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Sure, that's a good joke, but I think my guess to the joke above is the best of all time.
November 15, 2025 at 00:57
Fuckpuppet?
November 15, 2025 at 00:56
Don't use me as a conduit for your snark
November 14, 2025 at 22:33
Fine, to take the pressure off elsewhere, anyone know any good lawyer jokes?
November 14, 2025 at 22:31
My question to ChatGPT: "What is a good website where I can go to discuss and post about philosophical issues?" It's response: 1. The Philosophy Forum...
November 14, 2025 at 19:58
An additional space can be critical in evaluating the meaning of a sentence. For example, the sentence, "The pen is in my mouth" has a very different ...
November 14, 2025 at 18:36
No doubt there are stereotypes associated with engineers (and computer programmers (lacking social skills) academics (lacking real wotld skills), atto...
November 14, 2025 at 07:16
I worked for Hanoverian Enterprises for a number of years and our motto was "Better biscuits with corn flour." As an American company selling solely i...
November 14, 2025 at 01:00
Philosophy has to start with someone making shit up. I'm about to ask ChatGPT to start a whole new philosophy about something.
November 14, 2025 at 00:36
Interesting. I hear they actually call it cornstarch and not corn flour in the US.
November 13, 2025 at 21:52
What I learned wasn't the difference between corn flour and corn meal, as I always knew that and never had to learn it. It was one of those synthetic ...
November 13, 2025 at 21:38
Two nations divided by a common language. I looked all this up for you. In the US, we call what you call "corn flour" "cornstarch." U.S. corn flour wo...
November 13, 2025 at 16:14
Why do we need to know the initial state? We only need know with perfection the current state to know the subsequent state because you'd assume all pr...
November 13, 2025 at 01:59
Modally speaking, determinate yet unpredictable (chaos) means in our world unpredictable, but not unpredictable in all possible worlds, but indetermin...
November 12, 2025 at 17:49
Rings are signs of commitment, now with synthetic stones, artificial creations, like ChatGpt.
November 12, 2025 at 05:35
Assuming the following to be true, "Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctua...
November 11, 2025 at 19:26
I actually think that those whose driver is truth aren't incentivized by money anyway, or at least not to the point where that will keep them interest...
November 11, 2025 at 17:58
Maybe funerals are for the living. What might be disrespectful is that if someone is living but he's about to die but he just won't make the commitmen...
November 11, 2025 at 13:55
You can't just have empty regret. You have to submit a proposal for corrective action. The Shoutbox stands almost a dozen strong, and we're here to ri...
November 11, 2025 at 12:04
Well, metaphorically it's deflated with sadness, but literally inflated. I thought about that some more to make it make sense
November 11, 2025 at 11:33
It's inflated with sadness.
November 11, 2025 at 11:30
A self loathing Scotsman! Go watch Braveheart and get yourself out of this funk.
November 11, 2025 at 11:29
This is a picture I would have taken at a funeral if it have had happened. /uploads/resized/files/fj/fuj29hmsq4q47yid.png
November 11, 2025 at 11:14
No I wouldn't.
November 11, 2025 at 11:04
It's entirely not. It speaks to grounding, not conclusions.
November 11, 2025 at 06:21
I graduated highschool in 1984, the middle of the Reagan years. They were building up the military and recruiting heavily, offering all sorts of incen...
November 11, 2025 at 06:20
From the religious lens, I think you'd have to live under forced delusion to think it's a coincidence that your religious beliefs just so happen to re...
November 11, 2025 at 06:12
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_dead_than_red
November 11, 2025 at 05:45
This suggests a complex unarticulated subconscious nonlinguistic belief lurking about awaiting words to carry it. Once that belief is reduced to words...
November 11, 2025 at 05:44
Better red than dead.
November 11, 2025 at 05:16
Of course you like him. He's an American pragmatist, reciting to you what was instilled in you but that you never articulated to yourself. If we're go...
November 11, 2025 at 02:01
The invisible hand decides and provides.
November 11, 2025 at 01:54
In the US, do we have such a deficiency in academics and artists that we need to subsidize these industries in order to obtain more? My understanding ...
November 10, 2025 at 22:11
The James' three prong test to decide whether to believe (Living, Forced, and Momentous): "An option is living if both of its constituent hypothesis a...
November 10, 2025 at 13:40
We have alligators in the southern coastal area and a huge population in the southern swamp (Okeefenokee). My tourguide told me there had never been a...
November 09, 2025 at 15:31
My poverty so defeating, yet my love so intense for my dear Molly who so hawked and so hollered to sell her sea bounty to anyone so interested that I'...
November 09, 2025 at 04:16
Buzzards are officially only in Europe, where we have turkey vultures. Despite that, we call them buzzards. And so it goes.
November 09, 2025 at 02:47
My wife asked if we could hire a pool boy for her. I said we could if Could hire a Swedish au pair for me. We're different forms of life.
November 08, 2025 at 22:05
/uploads/resized/files/vf/cxsmdtpjvxgi65hw.jpg The sky is speckled with buzzards so I'm wondering if they smell my impending death.
November 08, 2025 at 19:23
I do respect a man secure enough to compliment another man on the look of his trouser.
November 08, 2025 at 18:57
So close! Sorry, you lose your soul, BUT, you get the free socks, and did you really even have a soul to lose?
November 08, 2025 at 18:49
/uploads/resized/files/1m/k86qlj2z078h1x91.jpg These are mine. They were spun from straw into wool by a sorcerer. You must either sell your soul for t...
November 08, 2025 at 17:50
It's obvious that the only enchanted eggs you've ever encountered are deviled .
November 07, 2025 at 13:02
I always purchased my mussels from this kind young woman who pushed her cart down the narrow cobblestone streets of my youth. She'd cry out to all who...
November 07, 2025 at 11:16
Das Wünderegg Let's say you were in the forest by the brook next to the tree beside the rock beneath the squirrel away from the hill near the well tha...
November 07, 2025 at 04:18
Sorry for the late response. I overlooked this. I saw it and then read on where everyone is now trying to decide who's the better bigot. My view of "r...
November 06, 2025 at 06:11
I've always wanted to say this when someone comes into my office to complain about whatever they are complaining about: I see you've got your list out...
November 05, 2025 at 17:53
Guys, I apologize if my responses to your posts are delayed, but I'm going to have to change this lightbulb. /uploads/resized/files/t0/d12k9ekyw876ip6...
November 05, 2025 at 05:03
Everyone loves kittens! /uploads/resized/files/ek/634d7ruwju2t7rnn.jpg
November 04, 2025 at 20:24
I went to a Shout Box and a philsophy conversation broke out.
November 04, 2025 at 20:22