Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month
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I can't say if it was bad sarcasm or plain stupidity, but I for one understood and totally agree with your first statement.
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They also removed Holocaust Remembrance Day. Probably because it's going to have to be renamed Holocaust I soon.
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I have had reasonable experiences with startpage as a search engine.
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DDG uses Bing primarily.
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Yeah, it's essentially a weathervane or thermometer. You can indicate the state of a country by it.
At this point the US has joined the ranks of, well, grim theocracies. Not that the people at the top in the US worship anything but Mammon.
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Pepperidge Farm remembers. And so do I.
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It was sarcasm... Corpo spent years pretending to be an ally and then just like that... No longer an ally
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Lmao, damn… I was done with them before this announcement but thanks for reinforcing my decision.
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My apologies, I'm never quite good at tones, even in person. Thank you for responding nicely!
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Right. If you react to this news with disappointment, and believe me I'm disappointed, maybe it's more a wake up call the support was never real to begin with. I feel we're better off without such hollow gestures. Then again I'm not a part of a marginalized group and maybe it's not that black and white.
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"Do you remember a time when women couldn't vote and certain people weren't allowed on golf courses? Petridge Farm remembers. It was back in 2025."
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Google managed to create a very clean image of themselves in most heads, but looking closer it is an ugly profit maximization machine. It cares about shareholders. If it cares about you, then probably for spying on you and learn how to manipulate you and others better. I hope people start realizing finally.
And let's state it clear: Google could have a voice. They could object to the Musk-Thiel-Trumpian destruction machine. They could be there for the world. But they're not. Not at all. They serve the money. And if it pays off, then they are willing to ruin peoples lives.
Google is on the wrong side of history.
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They didn't. They moved it from the foreword to the final line.
To be clear, Google is absolutely evil, and the unofficial motto was always worthless. I am just annoyed everyone ate the clickbait reporting about something that never happened and is repeating it to this day. I guess "Google moved Don't be evil Clause to a less prominent spot" doesn't click as well.
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Seems like their motto isn’t „don’t be Evil“ anymore for a reason.
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It was limiting them. To truly maximize profits they need to strip off all limits.
I'm not joking.
Really not.
This is why capitalism and fascism go so well together. -
I'm not angry at this point. Just sad.
It's disheartening how quickly everything was washed away.
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Wait, rainbow capitalism wasn't sincere?!
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I had a management class years ago in college where the professor made the argument that in order to be ethical, every single action a business makes must be done to increase profits for its shareholders.
Charitable donation? Only if it increases public perception in a way to be justified the cost.
Pay your employees well? Only if paying them less would cause you to lose them to your competitors.
The list goes on. It's a very depressing way to look at the world. But as time goes by, I've realized just how accurate that professor was. Companies don't give a shit about you and will turn on you the second it makes their quarterly numbers look better.
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This was always going to happen. Companies in Germany when Hitler rose to power didn't protest and speak up against him - they needed to sell his army goods. They made his uniforms and cars and didn't say a peep about the extermination of people around them. The companies that spoke up were crushed. A corporation's bottom line is their bottom line, no matter what horrors they need to assist in perpetrating.
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It's no longer available on FDroid for some reason.
