Thank you, that was very interesting. I was surprised at the definition of the basic open sets because they felt quite closed to my intuition, so the topology feels discrete to me. It’s definitely Hausdorff, I guess, but that’s no big deal. I’m guessing if you’re saying it uses a lot of the axioms, it uses the axiom of choice. It feels like that kind of arena, but I’m no set theorist. Having been taught by ring theorists, I always found the axiom of choice no big deal and totally uncontroversial, but I’m aware of the existence of mathematicians who feel otherwise, intuitionists (confusing name) and constructivists and the like. Do set theorists have a lot of debate about axioms, is it largely led by consensus, or deeply controversial, or just a case of making clear which you’re using and no one gets excited about it?

Let’s assume I can prove the countability and non countability of various famous sets and, for example, that (a^b)c = a^bc for cardinalities. What’s determinacy?

Nnnnno.

Pizza and social media. And pizza.

Well done! Keep going.

I hesitate to ask, but how was he trying to stimulate himself that he ended up pissing all over himself?

Time travel, evidently.

They’re were a lot of men who insisted on immediate medical attention who got told that their partners had tried that and absolutely nothing would come of it.

Article points out that having a moral issue over porn is a much, much stronger prediction of perceiving problems than levels of use. The headline writer and introduction conclude that porn addiction isn’t real, but I think the detail of the article suggests more that behaviour only really gets properly out of control in the presence of self-disapproval.

I think a more consistent summary for that content is “Mainly only religious people seek help from psychologists for what they perceive as porn addiction, but overwhelmingly their behaviour doesn’t fit the professional thresholds for addiction”.

Some people did a thing with a specially configured tens machine where the woman would turn it the levels up and up until it was at the level of their normal period pain and then the man would go through the same levels stages and be gasping and writhing before it got there.

Turns out men have been massively underestimating period pain for centuries.

That said, some women experienced far, far higher levels than normal and were encouraged to take that data to a non-dismissive healthcare professional.

I think she would be mortified if she knew I knew.

I think I can smell progesterone, in some women, and in some months (far more than others/other times). Being male, this is absolutely is not something I can collect a lot of data on very quickly, and I don’t know whether the strength or clarity for me correlates with women who have higher levels than normal, but I do know it correlates really well with this chart in terms of timing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Estradiol_and_progesterone_%25_changes_across_the_menstrual_cycle.tif

So often I know that it’s a week and a half before your period, and I know what that means, but I promise you that I have never ever used this knowledge, partly because I’m pretty shy, but not even with my wife (who doesn’t know I can tell) when we were aiming for pregnancies, because that was a very busy time indeed in that arena and I saw no reason to reduce that in any way whatsoever.

I haven’t been on reddit for a long time. When you say “offered stock options”, do you mean they offered you the opportunity to invest in stock, or discounted stock, or free stock?

Wow, you’re so edgey.

I worry that your point is even worse than I thought.

You and I completely and utterly disagree.

I think you’re quite a few decades out of date with that opinion. The Chinese government is very worried about population decline now.

The nasty bit was telling a mother she has to have an abortion against her will.

China now has the opposite problem of a declining population, which causes problems because of the working age population is small compared to the older population, you end up running out of money so you either have to tax more heavily or abandon older folks to their fate without helping them.

The declining population problem is very common in wealthier countries.

And lower population means fewer jobs. The number of jobs that need doing in a country doesn’t depend on the area of the land, it depends on the population size. The problems come when governments don’t build infrastructure. If you don’t build schools and hospitals and suchlike, three are fewer jobs in construction and less money going into the local economy, and schools and hospitals get crowded and do a worse job.

Where does the Dizzy Devil Ducky bit come from?

Uh, the politics was an example of similar debating techniques, I made no assertion about your political viewpoint at all, that’s entirely opaque to me.

I also made no assertion about your personality, just that your viewpoint is atheist, and I made no ad hominem about you unless you have contempt for atheists and you consider that me asserting that you believe in atheism is offensive.

I did assert that calling people “illogical”, “irrational” and “unintelligent” is condescending and dismissive and that if you don’t believe that, you need to improve your social awareness, and I absolutely stand by that.

The words logical, irrational, and unintelligent are used because that is literally the topic of the post.

You say that as if it’s an external environment that didn’t come from your own beliefs about religion. You’re the OP! You set the topic yourself! You yourself framed it this way! The self dissociation and lack of awareness of your own beliefs is even more striking than normal here.

I don’t believe that you’re wrong about lack of scientific evidence on the issue of theism vs atheism at all. I do think you’re wrong about whether you’re at all neutral on the subject.