encyclopedia britannica has had this function for years if anyone finds this premise fun www.britannica.com/on-this-day - ThreadSky

painofglass.bsky.social•77 days ago

Damn I got a couple of good ones

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enigmasystem03.bsky.social•77 days ago

I got the start of the Potemkin mutiny! Although not on the encyclopedia brittanica page, just on the Wikipedia page.

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callmeah.bsky.social•77 days ago

amazing spread holy shit

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ztr9.bsky.social•77 days ago

Excellent

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eylonbentsur.bsky.social•76 days ago

holy shit space yuri

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nikomo.fi•77 days ago

based

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sapphism.gay•76 days ago

Oh, neat! The start of the Iraq War AND Albert Speer’s birthday. 😐

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enigmasystem03.bsky.social•77 days ago

Fuckin Wikipedia has a page for each day of the year, you can easily look up what happened on your birthday lmao.

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jtp.bsky.social•77 days ago

oh neat didnt know they also had that. wonder how the edit history looks for september 11th lol

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enigmasystem03.bsky.social•77 days ago

Oh, I'm sure the edit history is thoroughly straightforward and uncontroversial. This is Wikipedia, after all lol.

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punisheddebil.bsky.social•77 days ago

what a stupid function. who would ever want to use it smh.

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kittykatecho.bsky.social•76 days ago

i know the moon landing happened on mine. also the hitler assassination attempt. idk very much else

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jessie-belle.bsky.social•76 days ago

later in the list there was also the first female head of state in iceland so that's cool

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pussydawg.wtf•76 days ago

wonderful

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chubbybunny627.bsky.social•77 days ago

How much do you wanna bet if you used chatgpt half the events would be fake

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okshookie.bsky.social•77 days ago

i dont get ppl that post abt sincerely using chatgpt as a search engine. instead of searching and finding websites, articles from the time period or fuck it even a reddit post from someone who says where their source is from u are asking a glorified word calculator that frequently makes up citations

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okshookie.bsky.social•77 days ago

i feel like if ur the kind of person to use chatgpt like this the only way i can understand it is if u genuinely believe it's a thinking live entity capable of doing the research for you cognitively instead of what it actually is: a program that predicts the most likely next word in a sentence/convo

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benjicake.bsky.social•76 days ago

my favorite "defense" for using chat gpt as a search engine is that you should ask chat gpt than google what you asked chat gpt so that way you can make sure that chat gpt is accurate

by far the most insane mental gymnastics I've seen

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okshookie.bsky.social•76 days ago

i also think that it's a result of google search being cooked for the last 7 or so years. it's just led to ppl lowering their standards for search results to the point that they accept dogshit like cgpt

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itsanorange.bsky.social•76 days ago

Absolutely cursed

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dukedragon28.bsky.social•76 days ago

I always thought by Bday was boring as fuck but apparently thats when Challenger fucking exploded wtf

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maersk-aerospace.bsky.social•76 days ago

love 2 find out i was born on the day of the michael brown murder, gerald ford taking over from nixon, and the fucking manson murders. vibes all kinds of off

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ang3llll.bsky.social•76 days ago

you can also just google “what happened on [birthday]” and it will tell you 😭

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princeennui.bsky.social•76 days ago

like, you could just search any date on Wikipedia and find this shit

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cfdrifbl00m.bsky.social•76 days ago

i turned one when ronald reagan died????

shit thats so cool

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thedarthmoogle.bsky.social•77 days ago

ah, fun

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jtp.bsky.social•77 days ago

also this quara page was a few results down when i was googling trying to find the britannica url and apparently quara has hitler over there just answering random questions

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wobblybitsx.bsky.social•76 days ago

Quora is such a useless shithole these days I installed a browser extension specifically to yeet it from search results.

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richmath.org•77 days ago

«Nothing of significance happened on my birthday» is a remarkable self-own.

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enigmasystem03.bsky.social•77 days ago

Yeah, that tracks for quora, frankly.

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jtp.bsky.social•77 days ago

these guys used to at least try a thinly veiled dogwhistle rather than just wearing a red arm band

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enigmasystem03.bsky.social•77 days ago

Yeah, but quora got rid of any sort of practical moderation years ago, so they don't really need to use the dogwhistles anymore.

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lezoe.bsky.social•76 days ago

quora is full of characters, a lot of them seem to ask questions about "pragnetcy" or asking if it's normal to have the hots for your sister

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refrencia.bsky.social•77 days ago

How come they’re not even a tiny bit embarrassed?

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yevkras.bsky.social•76 days ago

Message he gets when he asks about his birthday:

This place is not a place of honor

No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here

Nothing valued is here

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