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Bookmark or Share- I'm Done with Google - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share ...OK, their enshitification has gone too far. Lately, when I search for things it seems like I really have to dig to get past the ads. Today I googled a specific store near me, knowing that Google would list it in a little panel, with the time when it opens. When I did that, I got several panels of nearby competitor stores (labeled sponsored) and had to scroll down a fair way to find the one I ...
- What is 'woke'? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight DopePeople keep bugging me to define what ‘woke’ means, but that’s not an easy task. Probably the best definition is to say that ‘woke’ refers to the ideas believed by and spread by the Social Justice movement, and to the societal changes and policies pushed by them. But what is the Social Justice movement? Some history: fifty years after the Civil Rights movement, black Americans were ...
- The ethics of health insurance - Page 6 - Straight DopeIn economics, a public good is something that is non-excludable and non-rivalrous, meaning that (a) no-one can be excluded from its use, (b) and its use by one person does not diminish its availability to others. I can see conservatives pouncing on point (b), arguing that this is manifestly false, since health care resources are finite and limited.
- Survivor 3/13 - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message BoardHappy Thursday the 13th! With some exceptions, I thought this episode was a typical pre-tribe-merge situation. Lots of misdirection thrown out about who will get voted off, Big Suspense happens… and the obvious person is voted out. Phew, could’ve been some drama, thank goodness that was averted. On the other hand, Penner leaving was sufficiently tearful, but not all that unexpected. I’d ...
- How accurate is judging a person by their face? And moreI noticed that when reading news about trials, I found most of the murderers’ faces… murderous. That’s true for civil/economic cases; though the % isn’t as high as killers’, but definitely >50%.
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