• redtea
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    If you don’t know what you’re doing, the internet is already like that. The amount of people who have tried googling shit when I ask them a question and they regurgitate marketing spiel is unreal.

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      what I find annoying is when I google a word I want a definition for and a company with that name dominates the results. It’s like when singers make songs out of phrases and ruin the phrase for everyone. Get all this capitalism out of my language I have to live in this language

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        what I find annoying is when I google a word I want a definition for and a company with that name dominates the results.

        Almost any word I bother to look up is first and foremost some bullshit bazinga techbro startup according to browser searches. I have to insist “dictionary” as part of the search to have a chance of not getting a bunch of startup shit peddled at me instead.

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      I don’t know how I became information literate and I don’t know how to convey to other people how shallow their information gathering process is. So many people don’t realize that the first 4+ results on every search are just ads and I frequently see them click uncritically. So many can’t discern an internet equivalent of an infomercial from a real source. People OBVIOUSLY can’t see when something right in front of them is naked propaganda just so long as it’s labeled with the correct brand.

      Like, I trained myself reflexively to not even look at ads, so now it’s almost second nature to me, but I feel like that started as an instinctual yet active effort of small rebellion? I’ve no idea how to pass that instinct along

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        Never landed much with my 2 year associates in a scientific field, but it did teach me to research better as well as smell bullshit from a mile away.