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Googling is a superpower. Sometimes I Google the answers to people’s questions in real time and they think I’m a genius for it. I don’t know why people don’t do this more; it’s basically second nature for me https://t.co/AycyUId2fy
Someone in a groupchat once asked if anybody had any background in information theory. I said I was familiar, and then improvised my way through the conversation with absolutely no background in it whatsover. "If I remember correctly" = I googled it 10 seconds ago, lmao https://t.co/H9WDLX0DIb
I tweet a lot, and I Google more than I tweet. Sometimes when I’m bored I read my old Google search queries to see what I was thinking: https://t.co/Yno7ykUnxk
some recent search queries of mine: marx engels friendship reddit jessica jones black panther ta nehesi comics mark hamill dave prowse thelastpsych narcissus planescape torment that was your first wish tron highway polyclinic sunday open war is worse than hell
Google "unrelated" things to see if anybody's already written about the relationship between them look for criticism https://t.co/1gRVvOuNJ6
figured this one out by doing an image search for "tropical small sour fruit" and then looking for a visual match https://t.co/R9AgbevOaP
eg of how I google for things https://t.co/J1GVyDuHXu
I had an interesting experience yesterday that made me realise that I have a sort of functioning immune system that lots of people IRL (including my parents, lol) don’t have. My wife asked casually, why are palms and soles lighter than skin everywhere else? So I started Googling https://t.co/i5naKy1qJs
@visakanv I am really really bad at this. I think it’s because I have internalized that communication doesn’t really work, and google is tuned for normal human communication. I have as an axiom that it will never actually give me what I need. I dunno how to relax that.