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  • I mean, sure, I could have had a more specific search. I just assumed that DDG was privacy focused and more or less gave the same search results to everyone.

    My states midterms happened months ago, and weren’t particularly newsworthy then. Let alone now.

    Given the newsworthiness of Michigan, especially, and 4 other states last night, I would have expected to see results skew towards the trending news story as opposed to old, largely irrelevant, results that skew towards knowing who is performing the search.

    It’s backwards of my expectations with the product. And based on my understanding of how search engines operate, youvare more likely to catch search engine bias with broad sweeping searches, than you would with hyper specific searches. As an example, this search was able to identify that DDG biases location over relevance/newsworthiness. Which is why I asked about it in the community I did.

    I wasn’t complaining about the effectiveness of the search, rather the privacy concerns.




  • New to Lemmy. Is this common from this instance?

    I’m no fan of the dem elite, but I’m still a believer that if we’re OK with incremental change and we’re active at all levels of government that we can motivate others to re-engage and take back what’s ours. That doesn’t mean that we wait till we can vote again and try better next time, it means we start creating the society we want to exist. Building up local politicians, and supporting the hell out of places that support us, hell, even supporting the hell out of places that aren’t supporting us right now but have the structure to support us.




  • Hold up.

    You stated that Musk’s bastardization of the greatest electrical engineering to ever live’s legacy is untrustworthy.

    You then stated that the driver could have made a mistake.

    You then reason that both things voild he true at the same time.

    Your conclusion is that we shouldn’t talk about this specific incident of the unreliable narrator, because we just don’t know.

    Why?

    Is it because we don’t have this conversation when other automakers have issues?

    The reason we don’t is because the other automakers DO have the man stakes but they generally aren’t unreliable narrators.

    Why? Because at some point the people said, “hey, no it’s pretty fucked up what these companies are doing. We should demand more transparency and laws to hold these companies accountable.”

    It worked so well that legacy companies like Honda recall their products when they’re defective, 100k cars recalled this month.

    Consumers don’t consistently question these companies because they generally do what’s expected of them.

    Don’t let a shady Nazi run company off the hook because other companies hold themselves to higher standards.