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Unless you wore a metal butt plug into the MRI, and then this won't help at all. It happens. Now go.

All right. Well, I was just laughing uncontrollably a minute ago because I saw one of the memes on the Locals platform. Now, I don't know if the meme is based on a real story, but I'm going to choose to believe it's real because it's funny.

The story was that some researchers were studying what women's brain scans look like while they were having orgasms. So they invited five women in to masturbate while they were in the MRI. Now that's not really the story, because they got a nice picture of the brain lighting up. The funny part of the story is how they sold this project. How did they get a grant for that?

A bob says, I've got a wild idea. What if we can get money for bringing women in to masturbate in front of us, and we'll just put their heads in an MRI and call it science? And the other guy says, you're never going to get away with that. Now watch this. And then they put it together and they get away with it. And then they have to play it off like it's serious the whole time. And they go home to their wives and, what? Well, here I'm being sexist. It could be that it's women who are the scientists, of course, so we can't rule out that possibility. But it's funnier to imagine as guys.

And they go home at night. So, honey, what are you working on? Oh, we're doing a little brain scanning stuff, you know. Really? Brain scanning for what? Well, yo

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u know, we'd like to see what parts of the brain light up under certain circumstances. Really? What specific circumstances are you studying? Well, here's where it gets a little complicated. I don't know. It was funny to me. But that's not why you're here. You're here for the news. Here's the news. Unfortunately, AI has now succeeded in writing parody. The Twitter account called The Prince of Dee…

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