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My 60th birthday.

If Zombieland taught us anything, it’s the double-tap.

“I’m in.”

I hate when companies inconvenience me while trying to disrupt a near-monopoly by my benign benefactors.

I played Quarm until just before Kunark came out. Haven’t played since Kunark but continue to support Secrets on Patreon. She’s putting so much work into it. How’s Kunark doing?

You play live service EQ or P99 or Quarm?

I’ve played them all. EQ definitely the game nearest and dearest to my heart.

I’ve almost forgotten how shitty Google has become. Been using kagi search for a year now.

It’s so nice to get clean unbiased search results.

I’m 60 now and am literally a Boomer; fast food has definitely gotten worse. Especially in the last 10 years or so. The foods and processes have been tweaked and tuned to the point that the value of the food hovers just barely above the price and not a tick more.

Health concerns also play a role. McDonald’s fries are a good example. When I was young they were cooked in beef tallow and they were so good they would roll your eyes back in your head in in ecstacy (not kidding). They switched to vegetable oil due to health concerns over saturated fats and they’ve just never been the same.

I’ll pour one out for the Yaris.

It’s useful for my firmware development, but it’s a tool like any other. Pros and cons.

Five years ago the audience would have fawned all over this kind of crap.

It’s good to see people are wise to his stock pumping strategy now.

It’s intentional.

Obviously, Google makes money showing ads during search. But they have finally bit the bullet and starting tarpitting users in search in order to show more ads.

A quick, useful, and accurate search means that you’re on their site for the least amount of time, perhaps mere seconds. That’s not what’s best for revenue growth.

PS: Go try Kagi and be reminded what good clean search results look like. I use it because my time has value. It’s very good.

Interesting tidbit: He filmed his audition tape for House from his hotel room during the shooting of Flight of the Phoenix.

You can find it on YouTube.

Guess I’m out of the loop. Who’s Elmo?

My wife is there.

She’s gotten two knee replacements this year and is scheduled for a hip replacement before the end of the year. And last night I reminded her she’s been meaning to go to a dermatologist.

I honestly thought you were going to tell me that was an Idiocracy quote.

Mencken makes sense too…

Google makes money on ads. They make $300-$400 annually per user by displaying ads.

They are motivated to tarpit you in order to show you more ads.

Giving you your results quickly and efficiently costs them revenue.

Use kagi, or another search engine.

Right? Look at Mr. Moneybags over here that can afford toothpaste. I use hand soap as toothpaste and I’m glad to have it.

It’s okay to plagiarize books if they’re in a library.

I read that stuff a few weeks ago. And the responses and discussion on Kagi’s Discord. I’ll continue to monitor Kagi’s behavior, of course, but for now I prefer Kagi. I get far more relevant results with no advertising noise and as much or as little “AI” assistance as I want.

Google is a cesspool and DDG is simply inferior - worthy, but inferior.