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Phil Witte
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Amateur atheist, professional misanthrope, Kickball champion 1979-82
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im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse

if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away
January 26, 2026 at 2:17 PM
We’re all living through the Twilight Zone episode where the whole town had to do everything to appease the creepy kid with special powers or else he’d do terrible things to them, aren’t we?
www.imdb.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Sit down, Google Maps. You’re drunk.
December 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Can’t wait to see what 12th century Flemish ruling the Supreme Court comes up with to justify overturning Obergfell.
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
At what point are we going to think”Wow, that trillion dollars we spent on AI could have been used for something useful?”
October 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Can someone please invent a remote with an Up 5 and Down 5 volume controls so I can toggle between comfortably hearing the explosion parts and the dialogue parts without wearing out the remote?
September 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I can’t wait for the next set of economic reports when we’ll have added a million bajillion jobs, unemployment will be negative infinity and the GDP will be down 3% (as it would be the only one created by humans).
August 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Ope.
April 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
March 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Can someone please explain to the GOP that the Good Olde Days they’re so desperate to get back to were that way because the top tax rate was >75%?

Use small words. And maybe a chart or two.
February 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
How is Nathan Fillion still The Rookie? Hasn’t that shown been on for 7 years???
December 10, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Can Google Maps add a setting for Simplest Route?
I know “up a block turn left; up a block turn right; up a block turn left; up a block turn right; up a block turn left; up a block turn right“ is the shortest route.
But isn’t “turn left go three blocks; turn right go three blocks” so much easier?
November 12, 2023 at 8:47 PM
Moopsy
September 8, 2023 at 11:36 PM
Is it because the “Greatest Generation” is mostly gone that people have no shame in posting things like “Hitler was actually a good guy.”

Because Grandpa Fred isn’t around to smack them upside the head for that nonsense?
June 4, 2023 at 6:30 PM
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Ron DeSantis is what you would get if you were making a character in a really shitty dystopian online game and you started out with Ted Cruz because they had him as one of the templates

Me: how should we change him?
Wife: make him . . . . squatter
Me: Shorter?
Wife: No just more …squat
/1
May 23, 2023 at 6:25 PM
With multiple postings online about how every student in a class is cheating with ChatGPT because the teacher/professor copies in the text and asks the AI if it wrote and it replies yes.

Is ChatGPT programmed to tell the truth?
May 16, 2023 at 7:34 PM
Is there a CPAC award for the first state that creates a congressional district that basically looks like a neuron and contains only registered Democrats?
May 5, 2023 at 5:38 PM
Is it the rule now that servers wait 10-15 minutes after plates are cleared to bring your check?
April 17, 2023 at 8:02 PM