I just tried and failed for half an hour to find something via Google that I really should have been able to find easily: Literally just "what frequency do military aircraft use to contact each other on as an internationally recognized frequency". I've been using search engines since search engines existed. My Google-fu is very powerful. But all it fucking gives you now are Reddit posts with no relevance at all to what you're looking for. I couldn't even learn what the frequency was called.
So yes, I had to ask AI. We have no goddamn choice anymore. It's shit.
Search engines are useless now, and so, frankly, are my friends. I finally get one to even agree to read my first chapter. It's only 500 words, but it still took this person three full days to reply to me, and all they had to say about it was six words that amounted essentially to "meh."
And people wonder why I use Deepseek. Yeah, self-righteous douchebag in my brain, if I could, I would use the contacts I have in my life, and access the connections I have to people who actually care about this important thing I'm doing, and go traveling around to gain real experiences, but — you imaginary bourgeois piece of shit — I don't have that. I haven't had friends that I can rely on for anything, who don't simply rely on me, for my entire adult life, and I can't afford to buy new ones.
I just wanna say, I used to have communities I wrote with. We would bleed red all over one another's work, and it was great. Some of them were as young as thirteen years old. Yeah, that thirteen year old reads better than you do. I don't think that even exists anymore.
