¿Porque no los dos? 💈

Fake it till you make it! (งツ)ว

It’s like sushi… kinda

Well isn’t that great, mr. moneybags

/S

Yes I’m making a stupid joke bc it’s a paid search engine, something i never would have imagined would be a thing. Now I’m going to price it and perhaps finally pull the trigger on an acct there because fuck google, fuck bing, and fuck all these sites being “wrappers” of them. I come from the dial-up days when lycos, webcrawler, altavista, yahoo–hard searches that would separate the men from the boys. Now we just get this “A.I.” bullshit instead and it falls apart under its own weight. Excuse me while i wave my cane at the sun ☀️

Edit: so it turns out you can get 100 free searches on their site here: https://kagi.com/onboarding?p=choose_plan

Otherwise, it’s $5/month for 300 searches, $10/mo for unlimited, and $25/mo for their “ultimate” exclusive experience…whatever that may be. I’m gonna try the freebies and see what happens. I’m still on the fence about paying for search, but I’m really tired of bs coming from these companies leading to things like we’re experiencing today

Can you refute the info in the article? That would go a lot further to prove your comment valid.

↖️This is the real life pro-tip right here

I think there’s a couple things at play:

• You know enough to find a different app and make it do what you need it to. Not a hard thing, but something many non-tech savvy people could struggle with, or more likely–

• People often will just use what’s there. We know we have options, we are aware of the privacy concerns… but many people simply aren’t and/or don’t care enough to do anything about it.

We spend a lot of time here, so it seems to us like second nature to avoid intrusive apps… I find in my day-to-day life not many people are talking about that kind of stuff, or don’t have much knowledge/experience in that realm. (I realize that is anecdotal).

I 100% agree with your statements–just trying to rationalize how so many people end up using/staying with these ever-worsening services/apps…

I know this image is completely unrelated to the article, it’s just that i saw the words golden and axe in such close proximity…i wanted to leave that here in case others were thinking the same

Just like to take this opportunity to say fuck the name “ByteDance”

It’s a stupid, corporate, “hip” name that needs to fade into obscurity asap. Not crazy about the company either, but the name in particular is just so fucking cringe

You read my mind 👏

That’s the problem – they aren’t a huge construction corp! It sounds like they wanted to pull an Elon and take the wheel despite having no idea what they’re actually doing

I take back my chuckle

For real! I was like, “oh, they probably got some emails and calls that were a bit abrasive”

Wow, was I wrong!! Not only are these executives some real snowflakes, but they’re also psychopaths. Shit, i hope they don’t read this message, lest a fetal pig be delivered to my door 👀

How bout trains in the distance? Every so often i can hear one from my house and it is very comforting in that odd way

No, but you should still vote for them. What else can you do? Vote independent? Change the world?

… and how do we know Reddit didn’t take it from somewhere else? Furthermore: Isn’t that kinda what aggregator sites are supposed to do?!?

Sheesh, I need to brush up on my English

I do too! From the oldest to the newest, they all have something to offer. I just fixed up a 1976 Williams Grand Prix for a friend’s family and I can’t get over how much action that old game has under the hood. I mean that in 2 ways actually: it’s literally loaded with mechanicals, it’s considered one of the more complex games of its generation… But it also plays strong and fast, just needed some switches cleaned and adjusted and a flipper rebuild and some other odd tweaks/rebuilds and it plays better than it’s probably played in 25+ years. Check out the inlane/outlane setup–it’s pretty sneaky, I still lose a ball occasionally trying to trap it on the flipper :)

Nice variety of games on that list! Wheel of Fortune is a very interesting game, also dig Iron Man and definitely Attack from Mars. Dr. Who is cool too – though I’ll admit I don’t have too much experience with that game. Always loved the multi-level mechanism towards the back of the playfield–very cool feature!!

I’m personally drawn very much towards the late 70’s/early 80’s generation of games. For me, that era captures the perfect blend of art, playfield design, sounds, and nostalgia. Not to mention, they tend to be pretty consistent ass-kickers, not usually allowing very long ball times. I like my games very difficult, lol! Someday I’d like to get a ‘deeper’ game… But space is at a premium at this point and I’m not really looking to get rid of too many of the pins I have, so it’ll probably be a while before that happens…

Very cool!! Nice to be reasonably close to a place like that. Which pins do you play the most there?

I’ve been collecting for years, myself :)

Wow, didn’t expect the first comment I see to be my obscure hobby! Do you have places to play nearby or own any games yourself?