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straight cis man (listed in case I'm interacting with someone who'd rather not interact with that demographic!)

[j @cryptosocdem]

@RichardDawkins Hi Richard there are one million spurious proofs claiming to settle the P vs NP question. Thank you for agreeing to write a detailed rebuttal of each. All the rest of us have decided not to devote arbitrary university resources to every random proposition but go ahead if you like

[j @cryptosocdem]

@begoniatulip @Tom_Gann Dryness has nothing to do with it. The point is the main function of academia is limiting debate to plausible alternatives. It's not about eating yesterday's porridge over and over again, no matter how dry it is served.

[j @cryptosocdem]

@sclv @RadishHarmers I think there are actually good reasons to start at 2 like some ancient Greeks apparently did. Peano's axioms are much prettier without tacky redundancies!

[j @cryptosocdem]

@bookbird71 @speakoutsister It's actually this that's circular because "female" just means "belonging or relating to women or girls"

[j @cryptosocdem]

@TheBdNvestment5 Not so sure about this, there are a lot of misogynists of this type (including a surface-level "feminism"), it just tends to be the whiny, butthurt flavour of misogyny.

[j @cryptosocdem]

@kittysull1 Interesting. What sort of world did you make that way?

[j @cryptosocdem]

@bat020 I'm so tired that after reading this I thought "but if there is no tube, then that which is left over once it is used up can never be thrown out"

[j @cryptosocdem]

@CamoDiver It literally is stolen, it was given to valvoline for the purposes of an oil change, and stolen from them for harassment purposes by an employee.

[j @cryptosocdem]

@CamoDiver The phone book is irrelevant to the question of stolen private information (though cold calling with no reasonable business was still impolite imo). If someone removed themselves from the phone book and you stole their number to contact them, that was considered bad!

[j @cryptosocdem]

@TheRealJarod78 @st_louis_stan Well doing something about it will probably "upend his life", at least by costing him his job and making it somewhat hard to get another. But that was his decision, not hers.

[j @cryptosocdem]

@Evol7n @CannotDieBroke Never respond to spam it lets the spammer know the number is correct and regularly used.

[j @cryptosocdem]

@CannotDieBroke The profuse apology is just a transparent attempt at manipulative behaviour. Yes that's right everyone knows about the little strategies of guys like him (and, apparently, you) so there's no point trying to normalize them!

[j @cryptosocdem]

@CamoDiver You know in the old days it was not considered polite to steal someone's private information, That was actually considered very, very impolite!

[j @cryptosocdem]

@st_louis_stan @halogen1048576 She has to tell the employer because they have a responsibility to stop him stealing women's private information from them. How exactly they stop that is not her problem!

[j @cryptosocdem]

@TheRealJarod78 @st_louis_stan He shouldn't do it but... nothing should be done to stop him doing it again?

[j @cryptosocdem]

@st_louis_stan "Rules for Female Interaction"?? Do you think men commonly steal the contact details of male customers at work and text them "nice beard", "lets get a beer sometime" or "I'm short of cash can I borrow some?". Is that how you're claiming male friendships get going?

[j @cryptosocdem]

@tofuafficionado I do think keeping cats indoor is cruel to the cat, but imo the solution is a dramatic reduction in the cat population! (Seems achievable in a few years through a programme of neutering)

[j @cryptosocdem]

@Timstillherelol You *do* say the final t in fillet; it was imported into English from Middle French in which it was pronounced. But you are right about herb, where the initial h started to be pronounced in Britain in the 19th century

[j @cryptosocdem]

@intentionalisms Is it significantly better than old-fashioned spellcheck?

[j @cryptosocdem]

@BBCNewsnight @katierazz I hate Keir Starmer but some critiques of him are just too ridiculous to go along with lol. You'd have thought that formulating a policy position *is* running the country. Indeed the problem with Starmer is that he spends almost no time thinking about ideas.