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811.
by 20after4 3y ago
Maybe you missed the deeper satirical message.
812.
by 20after4 3y ago
Squash grows completely wild in the middle of the desert in New Mexico.
813.
by 20after4 3y ago
Generating money for google is not the only metric that matters for the users. The incentives are perverse from the perspective of everyone other than google executives and investors with significant google holdings.
814.
by 20after4 3y ago
I was being hyperbolic but it's not that far from the reality of the situation. Google's decline started around the same time as that merger. I'm not the only one who thinks this way: https://www.nytimes.com/2
815.
by 20after4 3y ago
This is probably the common thread among all the people reporting this. As an alternate date point, I haven't experienced the captcha from using advanced search queries.
816.
by 20after4 3y ago
This is precisely what happened. When google merged with doubleclick.net the new company should have been named doubleclick.net and not google. The old google ceased to exist at that point and was swallowed by an advertising company. I st
817.
by 20after4 3y ago
Understatement of the week: This is very cool.
818.
by 20after4 3y ago
see also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1hv5P4SwbU
819.
by 20after4 3y ago
I guess it's arguable whether better dental health, plus cancer, could be considered a benefit. Would heavily depend on the rates of cancer or other harms vs. the rates of improved dental health. Certainly without thinking too deeply
820.
by 20after4 3y ago
I think that's improved, at least according to product literature (I haven't tested it myself), however: The latest generation of small under-sink reverse osmosis filters claim to waste only 1 gallon for every 2 gallons of usable
821.
by 20after4 3y ago
I used to think that joke was pretty funny. I still do, but I used to too!
822.
by 20after4 3y ago
In that the kind of extreme cold, it cools off very fast and to levels where an extra layer or two won't do the trick.
823.
by 20after4 3y ago
Yeah, I agree, and I didn't really mean for my reply to be a rebuttal to your point at all. :)
824.
by 20after4 3y ago
According to [1] they may be not so much inept as heavily coerced under threat of violence. [1]. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...
825.
by 20after4 3y ago
This right here. I actually am strongly starting to believe that this is indeed what's going on. I read the book Kingdom of Speech a few years ago and that also left me with the perspective that perhaps language has a lot more to do wi
826.
by 20after4 3y ago
Probably no conspiracy - like you say, everyone is at least a little bit politically motivated. Without invoking a conspiracy, however, it's plainly obvious that Wikipedia is a high value target for manipulation and every political pa
827.
by 20after4 3y ago
I don't usually speak up about it but I feel that home schooling can be so beneficial (at least for some children) that I sometimes try to at least push back on the argument. The thing is, every situation is different and what works f
828.
by 20after4 3y ago
You think they wouldn't kill him just like they did the other Kennedy troublemakers?
829.
by 20after4 3y ago
You can't prove that they aren't answering ChatGPT questions with real humans, either.
830.
by 20after4 3y ago
Home schooling was the best thing my parents did for my education and social development. Surprisingly, all they really had to do, is let me do basically whatever I was interested in. They would answer questions and provide resources for l
831.
by 20after4 3y ago
To me this sounds a lot like reinventing CSS.
832.
by 20after4 3y ago
Perhaps those specific details are just a few heavily reinforced data points. Perhaps they become more and more statistically likely to be true the more they are reinforced?
833.
by 20after4 3y ago
And yet we have a very hard time believing or accepting this reality, preferring to believe in our own infallibility.
834.
by 20after4 3y ago
It's maybe not quite a dramatic coverup but there most definitely was a concerted effort to suppress a specific definition of the term "recession" in preference for the "politically correct" version. See for yoursel
835.
by 20after4 3y ago
Government intervention? No probably not. Politically motivated wiki editors with the power to lock pages and revert edits? Absolutely! The edit history is right there and it's plain to see for yourself: https://en.wikip
836.
by 20after4 3y ago
And most people are oblivious to this simple observation, allowing the situation to continue. Feels like the war is already lost a long time ago.
837.
by 20after4 3y ago
And we aren't even moving away from this, we're moving farther and farther into it.
838.
by 20after4 3y ago
A friend had their car stolen in St. Louis. Police did nothing, even though the location of the vehicle was known and the person who stole it was identified. When police did nothing, eventually the owner recovered the car themself when th
839.
by 20after4 3y ago
That's hardly the worst thing that happens when SWAT teams get involved.
840.
by 20after4 3y ago
Exactly. No they do not use these powers to return stolen cars. Stolen cars only get returned very extremely rarely and only if it's convenient for the police. They don't lift an extra finger to recover stolen property.

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