Google search results show they are totally woke now.

Google ^ | 1/21/2022 | Me

[Phoenix8]

Can men menstruate? “ Having a period is not a feminine thing, and people of all genders menstruate, including non-binary people, agender people and even plenty of men! Menstruation doesn't change anything about your gender, it's just a thing that some bodies do.”

[Tacticalman]

People don’t have gender, they have sex. Gender is a language feature.

Watch how these ghouls play the switch-a-roo game with those two words when you argue with them.

[joshua c]

now? always have been

it is a woke leader

[Phoenix8]

Makes sense to me…

[rlmorel]

That is absolutely a great suggestion.

I purchased these books a few years ago, and they are pretty good for a broad spectrum of information. While you can tell they are a bit "hippie" in nature (I did buy them at a Vermont Country Store) but they have good information on how to grow, acquire, store, and cook various foods without a grocery store being available. Otherwise, they seem obviously a bit earthy-crunchy in nature.

This covers everything from "Making Potpurri" to "Buying and Selling a horse"

This covers everything from "Abcesses" to "Yeast Infections". However, this book is focused on herbal and homeopathic types of treatments, and says little about real first aid. I think it has value, because when you have no pharmacy to go to, having alternatives is useful.

For that reason, I am also going to get serious, focused books on medical information and other subjects. And these are not books I could throw in a backpack and run away with, but I am approaching a phase of my life that probably won't be a viable option anyway.

[joshua c]

winston smith’s job is so much easier today than it was in 1984

[FreedomPoster]

Ok?

They’re less Commie than Google. One of the top hits on a search for Swift Boat Vets goes to the Conservapedia entry.

[FreedomPoster]

That tells you more about whoever bought the McAfee name than anything else. And see my previous post.

[EEGator]

Sounds like a good idea to add the additional books.
I was a Senior in ChemE before switching to EE.
It’s a useful background for “survivalists”. One needs raw materials as well.
It’s fun to learn. Just don’t poison or blow up yourself…

[Chgogal]

Bookmark

[rlmorel]

Yeah, I got a degree in Chemistry, so I know what you mean.

As for medical stuff, I have medical knowledge and training, and I feel that if I had to do an emergency appendectomy on someone I love rather than just watching them die in agony, I could probably do it to give them a fighting chance.

Heh, don’t want to, though.

[firebrand]

Google has definitely declined in usefulness. The entries are not timely. And some things don’t appear at all when you search for them.

[firebrand]

One of my pet peeves. Watch the eyebrows go up when you say something like “What sex is the tenant downstairs from you?” Or the jokes.

People don’t realize that when they steal another word that means something entirely different, that word becomes lost in its original meaning.

The concept of “woke” or wakefulness used to be a Christian concept.

Just like when a color starts to symbolize something. There is no color purple anymore. It just means gay. And the other colors are in danger of the same fate. Orange is the color of disarming the people, if I don’t have this one mixed up with a different one. Red shoes mean you’re a pedophile.

It’s really disgusting. The attack on common meanings of things.

[BobL]

One of the things that makes Google so top-heavy is their need to ‘tweak’ search results for a number of reasons, with political objectives being primary. Note that when Musk stopped doing that crap at Twitter, he was able to can at least half of the people there.

An insider at Google recently told me that their biggest problem with AI is that, unless tweaked, it will give honest answers. So if you ask it to, say, rank ethnic groups based on college GPAs, it will give the ‘wrong’ answer, at least in Google’s eyes.

[BobL]

“I began paying attention, and realized that even though I KNEW that Google “shaped” its returns.”

I first got the picture when I typed in “George Bush Jr.”, back when he was president. I then typed in “George Bush Jr. Sucks” and got IDENTICAL results. It was OBVIOUS to me that Google is Appending certain searches, so as to achieve a political objective.

The thing is, by doing the above, they very quickly (and cheaply) get the results they want without having to go line-by-line through the search returns. INGENIOUS.

[libertylover]

It’s shocking how a cult belief of the moment will turn millions insane

Yes, it is. Here's 5 times that government pretending something to be true that isn't true has led to MAJOR human problems, some ongoing:

- Pretending that witches are real.

- Pretending that black people aren't people.

- Pretending that Jewish people aren't people.

- Pretending that preborn people aren't people.

- Pretending that homosexuality is normal.

[DesertRhino]

Google is worthless as a search engine and has been for years now. In 2010 it s superior to today. Now the search results are only tangentially related to the search terms.
You get back a filtered mix of what is monetized, very recent, and progressive. It’s like a Google for shallow trendy shoppers and pop culture people.

It doesn’t matter how many ways you jigger the search terms, same garbage output steering you somewhere. Utterly worthless.

[Albion Wilde]

And the older the book, the better, unless the technology has changed.

I cherish my shelf-full of world history books, most written before 1960.

[DesertRhino]

So? It produces search results Google censors and misdirects from. When I wanted ivermectin and hydroxychloroqin dosage and frequency for covid Google was incredibly obstinate. Yandex let me access the information rapidly.

Are we now to the point that we can’t have Russian dressing on our salad too? The dreaded R word. Stupid I burn Tolstoy and boycott swan lake?

You do realize it’s quite insane to avoid yandex for being Russian and running back to the “safety” of US/FBI/CIA tech?

[GingisK]

Yay, books! I have gobs of them. As usual, I’m hanging in right there with you.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Don’t get me wrong, I like Yandex. Their image search and presentation is amazing. Search for Mountains or Winter or Lakes. Wow.

I haven’t tried using it as my go-to search engine yet.

I tried the new A.I. system “perplexity” yesterday (I learned about it from an article on FR). perplexity.com. Fascinating tool. It flubbed some queries, though. I asked it for the scenic route from North Idaho to the San Fran Bay Area. It listed local parks at both ends of my route and suggested I stop in Las Vegas en route.