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You joke, but that’s horrifying.

This is already an SEO technique, apparently, and I could see Amazon book sellers finding a way to fudge it: https://yoast.com/help/date-appears-search-results/

100%.

But I was pondering more what the general population might do. People are going to figure out slop recipes don’t work, but the question is what's the next most accessible thing to replace it with?

I’m cheering for Netflix, I guess?

Paramount getting that big feels scary. It feels like it'd die at Comcast’s.

Just psychological failings, self-confidence issues and such I know are wrong. Firmly held, but wrong.

…Otherwise it feels like an oxymoron.

Yeah, especially if it’s not paywalled.

It deprives the original source of traffic too, even if it’s Adblock traffic.

This one almost never leaves the Bermunda Triangle.

Gravity manipulation

Some military project? I’d buy that. But the moment we talk about some ‘AI’ capable of gravity manipulation, it begs the question… Why would it make itself observable, and use big drones?

It doesn’t make any sense.

It'd be like a dragonfly walking around when it can fly with ease.

All this feels stuffed with anthropic assumptions.

I’ve been on Cachy forever, across two PCs.

It's fast. Its maintainers are great. It has everything, preconfigured sanely. It Just Works.

…I don’t see myself switching distros ever again. I can’t think of a reason to, nor anything I’d want from others.

…So are we going back to print cookbooks? Published before 2024?

Honestly, that feels like the practical solution.

Plantains are a fickle plant. Ripeness is a huge factor, and that aside, some are just fibery/less sweet and don’t cook as fast.

In theory, Google should fight all attempts at SEO.

But they infamously stopped doing that to bump some quarterly result (as sifting through them generates more clicks), and here we are.

What happens to people operating below the poverty line?

There are probably parallels. Personally, I see some hazardously skip healthcare to avoid the cost.

+1

Maybe y'all haven’t experienced it as a slur. I grew up around jerks that did, and it leaves a nasty taste. I’ve caught myself using it, and felt awful afterwards.

It's mind boggling that Google is letting this happen.

Even if I pretend to be a stone cold Google accountant, and look at this... YouTube is a gigantic golden goose. It's strategic, it's a cultural lynchpin. And they're going to let it wither just to boost next quarter and avoid saying "AI is a problem here"?

and more often than not, it’s content that is over two or three years old.

Bingo.

Friend, content that's over a year old is all you can trust. There's a lot of it, and its great.

The date filter is the slop filter.

My thinking is that aliens 'observing us' would probably be extragalactic in origin.

If they aren't, that implies at least two sets of civilizations arose in the same galaxy, which implies a whole lot more are out there and kinda twists the Fermi Paradox. See:

One great mystery has puzzled thinkers for millenia, a mystery which first became apparent even before the first space flight. If intelligent life existed anywhere else in our Galaxy, why had it not colonised the earth long ago? This question was first posed by the classical age physicist Enrico Fermi, but was refined a few years later by Frank Tipler, who realised that if any intelligent species developed self-replicating probes, then it could explore and ultimately colonise the galaxy in a few tens of millions of years. But this had not happened.

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47faddfe17122

The Ginnungagap Theory was advanced to explain why the entire universe has not been converted to a single technosphere by the earliest intelligent beings or any of their successors.

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/464e942db2789

UFO enthusiasts should read speculative Sci Fi like Orion's Arm or Project Rho.

Like... if aliens exist, and they have the capability to travel across galaxies to get here, they aren't octopuses in flying saucers that we can detect. They're basically omniscient and invisible. Their ships would look more like this:

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/480a48b000f5b

It can redirect the path of a snowflake or rip a moon to fragments. It can accelerate a pebble into a habitat-shattering kinetic bomb or decelerate a RKKS projectile to harmlessness. It can reach down to a planetary surface from orbit and lift a sophont into space or shatter the crust of a world.

And that's a ship that wants to be seen, restricted to plausible physics humans can imagine, from a 'primitive' civilization with a mere 14,000 lightyears of expansion. That's nothing on an astronomical timescale.

Point being it's ridiculous to think we'd detect atmospheric UFOs, or that they'd even need atmospheric UFOs. It's anthropic fallacy. If they want to stay hidden (and astrophysical objects like re-arranged stars don't give them away), they can stay hidden.

Interesting. I'm a sucker for base building with turrets.

Yeah…

I think most non-PC-gamer consumers will just go to Android and iOS :(. It’s the simplest path.

Not sure about business. Sheer entrenchment aside, I’ve heard conflicting reports ranging from Windows management systems being so good they're utterly unparalleled, to Windows systems breaking so much IT is getting frustrated.

Now that you mention it, that fits my family diagnoses, even those definiely not on the autistic side.

But I have no idea.