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  • I used to live at the edge of a suburb, next to a stroad with a wide downhill curve. The “perfect” combo of a large supply of moped teens from said suburb and ideal racing/revving conditions. Many times have I wondered what you wrote. I mean in some ways this is clearly mating behavior, no?











  • The AI chatbot has repeatedly misidentified 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who heroically disarmed one of the shooters, and claimed the verified video of his deed was something else entirely — including that it was an old viral video of a man climbing a tree.

    In the aftermath of the attack, Ahmed has been widely praised for his heroism, but some have tried to dismiss or even deny his actions. Someone even quickly whipped up a fake news site that appears to be AI-generated, with an article naming a fictitious IT professional, Edward Crabtree, as the man who disarmed the attacker. This, of course, got picked up by Grok and regurgitated on X.

    But Grok also suggested that images of Ahmed were of an Israeli being held hostage by Hamas. And it claimed that video taken at the scene was actually of Currumbin Beach, Australia, during Cyclone Alfred.

    It’s hallucinating, but in MAGA 🤣





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    4 days ago

    German uses the word Jungfrau (literally young woman), there’s no separate word explicitely defining a state of not having had sex.

    I’m guessing Almah is similar.

    But I heard a different story about the “virgin birth” - problem is I have no idea if it’s true or not. Anyhow:

    There was some sort of ritual where young women were invited to spend a night at the temple, with priests. Due to the religious nature of this, they were still considered to be virgins (“marriable” I guess?) afterwards. Quite the opposite, it was seen as an honour. Even if they got pregnant.

    So there’s your “Virgin” Mary who was “visited by an angel” to conceive.

    edit: there is some evidence that girls used to work and live at the temples, and my story is likely an interpretation of the Gospel of James.