You'd be surprised. At least it gave you more or less relevant results based on keywords, and it gave you proper comments. Now there's no telling when it will just make shit up or wholly misinterpret the stuff it links to, like those LLMs all end up doing.
folkrav
joined 2 years ago
I grew up surrounded by rich ~~assholes~~ people, and can anecdotally confirm that a lot of them, especially those born in it, live in a parallel world, so far removed from the average person's lives that they just can't relate, even if they try very hard. So few of them even seem able to (or want to?) realize how much of a kickstart they had in life just by being born in the right family, how much liberty they had having the opportunity to fail without ruining themselves.
We weren't private jet rich, but still, we went on family trips more often than my friends, had a big house, parents had nice cars, we partook in expensive competitive sports such as golf/tennis/ski, etc... Despite having pretty grounded parents, who taught us very young about how unconventional our lives were, I still severely underestimated the value of money in this world. I had a rude awakening when I met my now wife, who grew up in a much poorer environment. I cut contact with pretty much everyone from my childhood neighborhood.
Around here, private schools "care" about your children's education... Unless they have learning difficulties, then they don't want to deal with them. Its harder to flout high average grades when you have less then stellar students, you see... The teachers are also the exact same (ever so slightly worse pay, but better work environment), coming from the same universities and having the same educational program to follow. It does tend to be easier to have facilities and fancy activities when you're loaded from donations, rather than chronically underfunded by politicians who send their children to private schools.
Technologies very seldom get chosen on technical merit alone. With messaging apps, it's always the same problem - if the people you want to talk to don't follow you to an alternative, you won't be speaking to anybody. Of all people I regularly talk to, only my dad uses iMessage/RCS/SMS, everyone else is basically unreachable outside Messenger. It's either cutting myself off from most communications with everyone I like, or having a Messenger account.
Otherwise my FB account is relegated to find or sell stuff on Marketplace at this point. The alternatives we used to have around here are basically dead.
Phew, a lot of their Democrats actually seem to think they sit left of the spectrum, and they already get called commies by their right wing. Their brains might split in two when they realize that their Democrats are merely another side of the same liberal coin...
dont fall for Big Phallus propaganda
I was under the impression that he was born George Raymond Martin and added the Richard for his pen name as a nod to Tolkien. I'm not entirely too sure what's rubbing you in the wrong way with his "fake middle initials", considering how many writers historically published under made up names.
As for the rest, it's an opinion and I totally respect it - I don't totally disagree either...
Alpha Centauri A and B are closer from each other (~23AU) than the Sun and Neptune (~30AU). That's basically next door in astrological terms, but still a whole freaking lot of empty space lol
To be honest, if the health issues that came with cigarettes ever got some kind of permanent cure, I definitely could see it happening. I quit years ago, when we were starting to think about having kids, but if it wasn't for the health risks, I'd probably still smoke today. I actually enjoyed smoking, weirdly...
This is the "you're holding it wrong" patronizing attitude all over again. I'm still extremely confused that it's remotely controversial that tucking a power button at a place you can't reach it on a piece of consumer electronics is stupid design. That you have to pull your computer from wherever it is to do something as basic as turn it on is stupid, no matter how you spin it.
Eh, maybe, I just ignored the feature for the most part. I'd just rather not find something than being fed bullshit by an AI. Search engines are a thing, too.