wide brimmed bucket hat, for sun protection.

and that’s reason #2 why i won’t get my dna tested.

this is straight up nonsense. we get into orbit just fine, ISS has been operating for decades. Going beyond that is only a matter of political will, not a limit of tech or engineering. In fact they are working on Artemis to go back to the moon right now, and Mars after that.

and i actually disagree with the person above that we can go to mars right now. there are issues they need to figure out, but they are solvable problems. This isn’t like cold fusion that is 30 years away from being 30 years away.

also boeing isn’t representative of the aerospace industry or even just NASA. They are mismanaged and negligent. they can’t even build airplanes, never mind spacecraft.

difficult yes, of course. impossible, not even close. NASA’s goal is by the 2030s - even if you don’t believe that timeline which would be fair, the technology is well within our reach.

just landing on mars? nah that’ll happen soon. settling it on a long term basis is a whole other matter though.

This would be a major issue, because DDG specifically claims it does not store any identifying information about you.

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

I had a search saved from some months ago, went to check it for some references and got new hits involving local organizations that had nothing to do with the search. Opening up a private browser I see that the searches aren’t 100% matching up either.

my guess is this is just variation in the search algorithms over time. excerpt from their privacy policy above which I think can explain most of the variability you mentioned:

“For example, we may know that we got a lot of searches for “cute cat pictures” today, but we don’t know who actually performed those searches. That is, viewing search results on DuckDuckGo is anonymous. And we only save these anonymous search queries — completely disconnected from any unique identifiers like IP addresses — for just enough time to analyze anonymous trends like popular searches, so that we can better serve you. For local search results in particular, we’ve further engineered a solution to shield your precise location from us and our content providers that sends us a random location nearish to you, which we also never log to disk.”

So they do use your geo IP and popular searches to weigh results which can change over time.

DDG uses a bunch of different sources, it’s not just rebranded bing.

also DDG does not send any personal info to its partners, so Microsoft’s privacy policy is not relevant.

OP’s concern is that DDG itself is keeping your personal info and using that to weigh your search results. But that also directly contradicts DDG’s privacy policy, so it’s either a major breach of trust or I think more likely OP is reading into varying search results too much.

in my voicemail greeting i tell people to text or email me.

not everything is enshittification.

that’s the pretense, yes.

well when half or more of the people who admitted to using PEDs were using cannabinoids it certainly cuts into your argument that there’s a wide ranging conspiracy across dozens of disciplines to encourage doping.

so are we just gonna ignore that cannabinoids are included in this.

Based on my testing if you filter results by the last week or last day you get nothing. Past month works.

hold your horses, we can still use the melon party and waffle party first. no need to jump straight to pizza.

My brother in law was stranded across the country for two days. $10 probably covers it lol.

also are we to believe china never has any outages of their own?

if their interpretation of the data is correct. we’ll see.

the bad news is:

Clean power sources have already helped to slow the growth in fossil fuels by almost two-thirds in the last 10 years.

at first that sounds great but what that really means is fossil fuel use is still increasing; that 30% figure does not tell the whole story.

they have to build it from scratch to do that though.

what about that good ole “free” speech elon?