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They sell ads and they work with MS (Bing). But they're EU (French) and I hope more respectful of our privacy because of GDPR.

It's my fallback engine but my main search engine is Kagi, even though it's US and paid-for (no-free tier, beside free trial).

I know saying good things about a paid product is frowned upon around here but I certainly won't lie, or change what I think in order to please some random self-proclaimed vigilante. Imho, Kagi works very well and, as long as you can afford it, is worth every single cent.

It's ad-free, tracking and seo-crap free too. Comes with some nifty features (to further filter and control the type of results you see, for example). I also love their 'small web' search that focuses, well, on small websites by default. That's so cool. Plus, it gives excellent results that must be among the most useful I've ever gotten... like in the 90s and 00s when Google used to be disruptive and useful to its users, not to advertisers ;)

none.

I think all of this is a huge problem in the world today.

Always have been a problem. It was just a lot less consumerist-focused in the past.

I just read a text from Pascal that he wrote somewhere in the year 1656 and in which he was discussing how a bunch of people from the Sorbonne university (they were not your average angry lynching mob, they were scholars) were asking for another one to be severely punished for something he had said in favor of some text they deemed heretic (which was no joke, back then). Pascal then explains they refused to change their mind when they were faced first with the fact that all the guy said was that he could not find any occurence of that heresy in said text (they even refused to read the text to see by themselves when he proposed to do so); and then when they were told that this dude they wanted so badly to punishe (for something he did not say) was indeed agreeing with them on the condemnation of that heresy only refusing to blame it on that specific author since he never wrote that. Their reply? He still deserved to be punished because of his attitude. I have grossly over-simplified the thing but that is indeed the core idea: they did not like the dude and his tone and wanted to make him pay for that, they openly said fuck it to any fact demonstrating them wrong. And those people were scholars.

This happened some 370 years ago but it could be happening at this very moment in (too) many universities—one would just need to replace 'heresy' with any of the 'sensitive' topics we consider so much more important nowadays.

And I have little doubt it will keep on happening under a variety of guises. Probably even much more frequently, seeing the world-wide rise of proud idiocracies, and their proud idiot leaders, and the rise of all those communitarisms that that thrive on hating on one another, almost everywhere.

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Every single second. Or never. It depends what 'Internet' you look at, and how.

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I’m just wondering if it would actually stop people acting this way though.

Not all of them, there a few different types of bullies but I would say the majority of them are just weak people that like to focus their frustration on other persons they don't think could get them into trouble (either by replying or by being able to make them pay in any way). And by dressing differently you're sending a message they can read as an opportunity to bully you with little risk.

But then it depends who they are, other bullies won't change at all because you change your look.

I don’t know wtf is happening I’m so sick of it cause it happens way too often I just want to go outside without being treated like garbage for 2 seconds

Not knowing you nor what's happening exactly, I can at least say I feel for you and understand your frustration. Those kind of things should not be happening in a functional society.

What may help is try spending your time in other places. I live in Paris, it's really far from being the worst city in the world and if most Parisians are indeed constantly angry people, they rarely bite. Still there are some sectors I will try not to spend too much time in, some where I would not put out any cash, and so on. I know it can be a pain but changing habits can help.

Reading the title, I wondered for an instant in what way body temperature was related to being bullied or not.

I imagine being 'hot' can help not being annoyed by bullies (they could be somehow intimidated)... but then being 'hot' one would probably be annoyed by admirers or wannabe friends or just plain wankers. Would that really be better? I'm not sure.

I'm not hot and I'm old-ish, and I also don't give a crap about bullies—I never hesitate to more or less nicely tell a bully to go fuck themselves when I have to—so I may not be the best informed ;)

I unplug as often as I'm able to. So, it's not like I need a dedicated day, but if it helps people learn to disconnect, why not but isn't it a bit too late to announce it?

A singer is a singer. Some singers are writers, musicians, and even producers too. They're all singers as long as they sing—I think it's worse precising that since more and more singers are now... digitally enhanced and unable to, well, sing, without that digital assistance.

That's how I see it ;)