Comment Re:What's the plan? (Score 1, Insightful) 402
Political finger-pointing. Trying to exploit tragedy for political gain. Isn't that always the plan?
Political finger-pointing. Trying to exploit tragedy for political gain. Isn't that always the plan?
It's not a competition.
Compare Europe versus US: https://www.statista.com/chart...
Someone is always "doing better" until they're doing worse.
The French should never have elected Trump president of France.
Either that or it's just a super-contagious virus and humans can only be pushed to isolate from each other for so long until we don't always succeed at it any more. And cold weather forces us indoors and leads to spreading the virus. And lack of Vitamin-D from less sun exposure makes us more vulnerable.
But I'm pretty sure Trump is President of France.
Understand that the only fact in the article is that Google pays Apple to be the default search on iPhone. You probably already knew that.
The problem is Google's control of the ad business leads to a situation where no one can have a comparable offering for search and for video content creators. Everyone else gets cents for every dollar Google gets.
The solution is to force the Google monopoly to either divest the advertising business or to offer everyone else the same access to sell and implement advertising on Google platforms as Google has. On exactly the same terms.
They can do their own thing or be a monopoly, but not both.
(And no, the extremely tired arguments about the technical definition of a monopoly do not matter at all. You're not convincing anyone. You're just making noise.)
Ungrateful ignorant Britons! Why can't they learn to love edicts imposed by distant rulers?
What do you guys do to thank your European overlords when they permit you to continue to communicate the way you're used to? Is there some sort of gratitude ritual that humble subjects perform? Such benevolent understanding from your majestic rulers can't be allowed to pass by without acknowledgement, can it?
Obsessed haters change the subject of any conversation to the race or ethnicity or religion or whatever group is the focus of their hatred and obsession.
That's why Europe's Covid cases will never matter. It's not about Covid at all, it's about them fighting their mental issues to see whether their obsession finally takes them down into full-blown insanity.
Two word, actually. DEATH CULT. Same as anti-maskers everywhere, where Donald Trump is the new Jim Jones and the Republican Party, having drunk the purple Flavor-aid, are suffering the consequences.
What if you decided not to be such a terrible person? I think you might be happier. People around you would be happier too, experiencing less meanness and anger.
The funny thing about mask zealots is they seem to think it is magic.
They help a little sometimes. Zealots are just being jerks. Because they are jerks and because their crowd keeps going along with it instead of telling them to stop being jerks.
Yeah, exactly. You like fiction and push fiction, pretending it is true.
Jerks pointing fingers and laughing at the misfortune of people who aren't like them? That's Slashdot alright. It's every public discussion about everything. This is America.
The problem isn't people not believing what they read, it's believing the wrong things because they can't differentiate fact from fiction.
Like the Trump/Russia collusion story. They like fiction better. And people who've been entrusted to lead the public keep playing along, trying to manipulate others, pretending the fiction is real.
But how many people think car accidents or heart attacks don't exist?
What's your point? Someone was incorrect about a thing? That happens.
You can still go murder his kids.
Or, you know, don't be a genocidal monster. Try not being terrible. How about that?
Love makes the world go 'round, with a little help from intrinsic angular momentum.
