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- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 2 months ago:
… and yet here we are ?
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
Nonsense. Your metaphor is not analogous.
Sophisticated tech firms do extensive analysis with reference groups, A/B testing, et cetera.
Guaranteed, they’ve found that they get better engagement with their product through these AI results.
This might shock you but a group of 14 year olds complaining on Lemmy is not an indicative sample of opinions.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
Hyperbole & subjective. Flatpaks aren’t all that.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
My point is, it seems like moat people disagree with you given that search providers put this stuff in their results.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
Obviously I pay for a search engine. The advertising funded web is shit.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
That’s true, but I think people still appreciate it… like it’s accurate enough, enough of the time, for people to find it helpful.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
I like kagi more than ddg. It’s not free but meh.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
Ugh. Do you really want that though? They do have a store don’t they? Just no one wants to use it.
Debian has had a browseable catalog since forever but it’s still waaay better to just go to a third party’s website and see how they say to install whatever thing.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
I feel like most commenters here would think “no one wants the stupid ai response”, but obviously some people like it or they wouldn’t do it. I think if your searches are more general kind of “can I catch chicken pox from chickens” type questions it might be helpful ?
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
Dude. When you’re looking at whatever search just right click in the url bar and there will be an option to add that search engine. Then in settings you can make it your default if you wish.
The reason I don’t use SearXNG is because the public instances always seem to be slow and or broken.
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 3 months ago:
While higher prices cab make products more appealing, that is not the primary reason why vegan products are more expensive.
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 3 months ago:
Correct. That’s precisely why producers of meat patties can still be profitable at a much lower price point.
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 3 months ago:
It’s social media, who’s making scientific postulates?
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 3 months ago:
It’s a lemmy comment.
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 3 months ago:
It’s not rudimentary, it’s a complex system reduced to a few sentences.
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Vegan patties have been around forever.
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There aren’t significantly more barriers to entry for food products than other industries.
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Yes vendors want high prices, but that applies to any product, not only vegan products.
The answer is, as everyone else has pointed out, economies of scale. There’s a larger market with more participants producing more beef burgers than there are vegan patties.
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- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 3 months ago:
This is contrary to basic economic principles.
If a beef burger and vegan burger cost the same to make, but people will pay more for the vegan, that world attract more vegan producers to the market, and more competition would reduce the price.
- Comment on Paid Leave Olympics 4 months ago:
How does infinite sick leave work?
In Australia an employer pays 12 or so days a year for personal leave, (+ 12 public holidays + 20 days annual leave).
Any additional sick leave is unpaid.
An employer couldn’t really be expected to pay sick leave indefinitely. Is it paid by some kind of insurance or social security?
You can claim a govt pension for illness. It’s difficult to qualify long term though.
- Comment on Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day? 4 months ago:
is my instinct here outdated/inapplicable?
Yes.
It’s so cheap to send SMS messages, and you don’t pay for undeliverable messages, so they can just send to random numbers.
They also receive deliverability responses for each number. So they know whether a phone received the message whether or not you reply.
Finally, if you reply STOP you’re unlikely to fit their demographic very well anyway. As in… they’re not trying to reach the type of people who will actively try to avoid receiving these messages.
That said, there’s probably no point replying STOP because most firms just wont honor it in the long term. As in they might not message you for the remainder of that particular messaging project (campaign), but they’ll just start a new campaign tomorrow with a new sender and no “STOP” requests.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It is if you control the judiciary.
- Comment on What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city? 5 months ago:
Everyone is talking about radiation but IMO having food and water is more important.
In a large city, things would turn to shit within hours. There would be violence.
Honestly, if you don’t have a relative on a farm within a days walk, then your best bet is a refugee camp.
- Comment on What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city? 5 months ago:
If cities are being nuked it probably is the apocalypse.
- Comment on What is the actual point of a bra? 5 months ago:
It’s definitely a me problem, not a you problem, but I do find nips distracting. I’d like to get better at not being distracted by visible nips and I’m here for that journey.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 5 months ago:
The thing is though, everyone needs to do something just for the satisfaction of not doing nothing.
- Comment on If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans? 5 months ago:
If I’m really honest I often feel that way about the questions here. I suspect that most of us are here just to gawk at how truly stupid some of us are.
- Comment on (Possibly stupid) T440 Thinkpad upgrade idea? 5 months ago:
you might have more luck asking on mastodon or something.
I’m a huge thinkpad fan but this question is just so specific, you might need a broader audience.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 5 months ago:
A winning horse?!
It’s hard to imagine how you could pick a horse less likely to win.
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
I’ve been flip flopping on this over the last 48 hours.
I can’t dispute that Joe doesn’t seem fit for another presidency.
That said, it sounds like it’s really up to Biden and the First Lady to decide to withdraw before anything will happen.
In the mean time, this discussion isn’t helping progressive voters. Trump will preside over an irreversible lurch to the right. Progressives need to unite behind a candidate - anyone the faintest pulse will do.
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
you can either a) reward them for moving left or b) punish them for moving right
You’re talking about the political will of a nation as you would training a puppy. It’s incredibly reductive and simply not how the overton window works.
If the republicans win the next several elections the democrats will move further to the right to try to steal votes off them. The republicans will have to move further to the right to differentiate themselves from the democrats.
Not surprisingly, the more republicans win elections the further right everything moves.
Your position is exactly where the conservatives would have you. They can’t win your vote so their best outcome is to convince you not to vote.
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
Perfect! Don’t vote for the dems for several elections. I’m certain this plan will usher in a new era of progressive politics. Well done. You idiot.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
WDYM?
Brigadeers can just upvote comments supporting their position and exclude contrary ones.