I don't condone violence. Just stop giving them money and they can shrivel up and die on their own.

Tax them the same amount that 3 full time office workers would pay on their taxes.

In a normal country, they would have gone after people for trespass.

If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

Most people want to own at least SOMETHING, like their own home computer.

P. S. Fuck off, Sam.

Google sucks a lot of the oxygen out of the room when it comes to people inventing the Next Big Thing. The projects that someone might have spent 5 years of their life trying to make into a startup, are now 20% projects at Google that sometimes see the light of day only to be walked back suddenly.

Nothing can be made at Google that will do better then their ad search business. It's a reality that I faced when I was there, and the vast majority of management were delusional to think otherwise. Search pays for these little projects, and they rarely ever stand on their own (Fuchsia) and simply consume payroll to get no where near turning a profit.

This one is fucked, we should throw it away and start over. A free network that isn't based around trying to harvest market research data and constantly trying to sell things.

Are we seeing wild growth in our user base due to the new policies?

Someone has already pointed this out, but it bears repeating. For that to actually be true, they would need to cost more from the budget than they add to it through both direct taxation, and the tax revenue generated through the effects of their labor and other economic activity on the GDP. Virtually all studies show that they're actually a net benefit there.

Perhaps for the LEGAL migrants...but not for the ILLEGAL migrants...they are a burden on the US taxpayer.....they're usually paid under the table, off the books and are the ones clogging up our ERs and classrooms.

The sort of people who could turn Google into a profitable innovation powerhouse no longer work at Google. Google lives and dies on how tightly they can hold onto their existing advertising empire. That's all they've got now and it is all they will ever be.

Not the worst billionaire fashion choice.

Ellison's Paramount Skydance Warner Bros Discovery - and movies/TV can be very subtle in pushing a narrative or shaping public opinion.

As opposed to all the subtle (and lately not so subtle) narratives the current folks have been pushing for years now?

There will be winners and losers. And I don't think any of today's companies are necessarily going to be the AI leader 10 years from now.

Who will lose the most are the middle class with retirement investments that are mismanaged and put into these unstable toxic investments. And potentially bail outs for financial and chip companies when the market corrects disastrously.

Everything as a service has been the dream for the billionaire class for a long time. Creating a dependency for end-users (often called "consumers") is viewed as the path to stability and profit for a company. Having folks pay every month for health insurance, medication, vitamins, smartphone service, cable TV, internet access, streaming services, etc.

$99 billion in cash reserves will probably insulated them from most of the AI bubble pop.