I hope it’s the angle, because the work done to her face makes her look inhuman.

Same list of links?

Since when?

It used to give you what it thought was the most relevant based on the terms placed in the search field. It was excellent.

Now it gives you: AI, youtube, sponsored links, ad links, shopping links, SEO garbage, social media links, and out of all of these there’s a good chunk that have only tangential relevance to your search at best, and then MAYBE you might get a link to a site that presents the information you seek.

Sometimes google search returns nothing at all.

Same list of garbage.

Today I searched for a CD ISO filename on Google. Just the first part of the ISO name. I knew it was an ISO for Win 7, just not which one. I wanted to find a site that had the ISOs in an archival listing so I knew which version it was.

Google gave me zero results except AI telling me what I already knew. It’s a filename.

Zero.

Google is garbage. Google search is dead.

While you’re secifically right, that’s splitting hairs when compared to the wild differences betwen ‘55 and ‘85 - which is NO PCs, NO cellphones, NO internet, etc. and the point of the comparison was the differences between going back to ‘95 or ‘55 from the specified decades. NOT focusing on a single aspect of today vs ‘95 which, by comparison, is minor despite some 17 year olds having mental breakdowns over a cellphone addiction.

Yes. But we did have computers, basic social media, cell phones, and yes, we did have what constituted fast internet wirh DSL or T1 lines. No, it wasn’t “broadband” by today’s standards, but it was fast enough. Cable internet came out for consumers in ‘96.

Point being anyone going back to ‘95 would have little trouble understanding the world, and vice-versa. The big difference would be carrying the internet, CD collection, and movies in your pocket on a phone. I daresay there would be no small number of people who would prefer the ’90s to all the bullshit happening over the last couple decades.

Going from home PCs, early gaming consoles, cable TV, laser-discs, and a whole other shitload of changes technologically and societally between 1985 and 1955 IMO would be a lot more stark.

Funny the massive cultural change between the 1950s and the 1980s whereas it really feels like far, far less has changed between the 1990s and today.

AI is just another fork of “moving wealth from young to old.”

I honestly DGAF about the employees, I do care about the internal documents indicating what they’re collecting on innocent parties and sitting on regarding the rich and dirty ones.

I drive in the metro area about once a week-ish. I hate it. The fleets of livery/car hire/cabs clogging every major route is infuriating. Half are empty and just repositioning for whatever fare they’re picking up. All of their owners fight and lobby against imrpoved public transportation or better train service from the metro airports.

I didn’t either. I kinda assumed it was them having a group of already identified cats and then doing science-y stuff and saying “wait! This one’s different!” And poof, new species.

Hm. I‘m curious who was polled. I‘m surprised there isn‘t the usual ~30% boot licking fascist bracket.

You can blame the Irish for smithereens.

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Doing the same thing to Europe done to the US. Ratchet up the right wing propaganda, push for nationalism, get right wing leaders elected, increase internal tensions, make a ton of the budget go to military spending while the countries start to fall apart….

All of the pieces are there, the troll farms just start pushing the right buttons over and over. These attacks are just another button to push to stoke fears and nationalism.

‘Bout a half century late there, genius.

And octane doesn’t grant magical horsepowers to your engine if you pour a can of octane boost in the tank.

I had local anasthetic injected between fingers in the web area. While I’m not trying to compare that to what you had to deal with which is far worse, I just want to offer that sometimes the injected anesthetic, which we would think would make things better quickly, hurts a LOT when injected and does so for longer than one would think before it starts having an effect. An unfortunately surprising relevation.

Wat’chu talkin’ ‘bout, Willis?

More billions spent on stupidity while this planet falls apart.