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3:57 AM
i was told there would be war stories
 
 
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7:04 AM
@user400188: Hello!
Just thought to invite you here because I was told to invite my friends here. =)
 
Oh, I'm flattered.
 
I guess it's quiet now, but it will get noisy later.
I suppose @amWhy intends to continue the word games in this room (originally played in "whatever, quid"). Right?
 
7:43 AM
@user21820 Have you ever participated in puzzling.SE?
 
@Safdar I have, but I found that in general they do not care about correctness, so I stopped.
 
@user21820 correctness?
 
8:12 AM
@Safdar There was once I posted a mathematical correct answer, and all other answers were mathematically bogus, but users on Puzzling SE not only heavily downvoted me but also used argument from 'authority' instead of addressing the mathematical issues. So I gave up.
 
 
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12:15 PM
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Q: How to proceed after being threatened and treated poorly by university faculty after reporting physical assault?

laputalanglangI’m an Indian PhD student at a mathematics department in the US. A few months back, I was deliberately shoulder-bumped for a few seconds by another PhD student. This student had previously chased me across the department (literally), invaded my personal space, and stared me down. I asked to chang...

I wonder how such problems can be solved.
What would it take for universities around the world to truly put a stop to this kind of unambiguous bullying?
 
 
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1:22 PM
@amWhy: I noticed you deleted this. I don't see what's wrong with it at all, and can't understand the downvote. In fact, I think your answer is the best answer, because it uses weaker equivalences first... If you decide to undelete it let me know so that I can upvote it, though maybe you could also change the last bit to p→q ≡ ¬p∨q. =)
 
 
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3:58 PM
@user21820 Done, and done. I get targeted quite frequently on my answers, these days (spurious downvotes and such.).
 
@amWhy Well so now you have one up and one down. =)
I would understand if the downvote came before you fixed the error, but no, the downvote came a day after you fixed it so it makes no sense at all.
 
@user21820 Thanks!
@user21820 Indeed. And it literally was a typo.
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5:50 PM
@user21820 Absolutely, that's an option
@AlexanderGruber The juicier, the better!!
@AlexanderGruber That includes combat stories from academia, and math.se!!
 
 
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7:50 PM
Word game: How many English words of four or more letters can we compile, using the letters of COMPUTER? Obviously, COMPUTE works!. @an4s, @user21820, @XanderHenderson, @AlexanderGruber, @Safdar, Any anyone liking word games can pitch in!!
POET ROTE MOPE
 
8:49 PM
@amWhy CRUMPET TEMP COMP RUMP TUMP COPE ROPE PORT PORE EURO PURE CURE PERM COME TOUR TRUE TEMPO RECUT CUTE CUTER TUMOR OUTER ROUTE MUTE MUTER MOPER COUPE RECOUP PRECUT TORE
 
@an4s Woo-hoo!!
 
@amWhy I can't believe I missed the most obvious: TRUMP
 
SLUR SLURP SLUM SOME SOUR
@an4s I was thinking of that when I saw you place RUMP next to TUMP ;D
 
@amWhy Wait.. there's no S in COMPUTER!!
 
@an4s Oh, you're right! I made another list if we made the word COMPUTERS My bad :(
 
8:56 PM
@amWhy Right!
@amWhy No probs!
 
@an4s Nor is there any L!! I need to FOCUS!!
 
 
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10:49 PM
POUR And with COMPUTERS, we have SCOUR and SCOUT too!!
POUT (and accordingly, with the added S) SPOUT and SPURT and SPUR and SURE) And MUSTER and STUMP
 
11:35 PM
COURT RECTUM (:0)
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11:52 PM
CURT PROM
TRUCE
 
@amWhy That is an unfortunate confluence of terms. :\
 
@XanderHenderson Indeed it is!! hah! ;D
PROCURE
 

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