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(I'm sad that this amazing video has no source and no userid. Is it tiktok? If so, where is their name on the screen? He made this himself. He's had his video copied onto youtube and cropped also.)

salvia-plathitudes

Looks like his tik tok is here

lamusebrune

I cannot stress enough how important it is to do silly, frivolous things that serve no other purpose than making you happy.

minecraft

hating furries is just a silencer on the gun that is hating on lgbt+ tbh

braindeadcharlotte

NO need to leave this in the tags go off

dawnf1re

aurora ~ espeon & umbreon risograph, design by me

anime-boy-kiss-suddenly-guitar

If I see that cowboy flesh hat and one more goddamn time

bari-nosis

Dash did a thing. Ignore that middle post.

cardspkmn

Sylveon — S&V Prismatic Evolutions #156

Illustrated by: Cona Nitanda

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.

bogleech

Duckduckgo and all the other alternatives work this way too, now.

revretch

Verbatim search, guys!! Go to "Tools," and enable "Verbatim."

It's a pain in the ass, but it still works!

dalniente

1) yay, thank you

2) WHAT THE FUCK WHY DID THEY HIDE IT

morphinemilkshake

For all you Firefox users, here's an addon that forces verbatim mode to always be on:

Download unfuck-google for Firefox. This addon forces 'Verbatim' search on Google - removing all bs personalization and localization and let

orteil42

uhhhh reverse Delicious in Dungeon. Disgusting in Restaurant. nothing's edible

totally-a-wizard

viralfrog

luckyvalentin3-deactivated20250

honeybeeclips

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liquifiedfenby

yandere-angela

ngl every time i see stuff about like, drugs affecting cognitive development of kids and teens, i think about the fact that it's normal for kids and teens to have caffeine, even tho caffeine also affects cognitive development. i think about the fact that teens are expected to get up extremely early in the morning to get ready for school, and go to bed real late because they only get free time late at night. i think about the fact that society already puts kids and teens through so many things that destroy their physical and mental health, and yet there's no serious effort to change the world to be a kinder place to them