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UncivilServant, 4 days ago to random

Dear Google,

When I search, I am not looking for The Answer. I am looking for sources. A search that generates only answers will be useless personally, and worse than useless professionally for me.

What I would really like is an internet search engine that works. Google did that once. Then they focused on other things and used it for ad revenue and it became the new Craigslist.

It would sure be nice if Google would reinvent an actual internet search engine.

rasterweb, 13 days ago to random

I had two assumptions in the past.

1. People who drive for Uber do it because they need extra cash.

2. People who buy a Tesla have too much cash.

But while in California last week a good number of Uber cars were Teslas.

Can someone make it make sense for me?

mutual_ayyde, 16 days ago to random

if i was deep within the humanities and wanted to write something that would a) convince people of the value of the humanities and b) actually push back against pernicious forces in the world i'd write about how deeply entwined the university is with various power structures and how the only way that those from the humanities can actually achieve their mission is through becoming para-academics, ideally working in the service of helping people enact social transformation

ljrk, 17 days ago to random

Just did some research on light philosophy books to get someone off of the "philosophy" offered by the likes of Richard David Precht ans Jordan Peterson. And I noticed that while I love philosophy, most literature is – of course – mostly considering society as a whole and less focused on self improvement. Even if self improvement is a topic it of course only exists within the context of society.

And indeed most bigger philosophical issues are actually rooted in society (at least in my view). Unfortunately that means that most literature that I'd recommend in that regard, while interesting and inspiring fight against the system ... ultimately isn't that helpful to people struggling to find their place in a system that's fucked up beyond recognition.

So you can either read JP and consider all issues as problems of the individual, or actually fight power struggles but live in existential despair. Which, yes, matches a lot of philosophers.

Maybe we need some self-help books that teach how to be egoistically content with oneself with proper self-care when appropriate without lying about the state of the world as it is. This huge gap needs to be closed, otherwise all activists are just perm burned out (hi, lol!).

LALegault, 29 days ago to random

So is Israel going to just bomb all of its neighbours until someone bites, remind me again why the West is arming that maniac to start 43 wars?

RickiTarr, 2 months ago to random

Who wrote this, a CAT?!

governa, 3 months ago to Windows11

#Windows11 :windows11: vs #Linux :linux: