Let's say not as popular as other games, but it was popular enough to pirate in the US.

Democracy with Chinese Characteristics

atleast the people's republic of china never claims to be a democracy in the liberal western, sense of the word. Politically (on paper atleast) the chinese goverment is very much a marxist state, and it is very clear about that.

Maybe the poster IS Gemini 3?

Today an email purportedly from Google said I will need to send age verification on my 20yo account, or they'll stop targeting me for advertisements and showing me inappropriate material. This sounds like an excellent deal for me, not going to bother determining if its a phishing attempt.

The government might spend the money on giant AI data centers instead, this donation is going directly to something helpful.

I've been thinking about a synthesis of communism and capitalism, where instead of levying dollar taxes, the corporations transfer 0.5% of control (stock, etc) to the government per year. Adjusted for how much the government already controls.

Or we could do socialism and have workers, not the government, take ownership.

There was no Android, app store was new, there were no app bootcamps. In 2025 if you wanted to offer a hands-on quantum computing class for Computer Science (not Physics), you'd need to pick a corporate product.

I love that the AI decided to "hack" the site by spamming

Rolling out a fix now.

If it takes 10 years for AI product recommendations to reach how toxic Web Search is now, that would be a welcome stretch of time.

Ask a human who does. If there are no competent humans on-call before the procedure starts, reschedule the procedure.

If the new devices didn't require subscriptions, ads, or cloud verification of manufacturer authenticity, we'd be more excited to buy them.