I don’t know the full story about how Microsoft is developing Bing, but I do know that Google made a conscious decision to make their search results worse, simply so that you’d search more times, which for them translates to additional ad revenue. But, my sense is Bing hasn’t gone this far yet.

At this point I’ve been using DDG for 7 years as my main search engine. It’s gotten better while Google has become a joke.

China: we’re supposed to be doing the influencing here.

This is a hilarious turn of events.

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I got walking pneumonia last year. Took some antibiotics and got rid of it, but it basically brought back my childhood asthma. I’ve been stuck with it for about 10 months now. Really eye opening to me how long it has lasted.

Terrifying

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Diwhy

Same, also, Zuckerberg has always been a sketch ball who does anti-social and user hostile things with his app, so it was just years of being fed up with that. 2017 was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Soon enough, they’ll just rename TikTok to RedNote

You always hear about these programs creating the wrong incentives. Soon enough, it’s easier to set up an AR15 factory and just start producing them so you can sell them to the government.

Georgia had program to try to cut down on the number of wild hogs that were overpopulated. So, they paid people a price per tail. Soon enough, you had people breeding wild hogs, so they could kill them and get the bounty.

Middle finger saying “yah, we want the CCP to control our apps!”

Hey it’s Karen, let’s not drag Susan in to this.

Like this guy needs more companies.

Another Chinese app

Life is suffering, suffer through the pain to get jacked.

Do they have Facebook trackers embedded in their page? I’ll bet they do.

Who disrupts the disrupters?

Yeah — I eventually learned to fix some things myself because when it does break, the repair people tell me it’ll be 2-3 weeks, but in the meantime it’s cold.