The most popular browsers in different countries in 2012 and 2022.

by @theworldmaps_

Nope! When Chrome first came to popularity, people switched over to it cause it was “faster” (turns out, it just eats through your device’s CPU) but since then Firefox has upped its game in a major way. Chrome just doesn’t measure up anymore. Plus, nowadays Chrome is just a data harvester designed to show hyper targeted ads - so even if Firefox ain’t for you, it’s still worth ditching Google for a different browser.

Legit though I switched to Firefox and it’s so so so much better

i’m gonna keep reblogging this ad infinitum so yall might as well convert now

remember that all chrome based browsers will no longer allow adblockers starting this june

the modern internet is literally unusable without one, so switch to firefox

@matzahball

For a second I didn’t realize it meant “high” as in a stoner–I thought “High Geologist” was like a rank of geologist or something and he was insulted you would challenge him to naming stones

great poast every one👍

I have drawn him…. The High Geologist

Can’t believe he’s ace

He is now And here’s the photo evidence:

hey guys…https://twitter.com/MatthewLillard/status/1322648148364324864 so does this make it canon?

the high geologist has ascended

every time i see this post it gets…. better? but also weirder.

I always gotta reblog the High Geologist once in a while.

I love this too much.

Reblog to get to look at a cool rock from the High Geologist

This is all part of The Tumblr Experience

the high geologist

advocating for ace people

IT IS HE THE HIGH GEOLOGIST APPEARING ON YOUR DASH YET AGAIN

average college residence hall

we can leave your friends behind

Because your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance... well they're no friends of mine

Spending this afternoon doing a timeline of the development of electric lighting, for novel research purposes, and I just have to say that it is absolute grade A bullshit that Thomas Edison gets any credit as 'the inventor of the electric light bulb', because no, absolutely the fuck not

Entering my Thomas Edison hate era

Thomas Edison: that's a nice patent for an incandescent light bulb you've got there, Mr Swan. It would be a shame if someone... stole it...

Thomas Edison was a grade A chode. The fact that he's still taught as good or the inventor of anything other than fuckery should've been clue no. 1 in a long list that American History is a bizarre fanfiction that makes 'loosely based on a true story' sound like the understatement of the millennia

btw the thing she couldn’t ignore was someone calling her out for saying anti-depressants/hormone therapy are only perscribed by lazy doctors

Update:

J.K. Rowling is apparently now filing a defamation lawsuit against someone who made fun of her for saying this, which means its time to spread this like wildfire!

sure would be a shame if- oops, that's the reblog button!

wow, my hands automatica.ly hit reblog! how did this happen?

oopsie daisy

oh noo my hand slipped

oh sorry, my hand fell asleep directly on top of the reblog button and i can't move it oh nooo

She just keeps getting worse and worse

The lies!!!!

*throws out all the bertolli*

IM SO PRESSED/SHOOK RN

this is a real scandal

Ain’t that a bitch

They selling fake olive oil.

they been selling fake olive oil from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/13/slippery-business   This is a cool article on how they do it now and what they tend to substitute it with.

I’ve been reading Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller, and wow, the things that get sold as ‘extra virgin’ olive oil are kind of scary, especially if you have any allergies. Or if you’re trying to use olive oil for health reasons – you’re likely paying a premium for something with none of the benefits you’re looking for.

Also, you could write at least 8 different genre novels about skullduggery in the olive oil trade, starting with a murder mystery and working your way out, because there’s just so much to unpack.

Well, that explains the rash of migraines/respiratory issues I had last month. I was cooking everything in whole foods oil and couldn’t figure it out. If it was cut with canola oil then there’s my answer. Son of a bitch.

(“Profits were comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the risks,” one investigator told me.)

YO FUCK THESE GUYS my mom is allergic to corn and some of them were cut with corn oil. We very aggressively research any oil we purchase now.

I tried to click on the original article and got sent to a weed site, but here’s a Forbes article from 2016

If you live in the U.S. the best way to get guaranteed, 100% evoo is from a grower in CA. There is a California olive oil growers association and they have a membership list. From there you can find the websites of individual growers. We have been doing this for about 10 years. We order a gallon in metal tins once a year (going to cost around $100 with shipping give or take) that works for our family of three as a finishing oil. We also buy the Kirkland oil that is not EV for frying and it works great and is actually from olives and not thinned with canola.

When you find a grower whose oil you like, you can get on their mailing list so you know when the new crop comes in (they sell out fast, usually).

If were going to make a trip to Italy or Greece, I know what I’d be bringing back in my suitcase…

I read that “Extra Virginity” book a few years ago, and it’s a real eye opener. I highly recommend it. Olive oil scandals, scams and frauds is one of the topics that inevitably sucks me in whenever I see an article on the topic so I am fairly knowledgeable, enough that I’m sligtly ashamed to report I’ve become a bit of an olive oil snob and will literally only use “grown and bottled in California” oil. (I live in CA, so this isn’t hard. Because I am also fond of convenience if I lived elsewhere I’d probably do whatever seemed easiest.) We used to be members of an olive oil club (like a wine club) where we did tastings of different varieties (you literally drink a mouthful of oil) and learned so much about how the olives are grown, harvested, and turned into oil.

The most important thing is that the oil be consumed within a year of pressing. It’s generally rancid by then, so good oils have their pressing date on the bottle. Another thing I have learned is that high-quality olive oil comes in a range of colors, from pale gold to rich green, but the general public has come to associate green with quality so color is often added to lower quality oil so it can be passed off as “extra virgin.”

The other important thing is, just because it has California on the label doesn’t mean it’s from California. This one brand, California Olive Ranch, was selling oil mostly from Chile and Spain (which means it could’ve been lower quality or adulterated because the mafia controls so much of that trade) with a deceptive label that made it seem like a CA product. But if you read the label carefully, it did specify the countries of origin. A law has now been passed that labels can’t be that deceptive, but still, you should read the labels of even oil sold as “California.”

My favorite oil is produced by Seka Hills Olive Mill in California’s Capay Valley. I haven’t found any I like better and trust me, I try fancy olive oil whenever I get the chance. It’s not cheap, but worth it IMO. Seka Hills is also owned by the Yocha De He Wintun Nation.

The aforementioned California Olive Ranch is widely available in supermarkets and has at least one line grown here that’s OK if you’re looking for something less expensive.

I should add that just because you can trace the oil to its source doesn’t guarantee it’s going to be good. We bought a bottle at the local farmer’s market from an olive grower located about a hundred miles from us, who has been producing olives and oil since the 1920s, without tasting it first and boy was that a mistake! Absolutely the worst oil I’ve ever had. Within a year of bottling but rancid anyway, with the overwhelming taste of those mushy, black pitted olives you get in cans (which is where the majority of California’s olive crop ends up). Maybe some people like that, but I don’t.

Guys, it's time to drop Google.

Google isn't the only search engine in the whole internet, there are others! And we need to diversify our search engine usage or we're gonna end up where we were a decade and change ago with the Internet Explorer issue. We can't let a single brand monopolize everything! This is why Google Search can afford to suck so hard: because people use it regardless! And there are alternatives.

A little bit about search engines, there are 3 types: crawlers, which work by scraping the web and developing their own indexes; metas, which get their results from the crawler-type search engines and therefore depend entirely upon them; and mixed, those which have their own (small) index but also pull results from the crawlers.

Right now, there are a couple of independant crawlers apart from Google, Bing (from Mycrosoft) and Yandex (the Russian one): this are Mojeek and Wiby.

Supporting independant crawlers is the easiest way to fight the shittyfication of the internet.

Mojeek.com is an independant british search engine with its own growing index commited to fighting internet censorship. It's small, and therefore it's usability isn't as good as that of the Big Three, but it doesn't censor, it's fairly respectful of people's privacy, and it doesn't drown you in adds. For those old enough to remember, it's a lot like early 2000s Google: you can find what you need, but if you write "dig shelter" instead of "dog shelter", that's what it's gonna search for. That said, please try to use it and support it as much as you can before we end up entirely dependant on Google, Bing and big corps adds. [click here to go to Mojeek]

Wiby.me is a new indie project that is literally dedicated to bringing back the old-school web. It's goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. So, for those of you who can't find any answers to technical questions beyond highschool level because Google buries them under a gazillion commercial sites and other meaningless shit, keep an eye on this project! It has a lot of potential. And, if you know of any personal websites that have great stuff but have been murdered by Google, you can go over to Wiby and submit it to their index. [click here to go to Wiby]

Aside from those, there are also meta search engines you can use to ween yourself off Google and search for random, day to day stuff.

Qwant.com is my go-to here—it has its own index and pulls from Bing, has relatively little censorship, and is fairly private. This is the one I use on my phone for everyday stuff. [click here to go to Qwant].

Historically, DuckDuckGo has always been a go-to for those who want a search engine that respects your privacy and doesn't censor. Personally, I've never been a fan, and there have been a LOT of scandals in recent years. It supposedly has its own index and pulls from Bing, much like Qwant, but I don't know. I just don't like it. Still, I've added it here for completeness' sake.

If you have Firefox Mobile browser, you can set any of these search engines as your default search engine and you can also add the others as secondary search engines and switch quicky from the navigation bar. If you don't have firefox mobile though, what are you doing with your life??? Go get it!! It is So. Much. Better. You can have add blockers and watch YouTube add free, for free! You can have reader mode and dark mode add-ons! You can have the world oh my goshhhh, drop Chrome!!

4get.ca is my last recommendation: it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn't have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it's the best for reaserch, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can. It's also very privacy conscious, so that's an other plus, and it has that late 90s / early 2000s vibe that I totally dig. [click here to go to 4get]

If you wanna learn more about the topic, you can over to the Search Engine Map [click here] which shows you a bunch of Search Engines and how they relate to each other. Or you can also go over to this one dude's personal website whose done A Lot of reaserch into the topic (way more than me) and seems to be pretty legit, if a little extra. [click here to go to digdeeper.neocities.org] Hope this infodump is useful to someone =D

PS: here's to hoping all the links work!

EDIT: eliminated the "read more". Figured there are enough mega long posts in tumblr, one more won't make no difference lol (tho the version w the read more has been reblogged already, in case you'd rather)

-St Augustine, on Alexander the Great

-This girl

They are both right

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

re-reblogging and thinking about when i have another collection agency calling that i can just do this

Yo this is such good info to have

Cheers Americans, have fun with this one

To reblog is to love

As a former humanities student, I feel it is my duty to reblog this one.

A tech bro tried to convince me AI was amazing cause "you could make 30,000 screenplays in minutes" not realising that every single one would be shit, you'd have to sift through everything just to find some good bits, time wasted that could've been spent just writing a screenplay.

Technology Brothers know nothing about what goes into creating a work, other than the fact a work has been created to be exploited for cash. They see creativity as an investment opportunity, not a love for humanity.

Matthew Dow Smith: "Just remember: Arts & Humanities are so useless and pointless that Tech Bros were driven to spend billions of dollars to try and get a computer to do something that badly approximates something Arts & Humanities students could do half asleep and wired on coffee the night before the due date."

...he is weaving the chocolate. Do you copy, this bitch is WEAVING CHOCOLATE

What's the trope name for when someone finds out they're the Chosen One(tm) and is like "No, thank you" and goes and does something else

Refusal Of The Call is the actual trope name.  Usually followed by the tropes of The Call Knows Where You Live and You Can’t Fight Fate.

The Call is Trying to Contact you about your Destiny's Extended Warranty.

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while pete buttigieg states the extremely obvious about how “bridges arent built to withstand container ships hitting them” and would like you to believe that these things just randomly tragically happen, the actual takeaway is that horrible accidents are more likely when companies ignore safety regulations and have little regard for their workers lives or labor laws and value profit more

i would also like to call attention to the construction workers who died in the bridge collapse. when companies ignore safety to maximize profit (and when infrastructure isnt updated and improved) it has real repercussions. all of the men were latin american immigrants, and many of them were sending money back to their families abroad. rip 🕊️❤️