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:lol: I ain't reading all that but I'm really happy for you or sorry that it happened.

Hey, thought I was the gentleman. Where do I get me one of them?!

I think @"Mikie" already mentioned just one question each as it's already going to end up a lot of questions without that stipulation the way it's goi...

I've seen him online recently. Seems to be working hard and age doesn't seem a barrier. Regardless though there's a limit to what anyone can deal with...

We're all extremely grateful to @"Mikie" for setting this up and honoured to have Professor Chomsky contribute to our community here. :clap:

It was game over as soon as Russia was in a position to annex the contested territories because NATO won't go to war against Russia for Ukraine, which...

Shit, I just read the last page. :monkey:

Modern ideologies, religious or otherwise, tend to function like this. They believe for you so you don't have to. There's a sense in which it must be ...

The unfortunate dearth of female buffoonery extant does lead to a certain imbalance. I should imagine this is largely a function of our demographics. ...

https://youtu.be/3-d6LFLpBvw

Prove it. Then parking lot. How dare you speak to Jamal like that. Parking lot. Now. Parking lot. Now.

I like reading Nietzsche better than I like Nietzsche I think. I get the impression, having read a biography, he was overcompensating for his own soci...

Almost there. Just one more dust up should do it.

I preferred your version. Had a bit more "je ne sais quoi". Quad et demonstratum! :up:

Yes, and I can see it become an indispensable writing aid though purists will always frown. It's like a friend you can brainstorm with when you're wri...

I wrote the first couple of paragraphs of a story and asked GPT to write the next one. Its style is similarly colourful and while maybe more conventio...

:lol: Sorry @"javi2541997".

Oh, God, give me the patience to read to the end of one of Jamal's posts... But not yet!

Yes, hadn't thought of that. Similarly for clown when not meant in the literal sense; "You clown!" references acting the clown. But seems like we woul...

Hope you've got a good stain remover. :lol: :up: Oh and: Nice link to:

OK, I think I get you now. I guess you can get away with that with "buffoon"--if you ever get a chance. I expect the opportunities will be few. Most l...

How much social power you got in your pocket? The examples are definitely instructive. As well as "nerd", "geek" has become deinsultivized. When I was...

Yes! The really true ultimate paradigmatic ethical superhuman paragon always skips to the recipe as it is the absolute sin of sins to unnecessarily ex...

No no wait, the really true ultimate ethical hero would collect shopping carts to employ when faced with trolley problems in order to dissolve the pro...

No wait, the true ethical hero would steal the shopping cart, melt it down, sell the scrap iron, and give the proceeds to some particularly efficient ...

Of course the true ethical hero would not return the shopping cart but make an account of the saved time, aggregate it, and employ it as a volunteer i...

I am a returner and therefore a weak and stupid victim of the Big Other.

Free Fred! Shut up. Free Fred! Death to scones!

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It's funny isn't it? I suspect the vast majority of people feel that it's an annoyance and yet that kind of empty discourse is somehow so much "in the...

We don't have full control over that because meaning is always negotiated somehow between participants and context. But I think it's only necessary to...

Ooh, I'm sold on that.

:up: Very Gotham city like. When I was there there was a huge construction project going on near the river, like they were building a tunnel under it ...

There's no "pure meaning", it's just that we have to interpret words in the context they're used. So, to call Hamlet a buffoon might be a compliment a...

Hamlet is the paradigm buffoon. Which only adds to his greatness.

Did you find them on the side of the road during your sauntamble? I imagine you garnering a fair percentage of your calories that way.

Food sounds top notch. The article is written in a funny discourse though that sounds like it's aiming for deliberate fakery / cliche, like it's self-...

Lunch was squid, beef, and Chinese sausage with fried egg and rice in Indonesian Sambal sauce. There was some onion added to the sauce but apart from ...

Only checked that reference after reading this. The comparison is well made though; both the poet and the philosopher seek to reorganize discourse, on...

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Can we segue back to Zizek by noting AI are brains minus the need for Lacanian psychoanalysis and therein lies the relevance of such gobbledeygook? Th...

Yes, in fact the little men made him drink his own blood, which was green--explained as it turns out by the fact he was actually an alien (bear with m...

Or the protestants. The Disney movie Snow White really is a whitewash of history.

Hey, chill. No one really liked St. Patrick anyway. :up:

:up: I think he was killed by an army of tiny little men. Those were the protestants, I guess.

No worries. To add to the font of your burgeoning spring of knowledge, Pancake Tuesday marks the day St. Patrick accidentally invented pancakes when h...

I think it really is a question of values. Values form the self and if the values of the self just are the values of the self's environment, the self ...

:up: "In every act of rebellion, the rebel simultaneously experiences a feeling of revulsion at the infringement of his rights and a complete and spon...

I ignored it because the idea of culture is precisely what you're trying to explain with something more ''rational''.

Pancake Tuesday, when I was growing up, was the only day pancakes were ever eaten. I never thought to question such arbitrary culinary scheduling and ...