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[–]akkordeonplayer[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I noticed some of these results on duck duck go, which is really bizarre. I know about cookies... I figure search results also have to do with geographic location. I'm in the US, too.

I agree with you on how the only stories concerning domestic violence are only extremely local. National news media seems to have no desire to cover stories like this, which I find ominous.

Thanks for the information about bulbs.

I've noticed that the bulbs in my enclosed fixture ceiling fans have been going out really quickly, and they're tricky to change as I'm short and they're high on the ceiling. There's like three bulbs within the fixtures themselves, so I'd rather not have to change them constantly. As it turns out, I was using the wrong kinds of bulbs. Some styles are "too hot" for fixtures, so they go out more quickly. At the same time, light bulbs aren't as cheap as they used to be, so I agonize more over the cost than I would have in the past.

Off topic-- I just realized a lamp I've been using (which I wound up with after my father died) has 5+ year old CFL light bulbs. Before my father died, he went into this weird kick where he was obsessed with getting the "best light bulbs". Realized after the fact he was going BLIND.

[–]MarkTwainiac 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with you on how the only stories concerning domestic violence are only extremely local. National news media seems to have no desire to cover stories like this, which I find ominous.

Sorry, I must not have made myself clear. I didn't say "the only stories concerning domestic violence [that come up when I search] are only extremely local. " I said when I searched I got

page after page about domestic violence generally and about cases in my local area

By generally, I meant in general as well as nationally. On my first page, I got links to national orgs/sites as well as local ones.

https://ncadv.org/learn-more

https://www.justice.gov/ovw/domestic-violence

And under "top stories" I got press reports from Illinois, Denver CO, Keene NH, Los Angeles CA, Albany NY, Macomb GA, Portland ME... None of these places are in my local area.

The best way to find news stories about domestic violence nationally or globally, is to specify the particular nation or area: domestic violence us; domestic violence UK; domestic violence South Africa; domestic violence EU; domestic violence worldwide... and so on. And to get news coverage, under the search bar hit the "news" rather than "all"

When I searched "domestic violence us" and clicked "news" I got lots of different stories. Some take a national or general approach, whilst others speak generally but then zoom in on what's happening in a particular state/area - coz that's how most local/regional news outlets have always covered topics. For example:

https://time.com/5928539/domestic-violence-covid-19/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/cori-bush-fka-twigs-coercive-control.html

https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2021/02/04/domestic-violence-dramatically-increased-in-north-carolina-last-year/

I do see that the the news feed about "domestic violence" now is getting screwed up coz it contains stories about "domestic extremist violence" that the Biden admin is up in arms about, such as this:

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-jen-psaki-national-security-terrorism-8ac769920a5a945ed1ccaf44d0906d99

But still I am not getting any results of the sort you initially described.

There are lots of tricks to getting exactly the kinds of results you're looking for on the internet. One of the most obvious is to try different word combos in the search bar, and always to be as specific as possible.

https://www.lifewire.com/web-search-tricks-to-know-4046148