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  • I don’t think he feeds off it, unless you mean that it generates anger and grudges that he uses for energy.

    But he certainly doesn’t seek it out. He’s a malignant narcissist. His smirk is that the only way he can cope, to act like (and believe) that everyone booing is deranged, since he is perfect (including in victimhood). But narcissists have extremely fragile egos, which require full time care to protect with their delusions. The booing hurts him to his core.

    Unfortunately, despite the smirk and delusion, narcissists often react with long, drawn-out revenge and punishment schemes for even small slights. Good thing Trump hasn’t shown any signs of irrational revenge plots…



  • The meaning behind the proverb is also subject to debate among scholars. Gordon suggested that the inn also apparently served as a brothel (he notes that the word used in the proverb for inn or tavern, “éš-dam”, can also be translated as “brothel”, and it was common in ancient Mesopotamia for prostitution to take place in these establishments[3]), and thus “the dog wanted to see what was ‘going on behind closed doors’”.[4] Nett suggests that the punchline could be a pun that is incomprehensible to modern readers, or a reference to some figure who was well known at the time but similarly unfamiliar to modern readers. Gonzalo Rubio, another Assyriologist, cautions that this ambiguity ultimately means it is simply not possible to definitely categorize the proverb as a joke, though he and other scholars like Nett do point to the recurring use of innuendo in such proverbs as indicating that many were indeed intended to be humorous.[3]

    Just pasting for people as lazy as me.

    Tldr: nobody knows what the joke is, which itself is the joke.


  • U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans’ medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the medical establishment studied for decades and flatly rejects.

    The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking data from little-known state systems that allow hospitals and clinics to exchange detailed, identifiable patient information, KFF Health News has learned.

    In private meetings, some public health leaders have objected to giving Kennedy’s team access to such data, raising doubts that it’s legal or that the information would even be useful.

    They have also expressed concerns about allowing the federal government to peer into the minutiae of Americans’ medical records, which could mean viewing anything from doctors’ notes to prescription history. HHS has offered no insight into how it will protect or handle the personal health information it obtains.

    RFK Jr. couldn’t find a link between vaccines and autism that could survive the scientific rigor still present in the HHS despite his every attempt to fire all the actual scientists. So his solution is he needs more raw data from which to cherry pick.

    What exactly has RFK Jr. seen that makes him so resistant to facts and reality? It’s like he’s a man dying of dehydration, who refuses any water despite the world throwing full bottles at him, and rather than just drink, he instead tries to convince the world it is in fact they who don’t need water.


  • His mind is going, and he is pure id at this point. So he is his audience, and his actual social media audience is just a proxy for his own self-gratification.

    So all we’re seeing with these posts is what an 80-year old demented narcissist likes to see: himself, as he sees himself, in all its masturbatory self-delusion, for only himself.






  • Stochastic parrot parrots stochastically. News at 11.

    According to LifePrompt Inc., the generative AI chatbot scored 50 points higher than the top test-taker … …Since the answers included essay responses, they were graded by teachers from major cram school Kawai Juku.

    So it’s an AI company that conducted its own administration of the tests and had them graded by people who are not official graders, so the headline is just false since it’s not even official or controlled. I wonder, did Mainichi consider that maybe, just maybe, they may have a self-interested bias in making the AI seem more capable than it actually is?

    I get it - the AI company wants to exaggerate and there’s always a press outlet willing to push a story that’s too good to fact-check - but I’m tired, boss.



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    2 months ago

    I get it and am here for the anarchy of it all, but there’s no “no” coming out of the “Would other people be willing…” box, which a capitalist would say is the most important line.

    Maybe it should loop back to the “Then capitalism is wasting…” box, since if nobody is willing to create it, is it really valuable enough to exceed creation inertia?