-Americans tend to have higher IQs than Americans do, in general. But if you visit Asia, itself, you will not be greeted with a continent full of Nobel prize winning concert violinists. As cool as that would be.
There are a lot of dumb people in Asia.
@zachrowell95 @realyobservable There were waves of really smart people fleeing the countries that fell to Communism, because the Intelligentsia was treated with particular brutality by those regimes (leaving the intellectuals with a very strong motive to flee).
Aug 5 • 42 tweets • 8 min read
@sylintactgrate You saw that, too? Yes, the white nationalists went crazier than usual, attacking any non-European that they could find.
The theory under which these unprovoked attacks were defended was worth noticing, and was noticed.
@sylintactgrate There was some attempt to disguise it, by feigning stupidity, as a lot of people refused to understand that one can look Asian, and still be born in the United States.
They'd keep referring to people born in California as foreign exchange students.
Aug 4 • 34 tweets • 14 min read
@DrewPavlou And Elon Musk supports it. I'm going to try to tell you about what just happened, and see if his system lets me do so, this time.
I kept running into the "don't fret" error message, when I tried to discuss this, elsewhere.
@DrewPavlou Twitter still engages in censorship, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. They're just sneakier about it than they used to be.
Aug 4 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
@hyperliberalism LOL. Thank you for expressing yourself clearly. I will be delighted to return the favor.
As a (gasp!) non-White American, I am located in a metropolitan area that is more than capable of defending itself from any attack that the White nationalists are likely to ever mount.
@hyperliberalism Come here and try to ethnically cleanse Illinois, and we won't just kill the troops you send. Since you will have initiated a civil war, we will finish it. Ever see a picture of Atlanta after the Union troops went through?
Like that, only far worse.
Jul 31 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
@business I can think of a few reasons.
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@business 1. More than a few of us who've found ourselves in better financial shape, post-Covid, have often wondered how long our good fortune would be lasting, because we've been able to look around and see how many people have been genuinely hurting out there.
Jul 29 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
@SirLeoX Are you saying that unless we pay Elon for what he has made into an inherently meaningless blue checkmark, that you're going to throw us out of the group?
Sounds like a great way to turn this into a lousy group, but you do you.
@SirLeoX Specifically, Leo ... you'll be making this group into something more akin to a vanity press, in that the only users who will be allowed to stay will be those willing to pay to have their work be seen.
Jul 27 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
@SomeBitchIIKnow That would explain the out-of-the-blue cancellations of men in the gyms, for allegedly glancing in the direction of the women in there.
Maybe the idea is to create a hostile environment that drives out the straight guys.
@SomeBitchIIKnow Grok 3 goes on spouting the usual woke talking points as if they were facts. This gets annoying, because those points are glaringly at odds with common sense of just about anybody in the real world, who has any real life experience, and no major mental illness or axe to grind.
Jul 22 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
@SethChilde59997 @historyrock_ The truth sad thing happens when Man projects his own pettiness onto the Divine, and imagines that he has claimed the moral high ground by doing so.
What we are seeing out of you is wounded pride masquerading as compassion.
@SethChilde59997 @historyrock_ Somebody dared to believe differently than you do, on a matter in which certain knowledge is unavailable to us, and you so were so hatefully enraged by that disagreement that you wished to see that somebody in agony, for all eternity, just for that.
Jul 20 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
@sylintactgrate There is a real problem being reflected by those male numbers, it's just the problem that the anti-feminists want it to be.
The problem is the large number of men who are eager to sabotage other men, either out of petty jealousy, or just to prove what big men they can be.
@sylintactgrate Perhaps I am biased, but my own observations have left me thinking that while female aggression exists and can grow into something that one would do well not to trifle with, it almost always exists to serve a purpose.
Jul 20 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
@SomeBitchIIKnow "All the world's people are your brothers and sisters."
That's really not as inspirational a message as the writers probably thought it was.
When parents value all children as highly as their own, in practice that means that children get neglected, en masse.
@SomeBitchIIKnow That view also does nothing to curb out of control population growth. One ends up with families of over a dozen children who the father feels no responsibility to support, who are send out begging by their parents.
This creates a perverse incentive.
Jul 19 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
@LaundryQueen__ @HollyGrayle I wasn't swaddled, at all, as a baby, and having just watched that, I'm fighting the urge to scream and run away from my computer.
Instant panic attack. It doesn't just look strange, it looks terrifying. No child of mine will ever be swaddled, either.
@LaundryQueen__ @HollyGrayle "Ya know what the problem is with that guy? His mom didn't bind his limbs so tightly against his body that he couldn't move, back before he could talk and tell her in words how much he hated that, and how deep his terror was when she did that to him.
How cruel she was being."
Jul 16 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
@Howdyhorde "I did not like the layout at all & all that was there was a shitlibs echo chamber!"
Oh, tell me about it! I just got dogpiled by a pack of randos over there, because I followed somebody that they personally disapproved of, a so-called "transphobe."
@Howdyhorde Meaning somebody who knew that a boy couldn't magically turn into a girl, just by putting on a dress. It was a BIZARRE conversation, so wrong on so many levels.
I wouldn't dream of suggesting that anybody go over to Bluesky. Ever. That site is self-destructing, already.
