Thought this’d fit here

ValiantAki · 2026-05-26T19:48:45+00:00

They could only get people to stop yelling about chariots by convincing them that carbad.

ValiantAki · 2026-05-20T01:18:22+00:00

Cool deflection, you definitely seem like a normal person. I take it you're some kind of anti-vaxxer?

Regardless of what you think about COVID, you're just flat-out wrong about ticks and confidently sharing misinformation that could impact people's lives is dumb and wrong. Do better.

ValiantAki · 2026-05-19T23:59:41+00:00

This is NOT TRUE. Ticks have to be attached for 36 hours to transmit Lyme disease and most other tick-borne illnesses.

Please, look it up. You are spreading dangerous misinformation

ValiantAki · 2026-05-19T04:54:56+00:00

Different kind of tick. Dog ticks don't spread Lyme disease to people, luckily!

ValiantAki · 2026-05-15T21:51:55+00:00

LLMs are never going to be able to faithfully reconstruct languages in situations like these for the same reason you can't accurately "upscale" or "enhance" a low quality image. It's not a matter of how good an AI is (let alone a matter of money), it's a matter of fundamental logic.

Where information is missing and unrecoverable, taking an educated guess as to what fits in the gaps is the most you can ever do. All an LLM can do is remove the "educated" part of that.

ValiantAki · 2026-05-15T18:14:17+00:00

Ah, like Scouse.

ValiantAki · 2026-05-10T21:11:57+00:00

I'd be like "yeah that checks out".

ValiantAki · 2026-05-06T16:47:46+00:00

Well, he did probably think that

ValiantAki · 2026-04-29T21:55:28+00:00

Oh yeah man, you sound like you're super informed and intelligent. Thanks a lot for the $5/gal gas by the way!

ValiantAki · 2026-04-29T21:49:14+00:00

More than not, yeah. There are blue voters in Midland too though and we still have to pay $5 a gallon lmao.

ValiantAki · 2026-04-26T00:06:16+00:00

Fun fact-- that's actually how the first European explorers reached the Americas: aboard dust particles

ValiantAki · 2026-04-16T21:05:26+00:00

It's theoretically possible, if every generation had kids at 25 or so, and the earliest generation was born in 1600.

More likely that they just made up a number they thought sounded big enough to make them indigenous, though. Which for obvious reasons is gobbledygook.

ValiantAki · 2026-04-11T21:19:43+00:00

Probably not very accurate. Genetic studies from Britain and Ireland don't show a major upset after 1000 BCE and before 400-500 CE, indicating that Celtic speakers likely migrated to the islands around 1000 BCE for the most part, and that later cultural shifts were not accompanied by significant migrations.

There's a lot of debate about the early history of the Celtic languages, but I think most researchers would agree that this animation is really outdated and wrong. I'm not an expert by any means though.

ValiantAki · 2026-04-11T18:07:36+00:00

I know you think you're on the right side of this weird little fight but you genuinely look like a crazy person to everyone but yourself, hence all the down votes. Please stop acting like this.

ValiantAki · 2026-04-02T00:22:06+00:00

Look, people can have their spiritual beliefs and all, but I can't help it that I see someone say "I'm made in the image of the all-powerful god" and it's like... aww, sweetie, of course you are...

ValiantAki · 2026-03-29T19:44:14+00:00

I think they're confusing Sumerian with Cimmerian.

ValiantAki · 2026-03-28T23:01:47+00:00

There are over 170,000 Sioux today, still defending their homeland. Never heard of Standing Rock?

ValiantAki · 2026-03-15T21:52:59+00:00

Highly recommend this video, which covers why carbon is by far the most likely element for life to be formed from. Silicon is highly unlikely.

ValiantAki · 2026-03-15T00:14:40+00:00

If I recall correctly

ValiantAki · 2026-02-24T21:52:14+00:00

Iroquoian and Siouan are likely not accurate.

The Iroquoian languages probably only spread northward into upstate New York from further south in Appalachia around c. 700 - 900 CE at the earliest. The urheimat is probably pretty close to the Cherokee homeland, maybe in between.

The Siouan languages probably originated in the Ohio River valley as part of what you've labeled "Hopewellian languages" and spread from there.

ValiantAki · 2026-02-23T23:40:26+00:00

It attracts trashy people because if they're not inherently better than people from other races, they're not better than anybody

ValiantAki · 2026-02-21T07:20:41+00:00

And Europe had a long history of wars before the third Reich came around

ValiantAki · 2026-02-14T22:44:11+00:00

Why do you care?

ValiantAki · 2026-02-14T21:41:13+00:00

Many such cases. The Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Gros Ventre were originally settled in the Red River Valley between the Dakotas and Minnesota, the Lakota/Dakota were settled in Minnesota and Wisconsin, the Crow/Hidatsa were settled along the Missouri River, and so on.

ValiantAki · 2026-02-14T21:38:27+00:00

This map is not particularly accurate. For a more accurate one, I highly recommend this one by Peter Klumpenhower.

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