Turtles All the Way Down
The cluster features repeated invocations of the 'It's turtles all the way down' idiom, expressing infinite regress or lack of foundational explanation in technical or philosophical discussions. Some comments reference literal turtles, algorithms like tortoise-and-hare, or cultural nods, but the core theme is this skeptical meme.
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Sample Comments
It's turtles, all the way down..
It's turtles.pl all the way down.
It's turtles the whole way down.
It's turtles. Turtles I say. Turtles all the way down!
It's turtles all the way down :P
Ah, it is turtles all the way down.
Sounds like turtles all the way down
I am calling "turtles" on this.
It's turtles all the way down . . .
It's tortoises all the way down.