Steve

Memorizing every little detail of everyone's lives and actions that day always seemed incredible to me. I assumed he lived that day hundreds of thousands of times. Meaning centuries spent repeating the same day.

At least that's what I imagine it would take, for me to try countless methods of suicide.

API index access is an important difference.
If it was only that, without public facing ad driven search, I'd be more impressed.

Maybe if you removed the adds, and severely rate limited your own public facing search, so it's more of a demo than an actual service. This would force you to solely make money off the API access, without directly competing against those customers.

That would be an honest buisness model. One that doesn't turn users into eyeballs for advertising. Which seems to me, to be the most insidious problem of the modern internet.

For all their talk of doing things different with their own index and rankings. Mojeek is following exactly what Google did. It's still an ad based business model that makes users into products to be sold to advertisers. They're good now, while still trying to build market share. But once their investors get hungry, the enshitification will commence.

They're about general critic and public sentiment.
And for that, no movie should ever get a perfect 10. No movie could ever get a perfect 10.
They are useful for evaluating a movie's actual quality. But quality has nothing to do with any individuals enjoyment of a movie.

Rotten Tomato ratings are stupid.
With every review being either a 👍 or 👎, the most simple meh movie that nobody hates (or loves), gets a 100% fresh.

IMDb and Metacritic are much better.

My whole life I've heard people say that. It's as if they don't realize they're just tricking themselves.

You can't actually change when the sun rises or sets. You can only change the arbitrarily chosen number that time is labeled with. You're still getting up earlier, while telling yourself you didn't, because the number is the same. If you wanted to get up earlier you could just do that with the normal numbers. It would be exactly the same. The time change doesn't effect anything real.

So what were the counts?

Me too.
Next time you get groceries, count how many people are dressed normal, and dressed to offend as you say.
Report back the numbers when you do.

It's really not.
The overwhelmingly massive majority of people never do that.
Practically everyone is just trying to look normal.

This feels like we're making fun of someone with clear social disabilities.

I don't like it.

You're basically describing the "Reader View" that most browsers have already. Then trying to force it through a more limited standard.

There are some current attempts a making new browser engines. Servo and Ladybird are two I know of.

The only way is a data only SIM card.
It won't have a phone number for anyone to call or text.
Of course you can't make calls or texts either. You have to setup some kind of SIP service if you need to.