ANYWAY www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/brew-news/se... tea bag lore

every time my searches do something weird my first reaction is to be wracked with self doubt and assume I actually DID somehow type the weird thing it searched. I believe the term gaslighting is overused & trivialised.. and yet in that moment.. feels justified

You can't just fucking freestyle on my shit like that and why would you even want to

Hold the fucking phone I just tried to find a helpful image to demonstrate, searched as per first image. Unsatisfied with results I clicked on googles helpfully suggested term "box", and it changed my whole search term to what you can see in second picture. Google you are actually so 🤡 for this

Over here at least I'd say it's just a pretty normal thing for tea bags to be in the box in pairs with some perforation so you can rip and separate them. Just generic British black tea like Pg tips and Yorkshire tea but some herbal ones too. Off the top of my head I guess idk

Seen* FUCK. whatever man

Obviously I say "has anyone seem..." rhetorically. Of course people have seen a Google advert. And yet part of me truly feels like I must have been the only one. Because if they were rolling this out to the masses surely someone would have like. Made them stop already. Naive ik

I spelled clickbait wrong but I still mostly think this checks out. Hi I got locked out of my bsky account but now I'm back

doesnt actually help for some reason. so ill just sit in this on fire world and focus on my own tiny tiny useless feelings that help noone. hopefully at least i score some morality points with my internal ethics board over the fact that im not enjoying myself either

the anger i feel at myself every time i see something i feel i should be worrying about just straight up guarantees my own uselessness. i can yell at myself all day about how noone cares about my feelings and what a privileged position i am to be able to bury my head in the sand.

in this SPECIFIC regard the bogus ai vomit is not the problem itself but the most recent symptom of a long term trend in communication - probably even starting pre internet. idk. communication that doesnt say anything. its not new, but it can be made more easily than ever.

so as much as i have disdain for their ai replacements, i cant help but feel some validation in that something being so neatly replaced by a 'chat meaningless but passably coherent shit' machine proves that none of these things had any worth to begin with.

its because typically these things were worthless to begin with. they were already serving a purpose other than conveying valuable information or spreading genuine sentiment. they were designed to satisfy some other, much more cynical parameter already.