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lled the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. The Rumble studio is working perfectly. All the platforms are in place. Everything's looking good. I had a good night of sleep. I think things are looking up. I do. But let's check on the news. Anything happening? Well, here's some studies. Acco

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rding to Live Science, Drew Turney is writing about this: people find AI to be more compassionate than mental health experts. That's right. They did a study, and AI is more compassionate than mental health experts.

Now, the question that I have is, why is compassion always the right answer? If you have mental health problems, is compassion the right answer? And the reason I ask is because compassion is a reward, right? So if you want to do more of something, you would reward it. If you wanted to do less of something, you would starve it or penalize it.

So what happens when you say, "Doctor, I have this terrible problem," and the doctor says, "Oh, oh, maximum empathy. You have that problem. Oh, I feel so bad for you." Then don't you get a reward? So why would you fix your problem if you're being rewarded for it?

But sometimes, don't you think you need the tough love? Don't you think you need a kick in the ass sometimes more than you need compassion? How about, you know, I have no compassion for that. You need to just get your ass in gear. Maybe you need to go to the gym. Maybe you need to eat right and go to bed at 9:00 instead of 2:00 a.m. Maybe you should do the same thing that everybody else does to be happy. And maybe you can come back, and if none of that works, well, I've got a lot of compassion for you.

But I don't have any compassion for you if you're not doing the most obvious things in the world that everybody does to be happy, and you've decided not to do them, and then you're complaining to me. So I don't think compassion is always the right answer. I'm going to say the human might get the edge on this one. So too much compassion, bad. But some compassion, yes. Certainly there are problems where there's nothing you can do about it, and for that, maximum c

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ompassion. I'm all in for compassion on that. Here's another study. According to the Daily Mail, Luke Schaefer is writing about this: doctors reveal the alarming reason why you should never, in capital letters, never go for long periods without sex. Did you know, and this is going to shock you, that people who go for long periods without sex, they're not as happy as people who have a lot of sex?…

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