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[-] dupelet_comments@piefed.social 12 points 5 days ago

Do you have a link I can read? I'm referring specifically to the part about centuries of built up excrement.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

I'm not getting anything on the enshitified search engines. I read a book about five big cities that talked about it, and other issues like sprawl and air pollution, some twenty plus years ago, then about 20 years back there were a couple of articles in the NYTimes, this was before they sucked entirely as now, back when they actually put out a small book of material everyday, before they were downgraded, and surrendered to the republicans.

The Times articles, at least one specifically talked about Cairo.

I don't know how to find information now, the search engines used to work, and now don't. I typed in the information, and the results were not even trying to give me what I asked for. I know it can work because it did work. Using startpage, but duckgo, and the other corposearches are the same if not worse, since 2021 they've gotten worse.

Anyway if I find something I will post it back on here.

[-] dupelet_comments@piefed.social 7 points 5 days ago

Honestly if it was something you read 20 years ago and there's nothing about it to be found today, there's a chance it was nothing but racist nonsense. (Not saying you're racist or anything, just that the source might have been and you got taken in).

[-] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's actually common knowledge. Google is not the arbiter of knowledge, you better fucking hope so.

To assume it's racist is ignorant. As such I will not waste further time on your request.

[-] dupelet_comments@piefed.social 15 points 5 days ago

Google is not the arbiter of knowledge, but the combined search engines are certainly a decent indexer of it. To claim something is 'common knowledge' when we're unable to find a hint of it anywhere online, and is based solely on something you read a couple decades ago, is pretty ridiculous.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

Knowledge so common, only you posses it.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

What a gift it must be to know everything without ever learning it!

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