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Did it hurt? (i.ibb.co)
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[–] 103 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Five years ago this was valid. Hell even two years ago.

Today..... You're most likely to get a bullshit sales pitch disguised as a blog that doesn't actually answer any question you asked but has one word in it from your question sentence.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    God, this is so infuriatingly true. A few months ago I searched for info on types of spiders in my province, because I wanted to learn more about my many housemates. All of the top links were SEO blog spam that were clearly duplicate pages rebranded for different keywords (something that Google's algorithm used to penalize but apparently no longer gives a shit about). I know this because, no, black widows are not fucking native to Manitoba, Canada.

    Not to mention that goddamn annoying way of writing that SEO blog spam uses where they are so obviously reaching for long tail keywords. My job used to involve some of this stuff back when the search engines pretended to care about good content - when you were at least nominally rewarded with page rank for content that read like it was written by a person with a soul. Now it's just a wasteland of mechanical prose. There's still good stuff being said out there, but good like finding it with a search engine.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sorry my dude, but according to this they are.

    There are two species of black widow spider in Canada: the western black widow found in parts of BC through to Manitoba (mostly restricted to areas close to the southern Canada-U.S. border) and the northern black widow in southern and eastern Ontario. On occasion, black widow spiders occur outside of their ranges by hitching a ride on produce such as grapes.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well, crap. Now I'm going to be irrationally afraid of a run-in with an illusive grape-riding Black Widow.

    I did know about foreign spiders hitching a ride on produce. I just didn't know that these dudes could take root in our cold wasteland. Nonetheless, thanks for the link!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No worries, if your heart is in decent shape, you're actually not in much danger from a black widow, as far as I know. It's mostly the elderly and the really young who die from their bites these days.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Good to know. Nevertheless, I hope to never be in a situation where I get to find out. I'm guessing they're suuuuper rare here. I checked the iNaturalist app and there were no observed sightings of either type mentioned in that article.

    There's probably just a colony in the back of a supermarket somewhere.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm from Vancouver, and there was definitely a few that lived out back of my dad's house when I was a teen. TIL my dad's house was a supermarket!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can see them surviving in the wild in Vancouver, but here in MB it regularly gets to -30 to -40 for several months in the winter. I'm not sure they'd like that too much.

    That said, maybe your dad's house is a supermarket. Does he have lots of food in it?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've found best search results with either DDG or Startpage, no ads, (probably) more private than Google.

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    • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You mean Google it then go to the 10th page to find a sketchy site with an article that agrees with you?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    You’re right

    alt-textA cake with a message written on it in pink text that says "DID IT HURT? when I told you to SearXNG IT and I was right." The cake is decorated with swirls of white frosting and colorful sprinkles around the edges.

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    • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    If someone gave me a cake every time I got something wrong I'd be dead.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Google en passant

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    • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    "I googled who was the captain in titanic? Google said " Eat 1 smooth rock a day for better results." So you were wrong.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Please don't ridicule people for being wrong. It only incentivizes them to avoid admitting mistakes.

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    algorithms of oppression. noble.

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    That's a victory worth celebrating

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    [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Did it hurt?

    When I shoved this cake right up your arrogant ass.

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    • [–] -3 points 2 years ago

    You couldn’t be further from the truth

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    [–] -5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    that should end in a question mark, not a period...

    best not to make simple gramattical mistakes when rubbing someone's face in your having been right

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    • [+] -10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My absolute favorite thing to say to someone is "I told you so." I'm just disgusted that I get to legitimately say it so fucking often.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you have to say it often, it might indicate you have trouble formulating your initial advice in a way that is acceptable to people.

    Nobody likes to be told they're wrong, so it helps to be empathetic about it. Packing your advice or instructions into a tactful and diplomatic approach doesn't cost you much, but makes it much more likely for your advice to be accepted and implemented. And the recipient will usually end up being grateful for having avoided a mistake. They might even start to look for your and ask advice in the future. And if you keep doing that, he might even consider you a nice person or even a friend.

    An arrogant and condescending approach will only do harm, even if you are factually right.

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