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Scott Alexander

@slatestarcodex

I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.

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'Welcome to the third Republican primary debate. Today's Forbidden Letter is (*rolls dice*) G. Any candidate who says a word with the letter G will forfeit the remainder of their time for that question. We'll start with Florida State-Leader Ron DeSantis . . . '

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๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฆ '๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ธ๐˜ฌ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด' ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ?

'Have you seen planes tow banner ads like 'EAT AT JOE'S?' Well, before planes, they used hawks'

๐˜‹๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ.

'Yeah, it was just an ad hawk solution'

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The first rule of coups is to pay off your troops
Or they'll coup against ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ - it will go round in loops!

(I realize that's not the right way to say 'coups'
So I guess that this poem doesn't work too well - oops!)

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Whatever the current commotion's about
Remember that wrath is a sin
And if someone else should start duking it out
You can simply unduke it back in

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ACX is excited to be a founding participant in several new Substack ventures, including:
- Substack Electric Vehicles, to revolutionize renewable transportation
- Substack Mars Rockets, to advance affordable space travel.
- Substack Brain Implants, to cure deadly neurological di

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I think if you leap into a reservoir to save drowning children, especially if the situation was caused by a runaway trolley, you should also get an honorary philosophy degree.

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Sorry to anyone who sent me a link to anything on Figma. I thought it was a dumb attempt to troll me and didn't investigate further. I now realize I was confusing it with Ligma.

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TIRED: The baby contributes nothing to the family and screams whenever he is even slightly unhappy.

WIRED: The baby is 'a regulatory superpower'.

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Iceland's parliament is the Thing. Brazil's currency is the Real. Botswana's president is the Ourpoliticalandeconomicsystemhasobjectiveexistenceandisntjustamasshallucinationonthepartofthegoverned.

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