Lmao one of Google’s witnesses fucked up and leaked the exact percentage of Google’s revenue that it shares with Apple in exchange for default search enginge status, a number that has remained redacted up until now
I cannot stress enough that he DID NOT HAVE TO tell the world the Google shares
36
Goddamn
Percent
of its revenue with Apple in order to maintain default search engine status
Since we know that Google paid Apple $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine on Apple products, that means Google made 73 BILLION DOLL-HAIRS from its default placement agreement with Apple ALONE, which is more than 1/3 of its total search engine ad revenue, which as you can imagine is a huge part of its overall revenue
The same guy also tried to argue that monopolies are somehow good for competition. He didn’t even deny that Google has one. Said they should be allowed to expand it, even. You can’t make this shit up lmao
*slaps Adam Smith’s Wealth of nations on the table* MONOPOLIES! ARE! BAD! Heck, it means if you know that part alone, you are more qualified than that guy to lead Google!
there are FERNS?? that grow like TREES???? no fucking way
so what sent me down this rabbit hole is earlier on a walk with my husband we saw some glorious “palms” in a garden that were about 6 feet high, once i inspected the fern-like leaf pattern and saw the new leaves were curled i was blown away because it was so similar to a fern but had a trunk and i didnt know ferns could grow like that. (see the last two images, i took them so i could identify it later using an app + research, it might be sphaeropteris brunoniana) look how hairy that frond is! i love plants 🤎ferns my beloved🤎
Must be real scary being a liberal and seeing all of this extremely bad shit happening in the world right now and having no idea how to make sense of it. It’s no wonder they spend all of their time lashing out at people who don’t want to vote for Genocide Joe.
If there’s one thing the conspiracy theory class I’ve taken this semester has been good for it’s crystalizing the extent to which liberals view the world as an essentially random series of events which are driven by nebulous fearmongering concepts like Disinformation and Authoritarianism and Populism. No material analysis, no connecting A to B, no understanding of history or politics outside the vacuum of events as they happen. It’s just one big nihilistic clusterfuck and any attempt to understand it or god forbid change it just means you’re a fanatic who can’t accept the natural state of things to just get worse forever. Don’t forget to vote though.
If you are silent about your pain they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it - Zora Neale Hurston
This is one of those posts where I feel like I’m doing others and myself a disservice by not sharing. I wish someone had shown me this a long time ago.
Maybe I’d be having to do less work to break out of this shell, now.
Freindly reminder that you can’t hate men without being queerphobic. You can’t think men are inherently more dangerous, violent or sexual, or any of the other things people say about men without being inherently queerphobic.
You can’t think these things about men without branding mlm as outsiders who will always be unwholesome and dangerous without women to “civilize” them.
You can’t think these things about men without thinking of wlw who are more masculine as being inherently lesser for being like men.
You can’t think these things about men without making most transfems seem suspect for having masculine traits, or forcing trans women to prove themselves female enough to be valid.
You can’t think these things about men without telling transmascs that they are inherently degrading themselves by transitioning, or forcing them to deny their transition to be supported.
You can’t think these things about men without basically calling all enbies female, and then calling all masc enbies dangerous.
You can’t think these things about men without easing aspec men and/or calling their identities into question.
You can’t think these things about men without basically telling intersex people they don’t exist, and making intersex women feel lesser for having male traits.
If you hate men you will hate every letter in the LGBTQIA for having traits in common with men. Feminism that views men as the enemy will inevitably be Feminism only for cishet women.
IS THERE A GLOINK KING?????? IS THERE A KINGDOMS OF GLOINKS? Or is there just the gloink Queen!? DO YOU THINK SHE WOULD TASTE LIKE NERDS CANDY ROPES AND LEATHER? I THINK SO….
Hey uh, how do you feel about all the kids channels making tmohe brain rotting content they're making on the amazing digital circus? (They massacre everything just for money and views.)
[ID: “I keep writing and deleting cause I can’t find the words to describe the level of loss we Gazans are feeling right now. Can you imagine your whole world being wiped out? Everything. The level of destruction we’re seeing is beyond any words. Our homes, our landmarks, our schools, our universities, our restaurants, literally everything. Israel’s intent was to always remove Gaza from the map. They destroyed our city intentionally. They bombed our ancient landmarks to remove any proof of Palestinian history… I just can’t explain what I feel when I’m seeing all of my favourite places flattened. My whole city flattened. Everything I grew up with flattened.” — tweet via @/yaraeid, Dec 1 2023 /end ID]
[ID: “I keep writing and deleting cause I can’t find the words to describe the level of loss we Gazans are feeling right now. Can you imagine your whole world being wiped out? Everything. The level of destruction we’re seeing is beyond any words. Our homes, our landmarks, our schools, our universities, our restaurants, literally everything. Israel’s intent was to always remove Gaza from the map. They destroyed our city intentionally. They bombed our ancient landmarks to remove any proof of Palestinian history… I just can’t explain what I feel when I’m seeing all of my favourite places flattened. My whole city flattened. Everything I grew up with flattened.” — tweet via @/yaraeid, Dec 1 2023 /end ID]
His dedication to the bit and thus conquering of the watermelon whilst staying in character yet obviously struggling. The satisfying ending. This is performance art at its peak.
i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’
