Josh Hill
@empirical.digital
Digital strategy, analytics and SEO consultant. 30 years making websites. Also love cooking, disc golf, philosophy, history, photography, and politics. #goblue
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If you take the ACA subsidies and split them between every American that's only around $264 per person. This is his brilliant plan that he kept super secret for so long?
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
If you take the ACA subsidies and split them between every American that's only around $264 per person. This is his brilliant plan that he kept super secret for so long?
Trump should have renamed it the Department of Culture War.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Trump should have renamed it the Department of Culture War.
I've never understood pet taxidermy because it's weird but I feel like I understand a little bit better why someone might do it now.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I've never understood pet taxidermy because it's weird but I feel like I understand a little bit better why someone might do it now.
She would sue them, if she knew how.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
She would sue them, if she knew how.
It shows how influential dark money in politics has become. It seems like just a few weeks ago there was more light. Now the light suckers are working overtime.
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It shows how influential dark money in politics has become. It seems like just a few weeks ago there was more light. Now the light suckers are working overtime.
As if Mark Twain never existed and gilding was never symbolic of inequality, greed or corruption in the US.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gil...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gil...
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
As if Mark Twain never existed and gilding was never symbolic of inequality, greed or corruption in the US.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gil...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gil...
All of the FoxNews pundits
Used to laugh and call him names,
They never let poor Zohran
Join in any balanced frames.
Used to laugh and call him names,
They never let poor Zohran
Join in any balanced frames.
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
All of the FoxNews pundits
Used to laugh and call him names,
They never let poor Zohran
Join in any balanced frames.
Used to laugh and call him names,
They never let poor Zohran
Join in any balanced frames.
I'll definitely read this later. I listened to CTC but never paid for it, and sometimes I'll still catch old Art Bell segments or newer George Noory ones. It wasn't as politically divisive as modern conspiracies, which made for good entertainment even if you knew it didn't reflect reality.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'll definitely read this later. I listened to CTC but never paid for it, and sometimes I'll still catch old Art Bell segments or newer George Noory ones. It wasn't as politically divisive as modern conspiracies, which made for good entertainment even if you knew it didn't reflect reality.
Henceforth: Home Deport
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Henceforth: Home Deport
Leave it unexplained and cast Queen Latifah as James Bond. Everyone will love it and nobody will complain at all.
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Leave it unexplained and cast Queen Latifah as James Bond. Everyone will love it and nobody will complain at all.
When are Dems planning on proposing anything of substance to fix America's healthcare crisis?
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
When are Dems planning on proposing anything of substance to fix America's healthcare crisis?
If Dems want to stand up for anything, they should stand up for universal healthcare right now. The GOP is actively blaming the entire failure of American healthcare on the ACA, which is absurd, and Dems are silent.
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If Dems want to stand up for anything, they should stand up for universal healthcare right now. The GOP is actively blaming the entire failure of American healthcare on the ACA, which is absurd, and Dems are silent.
"You can tell I'm not in the US in this video by how horribly I'm cooking this meat."
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"You can tell I'm not in the US in this video by how horribly I'm cooking this meat."
I'll admit though, I'm not up on the news and don't have time to be. I just arrived at this conclusion based on the data. It's most clear with local companies IMO. Analyzing impressions, I see fewer that are 8-9 pages deep for geographical searches in other areas, which seems like rank checkers.
October 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I'll admit though, I'm not up on the news and don't have time to be. I just arrived at this conclusion based on the data. It's most clear with local companies IMO. Analyzing impressions, I see fewer that are 8-9 pages deep for geographical searches in other areas, which seems like rank checkers.
I know they dropped the ability to show 100 results, which some rank checkers used, but I didn't know that they did anything explicitly to exclude rank checking bots. AFAIK, there's no explicit explanation for the 11/12 change, which also happened during the 3 week August 2025 update.
October 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I know they dropped the ability to show 100 results, which some rank checkers used, but I didn't know that they did anything explicitly to exclude rank checking bots. AFAIK, there's no explicit explanation for the 11/12 change, which also happened during the 3 week August 2025 update.
If GA4 counted this, I wonder if Search Console was counting rank checking software. And I wonder how much this influenced data with the August 2025 Spam Update. Lots of sites I work on have no spam, saw decreases in impressions, increases in rankings, and see no difference in actual traffic.
October 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If GA4 counted this, I wonder if Search Console was counting rank checking software. And I wonder how much this influenced data with the August 2025 Spam Update. Lots of sites I work on have no spam, saw decreases in impressions, increases in rankings, and see no difference in actual traffic.
I thought you were a Florida fan.
October 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I thought you were a Florida fan.
Agreed! They view capturing swing voters as a means to an end: win first then use that power. But when your strategy is to appeal primarily to people who have no consistent demands, the only logical approach is to never offer any real solutions. Winning becomes an end in itself, a means to nothing.
October 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Agreed! They view capturing swing voters as a means to an end: win first then use that power. But when your strategy is to appeal primarily to people who have no consistent demands, the only logical approach is to never offer any real solutions. Winning becomes an end in itself, a means to nothing.
Wait until they find out that Christmas happens on December 25 because that was the the festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (the birthday of the unconquered sun). Oh wait, they'll never find that out because they'll be busy investigating chemtrails and the lizard alien people.
October 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Wait until they find out that Christmas happens on December 25 because that was the the festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (the birthday of the unconquered sun). Oh wait, they'll never find that out because they'll be busy investigating chemtrails and the lizard alien people.
That's awesome. My grandmother worked at AC factory, or Flint East, or whatever it ended up being called.
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
That's awesome. My grandmother worked at AC factory, or Flint East, or whatever it ended up being called.
Absolutely. I don't understand why there isn't more noise from corporations about this. Maybe it's calculated silence. If corporations lobbied for this, it could just seem like just a way to offload their collectively bargained responsibilities.
October 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Absolutely. I don't understand why there isn't more noise from corporations about this. Maybe it's calculated silence. If corporations lobbied for this, it could just seem like just a way to offload their collectively bargained responsibilities.
I grew up in Flint. What a lot of people don't realize is that these healthcare costs automatically put American manufacturing at a severe disadvantage compared to corporations in other countries. Cost-controlled universal coverage would help American manufacturing be more competitive.
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I grew up in Flint. What a lot of people don't realize is that these healthcare costs automatically put American manufacturing at a severe disadvantage compared to corporations in other countries. Cost-controlled universal coverage would help American manufacturing be more competitive.
Can we get some realistic proposals to change this system? Maybe have a few blue states band together and do something different?
October 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Can we get some realistic proposals to change this system? Maybe have a few blue states band together and do something different?