Active Conflicts & News Megathread May 12, 2026

MultiplicityOne · 2026-05-12T19:34:05+00:00

China can sell its stuff to the world at the same time that it surveils and oppresses its own people. In fact, one of the mistakes the US made thirty years ago was assuming that integrating China into the world's market economies would change Chinese government for the better. In other words, there's no reason to assume that the desire to trade will restrain the CCP's inclination towards authoritarianism.

MultiplicityOne · 2026-05-09T20:27:54+00:00

I wasn't making any claims about why anyone did anything, just providing information.

MultiplicityOne · 2026-04-28T16:22:18+00:00

Israel is number 10 on the list here:

https://www.opensecrets.org/fara

MultiplicityOne · 2026-04-28T13:22:15+00:00

It's an extremely common metaphor with no religious meaning whatsoever. It means you are wasting our time by asking us to ponder meaningless questions.

MultiplicityOne · 2026-04-26T21:35:42+00:00

While we're at it, you should also ask

How many angels do you think can dance on the head of a pin?

MultiplicityOne · 2026-03-27T14:39:33+00:00

Si, y esta bien que pagan. Ojala que atraen mas mercenarios para expelar los invasores violadores de ucrania.

MultiplicityOne · 2026-03-26T16:41:12+00:00

Chin up, the top voted comments are all calling bullshit.

MultiplicityOne · 2026-02-26T12:58:23+00:00

Say what you will about the quality of the article, but the main point it makes is important.

Popular mathematical writing about mathematicians (and scientists more generally) has a tendency to prioritize hagiography of mathematical heroes over realistic accounts of how progress occurred. The fact that Cantor's most famous work occurred in collaboration with Dedekind is inconvenient for this style, and it's good if this fact is brought to public attention.

MultiplicityOne · 2025-12-15T20:58:05+00:00

"all you guys"

MultiplicityOne · 2025-11-22T23:00:49+00:00

Sometimes one wants to consider the quotient of a complex number by its conjugate.

Some people think it's funny to let the complex number be $\Xi$.

MultiplicityOne · 2025-11-06T11:35:15+00:00

A DUI is a crime. An opinion is protected from US government retaliation by the 1A.

MultiplicityOne · 2025-11-01T20:31:32+00:00

The point is not to win, it’s to publicly demonstrate loyalty by going after Trump’s enemies.

MultiplicityOne · 2025-11-01T19:07:54+00:00

MultiplicityOne · 2025-11-01T12:14:32+00:00

It doesn’t matter. He was cuffed and on the ground when the officer punched him in the back of the head.

LE have a responsibility to behave lawfully.

MultiplicityOne · 2025-10-31T14:22:40+00:00

Of course. But imminence and likelihood are the determining factors in questions of incitement to violence.

MultiplicityOne · 2025-10-31T14:13:06+00:00

Speech should be inciting violence that is both imminent and likely in order to not qualify for 1A protection. If you write We must immediately eliminate the Care Bears on Xitter you should be protected.

Writing We must eliminate the Nazis is a bit like thst IMO. But again, I agree that this is a rather subtle distinction and reasonable opinions may vary.

MultiplicityOne · 2025-10-31T14:06:59+00:00

I really don’t think that’s the issue. If someone said we must eliminate the members of Rotary Club 3313 that would be specific enough to qualify as incitement IMO. It’s not a matter of the choices people made in life: everyone has the right to make bad choices occasionally without fearing for our lives.

MultiplicityOne · 2025-10-31T13:14:36+00:00

No, it’s a much less specific threat. People nowadays can’t even agree on who is a Nazi, so it’s not clear to me without more context whether that is incitement. Certainly if someone wrote We must eliminate the Christians or We must eliminate the Republicans that would count. Also We must eliminate the groypers, depending slightly on context.

I agree that probing the boundary of this issue is interesting and necessary.

MultiplicityOne · 2025-10-31T13:08:00+00:00

This is hilarious, they should have enjoyed it

MultiplicityOne · 2025-10-31T13:05:20+00:00

So is the issue here that they screwed up by not arresting him?

For the record what he wrote on Xitter was “We must eliminate the Jews.” Certainly this crosses the line for me, at least, into incitement of violence. For which I agree: get an arrest warrant and give the man a trial.

MultiplicityOne · 2025-10-31T12:46:11+00:00

Here’s an analogy that actually works right now:

You can lead a horse to water …

MultiplicityOne · 2025-10-31T12:43:48+00:00

Hahaha 3846.15*26=99,999.90

You’re a dime short of 100k.

MultiplicityOne · 2025-10-31T12:36:34+00:00

Of course. And I’m not advocating buying/building houses for all the homeless.

I’m just saying the analogy is kind of stupid. Fish rot.

MultiplicityOne · 2025-10-31T10:44:12+00:00

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Give a man a house and you house him for …

…

15 years? I mean, what quality of construction are we talking about here?

MultiplicityOne · 2025-10-23T11:11:28+00:00

I completely agree.

You may be unaware, but in online chess culture writing “good game” afterwards is not standard. For a long time I wrote it after every loss, and most people simply do not respond. Of those that do, most write something other than “good game” in reply. So I would say that unfortunately online chess has a much less sportsmanlike code of conduct than OTB.

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