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demonicsymphony

I’m curious, given the length of time I’ve had my own online moniker:

How long have you gone by your online name?

I change it constantly

More than six months

More than a year

2-5 years

6-10 years

10-15 years

15-20 years

20+ years

Voting ended onNov 23, 2024

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#Oh my god #It's been 20years #I'm dust

nondelphic

reminder: it’s okay if your first draft is basically word soup. even professional chefs start with broth.

depsidase

supergameboytwo

They increased the prices of groceries to account for the extra added listeria. You're getting more bang for your buck now and you're dumb if you think that getting free listeria with your groceries was ever going to be an option

hummingbird-hunter

Your gender is now the first randomized wikipedia article you get. No rerolls.

What is your gender now/what did you get?

A person (real or fictional)

An animal

A plant/fungus/otherwise alive non-animal

A non-living natural thing (e.g. a rock) or a natural phenomenon (e.g. tornado)

A place

A period of time or a specific event

A concept

A man-made object

A work of art or a piece of media

A field of study or a specific research

Something else? Put in tags

Voting ended onNov 4, 2024

#Lord #What would rickrolling fall under?#Concept?#Work of art?#Maybe even natural phenomenon?

zackprincebooks

Me waking up: I want to write

Me eating breakfast: I want to write

Me getting ready for work: I want to write

Me at work: I want to write

Me eating lunch: I want to write

Me driving home: I want to write

Me at home, sitting in front of my laptop:

ghxsttowns

Doing some research on a couple of specimens

trankinstein

Less magic schools. More magic universities. Unlearn the simplified models of your secondary education. Discover how to reference scrolls written by a wizard possessed by a different wizard. Identify bias in the voices that whisper from beyond the veil. Have your institution be accused of promoting a Merlinist agenda. Become addicted to energy potions.

strawberrycircuits

sometimes the moral of the story really is just "you cannot go back and what happened to you is going to be with you for the rest of your life. but it's still going to be okay" huh

#This hit like a truck today

bishopsprodigal

thinking about this

possumsinatrenchcoat

Adding @janetfraiser s tags

[image ID: a screenshot of tags that reads “ and usually I think the one who is gone would want you to heal 💕” /end ID]

parentheticalaside

My dream for the election is that it’s definitive. I want a 2012-style Election Day where everyone built it up beforehand to possibly be close but then the results start rolling in and it was like “Oh, nevermind. It’s obviously Obama. Everyone go to bed.”

I just want voters to put a stake right through the heart of Trumpism so that it crumbles to ash before our eyes. That’s the dream.

an-ruraiocht

how it feels to be online these days

waitingforthet

inspiration struck in a really, really weird way

enby-denby

I like how the wolf has stitches on his belly, implying that the woodsman still cut it open and filled it full of stones and threw him into the river, but they talked it out and decided to be cool with one another so they could give Uncle Steve a proper intervention

depsidase

bealittleimprobable

This has been driving me insane.

I used to be *good* at search. It was a whole thing - I found people's "lost songs" or their unknown-source childhood stuffed toy or whatever from Google.

Now, you can't search for the exact brand/design name of something and get accurate answers. It drives me spare on Amazon - if I search for XYZ and you don't have any, or you only have 2, tell me that.

I wouldn't mind if it said "Here are 2 XYZ. Shoppers also searched for..." Instead it'll just throw a random, barely-linked pile of results and you have to wade through every single one to see if the thing you want exists.

kimberlychapman

THIS. For ages I used to say that I had "high Google-Fu". I could find *anything* because I knew how to use strings to enhance searches. The string commands haven't even worked for well over a year or more, far before they put in this infernal (and often wrong!) AI BS on top.

I used to be able to search for recipes and easily eliminate unwanted ingredients with a -. For example I'd look for low-carb desserts but without the zillions that use peanut butter simply by searching for something like:

low carb chocolate dessert recipe -peanut

And I'd get a slew of on-point suggestions. For some time now if you do -peanut Google ignores the - and assumes you want recipes stuffed with peanuts.

Where it's even worse now is now you get directed to sites full of bogus AI recipes that don't even make sense. But they have peanuts in them.

I used to be able to use reverse image searches to find out who made that awesome art so I could give credit in my share. They've removed that ability entirely and replaced it with Lens, which is AI BS just showing you more like what you looked for. (Rebecca Watson complained about this in her recent video about JD Vance jizz cup rumours and I apologise for that sentence but...yeah. Watson is great, go find her on Youtube and subscribe because she went into detail about how Google has become less and less useful for debunking.)

This isn't just about Google inserting shopping ads instead of what you wanted to learn about. That's bad. But the results now are just *broken*. The tools we used to have to make searches better have been removed. Google no longer wants us to find the answers we seek, but the answers they want us to have, and that's super creepy and dangerous.

And the alternatives are either using Google in the back end or have other significant barriers to use.

This sucks.