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I saw the popup a month or so ago for the first time, and 10 days ago after that. Simply manually updating uBlockOrigin filters did it for me both times.


I'm on the spectrum and whenever I think about possible regrets I might have on my deathbed, I always end up thinking “Who cares, I'm going to die anyway. Everything I have experienced will vanish with me, including the regrets I might possibly have.” It's nihilistic but I can’t help it.


I saw the popup just once, I updated most of the filters used by uBlockOrigin and I haven't seen it since.


A relevant documentary, although slightly more about women and the world in general, is Birthgap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s8QlIGanA, where they talk about "unplanned childlessness"


How does that work in dating? If you are afraid of making people uncomfortable by asking them out, escalating things and putting them in situations where they have to say no to you, you may just end up being single for life.


Not at all related to dating, but this makes me think of the Curb Your Enthusiasm scene where Larry David's mother died while he was in New York on vacation and his father didn't want to "inconvenience" Larry out of respect for her dying wishes: "don't bother Larry".

Great scene and tangentially related to your premise.


Clearly that isn’t the case, given that ask culture has perpetuated itself.

Something like this: “I was thinking of seeing New Movie” “Oh, I’ve been wanting to see that” “I’m going Friday after work. You could join me if that sounds good.” “I’d like that!”

It’s not hard. You establish if someone is open to a date and it’s okay to ask if you’re getting the encouragement to do so. If you’re not, you drop it and save both parties the awkwardness of saying no.


These are somewhated dated but well worth watching; the professor does all kinds of approximations.

Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics with Charles Bailyn: https://youtu.be/ZiK4lg3Tzfs?t=1628


"Arm" and "hand" are two very different things (I guess?), but they are the same word (рука) in Russian.


I have noticed that Wikipedia is often pushed to the bottom of the page compared to a few years ago where it would always be at the very top.


Anecdotally Wikipedia is often the top result for me ... with the twist that it's the Google widget, with the side bar and related videos.

Only way below this block (which takes about 120% of my whole screen's height) come the "organic" results, that aren't great, but probably match what Google assumed I wanted to see.


And it's always the result I want.


Then consider using DDG & '!w term', or some other method (searching Wikipedia, extension, I think Firefox has something engine-agnostic built-in) instead?


Oh I do use DDG. I think it might suffer from the same problem, actually, since now I'm wondering why I see Wikipedia results very far down in Google when I don't really use Google.


The comment above mention using !w in your search to look only in wikipedia since you say it is nearly always what you are looking for.

I would say at this point you could just use wikipedia as your default search engine.


Yeah, I do do that for those things, but when I don't, I've noticed a decline in quality.


You can add a keyword search in Firefox.


Sounds a lot like the Peter principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle


yeah, no way "food will be handed out for free" when you can make a profit by selling it; they'd rather throw it away (as they do right now) than give it away for free


At some point you just have everything you need to survive automated. At that point there is no such thing as profit anymore aside from hookers. The only viable way I see someone hoarding it is because they see themselves as the new god because they were the first to automate the full chain. In that case they will claim humans are bad and try to police them like what we get with every single wingnut idiot these days.


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