they always did, even back in college.

googles EMEA division is 29% of profits. So figure about 30B profits.

googles net profit is 115 billion/year. So while 3.5 is inconvenient, I imagine google feels that its just the cost of doing business in the EU.

Thats a sysadmin expression for sure. He has a glorious future ahead of him, and many sleepness nights.

France, Britain, Germany. All as bad as the US.

sure but there are holes in our entire constitutional process that you can drive a truck through. They work in certain cases, but in others they may as well not exist. Like ,impeachment barely works. And god knows a lot of our presidents should have been impeached. And the will of the people is not implemented by our government and hasn’t been for a long time, if ever.

lemme know where and I’ll come join you. I’ll bring a 6 pack and some chips.

yep, I need to polish my rifle before I go out, wouldn’t want it to jam when its hero time. Will be right behind you. Actually I need to buy that rifle then polish it. Actually I need to decide which rifle. AR15 right? I heard they are heavy though? and probably do some mandatory classes and paperwork, license fees. Practice at the range. Etc. The point is, I am right behind you… We all are.

seriously though, why are we all so sedate about fascism and losing our rights? I think its because we dont imagine ourselves to be in imminent danger yet? Its all still very abstract. And yes, I am white and male, and have enough resources to be OK on a day to day basis. the price of eggs being higher and the news sucking every day, and our country’s participating in war crimes are each unbearable, but on a day to day basis, its still mostly just expensive eggs. I can always worry about the rest… later.

you’re not wrong, but it also allows more than 99.8% of the bot traffic through too on text challenges. Its like the TSA of website security. Its mostly there to keep the user busy while cloudflare places itself in a man in the middle of your encrypted connection to a third party. The only difference between cloudflare and a malicious attacker is cloudflares stated intention not to be evil. With that and 3 dollars I can buy myself a single hard shell taco from tacobell.

they cant get their ai to check a box that says “I am not a robot”? I’d think thatd be a first year comp sci student level task. And robots.txt files were basically always voluntary compliance anyway.

completely free health care. 90% government subsidy for colleges. Comparable social security. And no pressure to pretend you’re anything but a murderous racist supremecist.

If they are so happy and well developed, why are they are number one recipient-- by a lot-- for foreign aid money?

Looks like Israel is the 8th happiest country.

the piss yellow chairs are really the chefs kiss.

Being “proud” of your acheivements is fine.

Being “proud” of your country or your state or your football team that you’re not a member of,or your ethnicity is douchebaggery.

multiple is not enough.