I had a quite interesting chat with a few LLMs on this broad subject. From the references to Hassan-i-Sabbah to the late bronze-age collapse, the rise of monotheism, and so forth. I really hated to i… (View Post)

"Heating Stood" sounds like a rather charming village in rural Suffolk. (View Post)

Lovely Siberia you've got there. Shame if something 'appened to it. What with it being full of minerals and close to the Arctic. Terrible.... shame. (View Post)

I seem to remember something along those lines with arguments amongst papyrus vs. clay tablets, or manuscripts copied by scribes vs. the new-fangled 'movable type'. Latin vs. localised bible has a li… (View Post)

I quite enjoyed Dan Carlin's series about WW1. Quite grim - but very well done (IMHO). I think this is the series : https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-blueprint-for-armageddon-i/ T… (View Post)