That's not clear. Their comment seemed "tongue in cheek" to me.

That's part of what was good about ye olde Twitter. It was really hard to make an offensive dick pic in 140 characters.

Look at the comment counts on the posts today... neither will anyone else

Nobody can keep track of everything they do, which is the point of the zone-shit-flooding strategy.

You quoted the part that proves them right, coward.

It doesn't address it well, because it wasn't clear whether that included chatting with Gemini after a search result. (Gemini claims it doesn't when asked directly)

Take microphone permission away from the Google app

Try learning to read BEFORE commenting:

"Pichai is talking only about people who are opening the Gemini app or visiting the Gemini web interface to enter a prompt or access Gemini Live. If you used Gemini only once in the past month, you are part of this cohort."

I can believe it if and only if they are counting people who went to Google search, got a shit AI search result, and then told the AI it was shit

They could just flee to Canada though. A lot of production is done there these days because it's cheaper.

The question is, will Canada let them play the same accounting games they play here? Because the reason we won't miss them when they're gone is that movie studios are well known for accounting tricks that make it look like they are losing money when they aren't so they don't have to pay their full tax burden.

I live in a crappy house. It's a deco that was built the thirties and it has significant quake damage.

The place I live in is technically a city, but it has small town written all over it. E.g. *I* made the best map of the town (which we needed for CERT) because they are too small to have anyone who can do GIS better than I learned in a few days of monkeying with QGIS. Plus all the other stuff I've mentioned, like they still page firefighters with a siren

You're assuming they'll lose tax revenue and that they aren't spending more money on Paramount than they get back. Given this country's penchant for corporate welfare, I wouldn't assume that Paramount leaving would be tax-flow-negative. More specifically, after all of the incentives, tax credits, etc. are taken into account, I wouldn't assume that the loss from Paramount leaving would be greater than the loss from Warner Brothers largely ceasing to exist except as an IP licensing subsidiary of Paramount.

The next logical step would be to require telcos to stop spoofing, which they absolutely can do because they have all of the call routing information and can easily tell when a number is being spoofed.

They're supposed to FOLLOW THE LAW. Bonta is qualified to speak to that. Who the fuck are you? Nobody? 10-4, good buddy.

Yes, of course. I'm not saying it relieves them of responsibility. It just doesn't preclude that other people could *also* be held responsible. :-)