I tried this with "Sweet little lies" and with "none of you apes" and with "slippery friction of mucous membranes" (Heinlein had such a knack for great phrases". In each case, I got search results that were for exactly that phrase for at least the top 10 results (which is almost always all I'd use)

I keep hearing about shitty Google search results, but I keep struggling to replicate any specific poor results. I'm willing to believe it, I just wondered if anyone can share any specific examples!

Can you give any specific examples? I tried, for example, "tallest woman in the world" and then tried "tallest woman alive" and then "tallest woman today" and got the same answer each time. So I can't replicate the problems you experience

First off, I know it's not *incumbent* on you -- that's why I asked and didn't demand!

Second, I have done lots of searches for product reviews in the last few days -- for a Samsung S95C TV, for various EVs including the Taycan, for Speyside whisky, for the Humane AI pin. In every case, the results seemed .... useful and not at all astroturfed.

As for your complaint about the panels in search -- I know this annoys some producers of web content, but I have to say, I like fast results. I think the old Google approach wasn't to "getting you off their page as quickly as possible", it was "getting you an answer as quickly as possible" and panels and embedding results in the search bar as you type something like "UK population" do exactly that.

I never used G-Suite so can't comment. But I use search a lot. I also now use Bing at work and I don't find it materially better (or worse).

I'm not discounting anyone's voices. I just asking if anyone is prepared to share any specific examples of inadequate search results, given it's so easily replicable, so I can see the poor experience they are having for myself

I haven’t noticed any difficulty myself in finding information I need to know. Can you give an example of a search where the top results are demonstrably far from accurate, and it’s clearly the kind of commercial poisoning the article referred to? I ask because it seems to me that if the product was really obviously bad, I should be able to see it, and I just can’t

But why use H2 as the storage medium? It embrittles container vessels, migrates through seals, and is incredible flammable. And there's loads of other storage mediums: you could just use electricity to lift a heavy weight, for example.

An MG5 would meet US safety standards, and it definitely is not.

Sure, some cost savings are achievable by having less safety protection. But the bulk of the savings are in cheaper batteries as they remain the biggest cost driver for EVs.

Reliability is not the only measure of quality, though. Most consumers associate quality firstly with premium materials and fancy features like sunroofs, air suspension and massage seats. You may think this is wrong, but it is nonetheless the case

You think those vehicles are useful? You should try a supermini for urban driving. Fits 5 people and lots of shopping, and yet small and thus nimble and easy to move around. I had one for nine years. But then, I'm in London

Um. If goods purchased with installment loans aren't covered, what's to stop people buying everything in this way? Certainly, high value items (many of which are already bought in this way) -- tech, jewellery, white goods, furniture, etc. And if there's a prebate for essential spending, then effectively, all that's getting taxed are nicer lunches than someone needs to have. Everything else is either exempt through the prebate or through avoidance by way of this installment loan wheeze.

I was thinking the same as, but I RFAd and read the case. Under Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. 348 (2015), the Court ruled that a search warrant was required. However, he was a parolee, and as a part of his parole, he was subject to warrantless searches. His condition of parole included :

"You shall surrender any digital/electronic device and provide a pass key/code to unlock the device to any law enforcement officer for inspection other than what is visible on the display screen.

This includes any digital/electronic device in your vicinity. Failure to comply can result in your arrest pending further investigation and/or confiscation of any device pending investigation.

The thing that pisses me off about these folks and their skepticism is that it is so domain-specific. You never see them claiming they know more than experts in, say, material science, or acoustics, or phytology, or quantum thermodynamics. They are totally happy to rely on the science and technology that provides them with nutritious food, warm clothing, electricity and hot water, the devices on which they write their ramblings, the cars with which they roll coal, etc. If they got a cataract, you can bet your bottom dollar they'd meekly accept the recommendations of an ocular surgeon and have the sedation administered by an anaesthetist without a fucking murmur of complaint. It's just performative bollocks about climate science because they don't like the idea that they'd have to restrict their creature comforts in any way for the benefit of someone else.

Not true any more. I suggest checking back at the website below in a few weeks, when they've had a chance to run the analysis. If you click into he link for any of the analyses they've run, you can see how they quantify the attributions.

https://www.worldweatherattrib...

This is no longer true in KSA, either. Women can drive there as well, and show their faces in public. MBS is obviously a bastard, but he's equally obviously determined to loosen up quite a lot of the restrictions that once existed for women.

First time I went to KSA, the food court in the local mall had a separate queue for women (about 2016). Last time I went (2021), there was only a mixed line.

There was no way I could have hugged goodbye to my female colleague, though. And she had to wear a headscarf when she stepped out of the office. But still, changes were happening. The biggest changes were in the workplace, where smart younger women were displacing bewildered, less smart, older men at a rapid pace. The CIO of a major public hospital was a woman in her 30s, for example.

The answer is the same as for the floods and fires in Australia, the fires in Greece, the floods in Pakistan, etc etc. A hotter, wetter atmosphere drives more extreme weather events, and we have created a hotter, wetter atmosphere through climate change because we burn too much fossil fuel.

It’s not fucking cloud seeding. It’s climate change. At least the fact that it’s happening in Dubai has some reasonable symbolism about it, given what Dubai represents and the role it played at COP. About time the chickens came home to roost

Yes, thank goodness fires at gas plants are so rare compared with battery plants. Why, I had to go all the way back to *seven whole hours ago* to find a story about a gas plant fire.

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/ta...