Google Calendar has removed reference to observances such as the beginning of Black history Month on Feb. 1, and Women's History Month on March 1.
  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    39·
    8 hours ago

    It’s amazing how Trump, a man who has never had a single successful business in his life, has been successful in intimidating much more successful businesses.

    I will be damned if he does not go down in history as the most accomplished conman in history. Forget about the people who invented the Brooklyn Bridge scam (ever heard the expression ‘if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you’? That’s where it came from) or the guy who sold the Effel Tower, or Ponzi, or whatever. Trump demolishes all other conmen in how he managed to time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time again fool so many people into giving him their money for his failed ideas, but also told them to eat shit all the way and told them to kiss his ass harder next time he comes along to demand money for more failed businesses.

    In that end he is remarkably competent. The only thing he is good at.

    • CitizenKong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      I don’t think it’s Trump at all. Who did Musk have suddenly contact with before veering far right? Who had several meetings with Trump in his first term that no-one was allowed to record? And who is waging a cyberwar of misinformation and propaganda right out of “Foundation of Geopolitics” since at least 2014?

      It’s Putin. Trump is just the smokescreen. He tries to achieve globally what he did in Russia, aligning all oligarchs under himself with the promise of even more obscene riches. And with the US the first domino has fallen for good. Next he will try to destroy the EU (Brexit was only the trial run).

      At this point, only China might put him in check and they will only do it if it helps their own plans of global domination (they seem to prefer a soft approach for now). A truly united EU might also help, but I don’t have a lot of hope for that.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      I think he was unexpectedly successful in winning the 2016 election.

      I also think that by mid 2017 “his” administration had built up collection of “advisors” who have been increasingly calling the shots since then. They give him “on brand” scripts to read, but he’s not personally orchestrating much of anything.

      • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialEnglish
        8·
        6 hours ago

        See, this assigns a level of human personality to corporations that I don’t think we should be doing. It implies there is a “true self” to be revealed, when in reality the “self” of any corporation is entirely plastic and follows what the Excel Sheet tells them will make Line Go Up. Most corporate suits aren’t Elon Musk (who is, in fact, a human being, just a terrible one). Most corporate suits are dead inside and haven’t had a soul or a human emotion since 1985.

        No, they just do whatever they can to appease whoever is in charge, because that is how they make money. They only became “LGBTQ friendly” when that was mainstream-acceptable and government-endorsed. And now that the culture is swinging the other way (more than half of americans wanted this fascist descent, never forget that) and the US is going all in on white supremacy and puritanism, they switch tunes right away. Case in point dia da consciência negra, the Brazilian equivalent of a black-history thing is still labelled on my Brazil-facing Google Calendar, because it’s still a government-sponsored and mainstream commemorative date here.

        • ImADifferentBirdEnglish
          2·
          4 hours ago

          The thing is, corporations are run by people. Sometimes it’s a singular personality like Musk or Zuckerberg, sometimes it’s a board, but every one of those decisions is made by one or more human beings.

          A corporation is not a person, but don’t deny the agency of the people that run it. They created the awful world we live in, and they did it with the explicit goal of taking from us.

          • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialEnglish
            2·
            3 hours ago

            See, nothing you said contradicts what I said. Yes, they created this world, and they did so to drain from us.

            But. And this is important.

            Their malice is the kind of sociopathic malice that leaves little space for personal enmities. They see all human beings outside their caste as a resource to be exploited, not complete living persons that can be liked or disliked (ever notice how every corp has a literal “Human Resources” department? Yeah.) – Just another datapoint in a dry and emotionless calculus of power.

            In other words, most corporate boards don’t really give a shit about queer people, but will say they support queer people if that is popular at the moment, and similarly will say they hate queer people if that is what is popular at the moment. Consider Disney’s inserting of LGBTQ characters in their movies… That can be easily and effortlessly edited out for sale in countries where that isn’t mainstream-acceptable. So that in some countries they can generate buzz about it, but in others they can bury it easily.

            It’s all about the money and never about anything else.

        • Hackworth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 hours ago

          I’d say the egregore of a company does have a personality, but you’re right - it’s not human. We’re not great at understanding non-human intelligence even in other mammals. Another example being the discourse surrounding AI.

  • jaemo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    10 hours ago

    Interesting, my phone just disabled Google calendar due to my pressing and holding on the icons. Can’t help but wonder if these events are related.

    They might be since I refuse to get up with fleas after lying down with nazi hounds…

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    13 hours ago

    wow such enthusiastic ass kissers. “Am I kissing hard enough Daddy? Will you let me run rampant and monopolize on tech Daddy?”

  • Benjaben@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    16 hours ago

    Holy fuck! Welp, today’s the day, I’ve been a heavy Google user since they became a company basically. Starting to unwind all that TODAY.

    • tabris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      13 hours ago

      Good luck. I’m also on that process. Just changing email provider is enough work with over 300 accounts using my Gmail address. Don’t give up, but be aware it’s a lot of work.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      20·
      18 hours ago
      • Virginia
      • North Carolina
      • South Carolina
      • Georgia
      • Florida
      • Alabama
      • Tennessee
      • Mississippi
      • Louisiana
      • Texas
      • Arkansas
      • Oklahoma
  • DemandtheOxfordComma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    15 hours ago

    Starting to makes sense. All this anti American crap was happening last time he was president too. I thought the world was going mad, but he was pushing. It was him the whole time.

    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      9 hours ago

      This is hardly a push. These companies are changing because they want to change. No one is forcing them to change things. He’s just giving them cover.

      • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah, how does it benefit Google to do this? Or benefit the NFL to remove End Racism? Someone had to be sitting in a room and think, “Oh, nice! Now we can finally remove that bullshit and nobody will oppose it.”

  • BossDj@lemm.eeEnglish
    24·
    18 hours ago

    They also changed gulf of Mexico officially to gulf of America in Maps