Ancestors

Written by Better Tits Than The CDC on 2024-11-14 at 16:28

PSA: You're not allowed to mock people for asking a question instead of using Google now. Maybe they want a quick and correct answer, you know?

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Toot

Written by Better Tits Than The CDC on 2024-11-14 at 16:30

It was always snotty and crummy to be like "why don't you just google it????"

Like i dunno because we're a social species and need to reach out and interact sometimes. Sometimes you want to ask a person

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Descendants

Written by Better Tits Than The CDC on 2024-11-14 at 16:37

I'm fully aware i can look up nearly everything i ask you people and half of it, it's cause i didn't bother and chose to poke your brains. No apologies. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.

(I think we can all agree this is the proper place for recommendation questions, though)

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Written by Linus Death Grips on 2024-11-14 at 16:31

@heatherhorns_lite my favorite is when you google a question and it leads you to a forum thread where some asshole is like "ummmm just google it???"

yeah i, i did. that's how i got here

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Written by Better Tits Than The CDC on 2024-11-14 at 16:32

@pataphysicker oh my god i want to throw those people

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Written by Better Tits Than The CDC on 2024-11-14 at 16:34

@pataphysicker i do like when there's posts made years later with people like "i was just googling this cause i don't know either :("

A show of solidarity to the other lost souls

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Written by Nentuaby🏳️‍🌈 on 2024-11-16 at 02:34

@heatherhorns_lite @pataphysicker One time I got so annoyed with that scenario that I registered on the forum just to post the actual answer when I finally found it. That was over a decade ago and I still get "THANK YOU!!!" replies to this day

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Written by marco_m_aus_f on 2024-11-15 at 11:51

@heatherhorns_lite @pataphysicker And then there's "I solved it!" with no further explanation...

https://xkcd.com/979/

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Written by Court Cantrell will not comply on 2024-11-15 at 23:06

@marco_m_aus_f @heatherhorns_lite @pataphysicker The...I dunno what it's called...the extra message when you right-click on the comic -- it's golden. 😄

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Written by marco_m_aus_f on 2024-11-15 at 23:12

@courtcan @heatherhorns_lite @pataphysicker Dang! I never realised! Good catch! 🤣

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Written by Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: on 2024-11-15 at 12:29

@pataphysicker @heatherhorns_lite At least there's few times where you end up on your own answer/patch from some years ago, which is nice.

Although sometimes you land back on your still opened ticket/question.

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Written by Toy Dragon on 2024-11-14 at 16:34

@heatherhorns_lite "I did google it.But, well, the enshittification of google yanno...."

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Written by The Brynndylow, they/them on 2024-11-14 at 16:50

@heatherhorns_lite I still get people googling things for me when I ask questions here and it's infuriating lol

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Written by Better Tits Than The CDC on 2024-11-14 at 16:53

@FrazzledBrynn oh my god that's so frustrating and infantilizing

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Written by The Brynndylow, they/them on 2024-11-14 at 16:56

@heatherhorns_lite they make me feel slightly violent

Especially when they default to recommending me American only products and services :angrygran:

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Written by Michael T. Richter on 2024-11-15 at 01:02

@FrazzledBrynn @heatherhorns_lite That's because the world consists only of Americans and people who don't matter.

Or so it seems if you go by the behaviour of Americans on the Internet.

Or American tourists.

Or American politicians.

Or American businesses.

Or ...

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Written by @billjurgensen on 2024-11-15 at 02:28

@FrazzledBrynn @heatherhorns_lite hahahaha

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Written by Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷 on 2024-11-15 at 09:08

@FrazzledBrynn Oh, but it's an Autie thing for me. I am annoyingly helpful.😁 @heatherhorns_lite

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Written by 64kb on 2024-11-16 at 15:01

@FrazzledBrynn @heatherhorns_lite if they were experts searching for it I'd take it as they might know some good keywords to search for, OTOH most people are bad at searching and they will be the ones doing thus.

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Written by FoolishOwl on 2024-11-15 at 17:06

@heatherhorns_lite I've posted questions on other social media and gotten a lot of positive emojis and no advice. Thanks for nothing, assholes.

I see people complain about the culture on here and it's exactly the things I came here for, with every other social media platform run by fascists and dominated by toxic positivity and every platform for practical problem solving overrun with "generative AI".

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Written by Court Cantrell will not comply on 2024-11-15 at 23:05

@heatherhorns_lite I agree 100%!

I will, however, add a caveat that sometimes, it's clear to me that the person asking the question doesn't truly want a real answer. In those cases, I definitely reply with lmGtfy and then go silent. 😆

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Written by Aurani on 2024-11-14 at 18:13

@heatherhorns_lite and the people willing to answer your question are likely to enjoy answering it.

And with Google's algorithm, the context is likely some rambling paragraphs long story that starts with their childhood on an orchard. Instead of, "it was able to take down an entire data centre because someone didn't stop and think".

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Written by Jaycie on 2024-11-14 at 22:54

@heatherhorns_lite Yes! Exactly this!

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Written by Clover on 2024-11-15 at 06:12

@heatherhorns_lite I mean, it’s not even about being social

at this point I am fully convinced that asking the oomfies on fedi gives me much better answers than google, simply due to how shit google has become, I’ve spent hours searching for things before that I found more info about after asking here

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Written by Jess🌺(Blobun Demo Out!) :itsfree: :therian: on 2024-11-15 at 06:45

@heatherhorns_lite 🦊 it's always been funny because it's like, actually I tried googling it and couldn't find an answer, or yea, maybe I just want to talk about it more than anything

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Written by Tommaths (he/him) on 2024-11-17 at 23:23

@heatherhorns_lite

Related: When I have googled it and not found a satisfactory answer (or one that I understand) and so I post a question...

Also related: when I post saying I'm looking for people who share a particular interest me, and it disappears under an avalanche of people telling me to follow hashtags and search for keywords. Like, yes, I've done that and now I'm doing the very human thing of just asking.

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