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hark ,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

Did it hurt?

When I shoved this cake right up your arrogant ass.

ZeroCool OP ,
@ZeroCool@vger.social avatar

Try not to take shitposts too seriously.

hark ,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

But that would make me a tryhard.

ZeroCool OP ,
@ZeroCool@vger.social avatar

Would it? Hmm

AeonFelis ,

Please don’t ridicule people for being wrong. It only incentivizes them to avoid admitting mistakes.

Bluefalcon ,

“I googled who was the captain in titanic? Google said " Eat 1 smooth rock a day for better results.” So you were wrong.

tetranomos ,
@tetranomos@awful.systems avatar

algorithms of oppression. noble.

Etterra ,

My absolute favorite thing to say to someone is “I told you so.” I’m just disgusted that I get to legitimately say it so fucking often.

meliaesc ,

You sound pleasant. Is the most important thing about relationships always being right? 🤔

Senshi ,

If you have to say it often, it might indicate you have trouble formulating your initial advice in a way that is acceptable to people.

Nobody likes to be told they’re wrong, so it helps to be empathetic about it. Packing your advice or instructions into a tactful and diplomatic approach doesn’t cost you much, but makes it much more likely for your advice to be accepted and implemented. And the recipient will usually end up being grateful for having avoided a mistake. They might even start to look for your and ask advice in the future. And if you keep doing that, he might even consider you a nice person or even a friend.

An arrogant and condescending approach will only do harm, even if you are factually right.

pantyhosewimp ,

One of the most valuable things my dad taught me was how to take good advice from an asshole.

Digger9850 ,

You couldn’t be further from the truth

therealjcdenton ,

That’s a victory worth celebrating

IkarusHagen2 ,

Google en passant

Klear ,

Holy shit!

moosetwin ,
@moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

With this comment posted, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.

Aurenkin ,

If someone gave me a cake every time I got something wrong I’d be dead.

ironhydroxide ,

Five years ago this was valid. Hell even two years ago.

Today… You’re most likely to get a bullshit sales pitch disguised as a blog that doesn’t actually answer any question you asked but has one word in it from your question sentence.

Sabata11792 ,

There is one correct result and 60 million repost trying to grift.

herrcaptain ,

God, this is so infuriatingly true. A few months ago I searched for info on types of spiders in my province, because I wanted to learn more about my many housemates. All of the top links were SEO blog spam that were clearly duplicate pages rebranded for different keywords (something that Google’s algorithm used to penalize but apparently no longer gives a shit about). I know this because, no, black widows are not fucking native to Manitoba, Canada.

Not to mention that goddamn annoying way of writing that SEO blog spam uses where they are so obviously reaching for long tail keywords. My job used to involve some of this stuff back when the search engines pretended to care about good content - when you were at least nominally rewarded with page rank for content that read like it was written by a person with a soul. Now it’s just a wasteland of mechanical prose. There’s still good stuff being said out there, but good like finding it with a search engine.

SturgiesYrFase ,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

Sorry my dude, but according to this they are.

There are two species of black widow spider in Canada: the western black widow found in parts of BC through to Manitoba (mostly restricted to areas close to the southern Canada-U.S. border) and the northern black widow in southern and eastern Ontario. On occasion, black widow spiders occur outside of their ranges by hitching a ride on produce such as grapes.

herrcaptain ,

Well, crap. Now I’m going to be irrationally afraid of a run-in with an illusive grape-riding Black Widow.

I did know about foreign spiders hitching a ride on produce. I just didn’t know that these dudes could take root in our cold wasteland. Nonetheless, thanks for the link!

SturgiesYrFase ,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

No worries, if your heart is in decent shape, you’re actually not in much danger from a black widow, as far as I know. It’s mostly the elderly and the really young who die from their bites these days.

herrcaptain ,

Good to know. Nevertheless, I hope to never be in a situation where I get to find out. I’m guessing they’re suuuuper rare here. I checked the iNaturalist app and there were no observed sightings of either type mentioned in that article.

There’s probably just a colony in the back of a supermarket somewhere.

SturgiesYrFase ,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m from Vancouver, and there was definitely a few that lived out back of my dad’s house when I was a teen. TIL my dad’s house was a supermarket!

herrcaptain ,

I can see them surviving in the wild in Vancouver, but here in MB it regularly gets to -30 to -40 for several months in the winter. I’m not sure they’d like that too much.

That said, maybe your dad’s house is a supermarket. Does he have lots of food in it?

SturgiesYrFase ,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

Well…he’s definitely a better cook than my mum, but I’d say more like regular amount of food?

SeekPie ,

I’ve found best search results with either DDG or Startpage, no ads, (probably) more private than Google.

tacosanonymous ,

People are having successes with Brave as well.

HappyFrog ,

The only thing I can applaud brave for is that they at least try to have their own web index.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

You mean Google it then go to the 10th page to find a sketchy site with an article that agrees with you?

ummthatguy ,
@ummthatguy@lemmy.world avatar

https://media1.tenor.com/m/cIODOKhI7OYAAAAd/internet-google.gif

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

What is this GIF from? It’s a perfect representation of my comment hahaha

ummthatguy ,
@ummthatguy@lemmy.world avatar

If Google was a guy

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

thanks I love it

brbposting ,

You’re right

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/2e0b2a64-1857-4976-be90-1ecfceafe3a9.jpeg

alt-textA cake with a message written on it in pink text that says “DID IT HURT? when I told you to SearXNG IT and I was right.” The cake is decorated with swirls of white frosting and colorful sprinkles around the edges.

EleventhHour ,
@EleventhHour@lemmy.world avatar

that should end in a question mark, not a period…

best not to make simple gramattical mistakes when rubbing someone’s face in your having been right

ZeroCool OP ,
@ZeroCool@vger.social avatar

https://postimg.cc/bGkgyxHG

K7d ,

gramattical

ಠ_ಠ

EleventhHour ,
@EleventhHour@lemmy.world avatar

Hooray. Finally, someone got the joke.

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