Advanced-Procrastination

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As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

I’m not entirely sure what’s going on, but more and more people coming to me saying they can’t find info about [noun], when googling it yields its Wikipedia entry on the first page.

I’ve said it before, but I’ll gladly say it again: You can trust Wikipedia for general information. The reason why it’s unreliable for academic citations is because it’s a living, changing document. It’s also written by anonymous authors, and author reputation is critical for research paper integrity.

But for learning the basics of what something is? Wikipedia is your friend. I love Wikipedia. I use it all the time for literally anything and everything, and it’s a huge reason why I know so much about things and stuff.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

Medical diagnoses - this is nobody's business but yours. You don't owe anyone an explanation for why you are the way that you are

Trauma - same reason as above

Triggers - people can use these against you! Don't give people tools to hurt you. No one has to know what tags you block. Just block tags to stay safe!

Age - age is okay for adults to include but is iffy when you're a teen. Predators want this information, don't give people more than they need. Just state that you're a minor, that's all that anyone needs to know.

In general: stay safe. If you're not comfortable with every stranger out there having access to this information, you shouldn't post it on the internet.

The golden rule of information sharing on the internet is: What would happen if someone saw this who wanted to hurt me?

I graduated high school with no more acknowledgement than the standard "congrats on surviving another year of school!" And immediately followed by "have you finished all your scholarship applications?" That was fine for me. I knew i wanted to go to college, I was set and ready for it, eager to get out of high school into more challenging courses.

But if I just finished high school after two years of fighting through online courses and no one acknowledged the battles I went through? If I was as burnt out and traumatized as these kids are right now? I'd have never have gone to college.

When I said “congratulations” he lit the fuck UP.

Make sure you say it to every grad you see. Gen Z is working so much fucking harder than we ever had to for that piece of paper.

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REMINDER FOR MYSELF FOR THIS SEMESTER:

FEEL LIKE AN IDIOT. FEEL HELPLESS. DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR CONFUSION.

ASK QUESTIONS.

DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE ANNOYING YOUR PROFESSOR. ASK QUESTIONS. BE A PAIN.

Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.

Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.

here's the link:

And there is grounds for impeachment for several of them. Lying to the Senate during your confirmation hearing is Federal Perjury. They have comitted public crimes.

Call your congresspeople. Let them know you want these criminals removed from their authority. They are not untouchable.

Contacting Congress

Contact Congress U.S. House of Representatives: * Telephone:  202-225-3121 * Website:  http://www.house.gov/  U.S. Senate: * Telephone:  202

You need to bring up specifics. Ask your congress people for specific actions.

So we need to:

Impeach Justice Thomas for the many times he failed to recuse himself (including this one) when he had financial motivation to vote in a specific manner AND for his wife’s role in January 6 and his leveraging of his position for her benefit. 

Impeach Justice Kavannaugh for his misleading words to the Senate during his confirmation hearings regarding his stance on Roe v Wade.

Impeach Justice Gorsugh for his misleading words to the Senate during his confirmation hearings regarding his stance on Roe v Wade.

Focus on Thomas because he has the most evidence and most compelling case. 

Example script:

I am __ and I am a constituent of ___. I am calling concerning what I believe to be gross misconduct and “Bad Behavior” from (a) member(s) of the Supreme Court. It has come to my attention that Justice Thomas received financial incentive that may have informed his vote in the recent case that overturned Roe v. Wade and others. I think his conduct requires congressional review an I think it is right for ___ call for his impeachment. Furthermore, I have heard various Senators express they were mislead and lied to by Justices Kavannaugh and Gorsuch during their confirmation hearings. I believe this to be “Bad Behavior” worthy of impeachment and congressional review as well. Thank you.

“Bad behavior” is important because it is the language used in the Constitution.