as a pre-schooler non-social media parent, this is fucking hilarious.

Whenever I have to brave the Google abyss, I usually use Startpage. Obviously uBlock Origin but if I can avoid being bombarded by devious and distracting ads altogether, I’d rather that.

True but I see this more as a critical thinking problem - which is pervasive in our society and worsened by the tech bubbles. People should want to seek out information that both argues for and against a topic.

The way our education systems work now, at least in the US, that method of thinking only begins around college and varies widely by academic pedigree.

The few people on ours are local real estate agents and severe weather alerts lol

Oh! I’ll have to watch that. Hadn’t realized Apple toys with this theme quite a bit. Constellation had so much promise but it flamed out for me. Severance might be tangentially related with the theme, compartmentalized lives, being equally fascinating.

Mr. Robot and Counterpart did things to my brain questioning reality.

Yup. I quit everything but Reddit several years back without a second thought in all that time because I lived in a big metropolitan city.

Now I live in a small suburb where all the towns and businesses post to FB, neighbors have tradeposts and active interest groups on there, the schools and Police post info there too. My wife has connected to “friends” we otherwise wouldn’t exchange info with.

All that has had me wanting to create a new account - just to connect. I was completely ignorant to the role it plays outside of big cities beforehand. Nextdoor is a really crappy alternative.

This is both a terrifying and astonishing thought.

This introduces the possibility that we’re experiencing 2 universes and creating a third within ourselves.

Wait! Have we come full circle? Is Orbs the end before we come back to Beans?

Just like my Harbor Freight paint sprayer!

My child needs this. We haven’t found a space yet that they can’t outzoom.

I used perplexity pretty exclusively for a while. Especially for work. Both have their place and use cases but when I’m looking for something truly specific or nuanced, it’s DDG and a manual search.

blahaj.exe.tar.gz

NY Times reported it as 8. The video of the USSS sniper shows he reacted after the gunshots.

*8 shots actually. 3 deliberate shots, pause, followed by 5 peppering the area.

3:15 is the one. The spooky one.

I had to block keywords. Have to keep Lemmy my safe space.

Seen it. Covered it.

🎶 we are Farmers!

I wish I had friends. It would’ve prevented me from buying the shitty dishwasher that last less than 3 years.

…I’m gonna need a bigger TV.