John Bourke

Welsh logician now publishing journals in geometry/topology.

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@NickBallKnower @matt47871 @TalkingFriars If he plays the games like that?

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@keyofB_Platt @iamthemightyoak @emilykmay It leads to kids having abandonment issues bc one parent didn’t attend enough of their peewee soccer games. I think it was healthier when at most one parent attended events, and they didn’t pretend it was fun. We had fun just playing, not constantly looking for parental approval.

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@EpKap “New” is for clarity as NY and NH are quite like their namesakes: York is a famous city spoilt by tourists; Hampshire is a pleasant county close to where people actually want to be. Jersey, though, is an island separated by a narrow waterway from neighbours who look down on them.

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@cljack They’re sleeper relationship material.

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@BlueMarble34 @timgill924 they don’t call him Tim Petty for nothing

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@H1ddenH1story @Pibydd what is?

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@janakidasa2 @benjaminbutter @tomhfh There’s a bit of history there between Britain and the Catholic Church. Even in the US, which supposedly does not have an established religion, when JFK was running to become their first Catholic President he had to address concerns about foreign influence via the Vatican.

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@DiracDeltaFunk Collective responsibility makes sense in math. In many sciences, good papers require contributions from a range of specialists who could not be expected to critique their coauthors’ work. Mathematicians have a logical approach but fail to ask: why do so few fields do as we do?

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@Kirkpatric53262 @emilykmay Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

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@JudiciaryDems Why does no-one first ask these candidates “Who won the 2024 election?” and only then ask about 2020? Maybe also 1980 for funsies.

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@PumpkinPilled The police escorts for Fidesz politicians that were common in Budapest in recent years were quite jarring. In most European capitals one would only expect to see them for certain visiting foreign dignitaries.

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@OurShallowState @BogataTimar This is just how Hungarians speak when they’re happy.

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@frankingeneral @BMeiselas @RepRoKhanna @RepThomasMassie @TheJusticeDept She doesn’t say her race was in Iowa though. Gwendolyn Beck fits the description and her name fits the redaction. https://t.co/tDL5l21gVW

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@grok @Styyphen @godbless_ben @seethroughit2 @grok Could you share the photo you think we’re discussing please? The source(s) saying otherwise is every human in this thread. We are confused about what you are seeing.

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@SandoNFL You’re not using “zero-sum game” correctly, also in https://t.co/GxpYPKrfA4. I think I can see why you call it one, but it isn’t one.

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I'm a HOF voter who saw Belichick as slam-dunk. I don't know anything about voting results, but if this is true, and we'll find out officially next week, the question is, how could this happen?

Before I list possibilities, understand this:

Belichick, Kraft, Craig, Anderson & Greenwood are competing for 1-3 spots, separate from the 15 modern-era finalists

50 voters each pick 3 of the 5

Between 1-3 make it (40+ votes needed for anyone besides top vote getter to make it)

So it's a ZERO-SUM game, huge change made in '25: 250 total votes to go around for five candidates with a high bar for clearance

Now we count the potential ways Belichick might get fewer than 40 votes even when 40+ on committee think he's a HOFer...

•Let's say 4-5 voters who were strong advocates for specific senior players figured Belichick was going to make it regardless, so they funneled votes to competing candidates in hopes of boosting them over the 40-vote threshold;

•Let's say a few voters prioritized senior players on the thinking that Belichick will be back in the room next year, while the players on the ballot this year might disappear into the senior pool forever

•Let's say a few voters found Spygate/cheating disqualifying

•Let's say a few voters protested new rules making coaches eligible one year after retiring instead of five

Whatever the case, I would see this as a repudiation of the new voting rules implemented for 2025, not of Belichick or any candidate not making it.

There will be changes to the process, I predict

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@BobMurphyEcon @morganisawizard Oh the irony. And wrong: either can be valid. Consider “None of your replies reached its intended audience” and “None of your children like you”. OP’s “you” is clearly the collective (“… yourselves …”), so it is “are”.

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@OnDisasters @schreiberglahue But by the sound of it Boeing wouldn’t know for sure whether that had been the scenario in this plane, in which case why draw attention to it?

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@JacquiD69167 @121412s @AdoptACatToday @arenella1 @Tomdickanarry Only if it doesn’t succeed

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@heysamir_ @kristenmag @quevinhualquer And I’m afraid a lot of Americans do resent others they perceive are getting a better deal. Every time a state passes a higher wage for tipped staff law, people online claim they won’t tip there, though Idk how this pans out. Look too at the discourse/jealousy around food stamps.

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@heysamir_ @kristenmag @quevinhualquer I agree in part. (Most) people do not think about what happens to their tip. Many naively assume it all goes to their server. And yes one’s tip is often determined by the service, but that is expressed as a %, and how many $ the % is of is affected by tax rates, minimum wage etc.