:love:

I was looking for an old post and went looking through @StreetlightX's list of discussions. Here are some of them:

• Carlo Rovelli against Mathematical Platonism
• TPF Quote Cabinet
• What Capitalism is Not (specifically, it is not markets)
• GameStop and the Means of Prediction
• On the Value of Wikipedia
• Spanishly, Englishly, Japanesely
• Eleven Theses on Civility
• Joy against Happiness
• Testimony of Abbie Hoffman (Chicago 7)
• God and Religion Arguments [Mega-Thread, Ver2]
• David Graeber - Introduction to Mutual Aid
• God and Religion Arguments [Mega-Thread]
• The Value of Emotions
• The Brothers Karamazov Discussion
• A Theory of Information
• The ABCs of Socialism
• Thought Experiments = Bad Philosophy
• Hannah Arendt's 2nd Year Course on Thinking…
• Thinking-of, Thinking-for, Thinking-with.
• Emotions Are Concepts
• Giorgio Agamben on the Frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan
• What It Is Like To Experience X
• Pronouns and Gender
• Two Questions on Stoicism
• Collective Subjectivity
• Ethical Principles
• Why Things Are Awful: A Debt Perspective
• If Not Identity Politics, Then What?
• We are responsible ONLY for what we do NOT control
• Concepts and Correctness
• Simply Can't Function Without My Blanket!
• Haddocks' Eyes
• The Material and the Medial
• Augmented > Virtual Reality (also, Microbots)
• Concepts and Apparatus
• Subjectivities
• Gesture, Language, Math
• Philosophical Cartography
• The Deception and the Lie

He had three pages of them. This is a listing of just the first page. I was reminded of what a cool guy he was and how much he contributed to the forum.

Please don't think this post is intended as criticism for what happened or what decisions were made. That's not my point at all. I was just reminded of how grateful I was for having his voice here on the forum.

Well then ... :D

With Russia’s Viagra supply cut off, authorities look to generics as backup
^{— Francesca Ebel · The Washington Post · Feb 15, 2023}

36 Russian companies scramble?

That should cut down on future generations of Russians trying to take over the world then.

At the rate billions of people are not reproducing, we could be back to 3 billion people like we were in 1960 in a pleasantly short period of time (hmm maybe 60 years?) Oh happy day!

I was just reminded of how grateful I was for having his voice here on the forum. — T Clark

Well what have you learned from him? People no longer around either live or die through those they have known or spoken to. Each of us as individuals are, in a way, much like a kingdom. There is a royal court (the conscious), there are knights, squires, and peasants (ideals and virtue, memories, and desires, respectively). There is a courtyard or garden (the mind). Much else. In speaking or teaching another we manifest our kingdom within others and make new alliances with their own.

What has he manifested in you?

I think @T Clark is experiencing nostalgia or melancholy for someone who is no longer in the forum. It is not about if he had learned something from him but the interaction between them. I think I would have felt the same if some users decide to leave the forum or get banned when they used to interact a lot with me. I had this feeling when @Prishon got banned because I remember interacting a lot with him.
You just miss their presence here. :sparkle:

What has he manifested in you? — Outlander

An odd question and an odd post. I am drawn to competence, subtlety, intelligence. There are a few people on the forum who have meant a lot to me. At the top of the list are Timeline, Apokrisis, and StreetlightX. What more reason do I need.

You just miss their presence here. — javi2541997

Thanks Javi.

@Hanover

Thought you might be interested:

The average erect penis length has increased by 24% over the past three decades across the world. From an average of 4.8 inches to 6 inches. Given the significant implications, attention to potential causes should be investigated. — Some guy at Stanford

I had actually noticed an increase in my own penis length and girth, although it seems situational, but, in any event, this study appears correct from my own experience.

Thank you for keeping me informed of these recent scientific discoveries.

the therapist has problems getting past the defence mechanisms of AI, and establishing a close rapport.

We looked at flaccid, stretched and erect length and created one large database of measurements.

Imagine stretching, erecting, and measuring dicks across the globe for thirty years. That’s either an incredible dedication to science or a true love of dick.

Imagine stretching, erecting, and measuring dicks across the globe for thirty years. That’s either an incredible dedication to science or a true love of dick. — praxis

:rofl:

1942 to 2021 is a respectable time frame to study reproductive issues; however the article also reports that erect penile length got longer, from an average of 4.8 inches to 6 inches, over the past 29 years! Given our interest in penises and promiscuity, it seems like gay men would have noticed that much change over this short a length of time. There have been no rumors, unsubstantiated or otherwise, to the happy effect that dicks are getting longer.

The "average dick" (referring here to phalli, and not to T. Clark's apologies for being or not being a dick) has long been between 5 and 6 inches. Asian dicks tend to be shorter, African dicks tend to be longer. European dicks are between the two,

Who cares? Condom manufacturers care.

You could ask Karex Berhad, a Malaysian manufacturer which produces about 5 billion condoms a year. Or Reckitt Benckiser Group- UK, Life Styles Healthcare - Australia, Caution Wear Corp - US - makes the Iron Grip condom, Church & Dwight Co. - US - makes Trojan, Cupid Limited - India, CPR - Germany - makes Siko brand which doesn't work in English, ONE Condoms US, Sagami Rubber Industries Co. and Okamoto Industries - Japan.

Given our interest in penises and promiscuity, it seems like gay men would have noticed that much change over this short a length of time. — BC

The problem is, and I could be wrong here, is that people tend to visit penises of those within a certain age range of their own. That is, I assume the penises you visited in your 20s were also more or less 20 years old, with the penile age of others who you visited aging with you. What this means is that you've not personally experienced the recent societal penis blossoming because it has occurred in those many years your youth.

What I would suggest therefore is that you experimentally for the purposes of scientific research visit upon the youth (>18 of course) and see if there has been this prospering mushrooming of peni or whether the data we've been provided is felatious.

felatious — Hanover

Your excellent pun did not go unnoticed!

That is, I assume the penises you visited in your 20s were also more or less 20 years old, with the penile age of others who you visited aging with you. — Hanover

It has not been proved that time passes for the penis at the same rate it does for the rest of the body. A given penis might retire at 40 years age, much to the regret of its otherwise vigorous owner/operator. Another penises might still be vigorous as its owner/operator approaches his grave.

A "visit upon the youth" would provide cross-sectional data on penis size at a particular age. It may be that the Stanford data on penis length was longitudinal (a slice vs. the whole kielbasa). Maybe the data suggest that penises grew in length as their age increased. So, at age 18, 4.8"; at age 38, 6.0". You yourself noticed that your penis enlarges when stimulated (a helpful sign of having a pulse). I read in the Atlanta Constitution that 30 years ago your penis's performance was anemic in comparison to present performance.

Is it a case of use stimulating growth? A penis length study should be made of the several dozen actually successfully celibate priests compared to several dozen sexually prolific celibate priests. What was their dick length in seminary compared to how long was it when they made Monsignor or were defrocked for screwing the entire congregation?

An odd question and an odd post. I am drawn to competence, subtlety, intelligence. There are a few people on the forum who have meant a lot to me. At the top of the list are Timeline, Apokrisis, and StreetlightX. What more reason do I need. — T Clark

Oh. You made him seem interesting and the majority of his posts were a bit before my time. Just wondering what the guy was about and perhaps taught you throughout the length of his travels is all. Sorry.

The spirit got aholt a me.https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRtnSRKB/

I happened upon a plum pie. Gonna have a piece.

You made him seem interesting and the majority of his posts were a bit before my time. — Outlander

Here are links to a couple of my favorite of Streetlight's threads. As you can tell from the list I provided, his interests were eclectic. I especially appreciated his understanding of science.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/2235/networks-evolution-and-the-question-of-life

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/3116/more-is-different

:D

Comedy in the works they say:

Keeping Up With The Kremlin

(first read it as "Keeping Up With The Gremlin", but figure there isn't much difference)

I happened upon a plum pie. Gonna have a piece. — Jamal

It was disappointing. Underneath the pie- or tart-like visible exterior, it turned out to be more of a spongecake than a pie, with nothing identifiable as a piece of plum except those thinly deceptive upper fragments visible in the photograph, and little that I would call actual pastry. I said what the hell, and my wife said that’s what we call a pie here and it’s delicious, stop complaining. Being for some reason very grumpy today, I vehemently disagreed and ranted about how Russians can’t make pies. Later I came to realize that I had been a whining bore and said so, but the damage was done.

Picky Jamal sat down near a well
Partook of purported prune pie.
He stuck in his thumb
But found not even one plum
And damned Slavic pies to hell.

More Than You Want to Know Department:

The rhyme [Little Jack Horner sat in a Corner ... ] references Henry VIII's liquidation of Catholic monasteries. One Thomas Horner was involved. His name was changed to Jack for rhythmic reasons. The Horner family occupied formerly Catholic property granted to them by Henry until the 20th century.

https://www.npr.org/2006/01/08/5135080/reason-behind-the-rhyme-little-jack-horner

Picky Jamal sat down near a well
Partook of purported prune pie.
He stuck in his thumb
But found not even one plum
And damned Slavic pies to hell. — BC

:lol: :clap:

Well with the developments in medicine continuing to advance at the rate it is now, we might still be alive.
the problem is that there will be no one to support us financially.

AI Has Suddenly Evolved to Achieve Theory of Mind
^{In a stunning development, a neural network now has the intuitive skills of a 9-year-old.
— Darren Orf · Popular Mechanics · Feb 17, 2023}

Meanwhile ...

Researchers think alien civilizations might be creating black holes to store quantum data
^{— Joshua Hawkins · BGR · Feb 17, 2023}

:)

the problem is that there will be no one to support us financially. — Sir2u

That is the problem. A smaller workforce (and then a smaller population) means (perhaps a much) smaller economy, with fewer surpluses to support people who are past their sell-by dates. This isn't a distant future problem; Japan has been there for a while. Southern Italy is there. Quite a few places are.

One factor in maintaining population numbers is longevity.

The varieties of bad Stoicism

happened upon a plum pie. Gonna have a piece. — Jamal

Stargazey Pie is my favorite.