Posts by finserra@tausibs.org
 (DIR) Post #AUQ6q7EdVNZVLR6sro by finserra@tausibs.org
       2023-04-06T16:39:21Z
       
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       Pros and cons. I’ve been using web search engines since the beginning of the WWW. Used a lot of them, and I still do. I still rely, for the most part, on Google, as a I have since about 2000. Its crawl is better, often by a lot. Its ad stacking and tendency to turn me into the product are abysmal. The silver lining in that last observation is that I have created a Chrome-based world for myself across many devices, and Google search is doing a lot to simplify my life and pre-populate all kinds of widgets and applications — from Calendar, to Maps, to Contacts, to GMail.  Google’s search syntax is pretty robust, both Boolean and relational, and, from what I’ve seen, outpaces the competition considerably.  I still use other engines to double-check important matters and can find chinks in the Google armor on occasion. Bing sometimes turns up a few items Google misses. I’ve learned to speed past the sponsored results, unless I’m shopping (sometimes they’re the shortest path to God). More than any shortcoming in Google Search, my bone to pick with Alphabet is their tendency to hook me on a product and then drop it for untenable reasons (e.g. iGoogle, Android Auto (phone presentation)).
       
 (DIR) Post #AUwqeW5hxxxCx5UgK0 by finserra@tausibs.org
       2023-04-23T15:26:51Z
       
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       https://www.etymonline.com/word/nursery#:~:text=nursery%20(n.)&text=From%20c.,be%20transplanted%22%20is%20from%201560s.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUwr7Bcn8fHPsHdh68 by finserra@tausibs.org
       2023-04-23T15:51:06Z
       
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       But of course you would. I called it the garden shop earlier this morning, but in truth I should have said Home Depot.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWBn7jXjTqQm7uq2GO by finserra@tausibs.org
       2023-05-30T13:01:00Z
       
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       First they conflated the word conservative with the word Republican, which, for a very brief time, might have made sense, if it was explained well enough. Next, they conflated this Trumpian thing, a species of personality cult, with Republicanism, which never made sense. And now, they have, by principle of unthinking transportation or absence of language creativity, conflated conservatism with Trumpism. This is what happens when your journalists (or their editors) lack historical perspective and adeptness with the language. It doesn’t help that the Republicans absorbed the Dixiecrats and that the party and structure that resulted was coopted by the Trumpists, but I think the American public is smart enough to appreciate the changes that occurred and for major media to make the distinctions. Joe’s got a good assimilative handle for it: Extreme MAGA Republicans.It bears some resemblance to fascism, but in the end, I can’t really go there. Its myth of decadence is too selective, its ultra-nationalism nearly isolationist, and its militarism hardly different than what preceded it. We’re living with a cult, borne of a demagogue, with a nice helping of racial and ethnic bigotry. I wouldn’t dignify it with a political label that suggests a world view. It’s too confused and will o’ the wisp for such labels. I’m afraid we’re all painting around the margins somewhat with Trumpism. Reminiscent of a lot of bad shit, but essentially sui generis.