https://signsmag.com/2018/09/fredericks-experiment/

The babies literally died for want of touch

https://vocal.media/history/the-king-who-isolated-infants-to-determine-which-language-adam-and-eve-originally-spoke-i13l0c1o

The emperor’s experiment, however, ended in tragedy. Deprived of emotional and social interaction, the infants did not develop any language and eventually died.

https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/kings-queens/emperor-frankenstein-the-truth-behind-frederick-ii-of-sicilys-sadistic-science-experiments/

Tragically for those involved, Frederick never got an answer to the question he posed, and the original language of mankind remained hidden from him. The children, starved of any form of affection, warmth and basic interaction, died, quite simply, of a lack of love.

Just looked it up. They all died quickly. It’s literally just “they couldn’t live without it.”

But he laboured in vain, for the children could not live without clappings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments.

Am I the only one who interpretes this as “well, they died”?

You gotta be shittin me.

unless the server farm is so powerful that it increases the indoor temperature to uncomfortable levels

Isn’t that the joke?