• yorickish

    guy who thinks dreams are broadcast from somewhere (by something?) and shared by everybody. guy who runs into you at the water cooler and is like "hey dude the dreams were crazy last night huh? I bet you loved that one about the airplane"

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  • ladyshinga

    I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.

  • cea-tide

    Time to drop some links again.

    – https://searchmysite.net/
    Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.

    – https://search.marginalia.nu/
    Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.

    – https://www.worldcat.org/
    Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)

    – https://scholar.google.com/
    Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.

    – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
    A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.

    – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines
    A list of academic databases and search engines.

    – https://tineye.com/
    Reverse image search alternative to Google’s.

    Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)

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  • assiraphales

    enough reclaiming slurs, I think in 2023 we should reclaim nascar. they banned the confederate flag on all properties & their stance on lgbtq+ isn’t just performative bc in 2013 they fined a driver 10k for using a homophobic slur, condemned indiana in a statement for an anti lgbt law, and partnered w carolina’s lgbt+ chamber of conference in 2022. nascar was founded by anti-cop moonshiners/bootleggers who drove suped-up fords to out-run the police. #yaaascar

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  • morgan-tha-gorgan

    To this day, my favorite argument I ever had was with my Nascar-loving family about how a thin blue line flag on a Nascar is antithetical to the core tenets of Nascar.
    There is no organization more rooted in ACAB than Nascar. Literally, the only reason it exists was that a bunch of moonshining families had to build cars that could outrun the cops while on supply runs during the Prohibition Era. The goal was to make the car look like a regular vehicle so they could pick up supplies or drop off illegal alcohol without arousing suspicion. But if the cops were on you all you had to do was put the pedal to the metal and that little truck could outrun them with no problems.
    And of course, families would be in competition over who made the best alcohol, and whose car was fastest. So, they would have races on the weekends. When prohibition was lifted, the races continued. And that is why we have Nascar.

    It really frustrates me how people look at American car culture and scoff at it. Formula One racing is more exciting and more dynamic to watch, but the history of it is not as interesting: a bunch of rich assholes who made specialized cars for racing. And to this day, it is still a rich man's sport. Whereas Nascar was about a bunch of so-called hicks in the backwoods who used some basic hand tools and trial and error to make a junker into a racecar.

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  • btc-official

    pokemon loves just straight up lying about things so much. “this is binkabonkus one swipe of its claws can cut down an entire forest” and then its claws do like 12 damage

  • btc-official

    not even just stats either “the glowing bulb on bulbanjo’s head is brighter than the sun” and you can clearly see it isnt.

  • void-of-erebos

    Magcargo

  • btc-official

    hold on i dont actually know that many pokemon let me look something up

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