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Phil Witte
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Amateur atheist, professional misanthrope, Kickball champion 1979-82
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
Reposted by Phil Witte
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
Reposted by Phil Witte
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
Reposted by Phil Witte
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