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Jonathan Weisberg

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7 months

Me when I see Le Creuset discourse on here

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Claudine Gay must feel so humiliated, just imagine everyone reading your dissertation

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Jonathan Weisberg

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I see a lot of PhD students trying to find a dissertation topic by trying to first find a gap in the literature. I get why you're doing this, but my best academic writing advice for you is to have an idea and write it down

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Jonathan Weisberg

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When I do this I actually mean your mom and me

Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠

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6 months

When writing academic papers, we often say "we" even if we're the sole author. Hypothesis: we write this way to include the reader--meaning the "we" is an inclusive we. Any academics writing in a language with an inclusive/exclusive distinction have any insight??

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To those struggling to make a substantive contribution to philosophy I say: have you considered doing undergrad-level math and passing it off as philosophy?

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Clearing out my phone and found this?

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Jonathan Weisberg

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6 months

When a philosophy paper is coauthored

Jake Romm

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its always 2 dumb bitches telling each other “exactlyyyyyy”

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You're telling me a psycho analyzed these texts?

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for a small fee, I will go to your enemy’s talk and ask “but isn't that just obvious?”

Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti

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for a small fee, I will go to your enemy’s talk and ask “did you check the calibration of your classification model?”

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New York Post

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Stomach-turning video reveals how plant-based Thanksgiving turkey is made

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Spotted on a colleague's door

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Induction

Out of Context Human Race

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Me reading Kant:

Hadas Weiss

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this argument is so sophisticated i wish it made sense

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Philosophers couldn't figure out how a priori knowledge works so now we just go around pretending it was never a problem, it's a mf scandal

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We are so back

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Congregation Talmud Torah of Amsterdam to Baruch Spinoza on July 27, 1656:

Sarah Nadav שרה נדב🎗️

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@mynameisjro Please reverse your circumcision- we don't claim you as a member of the tribe. Hand in your "As a Jew" card on the way out. byeeeee

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Jonathan Weisberg

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7 months

You could raise such a beautiful second family here

Zillow Gone Wild 🏡

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7 months

We’ve never said this before but here’s a near perfect midcentury modern home in Akron, OH Currently listed for ONLY $439,900???

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Ok.. what kind of epistemologist are you?

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When people say I teach at UofT

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@littmath Blocked

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We're not proud of it

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Jonathan Weisberg

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In 1999, Tim Williamson walked into a conference room at OUP and wrote "Knowledge and Its Limit" on the whiteboard, then paused to add an 's' before looking at the editors and drawing a line through it to make a dollar sign

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Always

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Damn right my reasoning is motivated... to minimize the sum of squared errors

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Me: I'm going to the store, want me to get [food X my 10yo loved just last week] 10yo: no, those are gross Me: guess your tastes have changed 10yo: no, they're just gross Me: well you liked em last week and they haven't changed, so it must be you 10yo: liking has changed

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Blackthorne: belief comes in degrees, which can be described using real numbers. For a rational agent, these numbers will satisfy the Kolmogorov axioms, on pain of accuracy dominance Mariko: the Anjin would like to get paid to teach basic statistics in your philosophy department

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Me citing myself

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I am once again reading a philosophy paper in reverse because that is the only way it is not insufferable

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You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today, it had a budget of $2.6 million and you've only got like $178 in checking

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Today I'm grateful for Phil Studies finally finding a second referee

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Electrons exist, but they're woke

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People who conflate GRE scores and intelligence just haven't met me, a fucking moron who actually did pretty well on the GRE

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Important update: I continue to find AI fascinating from an engineering perspective and a total nothing burger philosophically—further bulletins as events warrant

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What was “the incident” at your possible world?

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Good morning to everyone except the editor at Phil Studies who still hasn't found a second referee after more than 6 months and hasn't even bothered trying to find one for almost 2 months now

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New least upper bound property dropped

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Me: S doesn't know that p Ernie Sosa: skill issue

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Two things can be true: 1) Sentence 2 is true. 2) Sentence 1 is false.

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Psychoanalysis is cool as hell, it's all you pervs pretending you don't wanna fuck your moms that's cringe

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Jonathan Weisberg

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After 30 years away from video games I've been playing BOTW with the kids and, gamers, I am so sorry. I get it now

Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti

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What game made you fall in love with gaming? Not even joking.

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Promised a student we'd discuss the simulation argument so now I'm reading Bostrom (2003), please send unconsciousness

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Kid brought this home from school how worried should I be

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Sardonic philosophy twitter and earnest/enthusiastic philosophy twitter: if we join forces and rise up I truly believe we can defeat fine-tuning philosophy twitter

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Jonathan Weisberg

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pilot

Oded Rechavi

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Name a job that allows you to travel and see the world more than being in academia

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Jonathan Weisberg

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5 years? I'm not even interested in what I'm working on now

Jessica Hullman

@JessicaHullman

6 months

I don’t mind when prospective PhD applicants email me wanting to talk about work I did 5 years ago. As long as they don’t mind my enthusiasm about instead following up on their work at the middle school science fair.

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Show me a picture where you were completely happy and nothing else mattered but that moment

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Stand back everyone, old man posting

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Sure sex has been great in the past but have you ever considered that 'tis no contradiction to suppose the course of nature may change?

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Jonathan Weisberg

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All intelligence is artificial if you think about it because only stupidity comes naturally. Take this post for example

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"I've been unlucky in love" —Guy who liked the jstor tweet then found out about Aaron Swartz from the replies

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God I hate books. Like, for me it basically goes justice > ... > "moist" > nazis > books

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Seeing as all academic books suck, the notable thing is that negative reviews are so unusual

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Been teaching almost exclusively logicy/mathy classes the last four years and, I gotta say, they're just way harder to teach than other philosophy classes

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Jonathan Weisberg

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kinda feel like they shoulda seen this coming

Grace Kind

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The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) closed down yesterday.

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If after 8 months you still haven't found a second reviewer, maybe you should just accept the paper? I won't tell

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Do physicists dream of electric particles?

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Can't believe we're still doing philosophy of language in the year of our lord 2024, truly retro stuff

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Jonathan Weisberg

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I'll always remember where I was when anti-realism finally won thanks to a single tweet

Sabine Hossenfelder

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You don't need maths to see that assuming the existence of other universes is unscientific. All you need is to understand that assuming the existence of something you cannot observe is unnecessary to explain anything you can observe.

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Scientific anti-realism is such a soy take

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Hilariously wide gap between the figure he is trying to strike and guy he actually is

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Columbia has deactivated Shai Davidai’s ID, he is blocked from campus

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Jonathan Weisberg

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So what I do this every time I find a pie cooling on a window sill

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Yale University Press has published a 492 page book apparently defending the claim that Christian saints actually ‘flew’ or levitated

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Reviewer 2: the first half of your paper is just a special case of this theorem from 2010 Me: yea exactly, a *special* case

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The SEP has deeper coverage but the IEP has a font I can live with so it's impossible to say which is better actually

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Covid boy dinner

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Leibnizians:

Sridhar Ramesh

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I'm pretty sure Bruce Wayne and Batman are different people. I've never seen the two of them in the same room, which they would have to be if they were the same person.

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Just kidding, I would never go to a talk

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Faves folder ❤

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Faves folder

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Epistemologists circa 2000:

𝕯𝖎𝖑𝖉𝖔 𝕭𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 🎾💦

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The associate editors of phil studies

Habitual Shenaner

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Who is your target audience when you tweet?

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Only Kaplan memes have the raw power needed to stanch the real analysis discourse

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That's @nrduford tho

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Jonathan Weisberg

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The only way I know to make my students feel respected and like their ideas will get a fair hearing in my class is to pretend like I had any political opinions surgically removed at birth

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Consistently tanking the chances of everyone I write a recommendation letter for by using the official university of toronto letterhead

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Enjoying some Tim Maudlin

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Feel so upset whenever someone I like on here is unduly mean to somebody else I like on here

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Jonathan Weisberg

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@KaraSlagell This is so unfair, sometimes we also put the stupid new name in sᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘs

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Maybe my uni is unusual but they pay me to continuously publish, which is a pretty big obstacle to learning it turns out

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An underrated benefit of being a professor is that you get paid to continuously LEARN stuff 🥰

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Me at 19

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easy

Ted McCormick

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which Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles in browser history are your red flags 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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The fool hath said in his heart, there is no One True Prior

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Finding a second reviewer for my Phil Studies submission

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what do you think is harder than this?

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Green = two boxers Purple = one boxers

Delip Rao e/σ

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Label the green and purple ovals.

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It should be grounded in PGR rankings, obviously

Erik Svensson

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If philosophy is not grounded in science - then what should it be grounded in? Religion? Myths? Superstition? Panpsychism? Or some other Mumbo-jumbo? Amazingly pompuous attitude by this philosopher. With that attitude, philosophy will become increasingly irrelevant.

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S knows that P at t iff...

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Write a caption.

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Happy no-commuting-for-a-week to me 🤗

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Lovecraft really captured it when he wrote that "the geometry of the thing was all wrong. One could not be sure that the abstract and body were even related."

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Jonathan Weisberg

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Lol apparently there's a whole thread on Leiter where grad students are dragging my department for its shitty funding. Good

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10yo just told me when she grows up she wants to check Editorial Manager five times a day 👨‍👧👩‍🎓🥰

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Me

The PhD Place

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If you could eliminate one thing from academia, what would it be?

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I don't like Shakespeare either but at least I have the decency to locate the rationale in my utility function

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Still no idea who Will Stancil is, nice try everyone

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Love to be living proof of how radically wrong this thought can be

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my zoomer friend said the community college to 4 year college pipeline grad will be the smartest person in the room every time

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Formal epistemology memes for forty-something teens

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Jonathan Weisberg

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There's not a *lot* of money in it, but I have it on good authority that some have built quite comfortable little careers this way

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Jonathan Weisberg

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[Learning that I can't infer an ought from an is] Ok.. how about a would from a could

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Jonathan Weisberg

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I honestly thought "what about fucking animals" was one of the oldest bits in the shape-rotator ethicist repertoire, is this really new?

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Jonathan Weisberg

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God in the desert: if you're gonna kill and eat a baby goat don't be a dick about it and cook it in its mother's milk Jews three millennia later: everybody have two sinks in your kitchen or the messiah won't come

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Jonathan Weisberg

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As a referee, the question I always ask myself is, "cui bono?"

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