@tiskaan@burner@parker@bot@thegreatape Bot also never blocked me. Owl picks fights with everyone and then blocks them when they don't give up. It's pretty pathetic.
@tiskaan@bot@burner@parker@thegreatape She has to regularly unblock people so she can get the dopamine hit of blocking them all over again. Really good example of what is meant by 'social media is porn for women.'
@lina I've gotten kinda obsessive about bookmarking sites at this point, because I know that if I lose the url I'll probably never find them again. It's happened multiple times when I've searched the same prompt on the same search engine and not gotten the one useful result. Here's a site I almost lost in that manner: https://www.cicadamania.com/ I've referenced three times already since I found it a month ago. Marginalia's alright for finding sites like this, but it doesn't have nearly a large enough pool of sites it can bring up.
@lina I really want a search engine that just pulls from pdfs and other documents. Nearly every time one pops up in my results it's exactly what I wanted. I have like 30 random pdfs saved that I got primarily through these means at this point. Supposedly the early web was mainly just documents with hyperlinks. I wish it was like that now. Now wikipedia has killed most specialized information repositories, at least in terms of findability, and what does exist is primarily in terrible javascript sites that take minutes to load and generally require an email based account to access. Livestock-Guardian-Dogs1.pdf
@lina I mean useful things. Like random pdfs that answere every question I was trying to ask and some I didn't even know to ask. I do a lot of serious searching for information, and it's an absolute shitshow trying to find a search engine to get me what I need. For a while searx did everything I needed and more, but recently for whatever reason it's all gone to shit. And ever since they all moved to the new UI I can't even tell when they're working properly or not at a glance. I have to open up a drop down to see the errors I basically always get. 01-24-11Horseradish_Guide_single_without_buttons.pdf
@lina So just set cookies on every single instance. And then just hope you get one that works anyways. This is insane. I don't know how people find anything online anymore.
@lina And redo my settings every single time I search? Every single instance has insane defaults. Half of them have Wikipedia and google as the only engines for general search. And I do need all the engines, about half the time the result I want only shows up on a single, random engine, whether Mojeek or DDG or Brave. This is why I insist upon meta search, using only a single search engine severely limits what I can find. Which is why I also can't just use 4get, you can only use one engine at a time.
@NEETzsche@BroDrillard@WashedOutGundamPilot A lot of them would go on mass shootings. This is where most of those come from. It's a mixture of suicide by cop and striking back at the word.
@WashedOutGundamPilot@BroDrillard I've heard that it's about a third of men who aren't engaging with society at all. Not "don't have a job", nor "not looking for a job", not engaging with ANYTHING in the real world. They just get their neetbux or mooch off of their parents and spend all day playing video games, watching anime, and jerking off. Most of those men have probably never had a friend. Maybe they dropped out of high school, or college, or just gave up after being unable to find work for so long. But whatever their cases, that's an absurd number of men to simple not be a part of society. Now add to that the amount of people who want a job, even if they're not actively looking, but don't have one. I wouldn't be surprised if over half of men aren't really contributing to the economy.
@sapphire@Shadowman311@nugger@skylar Is religion real? Or is it just a cultural touchstone? Does truth matter at all? If not you should just change the region to address or fit in with the social climate of the time. It's just an ideology used to control the masses through tradition and culture. But if truth does matter than any changes to doctrine MUST be fully considered before implementation, lest you stray from truth and legitimize your religion. If your religion is true must shape society to fit your religion or move your religion and society away from truth. Truth is unchanging, it can only be clarified or obscured.
@WashedOutGundamPilot@SK1ZM Men want brotherhood, they want unity, and they want to be a part of something great. And they know subconsciously that that doesn't happen individually.