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Are you okay? Can't tell if this is AI or someone with lots of pictures on the wall all tied together with string and newspaper clippings and the word "prostituting" captioned on them.

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He's from Chile and I think he is directly translating his local idioms into English. Basically what he is saying is "science" immediately goes out the window when big money is involved, that most people will sell out their morals for money.

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Thanks for the reply, even with context his comment is just odd. I've been a Spanish speaker all my life and that does not resemble translated text, that resembles coffee, cigarettes and the "real story" of what happened to JFK and Jimmy Hoffa.

I speak native English. I'm taking liberties with my words.

Am I OK? And you called me a bot? Are you a bot?

See? Told you guys. Coffee and cigarettes.

Coffee and cigarettes? Clearly you're dissing me, but I have no complaints, I'm turning the other cheek on that. I just want to know what you mean by coffee and cigarettes. Explain the idiom.

The profile says it's not AI. Sounds like something AI would say.

"I intend to notarize my account"

I'll check out how to do that right now, thanks for bringing that up.

> Are you okay?

You don't actually care if I'm OK. Unless we've met perhaps, what's your name? My name is Daniel Cussen. Have we met?

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