Unpopular opinion: #hyperbole and overstated statistics just for shock and #attention value does not in any way help your #message, it only #discredits it

If Trump played in the MLB, he'd hit 486 HRs *every season*. All of them grand slam and in the river.

His pitching line would be: ꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘꓘ.

Clemens, Ohtani, Judge would be his flunkies and brawl to hold up his spittoon.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/donald-trump-says-ve-had-061205477.html

#sarcasm #hyperbole #MLB

Donald Trump Says He ‘Would’ve Had No Trouble’ Making It to Space

While honoring NASA’s Artemis II astronauts, US President Donald Trump joked with the reporters that he would have had “no trouble” making it to space...

Yahoo News

This paper is right up there with the "how to give a mouse PTSD" talk I went to once. This time, it's "we took eight healthy people and subjected them to so much stress that their blood proceeded to spontaneously clot" (#hyperbole). Read and enjoy.

https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1113/JP290576

@krystyna
"nothing worse"
#hyperbole

What will you #do and not #think first about not #doing in the #name of...filll in the blank?

That's the #political #ideology that has #poisoned our #people into retarded fools for the last decade or more.

This is truly a #sickening #prospect that has turned from #conceptualized #potential #hyperbole into #active #reality overnight.

We have to #fight this.

#EnochBurke's five millionth* court appearance is to object to being kept safe, in a smaller prison nearer his family. Wicked, says Enoch

But luckily, he can't disrupt the #HighCourt #IEHC any more. All his appearances are now on a video link, which gets cut if he kicks off. This also saves the cost of a van, driver, and escorting officer to bring Burke to and from the court.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0312/1563080-enoch-burke-castlerea/

Note: the tally of five million is #sarcasm and #hyperbole, induced by the #BurkeFamily

Right now I am looking at Eastgate https://eastgate.com/ products like #tinderbox and #storyspace. I am fascinated by both products and probably going to give them a try. But like always, are there any alternatives out there, like real ones? I tried to get started with #hyperbole #emacs many times, with little success. I also actually think that for #hypertext, working with a #gui is needed for the experience.
Eastgate: serious hypertext

Fine hypertexts and hypertext tools since 1982

So I wanted to write a longer #NoAI piece but apparently my blog is down (and this time, miraculously, it might not be #AI scrapers), so I'll give you a sneak peek of what I wanted to say in the more hyperbolic part on how the #LLM discourse has all the common features of libertarian discourse.

"According to Google, LLM-backed searches don't consume much more energy than regular searches" [ignoring model training, surely.]
→ According to carbrains, cars are actually cheaper than public transport, provided that you compare gasoline cost with ticket prices, and ignore the cost of buying and owning a car. Not to mention all the indirect costs of space waste (roads, parking lots, garages), environment pollution, accidents…

"AI is just a tool, people decide if it's used for good or bad."
→ Ah, yes, and "guns don't kill people."

"AI has its uses."
→ So does asbestos.

"Let's not judge contributions by whether they were created using AI, but on their actual quality."
→ "Let's not judge contributions by whether they were created using slave work…"

"I do not use AI myself, but I don't want to block others."
→ "I do not keep slaves myself…"

#NoLLM #hyperbole

“Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’.”
― Tony Schwartz

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