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  • What is the smallest hill you would die on?

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  • What is the smallest hill you would die on?

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  • What is the smallest hill you would die on?

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  • That's on you for not entering the proper search terms. User error.

    Edit: Also, good. That's the way it should be! Which search engine did you use to get that result? I've been looking for something like that.

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  • You know what's hilarious about this basically non-functional setting? If I toggle the switch off, it provides results based on my IP address's location, but if I toggle it to "UK" it will also provide some results for the UK city that my town is named after, without me ever providing the name of my town lol

    DDG is a for-profit brand that's a lot more nefarious than people think. They've even succumbed to AI.

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  • Even the lite and html versions of DDG will provide locationally biased search results. There's no way around this. Best you can do is use a VPN, but then you've still got the problem of reading locationally biased results, just for a different location. It sucks.

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  • Oh believe me, I know. DDG was the first one I tried, and I tested it with every configuration possible. Like many other search engines such as startpage and kagi, you sure can do this in the settings, but it will do absolutely nothing to stop it from using your IP address to net locationally biased results specific to your current location. You may assume it would function like this, but it doesn't.

    I even tried their html and lite versions, but although it was less cluttered and much more pleasant to use, it still provided results that were very clearly based on my IP address.

    I'm not even sure what those settings do because they appear to have no function. Maybe they change language and currency on some sites for convenience, but again, that's not what I'm talking about in my comment! I'm saying a search engine should not use any locational data whatsoever to adjust results. And if you reply "well, good luck finding one because it doesn't exist," then congratulations, you understand my comment! They don't exist because we've all sacrificed our societal wellbeing for the sake of the smallest convenience.

    Even if changing it to another country/region worked (it doesn't), we'd still have the problem of netting biased results based on what country I switch it to. That would be akin to searching while using my VPN, which once again, does not solve the problem of search engines using IP address to provide locationally biased results.

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  • Anything with cats is inherently superior

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  • Search engines should not use locational data including IP address to provide "more relevant" results. Checking for restaurants or weather forecast? You should have to manually add the relevant search terms. Want results in a specific language? You should have to manually apply this filter.

    Convenience is not worth the potential harm of locationally biased search results.

    For example, where I live is like White Nationalist Central Station. My search results are thus far more likely to net me results with a pro-US/nationalist skew, thus potentially entrenching or normalizing harmful beliefs.

    Whenever I've tried bringing this up with Techlords, I get a feeble, "B-but then you couldn't say 'restaurants near me' UnU" and like ... good? It's not like it's hard to type city and state in the search field.

    I've never found a search engine that even has this as an option. Even Sear XNG instances net results that are clearly aligned with the location of the instances server.

    A Kagi dev even lied to me when I was looking into that as an alternative, saying they don't use location, when it's pretty easy to determine that they do.

    I also don't want a "good" algorithm. I also don't want to see big corporate sites prioritized either. If some backwoods nobody has a site that's more relevant, show it to me. I feel like pre-Google search engines were better, but that's another vent for another day.

    Now where did I put my false teeth and walker???

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  • I led with understanding, and I'm the one who mentioned teenagers in the comment I wrote with my own two hands

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  • I understand wanting to do this as a parent, but I'm so thankful I grew up without cell phones. I would never track a teenager. I feel like teenagers need space to assert their own autonomy and form an identity apart from their parents. When I think of the best moments I had with friends, it's almost always something that would have technically gone against my parents' knowledge and wishes, even though my parents were very good to me overall.

  • What turns your frown upside down?

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  • I have chronic depression and OCD, but even on a cloudy day some rays of sun may shine

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  • I like buying cheap stuff at a yard sale that doesn't quite work and then taking it apart to see if I can make it function again.

    My greatest success was an old school oscillating fan that I've used for years since I got it for 50 cents.

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  • My dogs getting the zoomies

    My husband dancing

    A cup of strong hot coffee on a cold morning outdoors

    Squirrels and bunnies playchasing

    The sound of pigeons

    My neighbor playing soccer with his kids in the rain

    Everything about libraries

    Good news from a long distance friend

    Blazing hot sunny days

    Perfectly ripe papaya

  • How did we get so casual about conspiracy theories?

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  • I think it's always been like this. I'm old as dirt, and I remember noticing the same thing in the 90s

    We desperately need to teach critical thinking skills and source evaluation

  • Vote!

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  • History will never forget how Hitler KHS because of all the voting going on

  • Embrace it and you'll have a better time;)

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  • Finger painting sounds like incredible fun, but I still remember one of the first finger painting works I ever made as a child, which was alternating blotches of red and green that looked satisfying to me. The teacher said, "Oh, a Christmas plant!" which was a completely uninformed assessment because in reality it represented nothing but pretty colors. It was the first time I knew what it felt like to create something that was misunderstood by the viewer.

    What I'm saying is, I know how David Lynch often felt.

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    I can't believe he actually ruled this

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    Rule

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    Here's the rule

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    Coffee rule

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    Classic image rule

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    I will abide by the council's rule

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    Bloomburrule (I am spreading misinformation online)

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    Jarl of Whiterule

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    Freaky rule

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    Calm before the rule

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    Pets rule

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    Virus rule

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    Literulelly me

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    I keep forgetting Moldy Monday rule

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    Behind on rules

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    Rule

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    Equal opporuletunity

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    The jerkerr rule

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    Not rule gamers

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