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Don't reply "just Google it"
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this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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I too value the advice of people sharing their experience on reddit, but I also see way too many highly upvoted posts crediting Nikola Tesla with inventing everything but fire. Top google results are increasingly useless junk, but so are top social media results. Having grown up with physical encyclopedias I wouldn't say information is "hard" to find.
Physical encyclopedias are just time capsules of knowledge, sometimes irrelevant. And pricy too. Having them and then saying information is easy to find is entitlement.
I see what you're saying. Top up voted corporate social media posts and AI finding top results for search engines and query requests is exactly why people need to ask other people wtf is going on with anything. It's confusing enough to try to parse through irrelevant information, maybe asking someone will narrow down what you need to know.
Encyclopedias are republished regularly and are free to use at the library, so really... time capsules and entitlement, srsly? Whatevs.