How often do you get butthurt by something on the internets?

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink

Italian Irish here and grew up in the Pittsburgh streets so yeah, short fuse that goes out quickly. Screw with me and I'm coming back at you hard and then I get chill real fast.

But I've mellowed a LOT over the decades. If something someone says pizzed you off you've just given them control over you.... I hate two people in my career give me advice as I rose to a Federal Executive I've never forgotten:

1. A police chief (retired), only exec I knew w/o a college degree:
"Frank, don't let others see you get emotional in meetings it makes them think your're responsible for all the problems, and, you're not." Right after I 'went off' in a big meeting over an unbelievable and totally avoidable gov't f*ck up by another group.

2. A little black gal, and an employee in a hallway conversation:
"Mr. Frank, don't let others steal your peace!" After she saw me jump another exec that was trying to dance around his responsibility to fix an issue by goading me.

I became pretty unflappable in the swirl of problems after some practice and it served me well.

We are much alike we are in some ways.
Funny, but my dad worked for Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point, Baltimore…and as a kid we almost moved to Pittsburgh. He was offered a job promotion but chose to stay in his hometown.

[Frankie the Fink]

Originally Posted by LATB

We are much alike we are in some ways.
Funny, but my dad worked for Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point, Baltimore…and as a kid we almost moved to Pittsburgh. He was offered a job promotion but chose to stay in his hometown.

Dangerous, nasty work and long hours in the steel industry 'back in the day'.

I remember sitting in grandfather's Pittsburg apartment and hearing the sirens from the steel mill regularly and him saying, "...that means somebody got hurt" - and it was usually bad, really bad. No OSHA back then.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink

Dangerous, nasty work and long hours in the steel industry 'back in the day'.

I remember sitting in grandfather's Pittsburg apartment and hearing the sirens from the steel meal regularly and him saying, "...that means somebody got hurt" - and it was usually bad, really bad. No OSHA back then.

Yep.
Dad discouraged me from going to work there.
He worked in the coke ovens side. Hot dangerous work.

[Vandelay Industries]

19-19

[The_Dude]

Originally Posted by Vandelay Industries

19-19

@Raazor needs to come back and vote

[Vandelay Industries]

Originally Posted by The_Dude

@Raazor needs to come back and vote

@vettemed too.

[The_Dude]

[Chemtrails99]

Bluntly, yes...and it's a problem. When I got hit with the cancer/ extended hospital stays I literally didn't have the strength to do anything except lay in the bed and doom scroll. Once out, I was trapped doing it too much at home. Seems like every search engine wanted me to have a "News feed" under the search box, and the endless leftist propaganda really got to me. Then I noticed that AI was somehow tracking how I looked at these stories and began to send the same to any social media accounts I have.

I'm down a small amount from the scrolling, but working to get back to IRL stuff so I don't waste my time and get annoyed on-line.

Not to mention, that AI is infecting searches and rendering most of them useless.

[PLRX]

everything on the internet is a lie

Google anything about JFK

Google your name..be ready

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by Chemtrails99

Not to mention, that AI is infecting searches and rendering most of them useless.

I don't know which AI you're using, but the ones I use not only provide an accurate summary most of the time but they also provide links to the sources they used so you can easily fact-check and get more information.

[Chemdawg69]

Originally Posted by PLRX

everything on the internet is a lie

Google anything about JFK

Google your name..be ready

Learned this trick recently, a Google search of my name is now squeaky clean with no addresses or numbers. But the companies that mine your data are persistent, but Google will come back when new searches appear and you can remove them.

[Chemtrails99]

Originally Posted by dvarapala

I don't know which AI you're using, but the ones I use not only provide an accurate summary most of the time but they also provide links to the sources they used so you can easily fact-check and get more information.

Biggest offender is Google. I'm stuck with it on my Android phone. It now tries to send everything back to a search related to the local area I live in, instead of going directly to the subject/ facts I need. To make up an example:

I search "Steve Morse Modified Telecaster Guitar".

The search comes back with a list of stores, starting with Guitar Center, on to on-line places, some random local that plays guitar, local music stores that may or may not even sell guitars and pools shaped like guitars near me.

Below it asks if I only want to search what I entered in the first place, so I hit it to search my original phrase. Then I get endless feedback on Morse code, how to get my ham license, telephones, body modification near me, telecommuting jobs near me, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Rainbow vacuums, Purple paint by Eastwood.....

I modify it to ask: Guitars Steve Morse plays and get

Dimarzio pickups, Ritchie Blackmore, Hush, Dixie Dregs, Live in Japan, airparks near me, John Travolta, Nautilus fitness machine, runways, bridges near me.

Then I ask Steve Morse Equipment: and get Commercial pilot, The Dregs, Uli John Roth, practice morse code key, ham radio outlet, ground plane anetnnas.....etc....


So I try the guitars well known nickname" Frankentele" and get: Eddie Van Halen, Diver down, Super Strat, Alan Holdsworth, women and children first, Titanic, cold as ice, Foreigner Four, Guitar Center, Sweetwater, AMS Music SDupply, Guiatr shops near me....

Usually I can never find the exact thing I am searching for. If I enter a web address I KNOW had the information, it often changes that to some other address, always "near Me" and heads off down the lack of information road yet again. While I made up this example, this is exactly how the majority of searches now return. Not to mention an AI overview before the results that totaly misses the point/ subject/ search...

Google and it's followers SUCK.

[IB4TL]

*its

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by Chemdawg69

Learned this trick recently, a Google search of my name is now squeaky clean with no addresses or numbers. But the companies that mine your data are persistent, but Google will come back when new searches appear and you can remove them.

All Google can do is remove the obvious from the search results they provide. Once your data is out there it is archived forever.

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by Chemtrails99

Biggest offender is Google. I'm stuck with it on my Android phone.

Stuck how? Are you prevented from installing the Brave browser on it?

It now tries to send everything back to a search related to the local area I live in, instead of going directly to the subject/ facts I need. To make up an example:

I search "Steve Morse Modified Telecaster Guitar".

Here's what Brave's AI-assisted search (called "Ask Leo") returns for that exact query:

[Frankie the Fink]

Originally Posted by Chemtrails99

Biggest offender is Google. I'm stuck with it on my Android phone. It now tries to send everything back to a search related to the local area I live in, instead of going directly to the subject/ facts I need. To make up an example:

I search "Steve Morse Modified Telecaster Guitar".

The search comes back with a list of stores, starting with Guitar Center, on to on-line places, some random local that plays guitar, local music stores that may or may not even sell guitars and pools shaped like guitars near me.

Below it asks if I only want to search what I entered in the first place, so I hit it to search my original phrase. Then I get endless feedback on Morse code, how to get my ham license, telephones, body modification near me, telecommuting jobs near me, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Rainbow vacuums, Purple paint by Eastwood.....

I modify it to ask: Guitars Steve Morse plays and get

Dimarzio pickups, Ritchie Blackmore, Hush, Dixie Dregs, Live in Japan, airparks near me, John Travolta, Nautilus fitness machine, runways, bridges near me.

Then I ask Steve Morse Equipment: and get Commercial pilot, The Dregs, Uli John Roth, practice morse code key, ham radio outlet, ground plane anetnnas.....etc....


So I try the guitars well known nickname" Frankentele" and get: Eddie Van Halen, Diver down, Super Strat, Alan Holdsworth, women and children first, Titanic, cold as ice, Foreigner Four, Guitar Center, Sweetwater, AMS Music SDupply, Guiatr shops near me....

Usually I can never find the exact thing I am searching for. If I enter a web address I KNOW had the information, it often changes that to some other address, always "near Me" and heads off down the lack of information road yet again. While I made up this example, this is exactly how the majority of searches now return. Not to mention an AI overview before the results that totaly misses the point/ subject/ search...

Google and it's followers SUCK.

And depending on your demographic even those f*cked up responses will change... And Google was doing this a decade before AI became a buzzword.

[IB4TL]

Nice avatar, @dvarapala


Now can you please fix my hat?

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by IB4TL

Nice avatar, @dvarapala


Now can you please fix my hat?

Sure.

[IB4TL]

You're not right in the head

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by IB4TL

You're not right in the head

Any friend of Trump's is a friend of mine.

And don't blame me - it was DJ that started this.