• clearedtoland@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Whenever I have to brave the Google abyss, I usually use Startpage. Obviously uBlock Origin but if I can avoid being bombarded by devious and distracting ads altogether, I’d rather that.

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    3 months ago

    True but I see this more as a critical thinking problem - which is pervasive in our society and worsened by the tech bubbles. People should want to seek out information that both argues for and against a topic.

    The way our education systems work now, at least in the US, that method of thinking only begins around college and varies widely by academic pedigree.

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      3 months ago

      This is why I only use Google Scholar and sort by number of references to that paper for fucking anything now. And even then, some garbage seems to slip through.

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    Everyone these days is in a bubble. All of the things they believe in echo around inside the bubble. The other side is evil. We can’t listen to them. They have alternate facts. The politicians feed this to rile up the faithful to get more votes. Who cares if people start killing each other and storming the capital as long as they can gain power and keep it so they can get rich sucking up to their corporate overlords.