▲ 675 r/ChatGPT

I asked ChatGPT to visualise the stupidest single decision in human history and it came up with Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, when Germany chose to fight a vast eastern war before defeating Britain and helped seal its own destruction.

u/Immobilesteelrims — 3 days ago

Would it make sense to use a looser translation of the Quran into English in order to convey the gravitas of the rhyming scheme contained in the Arabic reading better?

Example verse…

81 — At-Takwīr
When the sun is folded from sight,
When the stars fall, stripped of light,
When the mountains move in flight,
When pregnant camels are left outright,
When the wild beasts gather in fright,
When the seas are set alight,
When souls are paired and made unite,
When the buried girl is asked her plight:
“For what crime were you killed that night?”
When the records are spread in sight,
When the sky is stripped from height,
When Hell is kindled fierce and bright,
When Paradise is brought in sight—
Then every soul will know its freight.
So I swear by stars that fade and glide,
That move, then vanish out of sight;
By the night as it draws aside,
And dawn that breathes its growing light:
This is the word a messenger bears,
Noble, mighty, honoured there,
Before the Lord of the Throne in might,
Obeyed and trusted in His sight.
Your companion is not mad or lost;
He saw him on the horizon clear.
He does not hide what Heaven has brought,
Nor is this a demon’s whispered thought.
So where, then, will you turn or flee?
It is but a warning for humanity—
For whoever wills to walk upright;
Yet you cannot will unless God wills,
The Lord of every world and life.

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u/Immobilesteelrims — 3 days ago

Tang dynasty astronomers in seventh-century China, c. 620 CE, meticulously documenting eclipses, comets, meteors, planetary movements and other unusual celestial events, yet leaving no surviving record of the Moon splitting in two

u/Immobilesteelrims — 4 days ago

The fall of Constantinople, 29 May 1453 — the final Ottoman breakthrough that destroyed the Byzantine Empire, brought the thousand-year Roman imperial tradition to an end, and became one of the great symbolic dividing lines between the medieval world and the early modern age.

u/Immobilesteelrims — 4 days ago
▲ 7 r/hellaflyai+1 crossposts

Muhammad’s household in Medina, c. 627 CE …guests lingering after a meal while his wives wait nearby, shortly before Qur’an 33:53 would instruct believers not to enter Muhammad’s homes without permission, not to remain talking after eating, and to address his wives from behind a partition.

u/Immobilesteelrims — 4 days ago

Muhammad’s first revelation in the Cave of Hira in 610 CE, reimagined through a modern secular and psychological lens as an intense altered state of consciousness

u/Immobilesteelrims — 8 days ago

More moments in history when invading armies arrived with technologies that seemed almost unimaginable to the people who first witnessed them less

u/Immobilesteelrims — 10 days ago

Moments in history when invading armies arrived with technologies that seemed almost unimaginable to the people who first witnessed them

u/Immobilesteelrims — 11 days ago

After the Romans left Britain in AD 410, the once-great city of Londinium slowly fell into ruin as locals scavenged its abandoned temples and public buildings for timber, metal and valuables

u/Immobilesteelrims — 11 days ago