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I must take absolute control to tell you to relax and drink plenty of water.

The biological research will certainly be interesting. I wonder about the social aspects of these animals. Dogs are intensely social creatures. Are these direwolves going to behave like the originals? Without being raised by the originals, almost certainly not.

I mean, if you want my radical answer, it's that people would write food blogs because they like giving out recipes in a mutual aid society. They don't care about SEO, because it's just a bother. Traffic will come to them organically or it won't.

SEO as we know it is a hugely marketing driven thing. The recipe blog does it because they want to bring eyeballs from Google search results, which gives them advertising revenue. Google optimizes their rules for SEO to likewise bring in Google AdSense money.

Search engines would exist, but the incentives are all different.

Maybe. Keeps me sane.

I'll say that Trump is providing an opportunity if we can grab it. There was a big liberal world order where it was hard to replace systems that were some combination of outdated and/or cruel, because what they do was too important. A bunch of those have been tossed in a woodchipper already, and Trump ain't done yet. If we can rebuild an effective left wing movement that takes real power, then we have an easier path to remaking those systems in a way that benefits a greater number of people.

You don't need a very long blurb for that. A short paragraph would do fine. Tons of cookbooks have figured this out.

You have a long blog post because Google's SEO favors that, and that's tied into advertising.

I wonder if the brain drain from the US will ultimately get us there faster. The EU has less cultural stigma about funding STI vax research, and now they're going to get the people who can do it.

Even with an adblock and the best privacy controls available, you cannot escape the effects of advertising. Article headlines will still be clickbait. Online recipes will still have long, unnecessary stories at the start. Companies will still want your email for trivial things so they can spam you. There are a hundred ways that advertising affects culture, and it's not something that can change based on individual effort.

A lot of people have jobs that aren't really necessary, and exist so that the working class doesn't revolt too hard under capitalism.

"Obiwan, I'm pregnant"

"Ahh, fuck, tell Anakin it's his"

Police were never defunded. Some cities facing a budget crisis cut a few percent from police budgets. Often, it was a lot less than they cut from libraries, parks, etc. This has nothing to do with anything BLM wanted.