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1. Do not do age verification.

Oh no I dropped my link, what a horrible thing! Sure hope this doesn't get reblogged until it reaches users from the UK and Brazil!

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

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.

And then, there in the dark, pitch-midnight-summer-black at 7pm, up pops this lovely crescent moon and it is

fucking SIDEWAYS

i had NEVER EVER EVER realized, despite knowing my whole life that the moon is a spherical object rotating around Earth, also a spherical object, that it would be at different angles from different spots on Earth.

It's the MOON! How can it be DIFFERENT! My poor patient partner drew me a diagram and I was like listen I know all of that but I cannot actually handle it. Nobody warned me the moon looks different.

Fire, water, earth, and air, but for the Emmengard's origin terms?

Unknown is air

Adaptive is water

Created is earth

Spontaneous is fire

This is not for anything, I just think it would be fun

Adaptive.

Created.

Spontaneous.

Unknown.

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Spontaneous Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four Origins, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished.

Air is undoubtedly there, even if it is unseen. Just like the origins of an unknown headmate, because if one is, they will likely have a beginning

Adaptive is water because it flows with its environment, and volatile. Sometimes you need to be those things in order to move on despite adversities

Created is earth because of the solidity of creation. I can't explain this one well

Fire, water, earth, and air, but for the Emmengard's origin terms?

Unknown is air

Adaptive is water

Created is earth

Spontaneous is fire

This is not for anything, I just think it would be fun

Adaptive.

Created.

Spontaneous.

Unknown.

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Spontaneous Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four Origins, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished.

Remember this? That was like 20 years ago...

OMG WHAT IS MY FAVORITE FOOD???

The entire system when asked to pick something

I love spice, Indian food is top 3, it's going to ruin my physio because it's next door to my favorite shop and I don't know that physio followed by a delicious thali tray are all that compatible longterm, the lovely ladies at the counter know me too well these days

Followed by fish, because my family comes from a small island next to a smaller island where fishing and mining is the only thing we know

And hockey

But on that note, may I introduce the humble touton

I'm pretty sure there's a couple similar type breads, if your family has it by another name, tell me about it!!

A staple from my childhood that can be eaten sweet or savory, for or with any meal, but usually in the AM

Make a bread dough, it's got to have lard in it, let it rise, tear off a piece, flatten and stretch it, and throw it in the fryer

Preferably deep fry in lard, with your gross lard pan that every newfie family keeps

Usually served with either syrup in the morning, molasses with lunch, or dipped in brown gravy with dinner

Dipping it in ketchup is considered a sin but we all do it

I thought this was cute, from Wikipedia

They were sometimes a treat for children, who were fed them so they wouldn’t gobble up all the fresh-baked bread. There was no exact recipe for touton/bread dough in outport communities; each maker generally relied on recipes and techniques passed down orally or through observation.

Which made me think of this adorable story of learning the bread dough recipe (it really is like that)

I hope you enjoyed some SAS lore ❤️

We also like sautéed potatoes, which are potatoes fried on butter

and caldo verde (without the meat), which is a soup comprised of couve and either potato or fubá (and people also add linguiça for flavor, but I dont like the texture of linguiça on soup)

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch