I don’t think that they will reject Zionism, I do think that many will deny subscribing to it/believing in it though.

A few had already started jumping ship a couple of months or so ago. But not because they want to tell the world that they’re sorry, but because they had already thought they saw the writing on the wall, and figured getting out early might help them in the future. Many will deny ever supporting Netanhayu or Zionism.

Saying that, it still feels a little like counting chickens before they’re hatched.

This:

Vice President JD Vance, assessing why his Republicans fared poorly, listed four ways to bring voters back, including ending the Iran war and changing “our relationship with Israel”.

If that was to work on any level, then there is no hope for the U.S. at all.

I don’t know Finnish politicians, but I’m pretty sure MOST politicians around the world will bend a little, then a lot, when that sort of money comes knocking.

It’s what Google are counting on. I hope they get hit with a lot. Not just fines, but told to replant the whole 330 hectares.

Then officials can come to their decision. If the officials then decide that they could clear 250,000 trees, then so be it, and that will have pissed off Google, and imo would be the best way to let them know that they can’t do what they did.

I admit I’m biased against politicians and companies like Google, so I don’t have much faith in everything going swimmingly.

Glad to hear it. Might be harder for Google to pay off the relevant people so. 145 data centres is a lot of pull for the politicians to suggest they are needed.

Whatever the outcome of this, it’ll make no difference to Google.

They speeded up the process by ignoring any Laws that they otherwise would have had to wait for to permit the land clearance, and probably pay off the correct people to justify why it was a necessary decision. This way, they pay whatever fine Finland gives them, and they still build their massive data centre which will generate trillions for them harvesting.

Finnish authorities are considering applications for a total of 145 new datacentres at various stages of planning, including a €13bn (£11bn) artificial intelligence infrastructure project by Google that the US company has called its largest ‌investment in Europe.

Finland fucked.

Communism

Communism is a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories, are owned and controlled by the public. There is no government or private property or currency, and the wealth is divided among citizens equally or according to individual need. Many of communism’s tenets derive from the works of German revolutionary Karl Marx, who (with Friedrich Engels) wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848). However, over the years others have made contributions—or corruptions, depending on one’s perspective—to Marxist thought. Perhaps the most influential changes were proposed by Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, who notably supported authoritarianism.

People do already realise that we don’t need Microsoft products.

The attempt was however half assed, and Microsoft never really needed to worry.

That’s my point.

“Attempting” to ditch Microsoft by relying on 38 people to decide they should use any other product is nonsense. Even if we knew more about the 38 people. How long they tried it for, what other software did they try etc…

It would be very easy for Microsoft to have just paid a fair few of them pennies, for them to say “let’s give up”.

Back in 2025, the government of Denmark announced that it is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office in favor of open-source alternatives like Linux.

Denmark’s reasoning was that it wants to reduce reliance on a U.S. vendor like Microsoft and also not be at the mercy of a volatile Trump administration. Now, it appears that the country has failed in its ambitious endeavor.

Adoption of this European software would have been an important step in Denmark’s bid for technological independence from software made by a U.S. firm.

A pilot phase with 38 ministry employees kicked off last year to trial Collabora’s suite with Office documents. However, this trial was terminated when elections took place earlier this year. A spokesperson confirmed that the experiment had concluded, and would not resume again. They also confirmed that no evaluation benchmarking Collabora’s performance against Microsoft Office had taken place either.

Microsoft must have truly been shitting it. 38 whole people trying out other software.

I mean how hard would it have been for Microsoft to just pay a few of those 38 if any of them had been taking it seriously to begin with.

No benchmarking, and the attempt at switching ended with the elections.

Could it even have been called an attempt?

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I think it’s important to point out that is yet again the EPP, this one being led by Henna Virkunnen.

As was the undemocratic vote that was pushed through by Roberta Metsola

The most effective way for all of us to stop these relentless attacks on the internet and our privacy, is to stop them getting elected in the first place.

EPP representation in each country.

Use the internet for something useful -

#STOP THE EPP

Good, hopefully they pay with some prison time too.

It’s also sad going to Greece and complaining it’s not British enough, like Going to Morocco and complaining it’s not raining…

I hope that there is a global Revolution after Trump’s term ends if he, his family and co-conspirators are not all dealt with properly.

What on earth is this link supposed to show? Did you just expect that nobody would check it?

You quoted the relevant part:

In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born.

Ok.

Never was it mentioned that anyone was distinguishing between Google search and Yandex search as opposed to Google and Yandex.

But even then.

Yandex was devised first, was named first and was officially launched first (‘born’ first).

Yandex.ru search engine was announced by CompTek on 23 September 1997 at the Softool exhibition, although some developments in the field of search (Bible indexing, searching for documents on CD-ROM, site search, Classifier of Goods and Services, and the International Classifier of Patents. ) were carried out by the company as early as 1990.

Google did not launch in 1997, because they were not ready to launch. They had to wait almost another year to be (by their own words) “born”.

There is no two ways about this. Yandex (with the exception of the domain name registration) precedes Google, in most cases by years.

Triple and quadruple nope.

It was believed (conspiracy or otherwise) for many years, that google had stolen ideas from yandex they were that much behind them with similar ideas.

HoG

• Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin[41][27][42] with additional contribution from Scott Hassan
• Google has its origins in BackRub, a research project started in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
• The two had first met in the summer of 1995, when Page was part of a group of potential new students that Brin had volunteered to give a tour around the campus and nearby San Francisco.

HoY

• In 1990, Arkady Volozh contacted Ilya Segalovich (1964–2013), a friend of his from high school, to join his venture developing algorithms to search Russian texts.[9] They developed search software together under the company name Arcadia.
• In 1993, they invented the name “Yandex” as an easy way to remember “Yet Another iNDEXer”.[11] This is also a bilingual pun on “index” since “Я” (“ya”) means “I” in Russian.
• On 23 September 1997, the Yandex.ru search engine was launched and presented at the Softool exhibition in Moscow. (It expired 10 days ago on Sep 30, 2026)

You are comparing bananas and tomatoes. Yandex LLC was registered in 2000, however, Yandex existed long before Brin and Page had even met. In 1997 Brin and Page only registered the domain because they wanted to secure it, but they were not ready to launch until 1998. The lesser demanded .ru TLD didn’t require such panic, nor was it likely that somebody would steal that domain as yandex was their made up word. (Brin and Page registered ‘google’ thinking that they were registering ‘googol’ an already existing word.)

Active functioning search engine website “OFFICIAL LAUNCHES” - Google: August 1998 Yandex: 23 September 1997

Edit: And to clarify, I think the sensible metric here, that works in Yandex’s Googles favour by bringing the two within eight days of each other instead of approximately two years, is to use the date their search engine websites launched and were functioning, not when they filed paperwork that said “We’re legally a company now 🥳”.

Yes. You said the last bit with the wrong name. Yandex was officially launched and functioning almost a year before google. Yandex the name had come into existence two years before Page and Brin had even met. Arcadia (Yandex precursor) was 5 years before Backrub (Google precursor).

Nope - A registered domain is not a launch -

Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search

And

Yandex launched their first search engine in 1997 -

Yandex was founded by Arkady Volozh and launched its first product, a search engine, in 1997.

Technically, Google is ‘USA’s Yandex’.

She should’ve gone to Benidorm.

They keep borrowing and giving out ‘free’ tokens until people are hooked.

Then gradually introduce different payment methods until they figure out what works best.

Then prices rise (I’m guessing, rather rapidly) to pay off all of the loans and to start making profits.

In the meantime, their machines are learning from the users, and learning which areas and how it can be most profitable.

Boom. They’ve created a profitable business that nobody wanted, nobody asked for and nobody needs. The interactors don’t even realise that they’re not even really using it, they’re training it.

DON’T USE AI.

YOU’RE CREATING MORE PROBLEMS. MORE BEZOS’ AND MORE MUSKS.

I wonder what’ll happen when Trumps term ends and he tries to leave the U.S.

Unless the U.S. deal with them first.