You know what? You’re absolutely right! We have no future, if climate change doesn’t get us in the next 50 years, or the endless crushing of the working classes under late stage capitalism, then the rising new wave of western fascism will when it takes over.
Nothing matters any more, let’s just do whatever we want <3
Hassidic Jews were digging tunnels in NYC to get to synagogues safely
Jesus wept, are they funny in the head, or is the USA really so dangerous now that people are digging tunnels to go places rather than walk on normal public streets and take the bus?
Surely they’re just barmy? The USA has problems but it’s not at the level of “Honey I’m going to the shops, better dig a tunnel, don’t want the Mad Max gangs to catch me, you know how dangerous it is to go out on land before sunset!”.
I feel like if Halifax had some weird super destructive dirt like that I’d have heard about it, I may be in Manchester but I’m not that far from it haha.
YouTube is fantastic but it’s a video platform, all you’re going to find there are videos.
If I need to find a business or product page, I’m not going to look on YouTube. Same if I need to find a driver download, or a PDF manual, or the local weather, or information on a historical event, or…we’ll, you get the idea. They just do videos.
Similarly Reddit has a lot but it’s mainly centered around discussions of things. I use it as a very valuable resource, but similar to the above, it’s not where I go when I’m not looking for the one thing they do very well - discussion.
It sounds as if the main thrust of this idea isn’t that Google (or a search engine in general) is any less vital in daily web life, but rather that for some things you can go straight to the more centralised source and search there. E.g. if I want a video I’ll search on YouTube, rather than searching Google for aggregated results from many video hosts.
In that sense Google is slightly less relevant sure I agree, but only a little bit, and only for very specific things.
That guy’s weirdly obsessed with what other people do on social media. Doesn’t he know nobody’s making him browse other people’s profiles and read their conversations?
They absolutely have to cover everything. The idea of voting a politician into office knowing they aren’t competent in all aspects of their job is wild to me.
Am I going to vote for an MP that has no knowledge of policies on healthcare, welfare, etc? Of course not, that would be deeply irresponsible.
We’re talking about our fucking habitat and ecosystem we need to survive.
Are we though? I see so much “The earth is gonna die!” and “Life is doomed!” everywhere, but as this guy correctly points out, the planet will be fine.
In fact, humans will endure too. It’s just our current civilisation that’s in danger, that’s all.
But people do like to hyperbolise all over the place haha, and people start to believe it. It’s important to make the distinction.