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qyron ,

Bullshit.

It’s a social - stupid - standing that states romantic/social/sexual advances must be started by the male part, which automatically relegates the female part to a passive/subdued part.

If you want someone, be bold. Doesn’t matter how you define yourself either.

I don’t really care if you are shy and can’t speak or any coping mechanism you may have built to justify your awkwardess. Just try.

Write a note. Have a mutual friend act as a liaison to help the first step. Write a letter. Blurt out the most incoherent speech you can muster. Then say it all again, only ten times slower. Send smoke signals. Use a parrot or a crow. But try.

It hurts a lot more to punish yourself for not trying, later in your life. Failure and rejection are part of it. Get used to it. Learn from it.

qyron ,

It goes above and beyond being feminist.

If a guy doesn’t want to go out with a girl that actively asked him out, he is plain, basic, stupid.

qyron ,

And I was countering your reply.

So you try, you get turned down. Does it hurt? Yes. Is it the end of the world? If anyone replies with “yes” that is a serious issue because it is not.

Getting a “no” for an answer is almost guaranteed. What is there to lose? Perhaps the lost “yes” for not trying.

qyron ,

You’re right on the mark there: I missed the point, a good number of times, which sent me into a downward spiral.

It took a good amount of time and help to aknowledge I was responsible for 90% of my suffering.

qyron ,

Yup?

qyron ,

They accomplish that and the already diminutive presence they have in the world will shrink even more.

qyron ,

That is actually a good thing?

qyron ,

So, what we should take from this is that any foray into any art is useless, therefore we should surrender any and all creative impulse to faceless companies.

Fuck no.

I’d rather distribute my work for free and have it read and enjoyed nonetheless than not write at all.

qyron ,

Once.

qyron ,

Ouch!

qyron , (edited )

Okay.

Now that we already know we are pretty much at the hands of one pupeteer, what options are there?

I already read about Kagi (apologies if mispelled) but I like to write as a hobby and 300 searches per month go fast.

What other options are there?

Edit:

For those who may be arriving now:

  • Kagi seems to be a good option for an alternative search engine; it is a paid service, for which I don’t have the €€€ right now. Many speak very well about it.
  • SearXNG is a thing as well, to my understanding a decentralized search system. Worth the try, in my opinion. If it’s something that is decentralized, it is worthy to support and divulge.
  • There is mojeek.com, supposedly not very good but any option that goes against the monopoly is worth the try! I’m going to try this one.
  • Brave.com is an option but is a bit shady.
  • You should try Ecosia if you want to support reforestation efforts. Read somewhere in the thread it is part of the Bing ecosystem.
  • Yep is a thing as well. Somewhere in the thread, a lemmy points they use the search results for AI trainning. So… That is that.
  • And it seems there is a search engine by the name of dogpile.com.
  • Startpage is another search engine (portal?) suggested by another user. I’ve used it before and like it. Read somewhere it somehow piped a standard google search but removed tracking and ads.
  • and I just remembered Presearch.com. This is a really shady one (crypto warning!) that I suspect is a fork/collab with Brave Browser. I’ve used it, they have reward-per-search reward system (or had) where they give you crypto for every search. Good results, some that don’t come up neither on DDG nor Google.

p.p.s Should I start categorizing these from “shady” to “worthy”?

p.p.s 2 Does anyone remember StumbleUpon? I know it was never a search engine to begin with but it was the best source of good internet content I ever got acquainted to.

Can we get something like that back?

qyron ,

That was one of the most out of the blue comments I have ever read. It sounded so… unreal. Something out of a sitcom. Then I read “sugartits” is the name of the lemmy you were replying to. That’s was really top mark. Kudos for you.

qyron ,

Read somewhere on the thread Ecosia is part of Bing ecosystem.

qyron ,

It’s a hobby as it is.

If I ever manage to sell enough copies of it to be able to pay for a Kagi subscription, I’ll do it and make it public knowledge.

qyron ,

You’re welcome.

qyron ,

You can’t know everything.

qyron ,

Hate requires too much emotional investment. What I want is options.

qyron ,

Done!

qyron ,

Today, I was the 1% getting to know something new.

qyron ,

Yet I remember reading somewhere african elephants were tamed before their asian counterparts.

qyron ,

I can’t remember where I read it but it was a good coverage on the historical use of elephants in Africa in pre-colonial, as in during the great african kingdoms. And lets not forget war elephants, in Roman times, were from Africa.

qyron ,

There is no need for sarcasm.

We tend to forget Africa had great kingdoms, with advanced civilization standards, before colonial times. Those kingdoms ruled the largest continent on the planet for centuries and elephants were animals used for both work and war.

Hanibal took elephants across the Alpes (most died) in order to invade Italy. I seriously doubt the general ordered his elephants from India.

qyron ,

I would still pick the African ones, nonetheless.

qyron ,

It should. An open technology standard should gain traction over closed proprietary ones.

qyron ,

The removable battery is achievable by moving to Europe.

qyron ,

Nobody is discussion the level on convinience for it, here

qyron ,

Come again! We act all Mondays and Fridays!

qyron ,

Stronk. The joke is “stronk”.

qyron ,

You can hammer it, quench it and sharpen it after that.

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qyron ,

If only a meteor was to strike on the place of reunion of all that people.

qyron ,

Where is this?

qyron ,

Still awsome.

qyron ,

That is one good story.

qyron ,

Can I butt in for a moment and actively ask what makes a male character more relatable?

I’m currently in the process of writing my first novel and that was something I never gave a thought about.

qyron ,

I understand. Thank you.

qyron ,

Help me on that. What it entails evades me.

I understand it as being obnoxious, rude and overbearing.

qyron ,

Thank you for that insight

qyron ,

If that is so, I wish you a very pleasant day!

qyron ,

The short answer is yes. But the interesting part - and I’m talking from personal experience - is that from the moment you realize just how easy and powerful using the console is, you learn how to use it.

And it does not mean you are going to turn into a full on expert or geek, tinkering around the console. You just learn a few simple commands that enable you to do something (or somethings) quicker, easier and cleaner than going through a GUI.

Can you? Yes. Should you? No.

qyron ,

from the moment you realize just how easy and powerful using the console is, you learn how to use it

Yes, I understand that; there is a learning curve. For some, too steep.

qyron ,

If that is enough for your needs, that’s fine.

qyron ,

That’s cute. And complies with the universal rule of “if it fits”.

qyron ,

Burn this abomination.

qyron ,

Burn it by fire.

qyron ,

Baking is as much of an art as cooking is. It is just much less complacent with mistakes.

As soon as you get the notion of what to mix to achieve a given result, or which technique produces another, you can start throwing things together and see what comes out.

I burned, fumbled and messed up my share of cooking/baking and I regret nothing.

qyron ,

That’s the good part.

You just wanted a small test batch. Guess what? That extra pinch of anything now requires you to add an obscene amount of everything else to rebalance the thing.

Congratulations! You now have enough to feed the entire block, twice.

qyron ,

This sounds awfully as a quote from a film or a series, involving either slaves or some weird revenge between an angry housekeeper and a stupid lord.

qyron ,

Funny how those things happen.

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