Thank you kindly for the links, I was just about to search for the Manchester Bombing, if I’m being honest I thought “The Troubles” was the name of a book or movie. I didn’t realize they gave such a non-chillant name to such a bloody conflict. Suddenly the meme makes sense though!
What exactly in the above sentence would have suggested to the average person that they should Google search the troubles?
Or are you saying any time I see a nonsensical sentence I should just stop what I’m doing and google search the whole thing?
What exactly in the above sentence would have suggested to the average person that they should Google search the troubles?
Well, I am still under the - maybe naive - impression that people understand context.
If one user writes about “The Troubles” (capitalised), and another mentions “the Manchester blast”, my expectation was that a person is able to put 2 and 2 together and google “The Troubles Manchester blast” at the very least.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Do people no longer know how to google things?
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 days ago
Thank you kindly for the links, I was just about to search for the Manchester Bombing, if I’m being honest I thought “The Troubles” was the name of a book or movie. I didn’t realize they gave such a non-chillant name to such a bloody conflict. Suddenly the meme makes sense though!
Thanks again!
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It tends to attract negative attention if you admit there’s a civil war going on.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In the future, we’ll look back sadly on the current Times of Greatness.
deltapi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What exactly in the above sentence would have suggested to the average person that they should Google search the troubles?
Or are you saying any time I see a nonsensical sentence I should just stop what I’m doing and google search the whole thing?
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Well, I am still under the - maybe naive - impression that people understand context.
If one user writes about “The Troubles” (capitalised), and another mentions “the Manchester blast”, my expectation was that a person is able to put 2 and 2 together and google “The Troubles Manchester blast” at the very least.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 days ago
They never really did.
Also I never really used Google. I am a duckduckgo or brave search or even startpage type of guy.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Just FYI - Startpage is also using Google’s search index, so you’re kind of also “googling”.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 days ago
Probably why I dont really use it. Duckduckgo and brave.