I agree with you, it won't change the world. But again I think it's mainly just marketing. They do what they claim and they do seem to care about actually making a difference and are somewhat consistent with their efforts so I wouldn't call that "greenwashing". I don't think their efforts are minimal but what do I know about planting trees and stuff. You can check their youtube channel :

https://www.youtube.com/@Ecosia/videos

There are options. Uruky is a great European search engine where you can use an European search index (EUSP) alongside other smaller ones. Their entire stack is USA free.

They have since removed all mentions of it and other names of the indexes that they use from their docs.

Basically you have no transparency and no clue how much of your money is going where. Could be that 80% of your results are Google index, 10% Bing, 5% Yandex and 5% independent indexes and you have no way of knowing.

That's why I switched to Uruky, where I have actual control over where my money goes. I mainly use EUSP, Mojeek, Linkup, Marginalia and if I can't find what i'm looking for only then go to a fallback search engine (that you can set inside) like DDG, Brave, Ecosia. There's a couple of other smaller open source indexes that they use (including their own).

Kagi uses a lot of different providers, including [Yandex](https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...).

I would recommend trying out [Uruky](https://uruky.com/) You can choose your own indexes to use. So if you want to support European companies you can try to use as much as possible European or open-source indexes and only when you can't find stuff to back to google's (they even have a private google index that they use called Serper). You can also configure fallback search engines like DDG, Brave...

Still better than using Google directly.

I'm from Eastern Europe and studied a bit of math in undergrad and I referenced mostly from American books as everything else was just terrible to learn from. I even read a portion of Spivaks Calculus, which was difficult but great.

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Because there's a bigger bad the smaller bad is totally fine and nobody should care?

And it seems it was 400k in total :

"In addition to the 250,000 trees felled at Muhos, Annala estimates that an additional 150,000 trees were felled at Otanmäki"

I don't care how sick our society is to normalize cutting 400k trees for data centers. It's wrong.

I actually assumed it's way more. Interesting.

Have you guys seen how beautiful some of the women in Kpop are? Not only that, but they are also idols, meaning they have a strong presence on social media (post pictures, shorts), appear on variety shows, interact with fans through all sorts of fanmeets, online services and so on... They make fans feel like they have a relationship with them. After an event/concert you can usually easily find 4K fancams of the idol. They fill that gap both emotionally and sexually as they're really lovely girls. Japan also has a strong idol culture, although it's not as popular as Korea's internationally.

Then there's things like onlyfans, live-streamers and so on... Of course people are having less sex. On top of what you said of people just generally choosing to interact less because of the amount of digital entertainment. 50 years ago if you didn't get of your house the most entertainment you would have is probably books or TV, situation is wildly different these days. With AI probably gonna get even worse.

All that said, I don't think it's necessarily bad. But for future generations human interaction won't be the default anymore. They will have toto re-discover the value of that interaction.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...

Uruky is the way. 2x cheaper also.

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Reminds me of this xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2899:_Goodhart%27...

I have one niche that I use twitter for. If it wasn't for that - would have deleted my account long time ago. Things like this push me towards that direction, though.