I work retail, and customer and fellow employee alike have no ability to google fucking anything, and this isn’t bound by any age bracket or demographic. Young and old alike, half my job is googling shit for them, I’ll do it in front of them in an attempt to be like “see you can do this yourself next time” and it never works. People will call my shop and ask me to google the phone number and directions TO OTHER STORES!

I forced a younger coworker to google a question he asked me yesterday and I swear I heard the fucking 2001 Space Odyssey theme played as he realized you can find information to answers your questions yourself!

  • EllenKelly [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    People dont even know how to do a keyword search, or use boolean search terms or other basic search operators, theyll search like *what is the name of taylor swifts third album?"

    Here’s a real basic intro I found https://mentionlytics.medium.com/how-to-do-a-boolean-search-effectively-advanced-tips-7b3ef7ba591d

    my super power is telling people they can add site:whatever.com to the end of a queerie to filter out other websites

    but also, someone calling a store and asking for directions to another store, which you have to look up, is on your employer. It’s how the world used to work, well I suppose all the stores would have been in the same place in the directory and they could have checked a map.

    ps google is on the BDS list

    For example, Israel’s advanced AI targeting and weapons systems, termed “assassination factories,” are enabled by tech giants, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and Palantir. These companies technologically equip the Israeli military with computing systems as well as surveillance and communications technologies to accelerate the genocide in Gaza and automate apartheid in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

    https://bdsmovement.net/no-tech-oppression-apartheid-or-genocide

    the other thing that shits me is people use searches for everything, which shocker use electricity (i think a 'google search* uses enough power to keep a lightglobe on for a minute?), like everything we do online. And then I’ve had people send multiple single line messages over discord (🤢) to make an argument about how no one should ever use AI for anything ever

    i asked an LLM to write a smarmy response to them.

    /rant sorry comrades

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      And then I’ve had people send multiple single line messages over discord (🤢) to make an argument about how no one should ever use AI for anything ever

      are you quantifying the amount of electricity used per each discord message and tallying it up for people because if so that’s really funny to me

      Just imagining me ranting at someone in Discord and them hitting me with “ABC you’ve used $20.07 worth of electricity sending me all these messages this month you need to chill tf out” lmfao

    • the other thing that shits me is people use searches for everything, which shocker use electricity (i think a 'google search* uses enough power to keep a lightglobe on for a minute?), like everything we do online. And then I’ve had people send multiple single line messages over discord (🤢) to make an argument about how no one should ever use AI for anything ever

      don’t people on hexbear share this stance also?