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Google Ireland, which runs Google Search in the EU, now faces a fine of up to €250,000 for each breach, or detention of its managers, if it repeats three versions of the text. [own emphasis]

Holy shit that judge isn’t fucking around.

Whelp, I forgot. It’s been a while since I wrote that comment :D

Coming to think of it, she did seem like a more senior employee…

When it comes to updates, it’s shifted in that direction in the last while. But updates are just one aspect, and with just about every other aspect, they’re awful. Look at the way they fuck over independent repair shops. Look at the way they lock down their systems. And look at the way they make their devices as difficult as possible to repair. Then, look at the way they are pioneers at these practices. It used to be standard that you could install what you want on devices you bought and paid for. Apple was the company who drove the idea into the mainstream that the manufacturer could artificially restrict what you can install on your device. Same applies to having control over the OS. Same applies to the headphone jack. Same applies to repairability. They’ve been consistently spearheading the most destructive trends in the areas of user rights and environmental impact.

> on 4chan

> not doing anything absurdly creepy, racist or disgusting

> I’m seriously the most pathetic person on this board.

This person is one of the least pathetic people on that board.

There’s a bakery close to where I live that I used to get stuff from regularly. One of the things I liked had a really cringeworthy pun as a name, though, so I just said something along the lines of “the one with ham and eggs”. I regularly got asked “so one [cringeworthy pun]?” At some point I said, “yes, the one with the cringeworthy name”. The employee (who seemed to be a more senior employee) said I should use the product names because it would apparently confuse the apprentices otherwise. When I said that it’s just too cringeworthy she started saying things like “no one else will notice that it’s cringeworthy” and going in the direction of “come on, you can do it”. Well, I don’t go there anymore.

EDIT: since a number of people are commenting on my use of the word “cringeworthy”: for one there are a number of places where it’s fairly normal to use that word (and I mean IRL), and for another this happened in a different language.