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Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.

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GottaLaff, to random
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“Provocative.” 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄 GET HIM OFF THE COURT. Gift: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t00.Ihnd.LkwD_75RA6zD&smid=url-share

“Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another #Alito Home

The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on #Jan6 and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html

cherold,
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@GottaLaff So interesting that the two most MAGA justices weren't even appointed by Trump. Shows that what Republicans are now is what they've been for decades.

kottke, to random
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How to get Google search results without the AI garbage. “It’s essentially Google, minus the crap. No parsing of the information in the results. No surfacing metadata like address or link info. No knowledge panels, but also, no ads.” https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

cherold,
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@scottytrees @kottke I use ddg as my default but I often have to add !g to get useful results. That's the problem - there are other search engines, but even though Google intentionally degrades its results to get more hits, it still gives better results than the competition.

cherold,
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@scottytrees Most people would rather get useful results as quickly as possible, so until there's a search engine that is at least as good as Google, it will still be the search engine of choice. The number of people willing to inconvenience themselves to avoid benefiting Google is, I'm afraid, far too small to have any effect on Google whatsoever. :-(

cherold,
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@scottytrees I'm not saying nothing can be done. The government can regulate, and bring lawsuits, and that may help. I'm saying an individual not using Google is as effective as people who claim the only way to change the electoral system is to vote 3rd party. It's not an effective strategy, it's just a way to feel like you're doing something. I choose not to make meaningless gestures. But continue to shout at Google if it makes you feel good.

cherold,
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@scottytrees Mate, if I wanted self-righteous condescension I would go back to Twitter. We're done.

cherold, to random
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@Teri_Kanefield says we don't need legal pundits, and at first I thought, of course we need someone who understands how the legal system works and can tell us what's what. But then she wrote

"...lawyers confuse people. Confused people then turn to lawyers for explanations."

And I realized that if pundits quit saying the legal system was corrupt, we wouldn't keep asking, "is this corrupt behavior?" We would just ... follow what happens and see how it turns out.

https://terikanefield.com/beware-the-lawyers-follow-up/

cherold, to random
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Conservative states ban vaccines and wearing masks when you're sick are gonna be a breeding ground for pandemics. And when it happens, they'll say God is mad about gay people or abortion or something. Because that's who they are.

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