loriDec 8, 2022

A while back I saw an r/woodworking post where someone was asking for resources for woodworking plans. A few people told them to Google it.

If you Google it you get absolute horseshit. Just page after page of useless results. So we need to stop the fucking "let me google that for you" era and recognize that search is entirely broken in the modern day. We NEED human recommendations and information sharing now more than ever.

Show threadloriDec 8, 2022
(I posted about this on Twitter once but just the part about not telling people to Google things without explicitly adding the woodworking story and got ten thousand people yelling at me for "telling marginalized people that it's their job to educate ignorant people", which is part of the reason I am so glad to be free of Twitter because this was the least charitable reading of my point ever and way outside of the scope of what I was talking about)
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@lori
I mean even when the conversation is about marginalized people, it's still unhelpful to tell people to Google it bc, for instance, googling questions about trans issues will land them on TERF pages.
Dec 10, 2022 at 6:32pmWeb
Show threadloriDec 10, 2022
@caztastrophe right, I did think of that too lol, you aren't actually teaching them anything. And it isn't your job to teach them anything but if you're telling them to Google it it's about as helpful as just telling them to fuck off so you might as well do that and get the enjoyment of it