Half the time I look shit up, I just get the same 4 corpo sources pushing whatever the CIA favors
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2026
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last time I looked at the NATOpedia page for the triple-tap strike on a Minab girls school it was just dripping with how it was "accidental". what a load of horseshit it hadn't been part of the base for more than 13 years
I find myself in the same mindset of "why can't you just look it up" until I realized it's a sort of conversation starter that let's you steer the conversation into the sort of discussion that can be productive for both parties. At minimum they learn something and you reinforce your knowledge on it by teaching it, to even using it to slide in some pro-communist stuff.
Also looking things up has become a skill unto itself in the era of the see-and-say bots taking over the old way of information searching.
Why is every search so painful now? I don't want trash nonanswers and ads with no solution.
If you ask me an interesting question like "when did Freddy Mercury die?" That can be a an invention for a conversation.
If we're going to a show and you keep asking me "how long is the drive? Do they have parking? Will there be food there? What are the bands again?" You're just being needy and want me to do the labor of pulling of the show info for you.
thats when you go boomer hick deadbeat-dad mode and give vague non/answers completely off the top of your head. " 'round 'bout 6 hours", "anywhere's a parking spot, y'know", "yeh, prolly", "the one with the funky beats".
the funny part is now the search engines are changing into machines that just make up LLM shit at you
Then they just spam the same question at you. They are obstinate in their laziness.
" now it's 'round 'bout 5 hours and 58-ish minutes. Reckon we're makin' good time"
Honestly with the first question my mind just kinda blanks but the second one gets at least few gears turning even though I don't even know point a and b.
my gut instinct response is "that's an interesting question, what do you think "
It's hard for me to imagine circumstances under which I'd enjoy being lead into a discussion about AIDS deaths.
it can be a learning experience starting out with a guesstimation of deaths caused by the disease, learning about the actual number of deaths both in the LGBT+ community and the wider world, then steer it into a historical discussion about how right-wing ideology of being hateful bigots turning a blind eye and gagging the truth lead to so many preventable deaths under the capitalist system, and how if even mitigation and symptom treatment research was started as early as the epidemic was discovered, Freddie might still be here today, among so many other folks that could've shined brightly as him.
other folks that could've shined brightly as him
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lmao my wife got a rep for knowing a lot of stuff, being reliable and being able to look stuff up (very true and earned) but our friend who is pregnant keeps calling for her medical advice and she's constantly like "call your midwife, I dont know, I wouldn't know, your midwife does" because she is not about to give advice relating to blood pressure medicine to a pregnant woman!!! And it's not even like she has to look it up, she just has to call the medical professional who she already met and who gets paid for this 
Do your own research? Buddy I don't even do my first search.
Do you think there's an illiteracy component there because when i had to do amazon returns for people and old fuckers would bring me stuff marked for UPS or USPS all day and I'd try to walk them through it a good 90% of people (all ages not just the olds) would just seem to stare at the screen, not registering the words on it, even with me pointing and describing what Im pointing at (i.e. you press your orders, here, to see what you've bought, before selecting the item, before pressing return here etc) and i'd frequently be left wondering how they ever managed to buy the thing to begin with
It's 100% illiteracy. I think if they could actually read, they would act a lot more irate and argue with you about how the return policy sucks instead of just staring in silence.
Haha it's a post about me
WHY WONT YOU LOOK SHIT UP YOURSELF?!?!?
WHY MUST I ALWAYS DO IT FOR YOU?!?!?
ITS SO FUCKING EASY WHAT IS YOURE PROBLEM!!!
Lazy
At least when someone does post the result all the lazy people befit together.
I don't want to know what the Google AI says about it. I want to know what you have to say about it because we are friends
You want to know what I have to say about when the liquor store closes?
I would unironically be intrested in whatever opinions you have on the subject that are strong enough to have you being this one up
My opinion on the subject is that Google Maps is right on your phone asshole!
Well? Don't leave us hanging!
Ugh, 9pm, 7 on Sundays
My brother, all the search engines are enthified to make way for ai slop.
They still work good enough for shit like figuring out when the nearby pharmacy closes.
Barely
protip for that shit in particular: click on the place on google maps
"What is Google Maps?"
"Have you ever been outside of your house?"
"Only with my mommy."
I can imagine plenty of situations where this is irritating but I also love explaining things and will usually just include "I looked it up and found this".
It's like enrichment for me. Like a tiger to a meat-pumpkin I can't resist validating myself.
For me it happens at work a lot when I'm already busy and my coworkers who have been here longer than me are like "um do we carry these?"
"Did you try looking it up?"
"The computer scares me!"
you didn't say we were at work! I'm not doing that shit at work I'm asking "how many types of birds are there around here?"
at least three 
Okay that actually blows you're extra valid for that.
this is my older sibling. i got texted some bananapants ass question some years ago, like i think it was something like what the biggest city was in some state i didn't even live in or near. out of the blue, hadn't communicated in days. they had been doing this to me for years so i used a url shortener send them to the "let me google that for you" site with the exact question and they legit screamed all caps and obscenities with abusive language at me.
some people are just assholes and think everyone else is honored to be their unpaid personal assistant and on-call, 24-7.
Buncha you saying it's illiteracy, but I run into plenty of people who refuse to look anything up on discord, where they're gonna get answers in text anyway.
A lot of these "people are illiterate" takes, I often find my coworkers pulling illiterate shit in the breakroom reading trash novels. Customers suddenly become literate when there's something in the fine print that means I need to give them their money back for a thing they broke.
These people's literacy level is situational. They don't want to read when it's boring, but when it's fun or it means they get a goodie suddenly they can decipher advanced philosophical texts.
I just ask questions in a stream of consciousness and send my partner down different rabbit holes which we then converse about.
Librarians reading this like 
IME:
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A lot of them are just illiterate/borderline illiterate. Telling them to read an article or literally anything is like telling someone who can't even do a single pushup to do pullups. They lash out because they know they can't understand what they are reading.
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The rest of them are just using the question as an excuse to talk to you. They don't actually care about the answer you give. The real answer they want you to give is "I don't know. Let's find out together." because then the conversation can continue with the added bonus that you don't think they're illiterate like 1.
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