That was my first thought, I approve of this plan. I hope it’s the beginning of their financial decline, coming too long after their moral one.

I mean, they are airing ads about using their AI like a personal assistant, including to pay bills. So not just knowing financial details, literal approval to spend your money for you. I hope not many people are doing that, but I’m sure some are. Absolutely insane.

DDR4 prices have come up too. In fact, DDR3 and even DDR2 prices have spiked.

These people literally got off their chairs during their college graduation from a prestigious university to protest the shit Google is doing!

Each person who did that made a bigger impact, and probably a bigger sacrifice, than a person who degoogled. That was my point.

Ultimately we need people to degoogle, but until way more people pay attention to why they should, it will remain a niche thing.

No huge consequences, you’re right. Probably annoyed the CEO. But 200 people degoogling? Even people running metrics every day at Google wouldn’t notice. It would be great if everyone degoogled, but until that trend starts getting much more traction than it has now it will have no measurable impact, and making more people think about how Google is evil is the only way to increase that traction.

Even if they didn’t, this was inestimably more impactful than a couple hundred people degoogling.

The quote “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” is usually attributed to a Yosemite National Park Ranger taking about the issue with designing bear proof trash cans.

You could pay cash for the visa gift card, and just load the money into your Steam wallet. Then the only thing they would know is that a person (presumably) bought a visa gift card and put the money in Steam.

I saw someone suggest taxing tires instead of gas, which does seem more equitable, but it would be a big hit on an already expensive purchase.

That’s true too, but the impact will be very very local. Really, we just need to have fewer data centers, but at least by putting them in the ocean we are only impactfully warming probably less than 300 cubic meters of water instead of an entire neighborhood, or depleting groundwater to cool the damn things. Seems like the least harmful way to cool them, if we’re going to have them.

That’s true, but water is so much more effective at absorbing heat than air, the effect will be negligible. It takes about 4.2 megajoules to raise one cubic meter of water 1 degree C. That energy would raise over 3 cubic KILOMETERS of air 1 degree C.

Even putting data centers at the bottom of large lakes would be unlikely to have an effect. It will not be percetable in the ocean. Regarding temperature anyway, other factors are worth considering.

By corporate searches, I think they mean searches for work.

I don’t spend much discretionary income on stuff I search, that amount of advertising/SEO would be almost entirely wasted on my personal life. But my work related searches are very different, products and services I use for work projects add up to much more than I make in a year. I mostly use DDG though, fuck Google.

That hole may not have been made for you, but you WILL fit.

As far as I know, everything would work fine. If it’s something you can do right-side-up, up-side-down, or prone, and in each orientation it works exactly the same way, it should work in zero G. It’s just hydraulics anyway. Not gravity dependant.