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Cake day: June 15th, 2023
  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What apps have you tried to "de-google" yourself?English
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    2 hours ago

    I see from the “View source” option that your comment has everything in a neat, line-by-line fashion, though the final markup is decidedly not.

    So, a pro-tip I’ve noticed from my own commenting experience: even if you have a line break, Lemmy (for some stupid reason) won’t apply one when rendering; so if you want it to show, you have to use two line breaks, though then there will be an extra half-line or so that you probably never wanted.

    For example, don’t do

    Line Item 1
Line Item 2

    but rather do

    Line Item 1

Line Item 2
  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches?English
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    2 hours ago

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    …Oh, sorry.

    Hell no. If anything, it’s gotten worse.

    In their defense, however, it’s probably largely not their fault. In my admittedly one-person-sample-size experience, 90% of the searchable Web is either Reddit threads or articles, and with Reddit going officially with Google (meaning DDG doesn’t catch as many Reddit threads as they used to), that leaves most of the searchable Web being articles. Because SEO has to ruin everything.

    So, it’s not really that DDG is shitty (mostly), but that all searches are shitty. Though, with the whole Google-and-Reddit thing, I find Google’s results are noticeably less shitty (though still shitty).

  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is something you've done that you believe very few other people have done? Only one caveat: it can't be cool or jealousy-provoking.English
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    11 days ago

    Waaaaay back in college (this was over a decade ago), I wrote a 16-page paper making the argument that there were only four continents, not five, six, or seven as various countries proclaim:

     

    The Cliff Notes:

    • North America and South America can be still considered a single continent due to the fact that the Panama Canal doesn’t fully bisect the two landmasses. (The Isthmus of Panama is still very much wild rainforest and lakes, and the canal is essentially two points on each side connected by a boat route across multiple of these lakes).

    So, #1: America (alt. the Americas)

    • Europe and Asia are not actually bisected into two landmasses, and if anything any physical connection is reinforced by the fact that the boundary is the Ural Mountain range.

    So, #2: Eurasia

    • Prior to the construction of the Suez Canal in 1869, Europe and Africa were indeed the same landmass, connected by the Isthmus of Suez. However, as the Suez Canal is a sea-level canal, it is created by literally cutting the landmasses apart down to relative sea levels.

    So, #3: Africa

    • Australia…Yeah, I didn’t see any reason why it should lose its status as the world’s biggest island and smallest continent.

    So, #4: Australia

    • Antarctica I didn’t consider a continent because it’s mostly ice, and if Australia is considered the minimum bound for how big a “continent” should be, then, well, the portion of Antarctica that is actually ground below all that ice is actually a smaller contiguous size than Australia, ergo it cannot count as a continent.

    'Course now I’m older and realize that was all bullshit. Lol. Sure it makes sense from a geological standpoint (but even that is bullshit as geologically there are no “continents”, only plates), but a continent is more than its geological structure; it’s geological, political, and economic, all three of these rolled into one.

     

    Sources for Images Used:

    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal
    2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural_Mountains
    3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal