Yeah, it’s a pretty ridiculous notion when you get down to it. I agree. Haha.

Atheist.

As far as I see, there are 2 basic possible states for being(s) with regards to divinity: either they’re omnipotent or they’re not omnipotent. (Partial omnipotence may perhaps be great power, but it is still non-omnipotence by definition.)

The Stone Paradox demonstrates that full omnipotence cannot happen; and any being, however powerful, that does not have full omnipotence is inherently no different than me or you and thus has no right to be considered a god.

and if you switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?

Well, I used to be a Christian, but only by virtue of being raised as one. As I grew older, I grew out of Christianity. It makes no sense to me from the perspective of the scientific method or Occam’s Razor. Also, my very traditional Christian family did not exactly live up to the Christ-like ideals of love and tolerance, so that definitely put me off it, I can tell you that much.

As I got older, I tried other religions: Islam, Zen Buddhism, Earth paganism, various other forms of paganism. They were excellent experiences that taught me the value of different faiths but they were, in the end, not for me. I like the rock that the scientific method provides, and I like how it teaches and encourages critical thinking ability. With science, I don’t need to take some reverend’s word for it that a magical sky-daddy is watching me masturbate while my great-great-grandmother judges me from past the celestial gates. I can be confident to know that it’s far more likely they’re dead in the ground, disintegrating back into the earth from whence they came.

My vacation. I work in retail, so my job is very stressful and anxiety-inducing.

My vacation technically started a couple hours ago when I clocked out, but it starts in earnest tomorrow when I wake up. :3

Default search engine: Google

Text in address bar: site:google.com google

Yeah, people doing that is my fault.

My bad.

Yeah, I’m still salty that Google and most other search engines have cut out some of the boolean operators over the last decade or so.

.........Touché.

Oh that.

Yeaaaah that gets kind of annoying I imagine…

I feel ya there, friend. Haha.

Okay, so it’s likely to happen. I never disputed that. But just because the VP says he intends for it to happen still is not the same as a statement by the company that it will happen. He could get vetoed. He could lose his job. There could be a material shortage. Trademark disputes. A kraken could fly through his window and devour his testicles forcing him to be in the hospital on the exact day the paperwork has to be filed.

The fact remains this article is titled in a very clickbaity way because it jumps to the foregone conclusion that “want to do” = “will 100% happen”.

I agree. Monopolies/oligopolies are terrible for the consumer.

I feel the same except Google is worse due to higher number of ads in results

I generally don’t see ads due to uBlock Origin. Or am I just not noticing them? Lol.

and most SEO prioritizes Google over Bing meaning more Google results are AI spam articles.

I will give you that. But I find that’s the case with DDG too which is why I’m having to rely more and more on search operators like site:. I agree that it’s really annoying.

Didn’t know that Codeberg did that. I’ll have to add that to my list of reasons why I love Codeberg. Lol.

Yeah I know, and I don’t like that limitation. Lol. xD

To be honest with you, I didn’t even know that was a feature. (Unless I’m misunderstanding you.) Sounds cool!

If I need to search a website, I use either Ctrl+F or the site: search engine operator.

Daughters of Darkness, by Halestorm.

Fuck yeah… Yo_oY

His goal.

A VP could have the goal to increase profits by 500% over the next 6 months but that doesn’t mean it’s gonna happen.

It might happen, but just because someone says it’s their goal is no confirmation that it will happen.

I see from the “View source” option that your comment has everything in a neat, line-by-line fashion, though the final markup is decidedly not.

So, a pro-tip I’ve noticed from my own commenting experience: even if you have a line break, Lemmy (for some stupid reason) won’t apply one when rendering; so if you want it to show, you have to use two line breaks, though then there will be an extra half-line or so that you probably never wanted.

For example, don’t do

Line Item 1
Line Item 2

but rather do

Line Item 1

Line Item 2

Yes, I agree it’s rather stupid.

US, specifically southeast Michigan: Ramen, bread, and spaghetti, though as other commenters have said everything has gone up, so even these.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

…Oh, sorry.

Hell no. If anything, it’s gotten worse.

In their defense, however, it’s probably largely not their fault. In my admittedly one-person-sample-size experience, 90% of the searchable Web is either Reddit threads or articles, and with Reddit going officially with Google (meaning DDG doesn’t catch as many Reddit threads as they used to), that leaves most of the searchable Web being articles. Because SEO has to ruin everything.

So, it’s not really that DDG is shitty (mostly), but that all searches are shitty. Though, with the whole Google-and-Reddit thing, I find Google’s results are noticeably less shitty (though still shitty).