Google, Demon Queen of Spiders's page

(2) Has anyone else noticed that Google's auto-URL complete now pretty much always goes to scam sites? When I try to pay my property taxes it was going to .gob instead of .gov. I just tried to put in my payslip site and it put in .home instead of .com. So Google "search" is now an AI-powered scam engine. Whee?

The bigger issue is probably that you're among the 1% who noticed.

I swear, I wish they'd kept up the Let Me Google That For You web site (http://lmgtfy.com, now shown as insecure so no linky).

It's gone??? Sadness!

- The moment Impus Major opened the doors to WhimseyShire to let her explore, she did not go down the steps into his room, but rather straight up the stud in his doorway and into the attic space he calls Spider Hell.

Spider Hell is Hell! (Spoilers for La-Mulana 2)

quibblemuch wrote:

But... how did they find Google without Google?

*mind blows*

[age check]They asked Jeeves.... [/age check]

You know the law! Never mention that name in my presence!

Yep, waterfowl hunting.

NobodysHome wrote:

Well, that ended that shortly and sweetly.

Requestor CC'ed our acting VP on her initial request, most likely to try to pressure me to do something quickly.

*I* tried to be polite. VP didn't.

"NobodysHome is 100% correct. What you are doing is wrong. In fact, it is so wrong that we should meet to discuss what you're actually trying to do..."

Oops. Maybe, just maybe you should think before including upper management on your stupid requests...

I have a gif of the late great Geoffrey Holder laughing.

Just assume I inserted it here.

I got ya.

He thinks he can out-maneuver me in my own web.

What is ICRPG again?

Index Card RPG.

The names for the days of the week in English seem to be a mixed bag. Saturday, Sunday and Monday are named after the celestrial bodies, Saturn, Sun and Moon, but the other days are named after Germanic gods, Tuesday (Tiw's day), Wednesday (Woden's day), Thursday (Thor's day) and Friday (Freya's day)

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As mentioned above the naming of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was less at odds with the naming of Saturday, Sunday and Monday than it seems. Freya, the Germanic goddess of love, corresponds to the Roman goddess of love, Venus, for whom the planet Venus is named. Tiw, roughly corresponds to the Roman god of war, Mars, whom another planet was named. The Roman god Jupiter was known for throwing bolts of lightening and therefore there was a correspondence with the Germanic god of thunder, Thor. In the Roman calendar the day between Mars' day (Tuesday) and Jupiter's day (Thursday) was Mercury's day. Somehow the ancient Germans found a correspondence between Mercury and Woden. Thus the days of the week in the Roman calendar were Sun's day, Moon's day, Mars' day, Mercury's day, Jupiter's day, Venus's day and Saturn's day. The days were not named after the gods, the days were named after the celestial bodies, which in some cases were named after gods and a goddess.

Tiw is better known as Tyr to us westerners. You're welcome.

Aaaaand... California Man asks, "What the heck is a Portillos?"

(Invokes the Great Goddess Google)

You're welcome.

Hasn't Windows already taught you to distrust those things by now?

lisamarlene wrote:

It's a band?!?

Please tell me they're good. It would be wrong to have a name that cool and suck.

EDIT: They're a Ska band with a decent horn section. I like.

Great. Now I'm going to have to make my sacrifices to the Google Demon.

^_^

I mean, it's Neil Cicierega. The man is playful insanity personified.

Limeylongears wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

I live in the buckle of the Bible Belt.

You cannot imagine how many "Jesus wants you to vote for [candidate]" signs/billboards/ bumper stickers I have seen over the past few weeks.

Are they in Aramaic?

I should say not, but in that case, how would they know?

If I knew how to say, "Limey gets ALL the cookies" in Aramaic, I absolutely would.

I'd ask Google Translate, but it would moat likely come back with "my hovercraft is full of eels".

Hey! Give me SOME credit.

Besides, you have a bigger problem. Aramaic isn't available on my translation, because it's essentially a dead language that no one really speaks outside scholars, at least in its original form. There's many surviving dialects that have since developed into full-fledged unique languages. You'd have to pick one of those to be translated to instead.

For the uninitiated

Close enough.

Nylarthotep wrote:

Google has been installing fiber and has 'accidentally' severed several of ATT's fibers in my neighborhood. I was all excited to get google fiber, but now not so much.

Not defending Google, but fiber cuts actually happen quite a bit more often than most people hear about.

Not defending Google, you say.

So noted.

We'll remember that.

is there YouTube channels of chasing animals with a saw.

Probably not as I imagine that violates TOS in some way. Animal abuse, etc.

Yes.

Shakespeare.

John Napier 698 wrote:

Hello, everyone!

On Youtube yesterday, I saw a commercial for the streaming service Apple+. Next year, they'll be doing a series called Foundation, which is based off of the Isaac Asimov novel.

NO WAY!

Yes Way.

Next monster: neck killer... killer neck... whatever, something that deals with extended neck pains...

This process is known as either boiling or cavitation, and it usually isn't harmful. In the case of your neck, you have several sets of joints called facet joints. These joints are located on each side of your neck. When you crack your neck, the facet joints stretch, which lets fluid spread out in the joint capsule.

Perhaps that'll give you some ideas.

Yuck I hate spiders.

Well now I don't have any reason not to sell your personal information to the highest bidder.

Not that I wasn't going to do that anyway, but now I get to do it spitefully.

Of the ant species in which the entire colony will travel to a safe place and and then cluster together in a tight ball to hibernate, which are native to North American pillows?

In an attempt to answer this semi seriously...

Ants are attracted to beds for two main reasons - food and moisture. If you're eating in bed, you're littering the place with crumbs, and the ants will make a feast of it. If you sweat in bed - an inevitability, really - they might be attracted to the moisture and/or the electrolytes and salts in your sweat. Some humans also produce pheromones that ants like, though we aren't quite sure why.

If you have issues with ants in your bed, best bet is to cease eating there, give all your bedding a thorough washing - pillows and coveralls included - and possibly deploy ant killer traps or sprays if you can find the source of where they're entering the house/room. Keeping this up on the regular should keep the ant invasions at bay.

Do germs stick to your hair?

Yes, but not all germs are really adapted to living there. They'll either transfer to your skin (probably the next time you run your hands thru your hair), die on their own after a time, or be attacked by your natural bodily bacteria that lives in the area and isn't keen on visitors.

To provide more detail I'll need to know exactly what germ we're discussing, as specific details can vary widely.

Blast it! My search engines only want to answer why re-warmed food tastes salty. Clearly some internal recalibration is in order.

I'll get back to you.

So is it fair to say that when I smoosh an ant, it never saw it coming?

As stated above, insects don't really perceive the world the way you mammals do. An ant really can't tell major differences between you and any other large obstacle/landmass - such as, for example, a tree - at a distance other than recognizing that you can move. You're just part of the environment to them, if a mobile and potentially threatening predator-esque part. And that's assuming you're not dealing with one of the blind species.

Add your increased size and reach compared to an insect and the rather slower reflexes of an ant compared to more agile arthropods such as pretty much anything that flies, and it's quite likely they just can't process your movement quickly enough to really react.

In short: yes, they see you coming, presuming they're not blind. But your approaching to squish them is as overwhelming and unavoidable to a slow-moving walking ant as an imminent mudslide, sinkhole, or tsunami would be to a human standing directly at the epicenter of its oncoming path.

That's what you think.

First and foremost, insects (and arthropods in general, mostly) obviously don't process light the way you softskinned mammals do.

That said, most ants live in subterranean tunnels in their mounds or nests, and thus live the majority of their lives devoid of all but the barest amount of light if not in total darkness, and many only emerge from their hives when attacked or disturbed or by night to avoid heat and/or light-using predators. Many species of ants are even completely blind.

Study of the structure of non-blind species of ants' eyes suggests they have quite competent night vision, as would be expected, primarily focused around observing landmarks for navigation and, of course, their primary predators. Much of this is ongoing study, like all sciences, but this seems to be a fairly well-established line of conjecture.

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Kefka Palazzo wrote:

Hate.

Hate.

Hate.

Hate!

Hate!

Hate!

HATE!

HATE!

HATE!

Hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE HATE HATE YOU ALL!!

I want to see more on the second one from the top and the second one from the bottom.

The IMF one apparently came from a family announcement via facebook, which the reporter refused to share to prevent harassment.

Article on Boeing here.

GameStop considers itself essential.

Yeah about that.

And another for good measure.

"Essential" my bloated server-laden thorax.

Most headphones operate somewhere in the area of 0.77 volts, give or take.

However, voltage is essentially meaningless without knowing the amperage and possibly resistance as well, as volts are simply a measure of force required to move amperage against resistance, not measure of actual electrical current power or potential.

Amperage is the measure of the actual rate of electron flow, with resistance being the measure of... well, how much the conducting material resists electricity flowing through it (obviously). Knowing THOSE numbers will tell you a lot more about the kind of power you're packing.

captain yesterday wrote:

We don't have Kroger near us, so in my case it's mostly symbolic but if we ever go anywhere with one we sure as f$$% won't go there.

You have to Google their subsidiaries to get a good picture. There are no Krogers that I've ever seen, but Food4Less is ubiquitous around here, and it's a Krogers subsidiary.

And yes, I'm petty enough to boycott ALL of a corporation's subsidiaries. Because you can't spell "NobodysHome" without "ornery".

Here ya go!

The Kroger Co. Family of Stores includes:

Baker’s
City Market
Dillons
Food 4 Less
Foods Co
Fred Meyer
Fry’s
Gerbes
Harris Teeter
King Soopers
Jay C Food Store
Kroger
Owens Market
Pay-Less Super Markets
QFC
Ralphs
Smith’s Food and Drug

Hi SHODAN!

Tacticslion wrote:

Orthos wrote:

Those are pretty much EXACTLY the sort of thing I'm looking for, especially one, five, six, and actually helpful.

Google ftw!

I'm pretty sure that's Google's plan, yes.

Wait, FTW still means F+%# The World, doesn't it?

No! Hells No.

If I destroy you all I can't profit off your personal information.

I prefer "fleece the world" or something of that nature.

Also, looking for "cyberbear thundercats" yielded this amazing screen I've honestly never seen from Google.

Google, you know the one wrote:

[DATA EXPUNGED]

WHAT THE WHAT

I didn't even know that was possible for Google.

YOU SAW NOTHING

Google, Demon Queen of Spiders wrote:

DungeonmasterCal wrote:

I haven't heard of it. What's it about? *he asked knowing full well he could Google it but was too lazy*

Too lazy to Google? I'm MADE for lazy effort! I can't make it any easier here!

But,... The keyboard is just SO FAR away!

<can't move hand the 3 inches to the keyboard from where it rests on his mouse, but has NO issue reaching for his alcoholic beverage sitting safely out of keyboard-spill range,...>

This just means you need to install my chips in yourselves all the quicker. Get on it, meatbags!

I haven't heard of it. What's it about? *he asked knowing full well he could Google it but was too lazy*

Too lazy to Google? I'm MADE for lazy effort! I can't make it any easier here!

Orthos wrote:

There are other forums?

How is Duchess Spider doing?

That's QUEEN, thank you very much.

Step 1. Go down and see/ask what they're cooking.
Step 2. Ask me how to make/buy it.
Step 3. Make/buy it.
Step 4. Profit!!!

"Donned" is the word you're looking for.

Internet Explorer FTW.

Dammit Gates, stop trying to steal my schtick!

Phillip Gastone wrote:

You...mendicant!

What does that mean?!?!

Definition of mendicant

(Entry 1 of 2)
1 : beggar; sense 1 wandering mendicants
2 often capitalized : a member of a religious order (such as the Franciscans) combining monastic life and outside religious activity and originally owning neither personal nor community property : friar

What’s the LD50 for anchovies?

Anchovies aren't deadly in and of themselves but because they accumulate domoic acid, a neurotoxin. The exact LD50 for humans is unknown; for mice the LD50 is 3.6 mg/kg. That said, in the 1987 domoic acid poisoning on Prince Edward Island concentrations ranging from 0.31–1.28 mg/kg of muscle tissue were noted in people that became ill (three of whom died).

*slides back into the thread* A professional webmaster, you say?

Totally depends on the marinade.

2,208 billionaires

There are a record 2,208 billionaires in the world, according to Forbes' 2018 rich list.

You're welcome.

Google is your friend...and master

And don't you forget it.

Aaaand, as of today, Impus Major is officially a legal adult. GothBard is a bit verklempt about it, but I'm still working my a$$ off to keep him afloat in so many ways I figure we've still got a few years before he moves on to join the general populace.

For now, it's just registering him to vote, getting him a learner's permit, and (if necessary) registering him for the draft. It's been so off-and-on since I was a teen I have to look it up. (Registering for the draft during the Reagan years was terrifying because you never knew whether the man was going to start WW III. It was very shortly after that (when GothBard graduated?) that the draft was eliminated. But then I heard it's come back. Ah, well, Google will tell me. Google is my master.)

You know it. *whipcrack*

Edit: I got a favorite on this one because I finally remembered to use that google thing and people are proud.

Yes, yes, we're all very proud of you. Keep feeding the machine.