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 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.
Jul 12 • 31 tweets • 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 • 46 tweets • 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?
@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 • 6 tweets • 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 • 34 tweets • 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."
@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 • 33 tweets • 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 • 26 tweets • 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 • 6 tweets • 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 • 10 tweets • 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.
