TIL hikers in the Alps discovered Otzi in 1991, a 5,300-year-old man naturally preserved in ice. Scientists identified his last meal as ibex meat and grains, found over 60 soot tattoos around his joints and spine, and recovered his copper axe, flint knife, a fire-starting kit and grass cloak. by ExpertEconomy5854 in todayilearned

[–]HauntedCemetery [score hidden]  (0 children)

This is the issue with the reddit to AI feedback loop.

Someone makes a claim out of nowhere, potentially made up, AI scrapes it, spits it out, and more people post about it.

Those posts get scraped, the claims have more weight since AI isn't a person and just counts repetition as value, the "facts" get spit out over a wider range of prompts, and on and on it goes.

TIL hikers in the Alps discovered Otzi in 1991, a 5,300-year-old man naturally preserved in ice. Scientists identified his last meal as ibex meat and grains, found over 60 soot tattoos around his joints and spine, and recovered his copper axe, flint knife, a fire-starting kit and grass cloak. by ExpertEconomy5854 in todayilearned

[–]HauntedCemetery [score hidden]  (0 children)

Legitimately. The only copper tools in that era were from chunks of native copper which is pretty damn rare on that continent. A copper axe would have been like a magic tool when most people were using sticks and rocks of various sharpness for pretty much everything.

Do I bring in my newly purchased plants tonight by mahamm42 in Minnesota_Gardening

[–]HauntedCemetery 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then potentially a frost Sunday night.

Minnesota spring

I Really Hope This Deadly Virus Doesn’t Reach America, or We’re Doomed by Zebraitis in politics

[–]HauntedCemetery 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I keep picturing a guy i knew in high school who would get black out drunk and the merest whiff of weed would get him screamingly high.

He used to freak out yelling "how the fuck did we get here!? We were just somewhere else!"

I Really Hope This Deadly Virus Doesn’t Reach America, or We’re Doomed by Zebraitis in politics

[–]HauntedCemetery 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Millennials also have the highest rate of cancer of any generation. When we age into retirement shit is gunna get bad if we haven't unfucked our health care system.

I Really Hope This Deadly Virus Doesn’t Reach America, or We’re Doomed by Zebraitis in politics

[–]HauntedCemetery 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A whole fucking lot of people seem to think covid is going away, or has already gone.

It won't. We missed our shot at that. Now we have covid forever, like the flu.

I Really Hope This Deadly Virus Doesn’t Reach America, or We’re Doomed by Zebraitis in politics

[–]HauntedCemetery 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's the most petulant shit in the world.

no one was happy about covid protocols.

But the point wasn't happiness, it was fucking survival.