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???

A horror story in 3 words: My phone rang

I stood next to liberals demonstrating against the border concentration camps in 2020, who immediately started making excuses once Biden took office, even after he had Mayorkas publicly bragging about how he’d imprisoned and deported even more immigrants than Trump. For four years, they didn’t speak up against our treatment of immigrants, and even now they’re only doing so because the villain wears a red tie. Deeply unserious people.

Walter Hartwell White

308 Negra Arroyo Lane

Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104.

I always wear one of those big fancy hats that you pin on with the lace and bows

And tattered basketball shorts

And that’s it

If officers didn’t want us to grab their service weapons, they wouldn’t go out into public dressed like that

The illusion of choice, the lie of hope

Yes, he said the both competition and cooperation are found in nature, but that cooperation/mutual aid lends itself more to survival, and he cites examples from both animals and humans: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution

The enbritification of language

Fair, but you’ve gotta admit that guy is either a cop or a youth pastor

The Fr*nch

Same reason they’re so cold and dismissive of immigrants and Palestinians – if you’re poor or marginalized, you’re not on their radar, unless they stand to gain profit or political favor. After watching them arm a genocidal regime and open more concentration camps at the border, it’s quite clear they’re not willing to see us less fortunates as real humans. As a poor gay person with a family of first-gen immigrants, I have zero faith they would protect me when the critical time comes. They’d run me over with a tank, if it were politically convenient.

And the dehumanizination extends so far as to attack anyone with the moral compass and courage to speak out against it. Leftists and progressives are all “bots” to them, because they’re unable to fathom that some people experience actual empathy for others.

Maybe we can pool our money and buy ourselves a Democrat. Seems more effective than voting for some ghoul.

For me, it was the 90s, before the entire landscape got consumed by giant corporations. I know it wasn’t all roses back then, but it felt like you could find anything online, and it opened up a whole new world.

Remember when almost every new web site had a guestbook and would sometimes let you sign up for an email address using their domain? I had a [username]@britneyspears.com email address for a while.