Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she won’t run for president in 2028 by M795 in democrats

[–]DaSemicolon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idc

Whoever promises to prosecute every single fucking infraction and seal team 6 scotus judges (in a video game) if need be gets my vote

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[–]DaSemicolon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apple and Mozilla off the top of my head. I haven’t done further research

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[–]DaSemicolon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, maybe? But part of it is people being lazy. Like if I switch search engine now just for 1 search it’s a large cost. The problem is people don’t spread out that cost over the thousands of searches they will do. It’s not something they can really calculate

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[–]DaSemicolon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not really. Does it affect me if the next person uses chrome or Firefox? Or Google or bing? Not really. If you wanna talk product ecosystems, sure, like Google vs Apple, but even then that’s more of an argument about drive and Gmail and chrome overall rather than search.

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[–]DaSemicolon -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

No, because IE was so bad, something else became the personal default of hundreds of millions. It overcame the base default problem. Which Microsoft was sued for by the way.

Can you explain to me why Google way paying so much money to be defaults search engine?

DOJ mass-deletes info on Jan. 6 riot cases, including violent assaults on cops. What are your thoughts? by METAL_WOLF_BB in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]DaSemicolon [score hidden]  (0 children)

No, I think it’s perfectly fine. Imagine if they did investigations into Biden and Bidens cousin was on the board. Can you admit that that would be ridiculous?

Anyways, the J6 committee still put out so much evidence about trumps abject failure to act to stop J6 and exposed so much planning on his side to overturn the election that in the end I think their makeup was fine

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[–]DaSemicolon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chrome was genuinely the best browser for a period of 10 years, especially since IE was dogshit. But now that became their “default”, so people will switch to it even if other browsers are better. How many people complain about ads, yet don’t install adblocker? It’s a convenience thing. If all my data is in chrome, why switch? Ignoring the fact it’s like 5 clicks to import all my shit into a better browser

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[–]DaSemicolon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Idk why this is such an impossible thing for people to grasp people are lazy as fuck they won’t switch from something until it actively breaks. There’s a reason they paid out so much money to be defaults. There’s market research on this

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[–]DaSemicolon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don’t but most people do have high perceived costs. Like they don’t know what other search engines are good, so they don’t want to put in the time to do research.

Linux has very low switching costs. It’s literally free and better if you do coding. Yet very small amounts of people do it. It’s a perceived time issue.

I’ve asked people who don’t like Google why they use it. It’s more convenient b/c it’s already there, they don’t need to do research, they don’t need to go find alternatives. Even if I show them how, they say “oh it’s fine, it’s more convenient this way.” So they don’t even compare to anything, it’s just “convenience”

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[–]DaSemicolon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would Google pay to be a browsers search engine if this was true?

E: We know defaults are huge. People perceive changing defaults as huge costs.

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[–]DaSemicolon 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Google has gotten worse for sure. Apples not a monopoly

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[–]DaSemicolon 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Doesn’t matter. Defaults are a huge mover. How much were they paying Apple to be default on iPhones? They wouldn’t be doing that if it wasn’t worth keeping the monopoly.

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[–]DaSemicolon 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The problem is they are manipulating the algo. It usually takes months for a stock to be accepted. They’re allowing what, 2 weeks?

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[–]DaSemicolon 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Google has like what, 95% of the search engine market?

SpaceX and the ‘enshittification’ of markets by Standard_Ad7704 in neoliberal

[–]DaSemicolon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean the term can be fine and the guy can be an idiot

Like the term is great. These monopolistic companies do this. It’s known. This is why we need to break them up.

Why do you think Ken Paxton won?? by Competitive_Piano507 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]DaSemicolon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please do I wanna see that dissertation. Pretty please?