$500 in June of 2007 is $750 now with inflation. Thatâ(TM)s close to the iPhone 15 price. You can spend less on an SE (still a great phone) or more on a Pro.

This was beautiful.

If you are not a religious environmentalist, your use of plastic is not a sin.

Clearly they are no longer just a neutral platform. They are now a publisher that makes editorial decisions.

Everyone libeled or defamed on YouTube can now sue Google instead of some random content creator. Google has extremely deep pockets. Lawyers are going to cash in.

There's little need to listen to politicians or care what they say.

So illness only happens to people because you have political disagreements.

Nothing will ever be good enough for zealots.

Hmm. Maybe it's just a virus and not some sort of sorcery from teh evil orange enemy then. Should we skip the ritual denunciation of people who are not like us? We can still wear the ritual masks and engage in the ritual washing.

Is France a blue state or a red state?

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?