A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google - which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic - suddenly turned into a pile of shit.
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Hi, this is a long lasting problem that I didn't really manage to fix when I started using linux (Mint, Cinnamon). But now that I've been using it regularly for half a year and I have more experience in fiddling around, I'm trying to get it resolved....
11 years ago, my kid's daycare surprised us by announcing that they were closing for Christmas break a day before everyone else, so I ended up with our then-four-year-old daughter, Poesy, at my office for the day.
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"It was determined that Hugh died from a 14.5 centimeter rip in his colon and other traumatic injuries caused by a sexual encounter with another, larger, male manatee at the facility, Buffett"
JPMorgan Chase said the U.S. Virgin Islands gave Jeffrey Epstein more than $300 million in tax incentives and waived sex offender monitoring requirements, shielding the disgraced late financier as he gave cash and gifts to top officials.
Vengo de un evento familiar: hubo dos horas y media (tal vez más) de controversia ininterrumpida de política. Me siento pletórico. #Not. Nomás quiero ver mi novela y fugarme del cansancio mental tamaño jumbo que me cargo.
Today, Yahoo announces doing exactly that to Engadget: "...the changes paint a picture of an outlet cutting staff to focus on things like Google traffic, SEO, commerce, and affiliate revenue" 😔
Hab im Standard den Artikel über luxuriöse Kindergeburtstagsparties gelesen, die mehrere hundert Euro kosten (bis hin zu 50.000 Euro und noch mehr für die super rich people). Macht mir richtig Lust, doch noch Kinder zu kriegen. #not
"(Editor's note: A YouTube video of Dadgar and Hashimoto talking about HashiCorp's commitment to open-source software was mysteriously taken private after it was published right here.)"
if the 5 person, million dollar guest log for Oceangate’s lost sub crashed very close to the Titanic wreck … that tour operator can now double ticket prices to $500,000 for future billionaire gawkers of tragedy.
…like Popular Science, which began as a magazine in 1872 and became a shambling zombie in 2023, after its PE owners North Equity LLC decided its googlejuice was worth more than its integrity and turned it into a metastatic chumbox of shitty affiliate-link SEO-bait.
Suspension on my laptop (closing the lid) causes Wifi to not be available.
Hi, this is a long lasting problem that I didn't really manage to fix when I started using linux (Mint, Cinnamon). But now that I've been using it regularly for half a year and I have more experience in fiddling around, I'm trying to get it resolved....
Texas worker accused of being on drugs was actually dying of heatstroke (www.theguardian.com)
"Mother of Gabriel Infante, 24, sues employer for $1m, saying construction workers had no protections from extreme heat....
Manatee dies after ‘high-intensity sexual behavior' with brother at Florida aquarium (www.nbcmiami.com)
"It was determined that Hugh died from a 14.5 centimeter rip in his colon and other traumatic injuries caused by a sexual encounter with another, larger, male manatee at the facility, Buffett"
Jeffrey Epstein got $300 mln tax breaks, paid US Virgin Islands police, JPMorgan says (www.reuters.com)
JPMorgan Chase said the U.S. Virgin Islands gave Jeffrey Epstein more than $300 million in tax incentives and waived sex offender monitoring requirements, shielding the disgraced late financier as he gave cash and gifts to top officials.
A Delaware city is set to give corporations the right to vote in elections (old.reddit.com)
A Not The Onion story.