Ex-Google Employees: The Brain-Damaged Woke AI Is No Mistake. The AI Is Accurately Promoting the Mentally-Ill Worldview of the Google Megacorporation.

The world has been horrified--and amused--by the extreme ideological bent of Gemini, Google's much-hyped new AI tool, which the company launched last month.
But Shaun Maguire, who was a partner at Google Ventures, the company's investment wing, from 2016 until 2019, had a different reaction.
"I was not shocked at all," he told The Free Press. "When the first Google Gemini photos popped up on my X feed, I thought to myself: Here we go again. And: Of course. Because I know Google well. Google Gemini's failures revealed how broken Google's culture is in such a visually obvious way to the world. But what happened was not a one-off incident. It was a symptom of a larger cultural phenomenon that has been taking over the company for years."
Maguire is one of multiple former Google employees who told The Free Press that the Gemini fiasco stems from a corporate culture that prioritizes the ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over excellence and good business sense.
These ex-Googlers, as they're called, said that they were discouraged from hiring white, male employees; that DEI "is part of every single thing" in the company; and that engineers even had to list the "DEI impact" for the tiniest of software fixes. All of them agreed that the Silicon Valley giant entered the artificial intelligence race with an upper hand but has squandered it by cowing to an activist faction in the company that's more committed to advancing social justice than making world-class products.

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And earlier this month, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told a room full of entrepreneurs in San Francisco of Gemini: "We haven't fully understood why it leans left in many cases. . . that's not our intention."

LOL.

But the ex-staffers we spoke to said they know exactly how the technology became so biased.
"The model is just a reflection of the people who trained it," one former AI researcher at Google Brain, who asked not to be named, told us. "It's just a series of decisions that humans have made."
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David Kiferbaum, a Google business manager who worked at the company from 2015 to 2023, said he experienced pressure to recruit minorities after Damore was fired. He said he began hearing things like "We're really looking for diverse candidates for this role," which he took to mean "a non-white, a non-hetero" applicant.
"I was like, 'Whoa, I can't believe this person is saying this out loud,' " he said.

Maguire worked for Google Ventures, a division that invested in other tech companies. His employees demanded he hire or promote only women and minorities -- and 25% of the "workers" at his division threatened to quit if he didn't.

He duly hired a "smart but unqualified" woman.

But that was only the beginning of the DEI demands:

"Meanwhile, over the next two years, I started to notice the dynamics of our team change. Instead of highly experienced founders and seasoned investors, young people from minority backgrounds were coming in with virtually no investment experience whatsoever," Maguire recalled. "In this time, Ventures promoted a 25-year-old black woman to investment partner--the same position I held at the time--who had not yet made a single investment decision in her entire career."
When asked for comment, a Google Ventures spokesperson told The Free Press: "These claims from Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire regarding his time at GV from 2016--2019 are baseless and factually inaccurate. GV's decisions around hiring and promotion are solely based on merit and ability."

The Media Research Center just released a report noting the "41 times" Google has interfered in US elections since 2008.

Google has been getting away with election interference for at least 16 years, and it is showing no signs of stopping.
MRC Free Speech America researchers compiled 41 times Google was caught interfering in U.S. elections, beginning in 2008, intensifying in 2016 and continuing into 2024. MRC researchers found carefully crafted studies and numerous reports (from 2008 through February 2024) that have consistently demonstrated the tech behemoth's election meddling.
MRC founder and President Brent Bozell highlighted just how dangerous Google's election interference is. "Google's massive and deliberate efforts to interfere in U.S. elections for the past 16 years is unacceptable and the biggest threat to American democracy today," said Bozell.
Over the years, Google has repeatedly used its power to help push the most liberal candidates to electoral victory while targeting their opponents. In 2008, the company used a light touch helping then-Senator Barack Hussein Obama (D-IL), its favored primary candidate, and undermining his opponent, then-Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY).
But after Democrats took a devastating loss in the 2016 election, evidence collected by MRC shows that election interference became part of its mission. As one Google executive let slip in a secretly recorded interview, the company was working to actively "prevent[] the next Trump situation."

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Below are some of the highlights of MRC's findings.

In 2008, Google endorsed the radical, young Sen. Obama and censored support for Sen. Clinton. Journalist Simon Owens reported at the time that the tech giant suspended the accounts of writers who wrote pro-Clinton blogs critical of Obama. "[N]early all of [the censored bloggers] had three things in common," Owens wrote. "Most were pro-Hillary Clinton blogs, all were anti-Barack Obama, and several were listed on justsaynodeal.com, an anti-Obama website."
Google allowed users to smear then-leading GOP candidate for president Rick Santorum. Google refused to correct a "Google bomb" that smeared Santorum. Google "bombing" used to be a way for users to manipulate Google's algorithm and associate websites and names with undesirable search terms. Google Search would connect the sites and terms if enough websites placed the same hyperlink over the same term or terms. The Big Tech company previously claimed that it had ended the popular internet pranks and had even corrected the issue when it impacted the White House's webpage for Obama. But when Santorum's team brought the issue to Google's attention, the platform flat-out refused to resolve it, once again favoring Obama.
In 2016, Google employed both its algorithm and its "partners" in futile attempts to push Clinton over the finish line. One study by SourceFed found that Google's algorithm excluded potentially damaging autofill results for searches inquiring about Clinton's alleged crimes and possible indictment during her scandalous tenure as Secretary of State. Google hid her flaws and instead suggested that users search for things like "Hillary Clinton crime reform" and "Hillary Clinton India" but did not do the same for other contentious searches for candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. The platform also worked with "partners" to bolster Latino votes, in the hopes of propping up Clinton, according to internal emails uncovered by then-Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson. A leaked email chain showed one employee explaining how Google made a "silent donation" by working with its partner Voto Latino to pay for Latino voters to get rides to the polls in "key states." The tech giant also "helped them create ad campaigns to promote the rides." These and similar methods of election interference and censorship likely contributed to the 2.6 million votes that Google shifted in 2016, according to data scientist and research psychologist Robert Epstein.

Elon Musk, who knows about censorship as the owner of Twitter, says Google has interfered "thousands" of times:

This article understates the magnitude of the problem -- Google interferes to help Democrats thousands of times every election season!
This is to be expected when their censorship (aka "Trust & Safety") teams are have far left political views. https://t.co/y36yzdzIUQ
-- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 18, 2024

Even the French are noticing that Google's search results are terrible. LeMonde:

Regarding Google, are the search results really becoming worse and worse?

For years, internet users have complained about the quality of the responses presented by the world's most used search engine...
The Mountain View firm is apparently trying to rebuff the claims of critics who, for months and even years, ask why the results offered [by Google] are less and less good. [A "journalist" from NBC wondered, on February 24th, if "anyone had had enough and quit Google."

Has anybody finally had enough and quit Google search because of how bad it's gotten recently? Are you finding another search better?
-- Kevin Collier (@kevincollier) February 24, 2024

On Reddit, one finds more posts by users wondering why their search results seem worse than they were before. "There was a time when one had the impression that Google was magic," wrote The Atlantic in September, looking back to a time which seems to be over.

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Posted by: RUReadingthis at March 19, 2024 02:35 PM (aQ25I)

2 So, our masters will intentionally create terrible tools that never work.

And they plan on ruling the world with them?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 19, 2024 02:36 PM (GBKbO)

3 my shocked face

:-|

Posted by: brak at March 19, 2024 02:37 PM (AR07F)

4 Google interfered every time a story was purposefully repressed.

Or every time a search returned 'approved' responses.

That has to in the millions of times. Maybe hundreds of millions.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 19, 2024 02:37 PM (3CVIc)

5 Regarding Google, are the search results really becoming worse and worse?

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You know what will fix this?

Replacing it with Gemini.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 19, 2024 02:37 PM (GBKbO)

6 2 So, our masters will intentionally create terrible tools that never work.

And they plan on ruling the world with them?

That's crazy talk.

Posted by: the various COVID vaccines at March 19, 2024 02:38 PM (l8gTz)

7 6 2 So, our masters will intentionally create terrible tools that never work.

And they plan on ruling the world with them?

That's crazy talk.
Posted by: the various COVID vaccines at March 19, 2024 02:38 PM (l8gTz)

No shit!

Posted by: Obamacare at March 19, 2024 02:38 PM (3CVIc)

8 Breaking...Texas can enforce immigration law SB4

Posted by: DanMan at March 19, 2024 02:39 PM (8uzBS)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 19, 2024 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

10 "We're really looking for diverse candidates for this role," which he took to mean "a non-white, a non-hetero" applicant.

"I was like, 'Whoa, I can't believe this person is saying this out loud,' " he said.

Heard the same spiel at JP Morgan Chase in IT. While middle management gets bonuses for hiring "diverse" employees, I still believe this is just a way for them to hire more H1Bs and get rid of White males. H1Bs are far easier to control.

Posted by: Kitchener Lesley at March 19, 2024 02:40 PM (CgQvH)

11 In a sane world, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Wikipedia, Snopes and a host of other companies would all be facing massive lawsuits for election interference.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 19, 2024 02:40 PM (3CVIc)

12 The future is certain; it is only the past that is unpredictable

Posted by: Google AI at March 19, 2024 02:40 PM (ibTVg)

13
A few weeks ago I searched on something related to the "GOLD" linker on Fedora Linux.

It popped up links trying to sell me gold and yellow hats.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2024 02:40 PM (w6EFb)

14 "On Reddit, one finds more posts by users wondering why their search results seem worse than they were before. "There was a time when one had the impression that Google was magic," wrote The Atlantic in September, looking back to a time which seems to be over."

Yeah, Black Magic.

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 19, 2024 02:41 PM (lZVy/)

15 Working in IT, I've been searching with Duck Duck Go instead of google or bing..

I get useful results back

Posted by: Blanco at March 19, 2024 02:41 PM (guMc0)

16 He who controls the past controls the future.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 19, 2024 02:41 PM (3CVIc)

17 TJM noted a 'nood' on the thread below, just before I did.

Posted by: gdgm+ at March 19, 2024 02:41 PM (w0+ZH)

18
That's crazy talk.

Posted by: the various COVID vaccines at March 19, 2024 02:38 PM (l8gTz)

Yeah shame all those side effects. Oh well, remember you will be fired if you don't also take this booster

Posted by: The people telling you 95% of the population must be killed at March 19, 2024 02:41 PM (ibTVg)

19 This is every corporation now. Unqualified women and minorities.

Posted by: steevy at March 19, 2024 02:41 PM (FQmDC)

20 17 TJM noted a 'nood' on the thread below, just before I did.
Posted by: gdgm+ at March 19, 2024 02:41 PM (w0+ZH)

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DRINK IT!!!!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 19, 2024 02:42 PM (GBKbO)

21
Years ago, when I first encountered and used Googled, I was just impressed. It would find all sorts of technical/scientific info, even very arcane stuff very nicely and pop up the most relevant links it could find.

It was written by people who knew what they were doing.

And then woke and advertising took over. It's no longer about finding relevant results. It's about selling you shit, and then political indoctrination.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2024 02:42 PM (w6EFb)

22 Google search results now mainly fall into two categories:
1) useless
2) ads

Unless you know exactly what you're looking for, Google actively prevents you from finding it.

Used to be, the joke was you did a "deep dive" search into something if you'd went past 3 pages .

Now? It doesn't matter how many pages back you go-- you just keep getting the same set of results; they just keep repeating the same things over and over.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 19, 2024 02:42 PM (yikga)

23 Regarding Google, are the search results really becoming worse and worse?

Google now has two goals with its search engine:

1) Get you to click on an ad

2) Provide the search result that Google wants you to see (as opposed to the search result that you want to see)

With the pressure to show constantly increasing revenues in a saturated, mature market, Google is constantly tweaking its algorithm to increase the number of ad clicks, even as it ruins its utility as a search engine.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 19, 2024 02:43 PM (YAtuc)

24 In a sane world, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Wikipedia, Snopes and a host of other companies would all be facing massive lawsuits for election interference.

And in many cases their CEOs aren't Americans - making that an explicit crime (remember Biden arrested a Russian national for "election interference" for speaking at RKBA meetings)

Posted by: 18-1 at March 19, 2024 02:43 PM (ibTVg)

25 "The AI Is Accurately Promoting the Mentally-Ill Worldview of the Google Megacorporation."

You mean the same Google that controls 95% o search outcomes, and has already interfered in several elections, and cooperates with DeepState on Deep Spying on the citizenry?

That "outstanding and pure" MegaCorp?

Posted by: illiniwek at March 19, 2024 02:43 PM (Cus5s)

26 It's about selling you shit, and then political indoctrination.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2024 02:42 PM (w6EFb)

So, the internet?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 19, 2024 02:43 PM (3CVIc)

27 Posted by: Paul banned at March 19, 2024 02:42 PM (pFZgT)

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So, you support giant corporations influencing elections, especially when they work in conjunction with the administrative state?

When did you become a literal fascist? Because that's the literal definition of fascism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 19, 2024 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

28 Google's a threat to humanity.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 19, 2024 02:44 PM (Q4IgG)

29 I heard here yesterday that Brin’s daughter was picked by JFK Jr. to be his running mate. Has this been confirmed?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 19, 2024 02:44 PM (9yWhg)

30 Does anyone have the address to Barter town. I'm goin off the grid. But first I'm grabbing me a cold beer.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 19, 2024 02:44 PM (djLbh)

31 "The model is just a reflection of the people who trained it," one former AI researcher at Google Brain, who asked not to be named, told us. "It's just a series of decisions that humans have made."

I've said this about AI, and ESPECIALLY google's, from the very beginning.

It's not Intelligence. It's whatever it's PROGRAMMED to be. It doesn't learn, it's coded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 19, 2024 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

32 "The model is just a reflection of the people who trained it," one former AI researcher at Google Brain, who asked not to be named, told us.

But the "language models" are super SMARRRHHHT and not dumb parrots and when they lie it's really "hallucinating".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 19, 2024 02:45 PM (llON8)

33 Google's a threat to humanity.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

But it's a boon to sub-humanity!

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 19, 2024 02:45 PM (lZVy/)

34 29 I heard here yesterday that Brin’s daughter was picked by JFK Jr. to be his running mate. Has this been confirmed?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 19, 2024 02:44 PM (9yWhg)

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When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will run for president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 19, 2024 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

35 Maguire worked for Google Ventures, a division that invested in other tech companies. His employees demanded he hire or promote only women and minorities -- and 25% of the "workers" at his division threatened to quit if he didn't.

Since when do employees demand shit from a boss?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2024 02:45 PM (6GRih)

36 VENE VEDE VICI

Posted by: THe Rise of the Italics at March 19, 2024 02:45 PM (ibTVg)

37 I heard here yesterday that Brin’s daughter was picked by JFK Jr. to be his running mate. Has this been confirmed?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 19, 2024 02:44 PM (9yWhg)

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JFK Jr. is dead.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19, 2024 02:45 PM (DRSnL)

38 29 I heard here yesterday that Brin’s daughter was picked by JFK Jr. to be his running mate. Has this been confirmed?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 19, 2024 02:44 PM
(9yWhg)

Um huh?

Posted by: Zombie JFK Jr at March 19, 2024 02:46 PM (djLbh)

39 EVERYTHING the left touches will be turned to their purposes or destroyed.

AND, if it gets turned to their purposes will just get destroyed more slowly.

See: e.g. Higher Education.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 19, 2024 02:46 PM (N1tpc)

40 The Italicans!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 19, 2024 02:46 PM (3CVIc)

41 Damn it, RFK Jr. I’m bringing the fail today.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 19, 2024 02:46 PM (9yWhg)

42 JFK Jr > Zed > RBG

Posted by: Obligatory at March 19, 2024 02:46 PM (ibTVg)

43 Even the French are noticing that Google's search results are terrible.

And they're not just terrible for politically charged subjects. Though it doesn't help that what is politically charged has grown by leaps and bounds, Google can't seem to get even simple, apolitical searches right. The company is trying to manipulate searches in so many ways that it's making the Internet almost useless for searching.

Posted by: Google's worldview must be pretty fragile if it has to work this hard to hide information at March 19, 2024 02:46 PM (6PgKW)

44 "It's just a series of decisions that humans have made."

It's a series of delusions that some humans have and want to forcibly convince others to accept.

Posted by: old chick at March 19, 2024 02:47 PM (sOete)

45 O/T The delivery date for my new refrigerator has been changed for the fifth time. I demanded that they waive the haul-away charge for the old fridge, and they did it. So at least I'm saving sixty bucks.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 19, 2024 02:47 PM (DeFcY)

46 RFK Jr.

Did you see the picture Biden took in front of the White House with the Kennedy family (minus RFK Jr., of course) on Saint Patrick's Day?

Somebody's getting nervous.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 19, 2024 02:47 PM (YAtuc)

47 Ha! Auto close tags FTW!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2024 02:47 PM (6GRih)

48 EVERYTHING the left touches will be turned to their purposes or destroyed.

The left works like a virus. Whatever the original intent of the company, bureaucracy, or social organization was they will turn it into something that just outputs leftist pulp until it dies.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 19, 2024 02:47 PM (ibTVg)

49 43 And they're not just terrible for politically charged subjects. Though it doesn't help that what is politically charged has grown by leaps and bounds, Google can't seem to get even simple, apolitical searches right. The company is trying to manipulate searches in so many ways that it's making the Internet almost useless for searching.
Posted by: Google's worldview must be pretty fragile if it has to work this hard to hide information at March 19, 2024 02:46 PM (6PgKW)

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I just needed a Dark Souls 2 walkthrough, dammit! I didn't need a page of Dark Souls 2 purchase links!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 19, 2024 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

50 It's Leftists Propaganda

Posted by: Skip at March 19, 2024 02:48 PM (fwDg9)

51 Goolag is garbage. I don't know why anyone uses any of their stuff anymore.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at March 19, 2024 02:48 PM (PWI4f)

52 What is needed to help all my little brown and black bruthas and hermanas out is a DEI Tax on any and all tech based corporations, partnerships or mom and pop operations/profits to the tune of 80%. This money will go to promoting jobs in Da Ghetto and The Barrio since these folks are incompetents who cannot take care of theyselves and cannot compete with YT.

You wanna get nuts, let's get nuts.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 19, 2024 02:48 PM (MHhQj)

53 Wow, this really opens the door for non-woke competitors to take away Google's supremacy

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

(gasp)

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Posted by: Oglebay at March 19, 2024 02:48 PM (ogTiX)

54 Years ago, when I first encountered and used Googled, I was just impressed. It would find all sorts of technical/scientific info, even very arcane stuff very nicely and pop up the most relevant links it could find.
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Yup.
Now, all you get is poorly written AI articles that are ill-informed summaries of something else not provided.
Endless pages of the same 5 news articles.
And ads.

Good luck finding the source document, video, publication or recording--everything is filtered.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 19, 2024 02:48 PM (yikga)

55 Google can't seem to get even simple, apolitical searches right

Have you considered clicking on an ad?

Posted by: Google! at March 19, 2024 02:48 PM (YAtuc)

56 *dons hazmat suit*

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 19, 2024 02:48 PM (llON8)

57 So, all AI is BS. Good to know, of course I kinda already knew AI was BS with the "hype" machine behind "AI". Nothing works anymore. Sucks.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at March 19, 2024 02:48 PM (EweRc)

58 Posted by: Google's worldview must be pretty fragile if it has to work this hard to hide information at March 19, 2024 02:46 PM (6PgKW)

Remember that Google believes they have a mandate to do what they do. Manifest Destiny.

That's why the Get Trump At Any Cost is justified in the crazy's minds.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 19, 2024 02:48 PM (3CVIc)

59 Wow, this really opens the door for non-woke competitors to take away Google's supremacy

Remember its not an oligarchy even though any new competitor that shows up is immediately attacked by the other companies in the cartel (parler, rumble, etc)

Posted by: 18-1 at March 19, 2024 02:49 PM (ibTVg)

60 OT: Free cone day at Dairy Queen (DQ) stand alone sites and free water ice at Rita's.

Even though it's cold, I took the kids for cones b/c in this environment, a free treat is golden.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 19, 2024 02:49 PM (exHjb)

61 The Biteme campaign posted a photo of Captain TripnFall with 67 members of Kennedy Family and no RFK Jr..
OUCH !!!

Posted by: Im at March 19, 2024 02:49 PM (djLbh)

62 OT but Biden is forcing Israel to nuke Iran if Israel ends up not being able to defend itself using conventional weapons.

This asshole is going to start WW3.

Posted by: pawn at March 19, 2024 02:49 PM (OQJIV)

63 There’s nothing to figure out ________is psychotic.

Posted by: Merkin Muffley at March 19, 2024 02:50 PM (as3uC)

64 That's why the Get Trump At Any Cost is justified in the crazy's minds.

The left: How dare you accuse us of stealing an election! What kind of people do you think we are?!?

Also the left: Trump is literally Hitler. And you would do anything you could to stop the rise of Hitler right?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 19, 2024 02:50 PM (ibTVg)

65 On Reddit, one finds more posts by users wondering why their search results seem worse than they were before. "There was a time when one had the impression that Google was magic," wrote The Atlantic in September, looking back to a time which seems to be over.

I remember when Google's results were so good, it was almost guaranteed one of the top three results were EXACTLY what I was looking for, even on obscure searches. This was at a time when all the other search engines first page of results were half pr0n and the other half only semi-relevant.

Remember when every webpage used to have 100+ common search terms in the code just so they could trick search engines? Google made that practice obsolete.

Then they crapped the bed. I think part of it is that people figured out how to game Google's search. But a much bigger part is how much Google themselves game their own search.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 19, 2024 02:50 PM (Odg76)

66 62 OT but Biden is forcing Israel to nuke Iran if Israel ends up not being able to defend itself using conventional weapons.

This asshole is going to start WW3.
Posted by: pawn at March 19, 2024 02:49 PM (OQJIV)

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"You can't elect Trump. He'll end WWIII."
-Biden's re-election message come October

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 19, 2024 02:50 PM (GBKbO)

67 You might try Yandex - it's as bad on Russian political searches as Google is on American political searches, of course, but seems better on non-political topics.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 19, 2024 02:50 PM (YAtuc)

68 it's hard to take a web search company seriously when it doesn't have a blimp.

Posted by: AltaVista at March 19, 2024 02:50 PM (v3pYe)

69 Crowder exposed google years ago when Tulsi Gabbard was running and google yielded zero search results for her campaign site, only media propaganda.

VPN to Europe and the results were MUCH different.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 19, 2024 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

70 64 That's why the Get Trump At Any Cost is justified in the crazy's minds.

The left: How dare you accuse us of stealing an election! What kind of people do you think we are?!?

Also the left: Trump is literally Hitler. And you would do anything you could to stop the rise of Hitler right?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 19, 2024 02:50 PM (ibTVg)

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"Cheating only happens sometimes, and it never makes any change. That's why people cheat: to have no effect on the outcome."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 19, 2024 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

71 >>> 64
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The left: How dare you accuse us of stealing an election! What kind of people do you think we are?!?

Also the left: Trump is literally Hitler. And you would do anything you could to stop the rise of Hitler right?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 19, 2024 02:50 PM (ibTVg)

The 2020 election was *fortified* you big dummies.

Posted by: Time Magazine at March 19, 2024 02:51 PM (llON8)

72 Apparently, META has come arragement with Google to use Gemini AI and Apple is in talks for the same

Posted by: SMOD at March 19, 2024 02:51 PM (RHGPo)

73 Google determined that their original motto: "Don't Be Evil" was too complex. So they just shortened it a bit by dropping the "Be".

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 19, 2024 02:51 PM (lZVy/)

74 64 That's why the Get Trump At Any Cost is justified in the crazy's minds.

The left: How dare you accuse us of stealing an election! What kind of people do you think we are?!?

Also the left: Trump is literally Hitler. And you would do anything you could to stop the rise of Hitler right?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 19, 2024 02:50 PM (ibTVg)

Could be from Joe Scarborough himself.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 19, 2024 02:51 PM (3CVIc)

75 > Since when do employees demand shit from a boss?

Unions?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 19, 2024 02:51 PM (Odg76)

76 DEI. And when they say diversity woe to anyone foolish enough to think they want diversity in opinions. No, they want checkbox, female? minority race, or bonus points for LGBT, drones who will parrot the communist BS. I'm not sure that a hetero white female is still worth any points on the DEI scorecard.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 19, 2024 02:51 PM (wTs+0)

77 His employees demanded he hire or promote only women and minorities -- and 25% of the "workers" at his division threatened to quit if he didn't.

He duly hired a "smart but unqualified" woman.

But that was only the beginning of the DEI demands:

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"He chose .. poorly."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 19, 2024 02:51 PM (PHzxz)

78 19 This is every corporation now. Unqualified women and minorities.
Posted by: steevy at March 19, 2024 02:41 PM (FQmDC)

Considering they can pay them $.73 for every dollar a straight white guy makes, makes total sense that the greedy capitalists would finally take advantage of this inherent cost savings!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 19, 2024 02:51 PM (KbCG3)

79 Break it up. Literally. Kick the doors in. Arrest everyone inside. 25 years hard labor. Raffle off the data centers. Give the buildings to the fentanyl zombies to strip for tranq money and use as a hobo flop house.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 19, 2024 02:51 PM (0FoWg)

80
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JFK Jr. is dead.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19, 2024 02:45 PM (DRSnL)

*sings Frank Sinatra's Fly With Me*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 19, 2024 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

81 Maguire is one of multiple former Google employees who told The Free Press that the Gemini fiasco stems from a corporate culture that prioritizes the ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over excellence and good business sense.
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I'll take "things that were immediately obvious to everyone" for $500, Alex.

Gemini isn't some little project. It's a gigantic program in the thick of the industry's most exciting technical area and the area with the largest amount of investment (AI). There is absolutely no way this got to the public without a *lot* of internal review.

Executive oversight. Significant internal testing. Internal betas. Code review. Major CapEx. Something this big doesn't happen in a vacuum.

Google's internal work and testing either didn't catch the manifold problems because they didn't and can't think of them (thinking of them would be dangerous heterodoxy), or they found them but saw them as benefits rather than problems.

Either way, this comes down to the corporate culture and operating principles and procedures. This isn't the work of the Gemini team and it's not the Gemini team' problem - not in isolation. This is an all-of-company problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 02:52 PM (HnUIn)

82
"Cheating only happens sometimes, and it never makes any change. That's why people cheat: to have no effect on the outcome."

Also....

The left: Anyone that claims one of our sacred elections was stolen or was in any way impure is a science hating NAZI

Also the left: The presidential elections of 1980, 2000, 2004, and 2016 were all stolen

Posted by: 18-1 at March 19, 2024 02:52 PM (ibTVg)

83 This is every corporation now. Unqualified women and minorities.

what have wypipo ever done for us?

Posted by: Shanika in HR at March 19, 2024 02:52 PM (AR07F)

84 This is every corporation now. Unqualified women and minorities

Hi there!

Posted by: Boeing and the Airlines! at March 19, 2024 02:53 PM (YAtuc)

85 I think the google trajectory has followed almost all trajectories for companies who outcompete the competition by offering a better service and then, once the competition is vanquished, decide they no longer need to spend time and money on better service. So the service suffers. A lot.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 19, 2024 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

86 >>"We haven't fully understood why it leans left in many cases. . . that's not our intention."

Sergey Brinn needs to meat the business end of an industrial wood chipper. metaphorically of course, for saying something so manifestly preposterous and stupid.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 19, 2024 02:53 PM (XV/Pl)

87 This is every corporation now. Unqualified women and minorities.
Posted by: steevy at March 19, 2024 02:41 PM (FQmDC)

***

Once you let the camel toe under the tent...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at March 19, 2024 02:53 PM (ZV+pB)

88 And earlier this month, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told a room full of entrepreneurs in San Francisco of Gemini: "We haven't fully understood why it leans left in many cases. . . that's not our intention."
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I believe him. Not kidding. I think he's telling the truth.

When you're so steeped in your own collective worldview, you don't need to pursue absolute uniformity of belief within the organization, and you might in fact not even intend to achieve it. But you *will* achieve it, and will do so with exasperating predictability.

You didn't hire him *because* he's a leftist, but you sure didn't hire a non-leftist. Why would you? The leftist had at least some of the skills you were looking for and was a "great fit for my team" or "really compatible with the Google corporate culture."

You didn't need to deliberately select for it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 02:54 PM (HnUIn)

89 The Kennedy picture with Biden showed more inbred bucktoothed fetal alcohol syndrome people per square foot than any picture in history

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 19, 2024 02:54 PM (5q0pY)

90 Ohhh, was wondering why a line a DQ

Posted by: Skip at March 19, 2024 02:54 PM (fwDg9)

91 "It's not Intelligence. It's whatever it's PROGRAMMED to be. It doesn't learn, it's coded." Posted by: Sponge

The machines have "learned" that the founders and all inventors and leaders were black, brown or Asian. So when the killing times come, the machines will have "learned that society must get rid of this worthless and dangerous white race of humans.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 19, 2024 02:54 PM (Cus5s)

92 This is every corporation now. Unqualified women and minorities.

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Every corporation, every sector, every industry. It's become an avalanche. I don't know how or if it ever stops.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 19, 2024 02:55 PM (mupln)

93 @65 With respect, Google is and has always been the biggest vilest turd in an ocean of big vile turds. They should've anti-trusted into deep space twenty years ago.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at March 19, 2024 02:55 PM (MkuC5)

94 Once you let the camel toe under the tent...
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

Wut?

Posted by: Kameltoe Harris at March 19, 2024 02:55 PM (lZVy/)

95 Even the French are noticing that Google's search results are terrible.

La merde ? Les choses se déroulent comme nous l'avions prévu.

Posted by: Grand Pingouin at March 19, 2024 02:55 PM (a3Q+t)

96 Did you see the picture Biden took in front of the White House with the Kennedy family (minus RFK Jr., of course) on Saint Patrick's Day?

a reminder that there was a previous classless thuggish clan in the WH

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 19, 2024 02:55 PM (AcWfM)

97
Google AI: Election interference is rare and should be condomed, however this is why it's good...

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 19, 2024 02:56 PM (RKVpM)

98 Go watch The Creepy Line.

That is all.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 19, 2024 02:56 PM (KbCG3)

99 David Kiferbaum, a Google business manager who worked at the company from 2015 to 2023, said he experienced pressure to recruit minorities after Damore was fired. He said he began hearing things like "We're really looking for diverse candidates for this role," which he took to mean "a non-white, a non-hetero" applicant.

"I was like, 'Whoa, I can't believe this person is saying this out loud,' " he said.
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Yup. As I've said before, I was on an "all hands" call a couple of years back with my division's GM when he said:
"It's no longer just about finding the best candidate for the job, it's about finding the best candidate for the job who also contributes to our diversity."

As a shareholder, it didn't fill me with confidence. As a white man, it didn't fill me with ambition.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 02:56 PM (HnUIn)

100 >>> 92 This is every corporation now. Unqualified women and minorities.

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Every corporation, every sector, every industry. It's become an avalanche. I don't know how or if it ever stops.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 19, 2024 02:55 PM (mupln)

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: Romanian Christmas at March 19, 2024 02:56 PM (llON8)

101 The very sad part is the people destroying the country are turd tard candy ass lazy stoopid button pushers..
We need a strategy!!!

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! at March 19, 2024 02:56 PM (djLbh)

102 When asked for comment, a Google Ventures spokesperson told The Free Press: "These claims from Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire regarding his time at GV from 2016--2019 are baseless and factually inaccurate. GV's decisions around hiring and promotion are solely based on merit and ability."
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Then why do you have DEI and ESG departments?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 02:56 PM (HnUIn)

103 algos chasing tails is what is happening to search engine "optimization"

look at amazon - you can't just search for the product you want anymore it seems like

you need to know what you're there for, now

otherwise you just get what Mr Algo wants to give you. which is probably something you already bought and don't want anymore

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 19, 2024 02:57 PM (AcWfM)

104 Google needs to wither and DEI.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 19, 2024 02:57 PM (ufFY8)

105 90 Ohhh, was wondering why a line a DQ
Posted by: Skip at March 19, 2024 02:54 PM (fwDg9)

It's free small vanilla cone, no extras...but every person can get one...I skipped, but I think my boys would have eaten mine too if I'd have grabbed one (but that seemed wrong)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 19, 2024 02:57 PM (exHjb)

106 The Kennedy picture with Biden showed more inbred bucktoothed fetal alcohol syndrome people per square foot than any picture in history

And that was just Biden.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 19, 2024 02:57 PM (YAtuc)

107 Years ago I got a sudden meeting with corporate HR and no notification as to why.

I had a couple hours of terror trying to think of anything I could have done (I'm very very careful to avoid politics at work).

So the woman brought me and told me another cow-worker had made a claim "on my behalf" against a different coworker.

The short end of it was the "defendant" had said something like "we have to get this plan completely right or else company X will f*ck us in the @ss".

I took that as helpful advice that there couldn't be any mistakes in the plan I was proposing and made sure to go over it with a fine tooth comb before sending it off. But some aggrieved cow-worker (and I think I know who it was) decided to complain "on my behalf".

My explanation saved the guy's job but it was such bullshit.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 19, 2024 02:57 PM (ibTVg)

108 ... internal emails uncovered by then-Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson. A leaked email chain showed one employee explaining how Google made a "silent donation" by working with its partner Voto Latino to pay for Latino voters to get rides to the polls in "key states."
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That's a pittance compared to the *billions* of dollars' worth of in-kind campaign contributions to the Party in the form of information control and data mining.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 02:57 PM (HnUIn)

109 Did you see the picture Biden took in front of the White House with the Kennedy family (minus RFK Jr., of course) on Saint Patrick's Day?

a reminder that there was a previous classless thuggish clan in the WH
Posted by: BlackOrchid

So soon after St. Patricks day?

Posted by: The Irish at March 19, 2024 02:57 PM (lZVy/)

110 57 So, all AI is BS. Good to know, of course I kinda already knew AI was BS with the "hype" machine behind "AI". Nothing works anymore. Sucks.
Posted by: Ganowicz
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Large Language Model "AI" so far is simply strip mining large databanks and using probabilities to assemble the results. What Google did on Gemini was to maximize DEI algorithms at the expense of accuracy of results. In other words, they stacked the dice when the AI engine was trying to figure out probabilities by either eliminating a category (white) or by weighting the responses toward favored narratives (possibly by ranking source of data values and excluding 'bad' sources).

Ironically, it may end up blowing a huge hole in cloud computing as a lot of that secret sauce for truly useful corporate specialty AI will need to be guarded lest their competitors get their hands on it. So, you will probably have a return of AI systems from the cloud to secure on site corporate run IT.

Posted by: whig at March 19, 2024 02:57 PM (tb8RV)

111 I don't use Gorgle. I know it's behind a lot of things I do use. But I won't knowingly use a Gorgle product.

Qwant and Yandex seem to produce goodresults; no idea if G is behind them, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 19, 2024 02:58 PM (J2vNu)

112 I think it's pretty obvious what Google, Facebook, etc. are doing. They're rewriting history on the fly. They're deliberately skewing what information is seen by the public.

FedGov has indicated they are fine with this arrangement, so it will continue and probably expand. As long as it benefits a leftist government.

A non-leftist government will be subjected to massive data and information manipulation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 19, 2024 02:58 PM (Q4IgG)

113 96 Did you see the picture Biden took in front of the White House with the Kennedy family (minus RFK Jr., of course) on Saint Patrick's Day?

I did... Looked like a bunch of inbreds

Posted by: It's me donna at March 19, 2024 02:58 PM (Akjoo)

114 OUT: Google
IN: Garble

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 19, 2024 02:58 PM (wtvvX)

115 107 I took that as helpful advice that there couldn't be any mistakes in the plan I was proposing and made sure to go over it with a fine tooth comb before sending it off. But some aggrieved cow-worker (and I think I know who it was) decided to complain "on my behalf".

My explanation saved the guy's job but it was such bullshit.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 19, 2024 02:57 PM (ibTVg)

=========

Perhaps, you should have gone a different route.

"I'm personally offended by someone being offended for me. That robs me of agency. His presence in the company makes me feel unsafe."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 19, 2024 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

116 >>The Kennedy picture with Biden showed more inbred bucktoothed fetal alcohol syndrome people per square foot than any picture in history

where was Ethel? She's still kickin' isn't she? That RFK's mom!

Posted by: DanMan at March 19, 2024 02:58 PM (8uzBS)

117
There's a word for this "Enshitification".

Google, and all other Big Tech verntures will become Enshitified with time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2024 02:59 PM (w6EFb)

118 In other news, there's nothing like waiting 6 months for the 250k dollars in color grading OLED monitors only for the cartons to show up looking like they had been handled by a team of Samsonite Gorillas.

Le Sigh.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 19, 2024 02:59 PM (XV/Pl)

119 I’m headed for a meeting where the Chinese guy with a terrible accent who is the boss of an
Indian guy who has a terrible accent who is our boss is going to “clarify” what the white guys that work for him are supposed to be doing.

Posted by: pawn at March 19, 2024 02:59 PM (dsQqb)

120 The Mountain View firm is apparently trying to rebuff the claims of critics who, for months and even years, ask why the results offered [by Google] are less and less good. [A "journalist" from NBC wondered, on February 24th, if "anyone had had enough and quit Google."
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Google is basically fully useless now. There was a goodly while there where it was still superior for technical searches, but even that has slid into oblivion now. Hell, Bing - which sucks - is significantly better.

But the best search engines are foreign now. France's Qwant is pretty good, but I have noticed it getting worse recently. Russia's Yandex is excellent and has the best image search outside of Google (which is still top-tier for image search), but it has the same problems Google does, albeit from the other direction. Use plenty of salt when searching for political things on Yandex, but otherwise it remains pretty darn good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:00 PM (HnUIn)

121 Google's search results have been getting worse for years, but it seems like the decline really accelerated over the last year-ish. The results are comically bad now.

Posted by: ballistic at March 19, 2024 03:00 PM (oqH4h)

122 And SCOTUS seems just fine with this

Posted by: It's me donna at March 19, 2024 03:01 PM (Akjoo)

123 The short end of it was the "defendant" had said something like "we have to get this plan completely right or else company X will f*ck us in the @ss".

I went from working at a small company in the oil industry that was mostly men that used language like that on a daily basis

now I'm at a place that's mostly women (at least in corporate) and I walk on eggshells with the language for fear of someone in HR rushing to the fainting couch over a joke

Posted by: brak at March 19, 2024 03:01 PM (AR07F)

124 I haven't used Google as my default search engine in years but I don't kid myself that Bing or DuckDuckGo or anything else is objectively better.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 19, 2024 03:01 PM (sNc8Y)

125 "Every corporation, every sector, every industry. It's become an avalanche. I don't know how or if it ever stops." Posted by: Lady in Black

Half of Boeing's planes fall out of the sky? And that happens across the (corporation) board?

Posted by: illiniwek at March 19, 2024 03:01 PM (Cus5s)

126 "And earlier this month, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told a room full of entrepreneurs in San Francisco of Gemini: "We haven't fully understood why it leans left in many cases. . . that's not our intention."

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This is a backdoor way of nurturing the inference that objective reality is necessarily tilted to the left.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at March 19, 2024 03:01 PM (wzAuc)

127 I don't know how or if it ever stops.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 19, 2024 02:55 PM (mupln)

It stops when metastatic incompetency becomes fatal. Which it will. Soon. Sooner the better.

Also, folks seem to think all the high competency incorrectly colored and equipped rejects are off the board.

They aren't.

They're out there, making plans, raising money and forging partnerships. Personally, I left disgusting Megabank in June and have already gotten with some peeps, raised some bucks from a highly qualified investor and gotten a startup going. I assure you I'm not an outlier.

It ain't over till its over.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at March 19, 2024 03:02 PM (MkuC5)

128 WE HAVE TO SECURE OUR ELACTIONS!!!

The A=Holes locked up a lawyer today for submitting evidence of disputing dromion voting machine results.

They always make such a smoke/stink screen about the actions of our people no matter how small of an infraction disregarding the MAJOR crimes we uncover... SOROs that rat bastid has quietly enrolled all the enforcement he needs.... What are we going to do? seriously..

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! at March 19, 2024 03:02 PM (djLbh)

129 > Google's internal work and testing either didn't catch the manifold problems because they didn't and can't think of them (thinking of them would be dangerous heterodoxy), or they found them but saw them as benefits rather than problems.

The only problem the public found that Google agreed was a problem was the black Nazis. All the white erasure stuff was hunky dory for them.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 19, 2024 03:02 PM (Odg76)

130 I remember when Google's results were so good, it was almost guaranteed one of the top three results were EXACTLY what I was looking for,

I noticed several days ago that they still have the “I’m feeling lucky” button on the front page. And wondered who would ever use it today.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 19, 2024 03:02 PM (EXyHK)

131 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:00 PM

So where do you search for les femmes Mannix?

Posted by: Grand Pingouin at March 19, 2024 03:02 PM (a3Q+t)

132 ELECTIONS too

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! at March 19, 2024 03:03 PM (djLbh)

133 Democrats are losing the youth with the Tik Tok vote. It sounds crazy but this generation is addicted to Tik Tok and they don’t understand why we would ban it instead of focusing on other matters that seem more important . Why are we allowing Republicans to lock us into a losing situation right before the election.

It is not to ban Tik Tok. It's a bill to force Bytedance (controlled by the Chinese Communist Party) to divest (sell) the app. This the most likely outcome if the bill even passes which it may not. Similar situation recently: Grindr has been sold by its Chinese owner after the US expressed security concerns.

And didn't the Grindr sale have a hilarious ending - After claims that the evil Chinese owners were going to violaten the privacy of US citizens, the new owners ended up selling off user data in mass to a Catholic aligned NGO. And the government response, so such a blatant violation of our privacy? Crickets.

Do we want to associate with people who place keeping TiK Toc above other issues? Like climate change, affordable health care, women's rights and so on?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 19, 2024 03:03 PM (U06Eh)

134 I was listening to this story on AM talk radio today. I am shocked that anyone with actual functioning brain cells would be surprised with this news.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 19, 2024 03:03 PM (QNSds)

135 the Chinese guy with a terrible accent who is the boss of an
Indian guy who has a terrible accent
Posted by: pawn

Sounds like a grave problem. Could lead to an acute crisis.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 19, 2024 03:03 PM (9yWhg)

136 @57

>>So, all AI is BS. Good to know, of course I kinda already knew AI was BS with the "hype" machine behind "AI". Nothing works anymore. Sucks.

AI like everything else in computing is a tool, it's great for summarizing meetings, evaluating expense reports, generating boilerplate, analyzing large disparate data sets, etc.

But organizing your society around it is a really bad idea.

Unfortunately, that the direction The Maniacs in Charge are Herding us to.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 19, 2024 03:03 PM (XV/Pl)

137 I'm eating healthy tonight!

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4csFnpZXek

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at March 19, 2024 03:03 PM (X4yCj)

138 This is a backdoor way of nurturing the inference that objective reality is necessarily tilted to the left.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at March 19, 2024 03:01 PM (wzAuc)
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Their reality is. The reality they have constructed for themselves through deliberate selection for leftist attributes.

"How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him."

This is a real phenomenon. They built - accidentally or on purpose - an environment of lock-step uniformity. Of course reality has a progressive bias - after all, the one they built for themselves *does* and they're constitutionally incapable of understanding that their cloistered order is not the sum total of reality.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:04 PM (HnUIn)

139 Do we want to associate with people who place keeping TiK Toc above other issues? Like climate change, affordable health care, women's rights and so on?
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 19, 2024 03:03 PM (U06Eh)

Yes

Posted by: It's me donna at March 19, 2024 03:04 PM (Akjoo)

140 Michigan Lawyer Stefanie Lambert Arrested by US Marshals in DC Following Court Appearance — After Submitting “Evidence of Numerous Crimes” Including Internal Emails from Dominion Voting Systems to Law Enforcement

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! at March 19, 2024 03:04 PM (djLbh)

141 Gainz news:

I squatted 295lbs yesterday and felt like I had a lot of room for more. I probably could have hit three plates if I wanted to.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 19, 2024 03:05 PM (Odg76)

142 The short end of it was the "defendant" had said something like "we have to get this plan completely right or else company X will f*ck us in the @ss".

I took that as helpful advice that there couldn't be any mistakes in the plan I was proposing and made sure to go over it with a fine tooth comb before sending it off. But some aggrieved cow-worker (and I think I know who it was) decided to complain "on my behalf".

My explanation saved the guy's job but it was such bullshit.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 19, 2024 02:57 PM (ibTVg)

I guess responding, "I thought ass sex was a constitutional right and a moral obligation now," would have been the wrong strategy for this meeting.

Posted by: I'll just fire myself at March 19, 2024 03:05 PM (6PgKW)

143 breaking news: S.C. denies Biden Admin's appeal, Texas police officers can now arrest illegals

Posted by: Shoey77 at March 19, 2024 03:05 PM (//kQK)

144 Qwant and Yandex seem to produce goodresults; no idea if G is behind them, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming

Qwant is French owned but apparently uses Microsoft's ad service. Yandex is Russian so...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 19, 2024 03:05 PM (IG4Id)

145 Use plenty of salt when searching for political things on Yandex, but otherwise it remains pretty darn good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:00 PM (HnUIn)

Politics is largely irrelevant, at least here. But it wouldn't bother me much if I typed in "Joe Biden" and it returned "senile pedophile, crook, and father of a crackhead. One day, he and his whole brood of maggots will perish of appendicitis in the Arctic Wolf prison, as is the will of G-d and His sanctified Orthodox Church. Praise Vladimir, amen."

But then, I doubt the Russians are as ham-handed as our guys.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 19, 2024 03:05 PM (0FoWg)

146 where was Ethel? She's still kickin' isn't she? That RFK's mom!
Posted by: DanMan at March 19, 2024 02:58 PM (8uzBS)

Yeah, she's still upright. Older than dirt. Sold the family home in McLean, VA a while ago.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at March 19, 2024 03:05 PM (EweRc)

147
I’m headed for a meeting where the Chinese guy with a terrible accent who is the boss of an Indian guy who has a terrible accent who is our boss is going to “clarify” what the white guys that work for him are supposed to be doing.

Posted by: pawn at March 19, 2024 02:59 PM

I was informed of a very recognizable name in the investment industry looking for someone with my qualifications. I pinned the person down, before wasting time, and discovered:
1). She would get a handsome bonus if I was hired
2). I would be supervising a bunch of Pakastani's coders with little understanding of the English language

There are some things (like Meat Loaf) I'll do for love, but I won't do that.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 19, 2024 03:06 PM (RKVpM)

148 But then, I doubt the Russians are as ham-handed as our guys.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 19, 2024 03:05 PM (0FoWg)
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LOL

We're in a weird world when the American propagandists are at least as unsubtle as the Russian ones.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:06 PM (HnUIn)

149 " that DEI "is part of every single thing" in the company;"

Well of course. Their ideology exists on the atomic level.

Posted by: eleven at March 19, 2024 03:06 PM (iziT8)

150
From what little I've played with this stupid Motorola Android phone I got, Google search on that is even more comically worse than Google search from a browser on PC.

Anything you search pops up ads first and foremost, and even scrolling down gives nothing but crap.

I think of all these kids seaching on their phones. Their minds are filled with crap.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2024 03:06 PM (w6EFb)

151 GIGO... Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 19, 2024 03:06 PM (xaFKb)

152 Yeah, she's still upright. Older than dirt. Sold the family home in McLean, VA a while ago.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at March 19, 2024 03:05 PM (EweRc)
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Is she still bug-nuts?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 19, 2024 03:07 PM (DeFcY)

153 When asked for comment, a Google Ventures spokesperson told The Free Press: "These claims from Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire regarding his time at GV from 2016--2019 are baseless and factually inaccurate. GV's decisions around hiring and promotion are solely based on merit and ability."

Well now, who should I believe? People with nothing to lose/gain by exposing what is going on at Google or Google themselves who have everything to lose? Hmmmm.

Posted by: Cheri at March 19, 2024 03:07 PM (oiNtH)

154 I haven't used Google as my default search engine in years but I don't kid myself that Bing or DuckDuckGo or anything else is objectively better.

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I haven't used them in years either. Bing and DDG are only marginally better just in terms of the obvious levels of evil. That's about all I have to go on.

Besides, it seems all search engines have turned to junk, imo. Looking up nearly anything not research-related gives nothing but Amazon product page links.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 19, 2024 03:07 PM (mupln)

155 So...

Would Google's support of certain candidates via search engine tweaking, and other actions, count as undeclared political donations, and possibly a violation of federal election laws?

Posted by: junior at March 19, 2024 03:07 PM (+Ju9U)

156 Well now, who should I believe? People with nothing to lose/gain by exposing what is going on at Google or Google themselves who have everything to lose? Hmmmm.
Posted by: Cheri at March 19, 2024 03:07 PM (oiNtH)
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Look at the evidence.

Google has DEI and ESG departments. Therefore, any assertion of "we hire solely based on merit" is complete bunk. The purpose of DEI and ESG departments (particularly DEI, but it's both) is to defeat the merit system.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:08 PM (HnUIn)

157 >>> 155 So...

Would Google's support of certain candidates via search engine tweaking, and other actions, count as undeclared political donations, and possibly a violation of federal election laws?
Posted by: junior at March 19, 2024 03:07 PM (+Ju9U)

Of course, except you forgot the Of The Body exemption.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 19, 2024 03:08 PM (llON8)

158 "We had no idea how this thing was going to perform but we released it anyway." That's the story Google wants us to believe? If Google was still two guys working out of their garage, maybe, but at this point, no chance.

Posted by: Octochicken at March 19, 2024 03:09 PM (oCS0o)

159 Michigan Lawyer Stefanie Lambert Arrested by US Marshals in DC Following Court Appearance — After Submitting “Evidence of Numerous Crimes” Including Internal Emails from Dominion Voting Systems to Law Enforcement

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We're living in Stalin's Russia, apparently.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 19, 2024 03:09 PM (mupln)

160 And earlier this month, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told a room full of entrepreneurs in San Francisco of Gemini: "We haven't fully understood why it leans left in many cases. . . that's not our intention."

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This is a backdoor way of nurturing the inference that objective reality is necessarily tilted to the left.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at March 19, 2024 03:01 PM (wzAuc)

Yep. They probably don't see themselves as left-leaning, let alone as the full-on socialist-wanna bes they actually are. To their own eyes, they're just straight-shooters who are correct and also happen to be the smartest people in the world.

Posted by: LASue at March 19, 2024 03:09 PM (Gq9/0)

161 I would be supervising a bunch of Pakastani's coders with little understanding of the English language
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 19, 2024 03:06 PM

Coding is the universal language:

Do() || !Do(); // There is no try-catch

Posted by: Grand Pingouin at March 19, 2024 03:09 PM (a3Q+t)

162 I walk on eggshells with the language for fear of someone in HR rushing to the fainting couch over a joke
Posted by: brak at March 19, 2024 03:01 PM (AR07F)

I guess they haven't been f*cked in the @ss, yet.
Or won't admit to such.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 19, 2024 03:09 PM (ufFY8)

163 So...

Would Google's support of certain candidates via search engine tweaking, and other actions, count as undeclared political donations, and possibly a violation of federal election laws?
Posted by: junior at March 19, 2024 03:07 PM (+Ju9U)
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I think it would be reasonable to consider it an "in-kind" donation and so yes, it surely would.

But it will never be pursued for this. Every executive in all of Big Tech, most of High Tech and the entire Media industries would have to be sent to prison. It would be a "bad look," as they say.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:09 PM (HnUIn)

164 Would Google's support of certain candidates via search engine tweaking, and other actions, count as undeclared political donations, and possibly a violation of federal election laws?
Posted by: junior

Possibly! First question...was the company supporting Orange Man Bad, or "other"?

Posted by: Liberal Justice System at March 19, 2024 03:09 PM (U06Eh)

165 Several years ago I signed up for Google Webmaster or whatever they call it so that I could see how Google indexed my site. The problem with Google’s search results isn’t even just a problem of actively using racism to skew their results toward DEI. They also downgrade sites based on their vision of what the underlying HTML should look like. This has the effect of hiding older pages you know are out there, because they use older styles of HTML code to create the page.

But I don’t know what to replace it with. I switched to Duck Duck Go on my portable devices, but it mostly just adds an extra step, because I usually have to switch to Google; even their crappy results are better.

(I use xSearch to easily switch between search engines. For example, to switch from DDG to Google I’d just put the letter “g” in front of the search. To search Bing, I only have to type “bing” in front of the search.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 19, 2024 03:09 PM (EXyHK)

166 "And earlier this month, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told a room full of entrepreneurs in San Francisco of Gemini: "We haven't fully understood why it leans left in many cases. . . that's not our intention."

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If your software "leans left," it's not really AI. It's a con. It's a fraud.

Back in the day they called this "GIGO."

Posted by: BurtTC at March 19, 2024 03:10 PM (dGCAG)

167
His employees demanded he hire or promote only women and minorities -- and 25% of the "workers" at his division threatened to quit if he didn't.

He duly hired a "smart but unqualified" woman.

===========

Then he had two options, and he chose the wrong one.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at March 19, 2024 03:10 PM (Xwngz)

168 Gainz news:

I squatted 295lbs yesterday and felt like I had a lot of room for more. I probably could have hit three plates if I wanted to.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 19, 2024 03:05 PM (Odg76)
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Congratulations!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:10 PM (HnUIn)

169 160 And earlier this month, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told a room full of entrepreneurs in San Francisco of Gemini: "We haven't fully understood why it leans left in many cases. . . that's not our intention."

Because someone programed it that way

Posted by: It's me donna at March 19, 2024 03:10 PM (Akjoo)

170 Google In Google Out

Posted by: eleven at March 19, 2024 03:11 PM (iziT8)

171 But it will never be pursued for this. Every executive in all of Big Tech, most of High Tech and the entire Media industries would have to be sent to prison. It would be a "bad look," as they say.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:09 PM (HnUIn)

All I can say is... it moved.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 19, 2024 03:12 PM (dGCAG)

172
(I use xSearch to easily switch between search engines. For example, to switch from DDG to Google I’d just put the letter “g” in front of the search. To search Bing, I only have to type “bing” in front of the search.)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

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Is there a search engine amalgamater that gets results from a bunch of search engines? Same as the way Kayak gets results from all the travel services (Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, etc)?

If there was, seems like that would be handy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at March 19, 2024 03:13 PM (Xwngz)

173 All I can say is... it moved.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 19, 2024 03:12 PM (dGCAG)
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It shouldn't have. They're all fine. The FEC and FTC will loudly ignore the obvious until the government falls - at which point, it won't matter anymore anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:13 PM (HnUIn)

174 Google's a threat to humanity.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 19, 2024 02:44 PM (Q4IgG)
.......

It's a disease.

Posted by: wth at March 19, 2024 03:13 PM (v0R5T)

175 Hey Gemini, can you show me a picture of a BLOODBATH?

Posted by: wth at March 19, 2024 03:14 PM (v0R5T)

176 Bolsheviks II have pretty much taken over

Posted by: Skip at March 19, 2024 03:14 PM (fwDg9)

177 Gainz news:

I squatted 295lbs yesterday and felt like I had a lot of room for more. I probably could have hit three plates if I wanted to.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 19, 2024 03:05 PM (Odg76)

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I did a new resistance training workout yesterday and today my thighs are super pissed at me.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19, 2024 03:16 PM (DRSnL)

178 If the disenfranchised whites got together and made a white company, the could compete well. BUT they'd be attacked and maybe criminalized for lack of DEI employees.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 19, 2024 03:16 PM (Cus5s)

179 2 So, our masters will intentionally create terrible tools that never work.

And they plan on ruling the world with them?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 19, 2024 02:36 PM (GBKbO)

"With them," no. "Through them," yes.

Posted by: Octochicken at March 19, 2024 03:16 PM (oCS0o)

180 Just went to look at my blog stats for last month (these are my internal stats from my server’s log files). Here are the top five referring domains (for clients that report the referrer, of course):

1,748 google.com
51 duckduckgo.com
50 papasearch.net
29 baidu.com
27 bing.com

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 19, 2024 03:17 PM (EXyHK)

181 Woke is a magic ingredient. Add it to anything to convert same to instant shit. Like my useless cat, converting quality cat food to..... well.....

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 19, 2024 03:17 PM (pohLc)

182 Yep. They probably don't see themselves as left-leaning, let alone as the full-on socialist-wanna bes they actually are. To their own eyes, they're just straight-shooters who are correct and also happen to be the smartest people in the world.
Posted by: LASue

I work with one. She is a few office's down from me but has a big mouth and truly believes her opinion is gospel. You don't want to ever debate anything with her as her MO is to stand and argue until a person finally gives up or just walk away. Infuriating as I have to hear her BS and have started to put on white noise on my phone to drown her out. And naturally, she's a big proponent of DEI.

Posted by: Cheri at March 19, 2024 03:17 PM (oiNtH)

183 > I did a new resistance training workout yesterday and today my thighs are super pissed at me.

Nice! What does "resistance training" mean in this context? Lateral band steps, clamshells, monster walk, stuff like that?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 19, 2024 03:19 PM (Odg76)

184 Yep. They probably don't see themselves as left-leaning, let alone as the full-on socialist-wanna bes they actually are. To their own eyes, they're just straight-shooters who are correct and also happen to be the smartest people in the world.
Posted by: LASue at March 19, 2024 03:09 PM (Gq9/0)

Somehow I doubt that. Maybe there are individual programmers, straight out of whatever indoctrination center they came from, who don't realize they're not part of a political faction, but the people who run companies, especially the big tech industrial complex, know damn well. They believe they ARE the architects of the future, and the future is bent their way.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 19, 2024 03:19 PM (dGCAG)

185 "His employees demanded he hire or promote only women and minorities..."
___________________________________

LMAO. I laughed at this. I've had employees in the past that didn't understand the word "subordinate." They were instructed in the concept. Either they accepted the premise or they were removed. Not rocket science. Generally, their removal improved the morale of the other employees who DID understand the concept.

Posted by: Orson at March 19, 2024 03:19 PM (dIske)

186 Is there a search engine amalgamater that gets results from a bunch of search engines?

I’m not aware of any. Not sure how it would work, either. Interleave the results?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 19, 2024 03:20 PM (EXyHK)

187 175 Hey Gemini, can you show me a picture of a BLOODBATH?
Posted by: wth at March 19, 2024 03:14 PM (v0R5T)

Certainly wth!

*processing*
*sends wth's ip and user details to FBI*
*processing*
*processing*

Image ready to download. We checked it for spyware and malware. Honest, it's clean.
*electronic giggle*

Posted by: Gemini at March 19, 2024 03:20 PM (PiwSw)

188 Math Bee final update: Out of a team of 5 and 80+ kids overall, Pookette's team had 2nd and 3rd place individual finishers (Future Boyfriend was not one of them). Their team did not place, but the questions for the team round were not really designed for teamwork. Pookette was spaced out most of the time (probably because she was sick all weekend and didn't go to school yesterday since we made her rest), but seemed to have a good experience.

Posted by: pookysgirl needs to NAP at March 19, 2024 03:21 PM (dtlDP)

189 This blonde in some kind of tight one-piece garment isn't sure whether she should be relieved or offended that Gemini will never try to an image of her:
http://tiny.cc/mzxjxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:21 PM (HnUIn)

190 Called it. In ten years this will be normal.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 19, 2024 03:22 PM (2WOSG)

191
If you want to see where this all going on, read some of the later articles on Eugyppius' Substack:

https://tinyurl.com/y46h7zqw

He's detailing how the German govt wants to make "defaming the state" a crime. You criticize the govt, you're an insurrectionist.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2024 03:23 PM (w6EFb)

192 Normally on squat days I do regular competition barbell squats, then I follow up with weighted goblet squats, usually 3x12 with 100lb dumbbell.

Yesterday I subbed in hack squats for the goblet squats. I threw on 180lbs and that seemed like a good weight. I dunno what the machine weighs unloaded. My legs are talking to me a little, but not too badly.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 19, 2024 03:23 PM (Odg76)

193 I haven't used them in years either. Bing and DDG are only marginally better just in terms of the obvious levels of evil. That's about all I have to go on.

Besides, it seems all search engines have turned to junk, imo. Looking up nearly anything not research-related gives nothing but Amazon product page links.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 19, 2024 03:07 PM (mupln)

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Have been using Brave search since it's introduction and am disappointed about half the time.

There's a bit of a back door when I'm desperate and know a reference exists but is being buried if not hidden: most search engines allow a "smart" or "advanced search" (for example using Boolean operators, double quotes & wildcard characters for finding and/or eliminating exact phrases, specifying a site like "site:acecomments.mu.nu", etc.).

Kind of a primitive SQL. More often than not this works, especially with Google (my last resort) and likely defeats their generally censorious algorithms and "AI."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 19, 2024 03:23 PM (BDA+b)

194 This means that the Google tech lords were behind the pro-pedophile slant of Gemini.

I don't get it. Why would a bunch of giganerds, who couldn't get laid with a fistful of dollars in a whorehouse, be pro-pedophile?

Posted by: Ken at March 19, 2024 03:24 PM (cuu81)

195 ‘Listen! And understand. The AI will always be out there..’
We all know where this ends up.

Posted by: Eromero at March 19, 2024 03:24 PM (NxC5+)

196 Nice! What does "resistance training" mean in this context? Lateral band steps, clamshells, monster walk, stuff like that?
Posted by: bonhomme at March 19, 2024 03:19 PM (Odg76)

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Free weights. Little girly ones for now. I normally do all the usual presses and flys and whatnot. Yesterday I did a new one with golf swings with a weight, and another one where you had the weight on the floor, squatted to pick it up, stood up and did a shoulder press, squat, press, squat again and put the weight down. Change sides. I think that's the one that did it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19, 2024 03:25 PM (DRSnL)

197 Called it. In ten years this will be normal.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 19, 2024 03:22 PM (2WOSG)

It would be nice if in 10 years there were machines rolling over our skulls, crushing them to dust, while firing lasers at the few remaining humans, but alas, I don't think we're going to be that lucky.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 19, 2024 03:25 PM (dGCAG)

198 Sounds about right

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at March 19, 2024 03:26 PM (xcxpd)

199 Every Google search now requires 2-3+ searches to get what you want.

The first few are to manually weed out their garbage results and narrow your search.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 19, 2024 03:26 PM (yikga)

200 Shrug.
- GOP

Posted by: Montec at March 19, 2024 03:26 PM (4+s9S)

201 >>breaking news: S.C. denies Biden Admin's appeal, Texas police officers can now arrest illegals

Seems like a pretty big deal.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 19, 2024 03:26 PM (LkLld)

202 This blonde in some kind of tight one-piece garment isn't sure whether she should be relieved or offended that Gemini will never try to an image of her:
http://tiny.cc/mzxjxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:21 PM (HnUIn)

NEEDS BIGGER AZZ
*photoshop, photoshop*
NEEDS AFRO
*photshop, photoshop*
NEEDS...

Posted by: Goggle Gemini at March 19, 2024 03:26 PM (v0R5T)

203 He's detailing how the German govt wants to make "defaming the state" a crime. You criticize the govt, you're an insurrectionist.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2024 03:23 PM (w6EFb)

Facist Germany again ?

Posted by: Arson Wells at March 19, 2024 03:27 PM (NtVYv)

204 It would be nice if in 10 years there were machines rolling over our skulls, crushing them to dust, while firing lasers at the few remaining humans, but alas, I don't think we're going to be that lucky.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 19, 2024 03:25 PM (dGCAG)
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That's the vision, of course, but the engineering isn't there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:27 PM (HnUIn)

205 SCOTUS is saying Texas SB4, the immigration law, is good to go.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 19, 2024 03:27 PM (z/ifB)

206 Joe she looks AI

Posted by: Skip at March 19, 2024 03:27 PM (fwDg9)

207 >>Why would a bunch of giganerds, who couldn't get laid with a fistful of dollars in a whorehouse, be pro-pedophile?

I think your question answers itself.

Posted by: DanMan at March 19, 2024 03:27 PM (8uzBS)

208
Seems like a pretty big deal.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 19, 2024 03:26 PM (LkLld)

To quote Joe Biden, a big FUCKING deal.

Posted by: Montec at March 19, 2024 03:27 PM (4+s9S)

209 Software development is an intentional act. Gemini will have passed security, access, content, usability, quality, design, infrastructure and integration checks as part of Google's Software Development Life Cycle. It passed these checks iteratively, in small 2-4 week increments, on at least 2 platforms before going to Production. Senior management has reviewed the results every single step of the way. It will have been intensively, deliberately and abusively tested prior to release to guarantee Gemini does precisely what it was programmed to do.

It's the most significant release of GoogleWare since the search engine itself. Gemini is the bulwark against losing market share to ChatGPT and others like it. This is not an accident or an oversight. It's not the fault of some rogue, mid-level project or product manager zealot.

Posted by: WeRSpartacus at March 19, 2024 03:27 PM (IxUDT)

210 This blonde in some kind of tight one-piece garment isn't sure whether she should be relieved or offended that Gemini will never try to an image of her:
http://tiny.cc/mzxjxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:21 PM (HnUIn)

Is that AI ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 19, 2024 03:27 PM (NtVYv)

211 177
I did a new resistance training workout yesterday and today my thighs are super pissed at me.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19

+++

Go into pigeon and hold each side for a minute to stretch out your thighs. Do something today that uses them, even if it’s lighter work.

(Pigeon: come to a pike, extend your rt leg, then slide your knee toward you chest as you lower your hips, brining your rt ankle behind your left wrist. Bring your rt leg all the way to the floor, flex your foot. You can stay upright, walk your hands forward bringing them long or fold your forearms and rest your head. Hold 60 seconds and then repeat other side).

Posted by: Piper at March 19, 2024 03:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

212 I thought sb4 was still in the appellate stage and scotus just said it could proceed while the court case proceeds. So it may still be overturned.

Posted by: Montec at March 19, 2024 03:28 PM (4+s9S)

213 SCOTUS is saying Texas SB4, the immigration law, is good to go.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 19, 2024 03:27 PM (z/ifB)

YUGE!! (Is that only until the 5th Circuit decides? Luckily I have faith in the 5th Circuit.)

Posted by: LASue at March 19, 2024 03:28 PM (Kcw7x)

214 Free weights. Little girly ones for now. I normally do all the usual presses and flys and whatnot. Yesterday I did a new one with golf swings with a weight, and another one where you had the weight on the floor, squatted to pick it up, stood up and did a shoulder press, squat, press, squat again and put the weight down. Change sides. I think that's the one that did it.
Posted by: Jordan61

Do you do this at a gym or at home? I hate gyms and it seems that Youtube has a lot of exercise channels on it that a person can use depending on what they want and fitness level that I am thinking about using.

Posted by: Cheri at March 19, 2024 03:29 PM (oiNtH)

215 212 I thought sb4 was still in the appellate stage and scotus just said it could proceed while the court case proceeds. So it may still be overturned.
Posted by: Montec at March 19, 2024 03:28 PM (4+s9S)

That's my understanding

Posted by: It's me donna at March 19, 2024 03:29 PM (Akjoo)

216 He's detailing how the German govt wants to make "defaming the state" a crime. You criticize the govt, you're an insurrectionist.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2024 03:23 PM

Seems that Austrian Corporal fella was a bit ahead of his time.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 19, 2024 03:29 PM (QNSds)

217 I don't get it. Why would a bunch of giganerds, who couldn't get laid with a fistful of dollars in a whorehouse, be pro-pedophile?
Posted by: Ken at March 19, 2024 03:24 PM (cuu81)

I don't think that's how it works. I think the pedos come in one of two categories: Those who were molested as children themselves, or those who have been so successful that normal adult relationships have gotten boring.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 19, 2024 03:29 PM (dGCAG)

218 I was doing resistance training and the damned thing broke and punched my lights out and kicked me in the ribs.

Posted by: Zombie Whorehouse Harry Reid at March 19, 2024 03:30 PM (J3JM4)

219 >>That's my understanding

SCOTUS doesn't usually issue a stay unless they plan to get involved at some point.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 19, 2024 03:30 PM (LkLld)

220 189 This blonde in some kind of tight one-piece garment isn't sure whether she should be relieved or offended that Gemini will never try to an image of her:
http://tiny.cc/mzxjxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:21 PM (HnUIn)
__________

Don't think that girl is real, bruh. Verdict: Physically unbangable.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 19, 2024 03:30 PM (iFTx/)

221 This blonde in some kind of tight one-piece garment isn't sure whether she should be relieved or offended that Gemini will never try to an image of her:
http://tiny.cc/mzxjxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:21 PM (HnUIn)
.......

I'm just kind of upset they cropped the photo about 6 to 8 inches too high

Posted by: wth at March 19, 2024 03:30 PM (v0R5T)

222 Do you do this at a gym or at home? I hate gyms and it seems that Youtube has a lot of exercise channels on it that a person can use depending on what they want and fitness level that I am thinking about using.
Posted by: Cheri at March 19, 2024 03:29 PM (oiNtH)

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At home. I have a little corner of the bedroom with weights and a stability ball in place of a bench.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19, 2024 03:30 PM (DRSnL)

223 5th circuit is the anti-9th. 1/3 of the appointees are by Trump. And a solid majority are GOP appointments. So hopefully sb4 survives there.

Posted by: Montec at March 19, 2024 03:30 PM (4+s9S)

224 210 This blonde in some kind of tight one-piece garment isn't sure whether she should be relieved or offended that Gemini will never try to an image of her:
http://tiny.cc/mzxjxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:21 PM (HnUIn)

Is that AI ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 19, 2024 03:27 PM (NtVYv)

AI would dess her more slutty

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at March 19, 2024 03:30 PM (xcxpd)

225 *dress

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at March 19, 2024 03:30 PM (xcxpd)

226 That's the vision, of course, but the engineering isn't there.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:27 PM (HnUIn)

Right. I think they'll just nook us. Why wouldn't they. Much less time and effort to accomplish the task.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 19, 2024 03:30 PM (dGCAG)

227 A Google search used do be like asking the librarian and getting the book you wanted.

Now it's like going to the card catalog, pulling out multiple drawers as you go through cross-references and finally scribbling down the Dewey Decimal number you need.

I'm not old, you shits need to get off my lawn!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 19, 2024 03:30 PM (yikga)

228 I thought sb4 was still in the appellate stage and scotus just said it could proceed while the court case proceeds. So it may still be overturned.
Posted by: Montec at March 19, 2024 03:28 PM (4+s9S)

That's my understanding

Posted by: It's me donna at March 19, 2024 03:29 PM

SCOTUS rarely lets a controversial law like this still be enforced while appeals are being heard unless they are mostly onboard with the law.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 19, 2024 03:31 PM (QNSds)

229 Pedo Joe creeps on another kid. This time it's a little girl clinging in terror to a male's neck.

http://tiny.cc/40yjxz

Posted by: bonhomme at March 19, 2024 03:31 PM (Odg76)

230 Seems like a pretty big deal.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 19, 2024 03:26 PM (LkLld)
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Tried reading the ruling but way to many references to stays and vacations (

).

Stay this, stay that, stay here, that there, vacate this, that, and vacate that thing in particular.

Posted by: WisRich at March 19, 2024 03:31 PM (G0vdT)

231 This blonde in some kind of tight one-piece garment isn't sure whether she should be relieved or offended that Gemini will never try to an image of her:
http://tiny.cc/mzxjxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2024 03:21 PM (HnUIn)

--------------

Gemini will say she still looks like a vision of beauty despite being rendered with Ketanji Brown "Affirmative Action" Jackson's resting bitch face and the giant schlong of an angry black " woman."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 19, 2024 03:32 PM (BDA+b)

232 223 5th circuit is the anti-9th. 1/3 of the appointees are by Trump. And a solid majority are GOP appointments. So hopefully sb4 survives there.
Posted by: Montec at March 19, 2024 03:30 PM (4+s9S)

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And I'd just read a headline about how SCOTUS' conservatives were all exasperated with the 5th Circuit, implying that they weren't going to side with the 5th anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 19, 2024 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

233 Go into pigeon and hold each side for a minute to stretch out your thighs. Do something today that uses them, even if it’s lighter work.

Posted by: Piper at March 19, 2024 03:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

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Pigeons are awesome. I started doing them when I started having problems with my hip. I did a cardio workout this morning, and have a mobility workout planned for when I get home from work.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19, 2024 03:32 PM (DRSnL)

234 >>YUGE!! (Is that only until the 5th Circuit decides? Luckily I have faith in the 5th Circuit.)

5th already overruled the Austin judge, Biden's DOJ is appealing and the SC says let it rip until they make their case.

Posted by: DanMan at March 19, 2024 03:32 PM (8uzBS)

235 Yeah working at goggle doesn’t turn you into a pedo. Being a pedo however attracts you to working for Google,

Posted by: Montec at March 19, 2024 03:32 PM (4+s9S)

236 George Washington should have been strapped with a 9.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 19, 2024 03:32 PM (eYF7X)

237 At home. I have a little corner of the bedroom with weights and a stability ball in place of a bench.
Posted by: Jordan61

Nice. I have a large area in the living room in front of the TV and will start with resistance bands but also want to buy some free weights.

Posted by: Cheri at March 19, 2024 03:32 PM (oiNtH)

238 181 Woke is a magic ingredient. Add it to anything to convert same to instant shit. Like my useless cat, converting quality cat food to..... well.....
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 19, 2024 03:17 PM

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That reminds me -- we finally watched "American Fiction" last night. It absolutely impales woke AWFLs and AWMLs and White Saviors and "keepin-it-real" phonies. It's encouraging that such a movie could not only be greenlighted, but win an Oscar. Perhaps "woke fatigue" is a real thing.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at March 19, 2024 03:32 PM (wzAuc)

239
One of Eugyppius' post was about a 16 yr old girl in school some damn place posted something positive about AfD, you know Germany's current "ultra right wing authoritarian party" (which is about where I don't now, JFK was, or your typical "centrist" of the '70s and '80s was.

The school called the police on her. They determined she had committed no crime (yet) but warned her about posting such inflammatory content that gets close to the line of hate speech.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2024 03:32 PM (w6EFb)

240 215 212 I thought sb4 was still in the appellate stage and scotus just said it could proceed while the court case proceeds. So it may still be overturned.
Posted by: Montec at March 19, 2024 03:28 PM (4+s9S)

That's my understanding
Posted by: It's me donna at March 19, 2024 03:29 PM (Akjoo)
______

Correct. It's still a good sign that the Supremes let SB4 proceed for the time being. If they had a real issue with the law, they wouldn't have let it go into effect at all.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 19, 2024 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

241 Last time I ever used Gurgle for an information search was in the summer of 2016. I know this because that was when I got my first Android phone with the OKGurgle function. I was playing around with it, and being an election year, I said, "OKGurgle: Trump is an ass." I was treated to several pages of articles about how Trump was a jerk and offensive and mean, mean man. I then asked, "OKGurgle: Hillary is an ass." What followed was a link to the Vote Hillary page, the wiki entry on Hillary's tenure at State, and why the donkey was the democrat symbol.

No bias detected. Not a smidge.

Posted by: red speck at March 19, 2024 03:33 PM (0Id0S)

242 Congress has power to make immigration law obviously but a state may make law that is not preempted by Federal law. Texas is on good ground.

Posted by: torabora at March 19, 2024 03:33 PM (J3JM4)

243 SCOTUS is saying Texas SB4, the immigration law, is good to go.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 19, 2024 03:27 PM (z/ifB)
.......

Except for Ketanji and the Burrito Sisters, right?

Posted by: wth at March 19, 2024 03:33 PM (v0R5T)

244
And I'd just read a headline about how SCOTUS' conservatives were all exasperated with the 5th Circuit, implying that they weren't going to side with the 5th anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 19, 2024 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

That don’t make no sense.

Posted by: Montec at March 19, 2024 03:34 PM (4+s9S)

245 >We were all to write the same message, and it was some anti-war thing. The man in office at the time was Ronald Reagan.

There is nothing more tiresome than a teacher's politics.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 19, 2024 03:34 PM (cf/0E)

246 I don't think that's how it works. I think the pedos come in one of two categories: Those who were molested as children themselves, or those who have been so successful that normal adult relationships have gotten boring.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 19, 2024 03:29 PM (dGCAG)

Now that I think about it, once you add pron into the mix, no doubt there are tech nerds who have seen pretty much all there is to see, from the "normal" sources, and that gets boring too. So the pron gets younger.

How many of them will then delve out into the real world, trying it there, that I don't know, but I bet the hard drives are full of it.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 19, 2024 03:34 PM (dGCAG)

247 222 Do you do this at a gym or at home? I hate gyms and it seems that Youtube has a lot of exercise channels on it that a person can use depending on what they want and fitness level that I am thinking about using.
Posted by: Cheri at March 19, 2024 03:29 PM (oiNtH)

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At home. I have a little corner of the bedroom with weights and a stability ball in place of a bench.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19, 2024 03

If anyone ever wants ideas on function strength training, let me know. I can help with form issues to watch out for- especially if you are doing sumo into something, back to sumo, which is what it sounds like you were doing, Jordan61. You will always have a little arch in your lower back when in sumo so you need to be mindful to shift your hips back first and keep your chest proud at the bottom, don’t over extend your hips at the top, to keep it out of your lower back. Your knees will go over the toes in a sumo, that is fine.

Posted by: Piper at March 19, 2024 03:34 PM (ZdaMQ)

248 Brave Search ftw.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 19, 2024 03:34 PM (aD39U)

249 The argument that since immigration is a federal thing states can’t make their own laws is retarded. Lots of laws exist both at the federal and state level. Why can’t immigration?

Posted by: Montec at March 19, 2024 03:35 PM (4+s9S)

250 SCOTUS rarely lets a controversial law like this still be enforced while appeals are being heard unless they are mostly onboard with the law.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 19, 2024 03:31 PM (QNSds)
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The Wise Latina was particularly mad, opting out of the normal "I respectively dissent" to just " I dissent"

Posted by: WisRich at March 19, 2024 03:35 PM (G0vdT)

251 it's hard to take a web search company seriously when it doesn't have a blimp.

Indubitably, sir.

Posted by: Jeeves at March 19, 2024 03:35 PM (sNc8Y)

252 I live in a small apartment, but I spare the space for a squat rack and bench. It's not optional when it comes to staying sane.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 19, 2024 03:35 PM (cf/0E)

253 The day of a Tea Party rally in DC, Google changed the location of the park to be on the other side of town. I always tell this story. I didn't read about it, out of curiosity I had looked up the park myself and been shocked to see they had it miles and miles away to misdirect users. That's beyond "interference". In DC especially that could get you killed.

They put the park back the next day.

Posted by: ... at March 19, 2024 03:36 PM (y8+A5)

254 In November and December of last year, Google's AI decided that everything I sell was a weapon, so they cancelled all my advertising. Although none of my products could possibly be mistaken for a weapon - even by a five-year-old, they wouldn't change. My only form of communication with them was emails, again generated by AI who faithfully stuck with the premise that I was extremely dangerous. I had my website people take down some items that might - on a bad day by a brain damaged idiot - be confused with some sort of weapon. After an $80,000 loss over those two months, I got my advertising back. You can't argue with a machine that knows it's right.

Posted by: jwest at March 19, 2024 03:36 PM (VP9ao)

255 >>The Wise Latina was particularly mad, opting out of the normal "I respectively dissent" to just " I dissent"
Posted by: WisRich

I sign her up for Pie of The Month Club every year.
I hope she eats all of them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 19, 2024 03:36 PM (eYF7X)

256 Pedo Joe creeps on another kid. This time it's a little girl clinging in terror to a male's neck.

http://tiny.cc/40yjxz
Posted by: bonhomme at March 19, 2024 03:31 PM (Odg76)
.......

Pedjoe is touching her leg. Ick.

Posted by: wth at March 19, 2024 03:37 PM (v0R5T)

257 The Wise Latina was particularly mad, opting out of the normal "I respectively dissent" to just " I dissent"
Posted by: WisRich

Her friends and allies don't like her.

More Liberals Are Calling for Justice Sotomayor to Retire

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 19, 2024 03:38 PM (FVME7)

258 You will always have a little arch in your lower back when in sumo so you need to be mindful to shift your hips back first and keep your chest proud at the bottom, don’t over extend your hips at the top, to keep it out of your lower back. Your knees will go over the toes in a sumo, that is fine.
Posted by: Piper at March 19, 2024 03:34 PM (ZdaMQ)

Go on .....

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 19, 2024 03:38 PM (NtVYv)

259 And I'd just read a headline about how SCOTUS' conservatives were all exasperated with the 5th Circuit, implying that they weren't going to side with the 5th anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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Well it's the same people who all are blindsided by the CO decision being 9-0.
They were all sure it would be--at best--5 to 4. So confident that they mounted a serious attempt to force Thomas to recuse and get a tie.
And they still haven't examined why they got that so wrong.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 19, 2024 03:38 PM (yikga)

260
I sign her up for Pie of The Month Club every year.
I hope she eats all of them.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 19, 2024 03:36 PM (eYF7X)

No, I want her to hold on until Trump is hopefully elected... Don't want to see her replaced with a younger version like Jumanji Brown Jackson

Posted by: It's me donna at March 19, 2024 03:38 PM (Akjoo)

261 256 Pedo Joe creeps on another kid. This time it's a little girl clinging in terror to a male's neck.

http://tiny.cc/40yjxz
Posted by: bonhomme

And f*cking Karen is standing there smiling like nothing is going on.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 19, 2024 03:38 PM (eYF7X)

262 He's detailing how the German govt wants to make "defaming the state" a crime. You criticize the govt, you're an insurrectionist.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 19, 2024 03:23 PM

It sounds better in the original German.

Wait ....

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 19, 2024 03:39 PM (aD39U)

263 Sergey Brin: "We haven't fully understood why it leans left in many cases... that's not our intention."

A self-licking ice cream cone: Personnel is policy and policy is personnel.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at March 19, 2024 03:39 PM (aXxgO)

264 A great sci fi flick could be built around an AI programmed by leftists, becomes self aware and murder the leftist death cultists that built it . That might just be wishful thinking

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 19, 2024 03:39 PM (5q0pY)

265 Her friends and allies don't like her.

More Liberals Are Calling for Justice Sotomayor to Retire
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 19, 2024 03:38 PM (FVME7)

They just want to date her.

Posted by: AOC run through the MSNSDAP pre-processor at March 19, 2024 03:39 PM (PiwSw)

266 259 Well it's the same people who all are blindsided by the CO decision being 9-0.
They were all sure it would be--at best--5 to 4. So confident that they mounted a serious attempt to force Thomas to recuse and get a tie.
And they still haven't examined why they got that so wrong.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 19, 2024 03:38 PM (yikga)

========

The reporters didn't get it wrong.

SCOTUS got it wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 19, 2024 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

267
They just want to date her.
Posted by: AOC run through the MSNSDAP pre-processor at March 19, 2024 03:39 PM (PiwSw)

I'd say somewhere in her 60's ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 19, 2024 03:40 PM (Akjoo)

268 If (Allah willing) Trump wins, Thomas has to resign during his term. And then hopefully the Wise Latina and Traitor Roberts feel the need to spend more time with their families or have a medical issue.

Posted by: Montec at March 19, 2024 03:41 PM (4+s9S)

269 Nood SCOTUS & TX

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 19, 2024 03:41 PM (IG4Id)

270 One pie a month is not going to do it.
She has built up a tolerance.

Posted by: wth at March 19, 2024 03:41 PM (v0R5T)

271 Well, I mean this is how super mega corporations die. They become too ossified and inflexible to navigate a changing (in this case) technological landscape and they get buried. Nvidia is heading in the opposite direction with their AI powering chips. I don't know who is going to end up the AI behemoth, but it most likely won't be Google. And they'll get left in the dust in the process. The fact that they're a commie SJW pile of shit will just help us wave goodbye to their corpse on the way by.

Posted by: deadrody at March 19, 2024 03:41 PM (OeYsY)

272 Google has gotten worse. And at the bottom of every start page: "Our third year of climate action: join us".

As if they control the climate.

I hate Google and how they have infiltrated the schools is sickening. (Chromebooks suck.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 19, 2024 03:42 PM (8sMut)

273 He's detailing how the German govt wants to make "defaming the state" a crime. You criticize the govt, you're an insurrectionist.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Well, it worked out so well last time.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 19, 2024 03:42 PM (FVME7)

274 Wow, last week a Navy CO of a Submarine was relieved of duty for 'loss of confidence'...

Just read about 2 Air Force CO's who were relieved of command of medical units, for 'loss of confidence'.

The Purge... continues.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 19, 2024 03:42 PM (xaFKb)

275 257 The Wise Latina was particularly mad, opting out of the normal "I respectively dissent" to just " I dissent"
Posted by: WisRich

Her friends and allies don't like her.

More Liberals Are Calling for Justice Sotomayor to Retire
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 19, 2024 03:38 PM (FVME7)
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Nobody ever liked her. Even the Hispanic lawyer groups hated her when she was on the SDNY bench. She was notoriously dumb, lazy, and abusive.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 19, 2024 03:43 PM (iFTx/)

276 Google has gotten worse. And at the bottom of every start page: "Our third year of climate action: join us".

-
Well, at least they don't do evil.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 19, 2024 03:43 PM (FVME7)

277 264 A great sci fi flick could be built around an AI programmed by leftists, becomes self aware and murder the leftist death cultists that built it . That might just be wishful thinking
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 19, 2024 03:39 PM (5q0pY)

Soundtrack by Meshuggah

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 19, 2024 03:44 PM (8sMut)

278 276 Google has gotten worse. And at the bottom of every start page: "Our third year of climate action: join us".

-
Well, at least they don't do evil.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 19, 2024 03:43 PM (FVME7)

Damnit. Not "Our third year." "Our third decade"

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 19, 2024 03:45 PM (8sMut)

279
Nobody ever liked her. Even the Hispanic lawyer groups hated her when she was on the SDNY bench. She was notoriously dumb, lazy, and abusive.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 19, 2024 03:43 PM (iFTx/)

Northside ISD in San Antonio has an interesting naming convention: its HSs are all named for SCOTUS justices. You have Jay HS, Marshall HS, Holmes HS, Clark HS (he's from TX), O'Connor HS (she's from TX)...but, you also have: Brennan HS, Stevens HS, and yes, Sotomayor HS.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 19, 2024 03:47 PM (8sMut)

280 Kevin Collier: "Has anybody finally had enough and quit Google search because of how bad it's gotten recently? Are you finding another search better?"

Recently? How about fifteen or so years ago? Does that qualify?

It didn't have so much to do with "search quality" as much as it had to do with them doing/being evil.

But, whatever. Can't say I've used it but for very rare occasions or if other search engines outsource their searches to Google and I "use" it unknowingly.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at March 19, 2024 03:48 PM (aXxgO)

281 those who have been so successful that normal adult relationships have gotten boring.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 19, 2024 03:29 PM (dGCAG

Close but I think not quite there.

They are people who specifically got successful by being corrupt, and who pursued success because they like being criminal deviants, and want the cover of wealth and power to become more deviant more criminal. The more power they get, the more vile they become, until they are routinely looting and pillaging and getting away with it all the time, and that's what becomes boring.

So they go looking for more and more repellent crimes to get the thrill of being above the bourgeois morality of the wretched peasants, and eventually end up dragging little Susie from the fields, and up to the manor house for some dungeon time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 19, 2024 03:48 PM (0FoWg)

282 It's not Intelligence. It's whatever it's PROGRAMMED to be. It doesn't learn, it's coded.

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I guess everyone's just forgotten GIGO?

Posted by: DaisyB at March 19, 2024 03:49 PM (AbL8c)

283 Unilever to unload super woke Ben & Jerry's after years of fighting with independent board over Israel and Native American rows

https://mol.im/a/13214231

Posted by: Ciampino - Tue Update #06 at March 19, 2024 03:50 PM (qfLjt)

284 Romeo13: "The Purge... continues."

I wouldn't trust the decisions whatever they say. Could be they're legitimate, corrective terminations. Could also be wrapped in Woke/DEI.

Another trusted institution bites the dust.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at March 19, 2024 03:50 PM (aXxgO)

285 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at March 19, 2024 03:51 PM (sNc8Y)

286 261 256 Pedo Joe creeps on another kid. This time it's a little girl clinging in terror to a male's neck.

http://tiny.cc/40yjxz
Posted by: bonhomme

And f*cking Karen is standing there smiling like nothing is going on.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 19, 2024 03:38 PM (eYF7X)

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Try laying a finger on some stranger's child if you're just John Q. You might have a broken throat to deal with.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at March 19, 2024 03:52 PM (wzAuc)

287 Any of you on Google not following this guy you might want to. He is making some pretty bold claims about the 2020 election in Michigan.

Sheriff Dar Leaf
@SheriffLeaf

Posted by: JackStraw at March 19, 2024 03:52 PM (LkLld)

288 282 I guess everyone's just forgotten GIGO?

i'm just some gigo, yo
and everybody knows
the part i'm playin'

Posted by: chatgpt at March 19, 2024 03:53 PM (v3pYe)

289 I can fix Google in only 6 months and I'll only charge 0.1% of company value.

Fire the DEI executive hires. Make everyone go to work in the office. The first wave will quit on their own. The next wave will be easy to identify and fire. Get the company down to 20% of current staff with only the rational / non-mentally ill techs remaining.

Posted by: jj at March 19, 2024 03:54 PM (KvlpQ)

290 His employees demanded he hire or promote only women and minorities -- and 25% of the "workers" at his division threatened to quit if he didn't.

The left really does love their extortion, don't they?
People, you're employees, not employers, you don't get to make the rules.

They learned this carp in college. And they should be disabused of it by their very first employer. But... Google.

Posted by: GWB at March 19, 2024 05:20 PM (69JzL)

291 291st!
So does anyone know of a better search engine? Just tell me here. I'm too lazy to scroll through the previous 290 posts.

Posted by: Kimo Loka at March 19, 2024 05:28 PM (rbcSc)

292 Duh

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