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[–] mrpalmer16@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] LaurenceWolse@feddit.nl 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love that PNN news ticker: "Google stocks plummet after promising shareholders they will behave ethically"

[–] mrpalmer16@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

🤣 The "Don't be evil" days are but a distant memory.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And Wittgenstine was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's nothin' Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist...

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Socrates himself was permanently pissed...

[–] MelodiousFunk 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

John Stuart Mill of his own free will on a half a pint of shandy was particularly ill

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aristotle, Aristotle, was a bugger for a bottle, Hobbes was fond of his dram...

[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And Rene Descarte was a drunken fart, "I drink, therefore I am."

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed...

[–] MelodiousFunk 2 points 2 months ago

A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

I'm just cracking up at throwaway for obvious reasons