ecosia or ddg is fine, idk why people say they are shit. (scholar is still convenient tho, but that’s whatever). ah and image search is still much better on google. also learn to use ! commands and just inserting years sequentially, if you query something very specific
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Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•"Why you dont support small businesses?"English
3·3 hours agoi thought until second judgement christians not exist actually and not alive in a conscious sense, no?
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technology@hexbear.net•Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban beginsEnglish
21·3 hours agoif you think there is a noticeable increase in surveillance from this, you are not pilled enough on advertising fencing/wifi/bl/cell tower logging, at most this is an extra tool for the toolbox. if adult people think logging to youtube is worth using their real picture to 3rd party kyc provider, they aren’t exactly surveillance conscious now are they.
Surveillance happens inside the app, not from internet routing, your isp and main provider (unless nsa is involved) at most can connect time of activity of account to your sessions/send packets and they have to bother to do it, social media knows this in plain metadata and more than willing to supply it.
i do think requiring hardlock on sold phones in a country for kiddie (with white listed internet or time restricted internet aside from like messaging) and non-kiddie mode is more elegant solution than dipshittery with verification cans
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Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Stellantis said it will bring an all-electric small “car” called the Fiat Topolino to the US following Trump remarks. The car is an all-electric quadricycle: top speed 28 mph.English
1·4 hours agotrump fighting f-150 and nfl, that’s ballsy
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technology@hexbear.net•Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban beginsEnglish
31·4 hours agosocialization mediated by text and/or screen and/or voice is not the same as real stuff, that i firmly believe (i get the irony, posting this on a social media). Now whether people can find resources as static content/rss feeds/news articles to lighten burden of being bullied for being unusual/oppressed via irl meetings is a separate and important matter.
it’s atomizing corrosive structure overlaid on humanity sprinkled with spying and advertising, children (and adults) also shouldn’t see advertising or be spied on, at all.
i don’t care that it involves children, i care it involves social media.
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technology@hexbear.net•Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban beginsEnglish
61·6 hours agoif one doesn’t care about speed, one can just use normie free proton or myriads ad-loaded ones
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technology@hexbear.net•Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban beginsEnglish
31·6 hours agoThey deleted cities and parks in oz-land? you can just walk and talk, like normal person, what special place you envision? Places being dodgy or unsafe never stopped kids fucking around in them. Guess we’ll have to wait and see if desire to socialize outweighs laziness to vpn-ize.
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technology@hexbear.net•Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban beginsEnglish
61·6 hours agoi do vaguely feel it’s a good idea tbh (like aside from not being able to commiserate if you are in the middle of nowhere and a minority)
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Slop.@hexbear.net•I present to you this amusing American liberal specimenEnglish
14·6 hours agoaverage lockheed martin local union member, probably lost a job due to withdrawal in vietnam
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Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin - Novo General Megathread for the 9th-12th of December 2025English
4·6 hours agoit’s cause you can’t smoke anymore, cause of woke
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Games@hexbear.net•EA, Bethesda & Activision Lose Billions In 2025 & Things May Only Get Worse...English
3·7 hours ago
how come ea loses money, they are printing money from fifa simps i thought, is there time stamp?
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Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin - Novo General Megathread for the 9th-12th of December 2025English
10·12 hours agosolidworks, more like liquid doesn’t work
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Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin - Novo General Megathread for the 9th-12th of December 2025English
9·12 hours agoyou can’t spell pyotr without yo

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news@hexbear.net•China’s trade surplus tops $1tn for first timeEnglish
2·1 day agobut no jobs is precisely “no nicely compensated jobs”, sure after agricultural automation rural villages will become much smaller, doesn’t mean it can’t be a well paid career for those who stay. It’s not like screwing iphones logic boards or biking food is very mentally stimulating work, and if there was a financial choice, some people would stay
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Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Go ahead, spell it, you heard the manEnglish
5·1 day agofrench word, ou sound, g can’t be followed by o, because it will make it hard sounding, closed oi sound, logical stuff

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news@hexbear.net•China’s trade surplus tops $1tn for first timeEnglish
5·1 day agoIs agricultural business that powerful that rising minimum wages in agriculture will fuck powerful interests? i think the solution is like tried and true - mandatory 8h work days and then bumping minimum wage until you encounter inflation
dark souls move tbh
well obviously



















imaging working in the mint tho, good times