It was surprising for me how many searches I do in the opposite way. Thought I did hundreds per month, ended up being between 2,000 and 3,000.

I am one of those people who constantly thinks of questions and looks it up. Which makes me think of another question.

With Kagi I can actually find the answer though. On Google I could do several searches and still not find anything besides ads and ai generated fake content.

I don't know anyone in real life who uses it. Even before Musk bought it out. I'm getting older so checked with gen z in my family and they don't use it either.

Even if they were amazing, it would still be worth using Firefox instead to suppport an alternative to chromium.

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That actually worked for me once. Handed over my old Nokia brick phone and kept my Motorola flip lol.

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Usually it goes with a few group members not wanting to use a new app, and I refuse to install Facebook stuff.

The other people download a Meta app if they don’t already have it and I just don’t participate in the group. It’s antisocial I guess but I never really liked group chats anyway.

The cool thing for me was that you could for the first time find your old friends even from my childhood in the 90’s. Plus the ability to meet new people. Most my friends and even my current wife I met on Myspace. It was an entirely new concept that you could even do that online for me.

I don’t remember ever seeing any ads either.

I have only used Myspace, then Reddit and now Lemmy. Facebook seemed slimy to me, with less features. I boycotted it assuming it would probably die off within a few years but somehow it is still here.

I am a private person online, don’t want to waste time or get brainwashed either.

I literally found out that social media existed on my last day of High School. One kid said there is actually this new website at myspace.com that we can all stay connected with.

Wrote down the website address on a piece of paper then checked it out later when I got home to go online.

I would imagine it could continue on until it absolutely can’t anymore. At which point it either ends, or some kind of ascension or rebirth.

Hopefully your soul, higher power, the universe, etc would have choice or mercy at some point. Maybe you eventually accomplish what you needed from this life.

If it is purely physics without choice then you would eventually find yourself as one of the world’s longest living people. It would keep branching until the very last reality where there are no more where you can possibly survive. At least you would have a good answer when people ask your secret to long life lol.

Yes and it is also important to point out that if this is true, there is even more reason to be careful with your life and health.

You would have a situation where your family experiences your death in one reality, but you might continue on disabled in another. It only requires you to be conscious, but your physical condition doesn’t matter beyond that.

Since I was dead and did not experience self, time or consciousness while this happened the closest I can explain it is that I just didn’t exist during that period of reference. It was like time travel, and did not feel like anesthesia, the time completely felt like it did not happen. It was minutes but might as well have been thousands of years, there was no concept of time at all.

My personal theory is that whatever death is, it exists outside of the concept of time. It seems that your consciousness resets and you find yourself alive again. In my case back in the same body but if reincarnation is possible then in a new life.

The perceived time doesn’t seem to need to be in any time frame or chronological order. Maybe you instantly skip over many years, or even transfer to the past.

Here is a theory I came up with entirely based on my own experiences, only to find out it is a real quantum physics theory:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality

Basically you find yourself in the reality where you somehow survive, because the one where you didn’t you don’t have consciousness. Both times incredibly unlikely circumstances saved me that also happened to occur at the exact moment needed.

I’m not sure how to pm on here but maybe if you send me one I can see it to check out your links.

More about time:

https://interestingengineering.com/science/what-einstein-meant-by-time-is-an-illusion

Also to add a follow up. I had ptsd and my only serious interests are meditation, philosophy and spirituality since this occurred. Eastern religions too, despite being raised Mormon. I feel a strong sense that everything in life is illusionary, just a projection of the mind. I don’t remember anything but the no sense of self and timelessness but I feel like there was something more to it.

The hardest part wasn’t being dead, but the absolute misery of the early dying process and then the long recovery. Death was peaceful.

I have been clinically dead on two occasions. Once from meningitis, 108 F fever, seizures and heart stopped for 4 minutes.

The second time was severe blood loss, requiring 4 transfusions, surgeries, cpr, oxygen and defibrillator after my heart stopped.

The first time I remember getting tunnel vision, then kind of floating from the ceiling watching the room. I was a child then and my brain definitely wasn’t working, but I was too young to know about out of body experiences.

The second time was in my 20’s with no head injury. Everything just started whiting out and seeming far away. I sunk back while attempting to explain to the nurse and then that was it. She looked really concerned and ran out, but I had no cares or pain at all. Just a fading into the distance.

It was like I didn’t exist, time didn’t exist. Totally different than sleeping or anesthesia. Slowly became aware of a noise. It went on until I slowly started to see as well. Then some basic awareness started again. I noticed the loud noise was the air being forced out of my lungs from CPR. It went on a bit, I was aware of it but not concerned or thinking anything.

The doctor doing it was telling them to ready the defibrillator again, and in that pause I said I was awake and/or attempted to move. That was about the time I even realized what was happening. Somehow the room had filled with at least 8 concerned people and all that time had passed instantaneously for me.

They said I had no heartbeat for several minutes and had been clinically dead. Spent 3 days in ICU, then two weeks in rehab center, followed by 6 months of recovery. I didn’t eat, drink or go to the bathroom for a week besides IV and catheter. Even trying a single sip of broth after that was so difficult. I had no hunger.

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