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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You fools! If you die in Australia, you die in real life!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You cant die in australia because you cant be in australia. You would fall off the world. Duh.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Um, Australia is required to exist to stop the weight of the US from flipping the Earth plane over. It's literally the counterweight continent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But its glued to the bottom. So you would just fall off.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speak for yourself, skywalker, some of us tether ourselves everywhere we go.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’ll never forget the fall of Australia during the Emu Wars. The siege of Sydney was truly terrible.

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[–] SteefLem 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thought that was New Zealand, since thats only on maps 50% of the time

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New Zealand is technically part of Australia anyway (when you have something we want to claim).

[–] SteefLem 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oof. I think if nz heard you they will haka your ass ;)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah yes, the classic Australian tribal war dance

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Google isn't even sure so at least Bing is providing an answer, not that the wrong answer is great

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Bing gets you answers fast.

they didn't say they'd be the right answer tho.

[–] Zyratoxx 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Kagi also believes Australia is not real

Edit: this also shows up if i set the region to Australia

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine shows a bit more context, did you crop it out or is it just a difference in settings?

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[–] Touching_Grass 29 points 1 year ago

Kind of fucked up that we claim it does exist when you think about it

[–] superduperenigma 26 points 1 year ago

Australian users of Bluesky and Mastodon

Now that's what I like to see!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck, who's turn was it to pay off bing this month?!

[–] ABCDE 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This isn't time for semantics, we've gotta problem here!

[–] essteeyou 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damnit Jerry, this is why no one invites you to BBQs!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Search engines don't make claims. They just deliver search results. People who fail to understand the difference have a really hard time interpreting the results.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I wish search engines "just delivered search results". Unfortunately, they now directly and confidently answer questions with complete nonsense.

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[–] hltdev 21 points 1 year ago (9 children)

does anyone actually ever use Bing, when not either tricked/manipulated into using it or under some sort of bribe/incentive via ms rewards ?...

[–] Tanoh 15 points 1 year ago

I got super tired of google a few months ago. "Ah, you searched for these terms. But I am going to ignore that and instead show you results for these diffetent ones, because fu."

So I started using bing instead, I wouldn't say it is worse. Just differently bad. Some search things are much worse, some are much better.

Quite annoying how they keep pushing for "AI" all the time though, so might go back to google soon anyway.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everybody who uses DDG is mostly using Bing. Albeit more privately.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use it for free access to gpt-4 and dalle-3. Can’t say I use it as a browser though.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I will admit that I used it for years for the rewards, and it worked well for me. Once I started using a VPN though, it decided I could only redeem my rewards in Canada (I live in the US). I could have probably fixed it, but it caused me to have one of those "what am I doing anyway" moments and switch to using a SearXNG instance instead.

[–] Thade780 7 points 1 year ago

Bing is so much better than anything else for image search in my experience. Anything else, lol.

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[–] MargotRobbie 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...Guess I'm from Queensland, New York now.

[–] Fades 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Welcome to the states, friend! You picked one hell of a time to join

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

[–] afraid_of_zombies 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You didn't really think there was an overgrown island with rabbits that stand upright and every animal, including dogs, hellbent on killing you?

[–] cheese_greater 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] kat_angstrom 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All LLM replies are hallucinations

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It doesn’t exist. Source: I’m here.

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[–] son_named_bort 11 points 1 year ago

Australia really is the Wyoming of continents.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This feels just like that situation when gøøgl€ was saying there are no countries beginning with "K" before listening Kenya, except on a continental scale.

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[–] Candelestine 10 points 1 year ago

#AustraliaIsntReal

Wake up sheeple, time to get with the program. It's finally all coming out...

[–] Gazumi 8 points 1 year ago

Flat Earth and other loonies will be all over this as an "accidental leak"

[–] jerome 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Australia is really New Zealand, everyone knows that.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Accoring to my sources, only New Zealand and France are real

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