#random searches

[randomvideosicantletgoof]

[cymraegdragon21]

Random things you search Google in the name of fan fiction writing.

Todays entry - "what noises do iguanas make?"😄

What's yours?

[harveywritings92]

Yo, I just found this random google Easter egg where if you type the song "The ants go marching" these little ants will start crawling across the screen.

I was at Walmart looking a the display laptops in the tech department and for some reason that song was stuck in my head, so I looked it up on the laptop I was looking at.

[prankprincess123]

Apparently my googling weird things for writing purposes has reached a peak (without being anywhere near the weirdest thing I've searched for) so does anyone know where I can find a list of types of apples ranked by how red they are? Or even just like the top 5 most red types of apples?

[lilyliesgold]

2024

versus 2026

I may start doing this every year to see how society is doing.

We're not restarting the ussr anymore, but there is a concerning amount of summoning happening on accident.

[onceuponaweirdo]

90% of the tabs I have opened are fanfics I started reading at some point before I got hooked into another and I go back to finish reading them one by one. The other 10% are mangas and random things I search when I'm writing.

[jade-muffins]

Different time zones are wild I don't remember searching the first one at all

I haven't been into minecraft in like 9 years??

[clorhex]

"This is why, in our society, work is closely related to, and often motivated by, guilt. To sweeten their view of work and provide positive motivation, the Puritans believed that honest toil, if persevered with, led to mundane and spiritual rewards. The modern equivalents of these archaic religious beliefs are:

i) Hard work is the main factor in producing material wealth.

ii) Hard work is character building and morally good.

The available statistics don’t support the belief that hard work leads to wealth – for example, US government figures from the eighties showed the average savings of a person reaching retirement age in North America to be less than $500. This is the typical level of financial reward a person can expect for forty years of full-time hard work – based on government data for an entire generation of working Americans.

Whatever its correlation with material wealth, hard work is undoubtedly seen as virtuous – the greatest tribute paid to the deceased seems to be “worked hard all his/her life”, although this epitaph sounds more appropriate for an item of machinery than a human being. There is, in fact, a lot of evidence to suggest that our work ethic is extreme and pathological in its effects. For example, a major UK survey (quoted recently by The Guardian) showed that 6 out of 10 British workers dislike their jobs, suffer insecurity and stress, fret over inadequate income, feel that their work isn’t of use to society, and find themselves exhausted by the time they get home. A 1995 National Opinion Poll (NOP) revealed that 50% of British workers say work makes them depressed, and 43% have problems sleeping because of work. So unless you regard stress-related illness as character building, these findings don’t really support the idea of work being morally uplifting.

The hard work ethic has also conditioned us to see happiness as something that must be earned through toil. In effect, this is saying you have to suffer in order to get happiness, or to put it another way, you must be unhappy to be happy. The underlying idea behind this insanity is that you are infinitely undeserving – that reward, ie happiness, will always be contingent upon the endurance of some unpleasant activity. The problem with this way of thinking is that it endlessly perpetuates itself – you can never totally relax because nobody ever comes along to say, once and for all, that you’ve worked enough (the religious beliefs which originally gave rise to this mindset don’t permit you to relax until after you’ve died)."

-Brian Dean from Anxiety Culture