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Well, you certainly come off as taking pleasure in expressing your revulsion for Oleg.

I guess I was unclear. What I meant changed is that it has recently become a widespread practice for other people to accept self-ID as sufficient to establish that someone is the other sex. The shorthand expression "self-ID" is in common use for that practice. Yes, of course. I wasn't...

Hey, can you guys remind me? What was that 4-letter word again that "trans-allies" use as a derogatory term for people who aren't on board with progressives' take on gender?

Project much?

What changed is self-ID. Back when getting recognized as the other sex meant bottom surgery, and bottom surgery meant psychiatry and medical diagnosis and follow-up and living as if you were the other sex for the previous year and so forth, the number of people jumping through all those hoops...

The OP summary's details don't quite match the linked article. According to the article, Barnes isn't saying he did it; he's saying Connally did it. (Also, in case it makes a difference, Barnes isn't saying Connally spoke to Iranians. Barnes and Connally were meeting with Arab leaders...

One of my relatives used to be mayor of a small city. The single most consistent lesson his experience in office teaches is that trying to make the numbers work out is a thankless task.

That's an awful lot of "should"s to try to justify all the "you"s in your previous post with. I was making "is" statements. "Ought" to "is" arguments are rarely any better than "is" to "ought" arguments. So when your point here is some point that isn't actually about me and my posts, how...

If you mean a path tangent to a circle of the radius where the drone switches from a spiral to a straight line, yes, that's obvious and simple, but I haven't got enough common sense and/or trigonometry to demonstrate it to be optimal among straight-line paths. :cheeky: The argument that proves...

The obvious suboptimal solution is C/pi, if the drone just heads directly away from the robot's starting location. A better solution is for the drone to spiral outward to radius / (pi + 1), so although the robot tries to get ahead and cut off escape, the drone stays directly opposite it. Then...

The above is a fantasy on your part. I didn't say "they are a woman"; I didn't say anything was like the platonic anything; I didn't insert imagination. You made all that up out of your own careless reading. If you reread my exchange with LP again, you'll see the two categories we were...

Are we supposed to assume the robot and the drone can always see each other and that the robot will always move toward the point on the periphery closest to the drone? Yes. I didn't find any simple rule for what to do, just an ugly case-by-case procedure. Hint: There are 28 possibilities but...

I'm actually not sure. I'm old, my memory is going, I've seen a lot of permutation problems that all run together in my head, and the decomposition I used is a standard approach for those. So it's entirely possible I saw it before at some point.

There's a simple strategy that obviously gets a ton better odds than the brutish approach. I don't know how to calculate the probability other than Monte Carlo simulation, but I'm guessing it matches your greyed-out percentage. Everybody picks his own number's box. If it has his number, great...

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/04/19

I'm king of the world!

It's almost as though countries don't decide whom to help based on feelings of inherited collective guilt. But rejecting the theory of obligation through inherited collective guilt has never meant no help for Black people -- the government does all sorts of things to help Black people. It just...

I have no idea what you mean by "to say abolition was the main leader", but it does not sound like anything I wrote. Of course those guys' lances were pointed at the companies; but a political movement to prioritize workers' interests over employers' interests will be seen as unnecessary and...

:picardfacepalm: That's the exact same garbage you spewed at me in the Mississippi thread. One of your political allies makes a completely lame claim about some matter of fact, but since he was attempting to support a cause you agree with, when I point out his error you strawman the bejesus...

The "her" in that answer means you didn't understand what I said. The one example whom you inspected and extrapolated to the whole subpopulation from isn't any "her"; it's you yourself. You deduced a characteristic of all members of the "have any interest in transition" subpopulation from the...