0 sats \ 1 reply \ @UCantDoThatDotNet 22 Mar \ on: The truth is in the comments... meta
Yup. It is possible though, Google used to work when I was a kid.
Might think of it as fiat v the real thing.
Eric Weinstein and Bret Weinstein are always talking about these things.
Eric calls it the DISC - Distributed Idea Suppression Complex. Those institutions and their influencers who bewilderingly suppress good ideas in favor of idiocy.
My examples from experience and/or that I've run into recently would include critical thinking, Ron Paul and libertarianism in general, Ghost vs Substack, Stacker.News vs Reddit, Nostr vs any other social media, real food vs garbage.
Everywhere I go, whoever I ask, I get bad ideas. That's not actually universal - it's just among people who proclaim to be professionals in their field. Higher education is a myth - it comes from experience.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 OP 22 Mar
Yes, absolutely, I remember thinking that as well - Google did work way back, and now it's just trash! Even something as simple as recipes - for most of what comes up, it's just almost identical copies of the same heavily SEO optimized site that buries the real nugget of information that you're looking for.
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