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Krishean Draconis

@chrisisgr8
2024: what if you had to find an alternative to the internet because the whole thing is just completely ruined

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Tsutsuku (he/they)

@krishean @chrisisgr8 2025: what if you had to find an alternative to the entire planet because the whole thing is just completely ruinied

Urusan

@Tsutsuku @krishean @chrisisgr8 We've got you covered with the OpenEarth project!

Teedi P.

@urusan @Tsutsuku @krishean @chrisisgr8

Well, The Brain built Chia-Earth in the late 1990s. Thankfully Pinky was more help than hindrance this time.
Oh wait--we came for the free T-shirts and an asteroid wiped out old Earth. So here we are!

So we need to build another Chia-Earth, I guess.

Dammit--people don't buy newspapers anymore. It'll take forever to make another papier-mache planet. Never mind.

Teedi P.

@basisbit @urusan @Tsutsuku @krishean @chrisisgr8

Brilliant!
Will stink like crazy when we pump the new oceans in for a while, but wow.

Log 🪵

@Tsutsuku @krishean @chrisisgr8 2026: Fungus party! Woo! I'm a' capture me some carbon. All. Post-Anthropocene Era. Long.

4d3fect

@Tsutsuku @krishean @chrisisgr8 As Adams noted: “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

Tsutsuku (he/they)

@4d3fect @krishean @chrisisgr8
I find it hard to believe that the Universe is "for" anything or has a reason. It just kinda is.

Aleggra

@Tsutsuku @4d3fect @krishean @chrisisgr8

It’s funny you say this. It’s what I’ve believed since I was a kid. I think my Catholic upbringing pushed me in that direction.

I began to suspect the nuns in Catechism were full of it when I wanted to know how they knew the Virgin Mary was really a virgin. They told my mother that if I asked anymore questions, I’d be thrown out. That’s when I knew something was off.

I was 8yrs old for chrissakes.

Tsutsuku (he/they)

@Aleggra @4d3fect @krishean @chrisisgr8
Yeah, I had some god-awful (hah) experiences growing up with Christian fundamentalists myself. I've heard it said a dozen times but it bears repeating, there is no hate like Christian love

Aleggra

@Tsutsuku @krishean @chrisisgr8

No problem. Musky just discovered a new planet that supposedly has water or mud. He’s not sure, yet.

If he takes all of his fans, wives, children and mistresses with him, we might have a state about the size of Rhode Island left completely empty 😏

Tsutsuku (he/they)

@Aleggra @krishean @chrisisgr8
idk some of his kids don't like him very much and I don't think they should have to go if they don't want to

Stijn van Drongelen

@Tsutsuku @krishean @chrisisgr8 2026: what if you had to find an alternative to this universe because it's in a false vacuum state

Stijn van Drongelen

@stonebear @Tsutsuku @krishean @chrisisgr8 whelp, I somehow didn't notice the pattern we were going for and now the whole thing is just completely ruined

SinbadTheSailor

@krishean @chrisisgr8 I totally was shopping for a reference book this morning because I can't find anything with Google anymore.

Derick Rethans

@SinbadTheSailor @krishean @chrisisgr8 What has gone wrong with Google? It's been absolutely useless lately.

remote procedure chris

@derickr @SinbadTheSailor @krishean Business goals have gone wrong with google. Everything they do now is about whatever increases engagement; search doesn't have to turn up 'real' results because people will use it anyway, maybe they'll click a few pages back and see a few more ads, and maybe the content-churner sites that come up first use google's ads. Search seems to run everything through the same sort of algorithm that has youtube turning up hard right channels, incels, etc, estimating how close your query was to something they'd rather show you (something "popular" that gets a lot of engagement) instead of what you asked for. It's the same north star that guided their layoffs, the meme-tier AI shitfest at that last press conference they had, the grotesque harmony of google news with right-flavored sensationalist clickbait, etc.

The short answer for anything google does now is that if it gets a click, keeps a user on a google product for longer, or gets an extra dollar, that's why

@derickr @SinbadTheSailor @krishean Business goals have gone wrong with google. Everything they do now is about whatever increases engagement; search doesn't have to turn up 'real' results because people will use it anyway, maybe they'll click a few pages back and see a few more ads, and maybe the content-churner sites that come up first use google's ads. Search seems to run everything through the same sort of algorithm that has youtube turning up hard right channels, incels, etc, estimating how...

Alistair K

@derickr @SinbadTheSailor @krishean @chrisisgr8

SEO workers are the worst kind of information pervert I've ever heard of. Politicians' spin-doctors are nothing in comparison.

guildz

@derickr @SinbadTheSailor @krishean @chrisisgr8 I always guess it is: SEO to the point of no return, as well as the need to show ads constantly

Blue Nagoon

@derickr @SinbadTheSailor @krishean @chrisisgr8
The question "what has gone wrong with Google?" is an excellent question. It's the kind of question we must ask in these times. Here we will examine this question and its answers but first it's important to acknowledge what Google is. Google is a web search engine that helps to find answers. But sometimes you can't find the answers and that leads us to ask questions such as the one we that has led you here, to this page. But first...

Atz

@SinbadTheSailor @krishean @chrisisgr8
You need to scroll past the first page of ads these days...

BoneHouseWasps 🔶

@atzanteol @SinbadTheSailor @krishean @chrisisgr8 Amazon's been like that for ages of course and now ebay is going the same way.

strwbrryJen

@krishean @chrisisgr8 welcome to the 1980s my friend, itll be like back to the future but ass backwards instead

SaraSyd

@krishean @chrisisgr8 Can you imagine a world without the Internet? *shudder*

(I use it too much, so don't think I'm not criticising myself.)

mifan

@krishean @chrisisgr8 I swear I may even have to go outside. Brrr...

ᕹᔓᓗᐠ :mate:
@krishean @chrisisgr8 we'll activate the Contingency. it hasn't come to that just yet though. so don't worry.
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