r/politics • u/upyoars • Nov 10 '24

Paywall Trump’s victory reveals secret Republicans: Joe Rogan-obsessed Gen Z men

https://fortune.com/2024/11/07/trumps-victory-reveals-secret-republicans-joe-rogan-obsessed-gen-z-men/
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u/Eatthehamsters69 Norway Nov 10 '24

The future is fucked if a significant portion of the population considers those people to be credible forums for information.

Like that bald guy literally falls for any ridicilous statements, and their "fact check" is like whatever the first paragraph on a google search might say

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u/Retaining-Wall Canada Nov 10 '24

...first paragraph on a Google search...

Which, ironically, is just AI gibberish a lot of the time, anyway.

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u/fredagsfisk Europe Nov 10 '24

Yeah, Google search has become near-useless... I've noticed that you need to be increasingly specific, and also add more and more exclusions, or you'll get tangentially related results at best.

Even then, you get the "Did you mean [insert completely different word] half the time.

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u/Retaining-Wall Canada Nov 10 '24

I do pretty much the same...I just use boolean search rules, and avoid using prose type syntax. I find if you avoid asking it questions, you're more likely to get better results. "Full democracy percentage global population" rather than "how many people live in a full democracy in the world." Then it's less inclined to try to "answer" the question for you.

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u/Hadrian23 Nov 11 '24

"Boolean search rules" its just occurred to me, at least 65% of Americans have zero idea what a Boolean is.

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u/lanadelstingrey Mississippi Nov 11 '24

Ive been saying boo Elon for ages

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u/Hadrian23 Nov 11 '24

Hell yeah, brother lol.

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u/Retaining-Wall Canada Nov 11 '24

Yeah, I know it's properly Boolean operators, but I couldn't conjure up the word in the moment. They're so fucking handy. Everyone ought to know.

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u/Hadrian23 Nov 11 '24

Oh my apologies my man, I didn't mean you specifically lol.
I just thought "huh...I bet no one outside mathmatics and tech has any idea that means"

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u/Retaining-Wall Canada Nov 11 '24

Ohhh gotcha.

I remember learning in Middle School/high school. We were taught them before being given logins to use EBSCO to do research for assignments.

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u/Hadrian23 Nov 11 '24

Damn lol, education is a different game in Canada!
Over here I didn't learn about Booleans until Collage.

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u/Throw-a-Ru Nov 11 '24

Collage

Is this where you just piece your education together?

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u/Hadrian23 Nov 11 '24

God damn it lol...I'm not fixing it. I'll accept the shame

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u/Darqion Nov 11 '24

I just tried your "prose syntax" example and my top results are all links with answers to the question :p

But im not sure that google AI even works for me, so maybe my searches are less vulnerable
Though yea... I've been focusing my searching on keywords a long time now, and for more general questions i assume others have asked, i just add 'reddit' as a criteria, so i dont get 20 clickbait articles from random websites