Does anyone know what is up with the giant pile of shit when you try to look up anything related to cern. Its like I’m looking up “area 51” or something.

    • NaN@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 years ago

      That would be too boring and the algorithm doesn’t like that.

      It is crazy how much of this YouTube will feed you. Even if you look at tour videos you get into this conspiracy stuff on the first page. I assume there’s just a ton of this low effort garbage versus legitimate information.

  • Thrashy@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    3 years ago

    I mean, who’s to say that the plot of STEINS;GATE isn’t real and SERN CERN isn’t about to unravel the fabric of reality with time travel paradoxes?

    • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      We’re just in a world line with different spelling. Obviously.

    • can@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      Everyone always complains about its algorithms but I guess I’m just lucky mine is trained enough to never show me this stuff.

  • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    Some things have become impossible to search for because of this. Like, i was curious if there might have been fossils found in pre-technological eras and if maybe they were related to the presumption of some mythological creature, but the moment I start trying to search anything about it every single link is some creationist insisting that humans and dinosaurs lived together a few centuries ago or something.

    The Internet has become a bit polluted.

    • Umbrias@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears Stephen T. Asma

      This book covers this. The answer is yes. Elephant skulls likely informed the Cyclops myth. Griffins were likely from bones found in mountains in Arabia or something, it’s been a second since I read it.