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Because the aggregated weighted result ranking provides a more useful page rank than any individual search engine, and if any search engine tries to (accidentally or otherwise) stuff specific results into the top ranks, it doesn’t matter. It’ll be deranked because no other engine displays those results highly. In a similar manner, it deranks targeted SEO attempts unless multiple platforms are targeted.

Don’t get me wrong, it still has its problems. For example, if the individual search engines all get a bit too samey, then it will as well.

Yes you’re absolutely right. The problem of aggregators is that if all the aggregated searches go to shit, then so does it. Garbage in, garbage out.

I started finding DDG’s results just as bad as Google’s, so I switched to SearXNG and have been pretty happy with it so far.

Its open source so anyone can run an instance if they wish. I feel like this sort of model is much more resistant to enshitification.

*sigh* After reading some of the other comments, I have to agree. I’m not sure whether to be relieved or even more discouraged. It’s a dreadfully boring dystopia.

However, in U.S. federal courts, updates to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 2015 have resulted in significant decline in spoliation sanctions.

Oof. Five bucks says this change was driven by concerted megacorp lobbying efforts.

The crazy part is the implication that the evidence destroyed was probably more damning than having a judge and jury assume anything reasonably suggested to have been implicated by those chats as true.

Not always, though. Some apps save images to /Pictures, and in there, some of them make their own folder. It really is kinda half baked.

What in the ever living hell…

That’s… weirdly wholesome.

We just don’t know why yet.

Because an open, federated network is an existential threat to them if it ever reaches mainstream popularity.

Agreed, I use highschool level stats knowledge on a nearly daily basis, whereas the last time I did any trig was to follow along with a math video I was watching on YouTube. Trig/calc were mandatory, stats was not.

Not their own, no, but the average number of testicles in a mother’s body is greater than 0.

Wouldn’t it also be greater than 1 for the same reason as OP? I think there are probably more babies in mothers than people missing testes.

Heh heh heh… sorry…

Is this real? Because holy shit, someone’s going to see that and go “Y’know what? Why not.”

OK, but have you tried experiencing a tiny semblance of panels 1-4 on YouTube? :3

I can’t tell if this is copy-pasta or not. If not, my condolences to your eyes, if so… *chef’s kiss*

Alice and Bob agree to buy a shared lumber splitter. Alice takes a loan to pay for it, which Bob agrees to pay half of. When payments are due, Bob bails and does not pay, and he uses the lumber splitter anyways. Now Alice has to also pay the share that Bob agreed to pay.

You realize someone has to pay for public infrastructure and services, yes? If corporate interests do not pay the taxes that are typically expected of them, then someone else will have to cough up that money, or services will need to be cut.

While I agree in principle, when tax dollars go to corporate tax cuts, handouts to failing financial institutions, and billionaire lunatics selling snake-oil space-based internet “solutions”, its easy to get disillusioned about taxes.

We absolutely should be taxed to a high degree, but that money needs to be spent on collective benefits, not private corporate interests.