Works great for my library. https://www.protondb.com/
So I just discovered that Ixquick is now Startpage which to my cursory research at the moment is the same company. I'm not really thrilled by this discovery given that I have zero faith in pretty much everything. I'm tempted to switch to Yandex. However I have not yet figured out how to edit in via the "about:config" section of Firefox (which is another issue in itself..).
So it looks like I'm going to have to do research on manually editing in a working default to Yandex. ... I'm already looking at the about:config section and it looks a lot more spartan than I remember it which I suspect means that a lot of functionality is being concealed.
Getting rather unhappy ATM...
For months I have been noticing that DDG was behaving more like a MSM delivery system than a independent engine. So I've been wanting to switch. What I really wanted to switch to was searx.info but I keep having issues accessing them.
So as of just now I moved to Ixquick which I have used in the past but wasn't thrilled by them. I dumped DDG because I refuse to give support to companies that cater to ideology over meritocracy. Especially when the ideology is toxic to everything I hold dear.
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That symbol looks like a certain virus...
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Displays of weakness through being kind or charitable or forgiving are frequently met with contempt. Many westerners who may or may not be Christian in their temperament like I am (I'm a non believer but have a general Christian culture ethos. But not to the point of delusion like many western Christians do.)
The big problem with this thinking until you realize it is that resentful haters don't see your kindness, charitable or forgiving nature in a positive light, they see it as a means to have contempt for your gullibility. They will then secretly or openly hate you and abuse you. If you listen closely to what these people are saying they are clearly exposing their hate and contempt in which there is absolutely nothing you can do short of separation.
But even with separation they will still hound you relentlessly for resources because in their minds they will never let go of the idea that you somehow owe them something. It is impossible to buy them off, to try to do so will only further their contempt and animus for you, and cause them to keep pounding the idea that you owe them something.
If you are sane and competent you will realize that the only way to deal with these people is through an immovable position of "no, not doing that". That is the only thing that works and forces people to respect you. It is only through absolute respect that people can fairly deal with each other but you must establish the respect first. If you fail to do that you are either a useful idiot and fool or you are a traitor to everything you hold dear.
As a side note, the astute among you will recognize their behaviors match a certain other group who uses your western nature against you. I'll leave it at that...
I suggest getting the book Virus Mania (audio sample on Amazon). Besides that book being the MUST read of our lifetimes I think it will expose the reader to the idea that viruses are highly over rated as a threat, which the goal of "Gain Of Function" research strongly implies.
Why would you need GOF if viruses are very lethal in the first place? IE they're not. The reality is that the vast major of people succumb to disease because of extremely poor individual health models IE diet, chronic drug abuse and exposure to toxins. Ironically some of the most powerful toxins are in pharmaceuticals.
One big reason I can think for GOF research is that it gives a means to take people out without using chemical weapons which are easily traceable or at bare minimum make a clear unambiguous statement that you are under attack.
They just added women to the draft... You don't do that without foresight
Hmm, I'm not finding a good scientific or military strategy reason for this and as such I'm much more inclined to believe that this is just the insanity of our era. However I'm completely open to plausible reasons.
This is literally the worst sin a "journalist" can do.
They do this all the time. They aren't journalists, they are an unrepentant and unmoved [Winston Smith.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Smith_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four).
At least in 1984 you had someone who recognized the evil they were doing and tried to reject it, the NYT people see what they are doing as a good thing. They are the party apparatchiks.
There are reasons why I stopped going to the movies nearly 35 years ago. Those reasons have become by orders of magnitude more justified. The entire "entertainment" industry is stage four cancer waiting to annihilate you if you go anywhere near them.
This is why I have long been telling people that I turned off media decades ago*. One of the first key things a person has to do to preserve their sanity and balance is get the noise level down, a lot.
Ours is not an agrarian world where we have lots of time to mull things over in peace. It is a very noisy and busy world in which we are being deliberately denied the required time to think/process the world around us. We are limited beings. The wise among us will realize this and protect their thinking space from intrusion.
- so quick note on that to outline what a person needs to do and hopefully much better than myself. I'm 59, stopped going to the movies at 25. Stopped watching TV over 20 years ago. Stopped listening to any radio 13 years ago.
The people in control of media which now includes curators like Google (and everything it owns) and the other IT giants are curators. These entities want you to be a captive to their right think, as long as a person fully understands this, they have some chance to side step the noise and deceptions.
The leftist animal operates in a very different way than the right. Interestingly it has been proven that the right understands the left much better than the left understands the right. Theirs is a world of hysteria, hyperbole and projection. Once you understand these facets of their psyche, their actions become completely unsurprising. That is why each time in world history when the left achieves total dominance, mass violence ensues. Like clockwork.
Yikes, what a mess.