Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month
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It's not even "rainbow capitalism."
This goes all the way back to women's suffrage and the Civil Rights era.
They didn't start accepting women into the workforce and blacks into the workforce because they saw them as valuable humans just for existing.
They realized they were leaving money on the table. If women had money, they could be marketed products, if blacks had money, they could marketed products. That was "opening up new markets." Hiring them meant they would get paid and have money in their pockets to spend at your business.
Every single group that got attention and understanding was about being able to exploit them for more money. The only color they've ever cared about is the green on their money. This is also why it's been such an uphill battle for anyone disabled, because if you can't maximize your output by absolutely destroying your body and mind for capital: they don't want you.
Further, if you get enough money to do some capitalism yourself and create something like "Black Wall Street" they'll bomb the living fuck out of you to put a stop to it.
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Sooooo.
Any recommendations on a replacement for Google calendar?
I've got shot of maps with that Gulf of Mexico business. The search engine due to ads, the mail client for the same reasons (still using the mail address but Fairmail as a client).
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Way ahead of you. I already use an alternative paid email service, don't use Android, and don't use Google search.
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As stupid as it is.... You have to buy a fucking Google Pixel to really be able to get away from Google because it's not as simple to get an alternate OS that is de-googled on any other phones.
The Pixels, for example, are the only ones supported by GrapheneOS, widely considered one of the most secure phone operating systems with no Google nonsense in it.
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It's true though, Google search does make it easy to discover a broad.
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Plug for https://kagi.com/ for those who can afford to pay for search engine. Best search engine experience, love the personalized results where you manually raise and lower specific domains.
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Hot broads in your area want to talk to you!
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GrapheneOS is awesome, wish more phones had it. Has really brought a feeling of control wity my phone. Just kind of ironic wearing the Google logo on the back lmao
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LineageOS on the other hand you have to do a boatload of stuff to de-Google it.
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LineageOS doesn't come with Google Play Services on board at all, you have to flash it (or MicroG) if you want it. Why just make shit up?
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Or avoid a decrease in profit, which is why you get so many posturing bandwagons which slow down once enough people have forgotten that it won't affect profits anymore, eg all the statements and policy, name, logo etc changes due to BLM in mid-late 2020
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I don't understand why was this ever a thing. Fuck google, and fuck rainbow washing. They never really cared, and where just taking advantage of a noble cause.
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well, it's not that they removed anything, it's that the company google paid to create the holiday events told google how much it was costing to include every substrata of celebration (i.e. national bean day, national micronesia first peoples remembrance), so google said, you know what, we're just going to have federal holidays on our calendar and people can add the rest as they like. which i think is fair enough.
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Honestly I wish they had a setting for only federal holidays. The ones where banks close.
Those are bank holidays.
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I'm sure it cost them a whole $500 to update the entire system every single year after adding the feature.
What a savings!
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Hot shingles? In MY area? And I can lay them?
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Much like the current hullabaloo about the head of ProtonMail being suspect because of his support of Trump, there's a ton of shady shit about Kagi, too. They're Venture Capital funded. What's the deal with the T-shirt company? Why did they lie stupidly about stuff like "we don't do paid advertising... oh wait whoops now we do."
Further, the CEO of Kagi just has that techbro attitude of "You are required to listen to what I have to say."
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/112258758788834454
Discussions with Vlad are him telling you his side and expecting you to accept it as the truth and not keep arguing. His goal isn't to discuss, it's to keep talking at you until you agree or go away. HE thinks he discusses with people, but he talks AT people. So I don't feel bad making a blog post and forcing him to be talked at for once (which I never even expected him or that many other people to see it, I'm trying to figure out how many hits I even got rn to see how bad he Streissand'd this).
But yeah I knew that already, and that's why I didn't engage with him. I know what a Vlad conversation is and I wasn't willing to be lectured by the CEO of a company I criticized on my tiny personal blog. Thats an insane proposition. And it's really not even irony--I suspected this is exactly what would happen. I knew that arguing with Vlad would only benefit his own ego, but I knew that bluntly repeating "I will not discuss this with you quit emailing me" will just prove what I already knew, that he does not care what people say (and probably barely reads what they say given that he linked me the same post I already read twice) and that he will do whatever he's driven to do no matter what. The only options were he quits emailing me (great!) or he digs himself in deeper and deeper (great???? idk but it proves a point)
Seriously, his behavior is unhinged.
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Don't forget your Shingles vaccination before you lay them! You don't want a Shingle Transmitted Infection.
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Kagi includes search results from the big search engines, which would mean Google and Bing. So while they do some of their own crawling to improve the results, some of your money will still be going to Google and Microsoft. It's still a step in a better direction though. I don't know whether Kagi has any plans to become more independent in future.
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