With phones, like with other things, a bit of protective covering goes a long way.

Please tell me this is fake. I need to hear these words.

Because it’s just not clever unless it’s literally Oscar fucking Wilde, I guess. Can’t please everyone.

I distinctly remember this joke when 2000 or ME was the most recent one.

[looks vaguely in the direction of Japan]

Five… four… three…

Roger Waters put a damper on my enjoyment of Pink Floyd.

Yeah no, it’s all right, you guys - it’s a synthespian.

There are some beautiful argument chains.

Doubt.

Yeah, well, no fucking shit, what’d they think was the point of the campaign?

These guys…

“site” does work still, I think, just plus a lot of irrelevant drivel - standard Google fare, you see it on Youtube too.

I’d consider the most basic case to be, specifically, the “quotes for verbatim results”, which definitely do not work anymore. Neither does + for a positively (hue hue) required term, a close second.

To be fair, back in the day you could get better results by relying on Google with site:foobar and the Boolean/“power user” stuff. A lot of built-in search boxes on sites were a bit dodgy, or at least less flexible than AND/OR/NOT and other “power user tricks”.

Of course, these days those seem to be ignored wholesale and even “verbatim quotes” are an utter crapshoot, this was back when Google didn’t fucking blow.

Nah. The pattern is cool as hell though.

Disproving them can work

No

So don’t?

Then what’s your counter?

Arguably best way to counter misinformation is non-platforming it. Mere provable facts and impeccable logic have a dogshit success rate.

MOAR!

No, I just try to. My blocklist is like forty miles at this point

Edit: always entertaining to read rationalizations of “exposing myself to the constant depressing drudgery of political news coverage is like a moral imperative or some shit” btw

Oh, no no, capitalism welcomes competition, don’t’y’know.
Just as long as it doesn’t mess with the profit margins.

Not in the very rare case where the positivity is warranted because the product is decent, appropriately priced, and not too shittified.