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Skip Google for Research

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.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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Low poly game,but depth of field is indicated by dirthering.

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Fruit snacks should only have the orange flavor. We need to stop pretending the other ones matter.

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Art derives its meaning from the fact that a human being made it, and That includes disabled people. I don't want to see human creativity swallowed by a vast sea of demonic sludge.

i dont think its necessarily ableist to hate AI art, but if you then qualify that by arguing that art derives its meaning from the effort and skill that went into it then you're being kinda ableist

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This is some duggy jones shit.

sliding hill 2 (cheatengine)

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Even in my state of destitution, I'm tempted to go to a book store to buy another fairy tale collection.

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If I was eaten with a girl and she did this I'd ask her to marry me.

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in honor of the ask below - felvidek doodle

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Things are going to get worse before they get better. But I think we can survive. In the meantime hold on to your humanity and be kind, even when it's hard.

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I think there's a tendency for people to think that art should be in one certain way. That it should reflect one set of principles or that it should follow certain standards. And I can understand how people come to the conclusion that art should always be uplifting, in these dark times should we have art that drags us down? Of course this mindset is obviously small minded and doesn't acknowledge the multifaceted nature of the world and art. A big problem I have is that dark, pessimistic and even cruel art can be cathartic and even healing. Joyous and uplifting is great but it doesn't always make me feel seen and it doesn't always understand me. In the end art can serve many different purposes and to try to limit what those purposes are is not only damaging to art but to ourselves.

a while ago i saw a tumblr post that confidently claimed that making your audience feel bad is something any artist can do. it was a big spiel against movies that end with absolute hopelessness because world is a fuck & no moment of sentimentality goes unpunished, they saw it as a hack's way out of making something meaningful.

i dislike this mode of thought, i think it speaks to a tendency for artists to take for granted their own ability to provoke. you don't recognize what it takes to make something that is not only unpleasant, but hollowing, revolting. i know, because it doesn't come naturally to me at all. trying to write my own fiction has been a long and uncomfortable process of slowly training myself to not treat my characters so preciously, to allow them to be wrong and do bad things, to have the story end badly sometimes, to make the reader uncomfortable. A lot of people seem to find my music meaningful in how warm and joyous it is, but that's the default for me. Positivity comes easy, beauty comes easy. I have to exert myself to provoke negative emotions, to express ugliness, and seeing wholesome bean tumblr users take that for granted is genuinely insulting. thanks.

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Still a banger.

Immaculate Conception

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If god was real working out would make boobs bigger.

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Hi, Vanna here. I have submitted to the strange authority of Xenforo's image hosting system, which demands that if I want gallery items to appear in proper order, I will have to upload them back to front.

As such, welcome to the last few page's of Animedia Magazine's September 1997 supplemental Duelist Bible, translated by Nagumo and edited by me!

Anyway

THIS IS NOT A DRILL, VINTAGE OFFICIAL PATTERNS FOR YOUR VERY OWN DIY CHU-CHU

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but why chess?

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I just remembered my friend telling that his boomer dad will watch Ben shapire/tucker carloson videos on his phone out loud in public, and that it would often attract other boomers who would just watch the videos with him.

Just the image of this guy's dad watching conservative cancer, while other boomer just stand behind him with slack jawed looks on their faces is so fucking funny to me.

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It feels like such an unpopular opinion these days but I'd much rather a story take a big swing and miss than just be a tepid, lightly-tread path. I'd much rather writers take big risks, play with expectations, subvert tropes and ultimately maybe fail a little bit than have this constant stream of content that can be summed up in trite soundbites or carved up into 30 second clips.

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Neoliberals are going to Hell