They lost me right there, lol

Tbf a lot of Google is shite but i will never deny the pixel

¿Porque no los dos? 💈

It’s like sushi… kinda

Well isn’t that great, mr. moneybags

/S

Yes I’m making a stupid joke bc it’s a paid search engine, something i never would have imagined would be a thing. Now I’m going to price it and perhaps finally pull the trigger on an acct there because fuck google, fuck bing, and fuck all these sites being “wrappers” of them. I come from the dial-up days when lycos, webcrawler, altavista, yahoo–hard searches that would separate the men from the boys. Now we just get this “A.I.” bullshit instead and it falls apart under its own weight. Excuse me while i wave my cane at the sun ☀️

Edit: so it turns out you can get 100 free searches on their site here: https://kagi.com/onboarding?p=choose_plan

Otherwise, it’s $5/month for 300 searches, $10/mo for unlimited, and $25/mo for their “ultimate” exclusive experience…whatever that may be. I’m gonna try the freebies and see what happens. I’m still on the fence about paying for search, but I’m really tired of bs coming from these companies leading to things like we’re experiencing today

Can you refute the info in the article? That would go a lot further to prove your comment valid.

↖️This is the real life pro-tip right here

I know this image is completely unrelated to the article, it’s just that i saw the words golden and axe in such close proximity…i wanted to leave that here in case others were thinking the same

You wouldn’t download an island…?!

Does this work universally or is there a particular station you frequent that it works at?

I think it does though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

She’s a former registered Republican with an axe to grind with AOC. She became a Democrat only in name, brought all her right-wing bullshit along with her.

So what the hell is this post even for? It links to a single tweet in the middle of a series of tweets from a retired journalist/current politician that otherwise seems to be 100% obsessed with AOC and spends nearly all her time X’ing about her. After having viewed her profile for a minute, i decided to find out a little more and it didn’t take long to reveal a conservative in liberal clothing:

"In her 2010 book, “You Know I’m Right: More Prosperity, Less Government,” Caruso-Cabrera called for privatizing both Medicare and Social Security, which she described as “the country’s biggest pyramid schemes.”

Source: https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-wall-street-backed-democratic-challenger-lived-in-trump-tower-for-years-before-moving-to-queens-in-late-2019/articleshow/75418946.cms

🤡

Just like to take this opportunity to say fuck the name “ByteDance”

It’s a stupid, corporate, “hip” name that needs to fade into obscurity asap. Not crazy about the company either, but the name in particular is just so fucking cringe

All i got is about $3.50

I’ve been hearing Kagi is very good but i don’t know if I’m ready to start paying for a search engine. Given the direction things are headed through, it could be worth considering

And MetaCrawler!

So what’s the play – who are we voting for to get something better?

That’s a really long article to basically say that the Carlin AI stand-up was probably mostly if not entirely written by a human–but to sound like an AI. It’s an impression of AI by a lousy comic (or a couple of em working together) and they decided to shit on the legacy of one of our greatest comic minds in the process. If that’s the joke, i can see why nobody is laughing.

There’s obviously a lot of legal grey-areas here though, so if any good comes from this it will hopefully be in the form of laws to prevent stupid shit like this flooding the Internet.

Hot damn, well that’s certainly not what i was trying to advise but i wasn’t very specific either. On top of that, I’m in a unique position having been born in a family that would go on to start their own repair biz. I’ve injured myself on the job no doubt. Made big dumb expensive mistakes, to boot. Never had to expose myself to some of the risks you mentioned though, and my pay is definitely higher than that–but only after having been at it for over 20 years between apprenticing and leveling-up to professional, whenever that happened. Being self-employed is absolutely amazing though, if anyone should be fortunate enough to get a chance like i did. Can’t get laid off from your own job! But you’re also on the hook for your own insurances, you have to establish a good rep and uphold it, keep a current inventory, juggle appointments daily, drive a lot, paperwork aplenty, etc etc etc, the headaches are plentiful… And I’m still not getting rich doing all this work, either so it’s hard to really advocate that strongly for my occupation i guess.

I think my response was more directed at how so many companies are executing layoffs lately. Aren’t a lot of these people programmers as well?

I’m sure those 1,000 people will have no problem finding work… Once all the other places are done with their layoffs and AI has filled in the gaps, and… Welp, maybe i have to reconsider that first statement 😬

best advice for anyone looking for work these days is to learn a trade. I’m sure the drive for unimpeded profits will eventually crater even those types of jobs through AI and automation, just not as soon.

Oh yeah, that fuck face. Glad to see someone face consequences for their actions. Hollow comfort, but I’ll take it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯