• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    I read it as: the medical system being worse than house says more about the system than it does about house.

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      5 days ago

      Their statement finishes with, "… it does not speak well of him."

      That is specifically calling House worse than reality, so…

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        5 days ago

        If we’re doing a detailed breakdown of their statement, that statement says that it doesn’t say anything good, not that it says anything bad.
        I assumed they were a non-native English speaker who bungled “not good is opposite good, or bad” and instead had “not good is absence of good, or neutral”.

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        5 days ago

        Maybe they thought they said it doesn’t speak well of the actual doctor, forgetting the fact that they said “the system” rather than “your doctor” in the preceding part of the comment. I do stuff like that all the time and then when rereading I call myself a dumbass and fix it. Shit happens.