I used to love Google. Now I wish for them to die.
Same! Remember how exciting gmail was in like 2004?
Getting that invite made email cool again. And they promised to not be evil, and started to develop loads of cool things and phones you could do anything with… then realized being evil is more profitable.
Should have seen it coming. Of course a company who’s main source of revenue is selling ads and positions in search results is going to end up fucking the entire Internet up for money.
“don’t be evil” was a false promise. a gimmick. a marketing slogan. in practice, the policy was lost long before even the first pre-ipo options were promised to a new hire… way back around the time larry or sergey first day-dreamed of cashing-in ‘some day’.
I think when the creators put it out it was very much not evil. It has since been turned to the dark side by its new owners.
I like the company from the Upload TV series’s motto “don’t be evil, obviously”
Remember watching your storage capacity increase like some sort of fucking witchcraft? That was the good era of the internet.
We were also pretty naive then. An editor for Wired magazine attended a party with Larry Page, Google’s cofounder in 2002. He asked how Google was able to offer their services for free - and Page told him how their long term plan was to gather as much data as possible through their free services in order to build artificial intelligence.
So while we all thought a free GB of storage and searchable email was awesome in 2004, we were just blindly feeding what’s happening today with the AI craze.
It didn’t just happen like the stars moving overhead. People with names and bones did it.
We should take their bones away from them as punishment.
It’s an interesting choice, do you take their bones and go with a saw style punishment, or take their names and go with a black mirror style punishment?
Idk. Didn’t think about it much. That person up there ⬆️ said that the evil was done by people with names and bones. If we took their names away they might be confused on what to call each other for a while, but they’d figure it out. Stealing their bones seems like it would teach them a much more severe lesson.
Plus evil tech nerds shouldn’t get to have awesome spooky skeletons living inside of them like we do.
“Deprive them skeletons” is an awkward slogan, but it’s one I can get behind.
Poetic as fuck
If Google ends up going bankrupt because of AI it would be hilarious.
Google isn’t in financial trouble from this spending. Cash Flow Negative just means in a specific period they’re spending more than they bring for that period. Google and other tech giants have been sitting on mountains of unused cash at $242.5 billion for years. This is a rare time where they’re finally dipping into it to the tune of $5.9 billion.
Just Oracle would make me happy already.
At this point, Silicon Valley was actually a documentary.
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These bastards need to pay some fucking taxes.
There are better targets for the anger for not paying enough taxes:
Alphabet (Google parent company) earned $132.17 billion in profits in 2025 and paid $26.656 billion in US taxes for an effective tax rate of 20.1%. Sure this could be, and historically was, higher before trump cut the corporate tax rate from 35% in 2017.
Tesla, on the other hand at the same time in 2025, paid $0 in US taxes in 2025 on profits of $3.794 billion for an effective tax rate of 0%.
Please please burst, AI pustule.
Why don’t they get the current AI that they already have to work out how to optimize itself so that they don’t need to consume all of the oceans on the planet in order to run it?
Also maybe don’t give me a summary of every email I receive unless I explicitly ask for it, thst should save them couple of hundred billion tokens.
This is why I still can’t buy a 5090.
So what are these numbers over there at OpenAi?
Very creative accounting.
It’s Enron again in a different package.
