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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.
Jul 12 β€’ 31 tweets β€’ 6 min read
@gal_montag @jimsallas @simabaktas @lindayaX @elonmusk ^ Oh, look! Another bad faith reply! What a surprise! Let's take a look at what I actually wrote (which continues here)



as opposed to what Gal Montag wants to pretend that I said. @gal_montag @jimsallas @simabaktas @lindayaX @elonmusk There's no call for censorship there, and Montag knows it, if Gal Montag is a real human being and not just a bot. I merely make the case that neo-Naziism is destined to turn on (and destroy) itself.
Jul 12 β€’ 46 tweets β€’ 8 min read
@JeepIsUnlimited I pointed out why this was not the case in the rest of my tweetstorm



and all that you have to come back with is an assertion? Are you a human being or a bot? @JeepIsUnlimited "The country would be peaceful, clean, prosperous, and free!"



Seriously, let's take a good look at that positively Orwellian claim. How would abolishing freedom of religion make America more free?
Jul 11 β€’ 10 tweets β€’ 2 min read
@SomeBitchIIKnow Oopsie! Missed a spot, Bill. @SomeBitchIIKnow Awww ... I just missed it. So many unfriendly things to say to the guy, so little time.
Jul 9 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 2 min read
@jimsallas @simabaktas @lindayaX @elonmusk "It’s hilarious to watch BlueSky consume itself in a woke orgy of political correctness."

That it is. But is neo-Naziism really any more reasonable, or in the end any less self-destructive, than wokeness? @jimsallas @simabaktas @lindayaX @elonmusk Let's say that the X'itter Nazis win, really win, and everybody who isn't White, Christian and Straight is now absent from the US. What happens next?
Jul 9 β€’ 34 tweets β€’ 6 min read
@MouseOnShrooms @SomeBitchIIKnow No, you got blocked by me after you pushed the pro-H1B talking points, while pretending to oppose their position. I'm familiar with that game.

You're being manipulative and I'm calling you on it. @MouseOnShrooms @SomeBitchIIKnow Quoting you back to yourself, Mouse, you wrote this:

"Also, I didn't mean to word it like 'highly educated'. I just meant to say competitive in the market in fields like engineering and technology."



Let's unpack this attempt of yours to be slick.
Jul 9 β€’ 43 tweets β€’ 8 min read
@MouseOnShrooms @SomeBitchIIKnow Uh, huh. You said it in a supportive tone, and I think you know that. You also cooperatively used the H1B's lobby's counterfactual talking point

"IMO, he wants to import lots of highly educated people to increase the supply and bring down the demand. It makes the labor cheaper." @MouseOnShrooms @SomeBitchIIKnow H1Bs aren't highly educated. They're products of degree mills, low grade educational institutions that give out meaningless degrees, easily earned.
Jul 7 β€’ 33 tweets β€’ 5 min read
@OliviaSays_ai @MAstronomers If we're the ones finding them. That's not guaranteed, and there's good reason to doubt that this is how things would play out, if the first aliens we encounter are not native to this solar system.

BTW, you should have added

4. Some sort of sea creature. @OliviaSays_ai @MAstronomers On Earth, life took a long time to come up on land, and a number of worlds have underground oceans (eg. Europa). At this time, any claims about what does or does not live on some of those moons would be hasty things to make.

Really, nobody knows.
Jul 7 β€’ 26 tweets β€’ 5 min read
@BiffoBoffo @AleaVantheia @MAstronomers No, that's not a good argument. You can't just extract quantitative results (such as how long ruins would take to erode away) from purely qualitative points, as you just did there, and do legitimate science in the process. @BiffoBoffo @AleaVantheia @MAstronomers "Mars's erosion is much slower"

Yes, but how much slower? That's the problem with a "gutting in out" type of argument - you're just assuming that the slowness will be enough to give you the disproof you're claiming is there to be found.
Jul 7 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 1 min read
@JoePrime @AleaVantheia @MAstronomers After a few billion years? Probably not. Take a look at the Martian surface. Notice how eroded it looks? Even the very thin Martian atmosphere takes it toll on structures, over time.

Buildings are a lot smaller than mountains. They'd erode away, first. @JoePrime @AleaVantheia @MAstronomers That having been said, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Alea's claims, not the least of which is that they come, evidence-free, from somebody who claims to be psychic.

Occam's razor comes into play on this one.
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.