How is Chrome supposed to be a business on its own, tho, especially without search engines sponsoring it (presumably?). Firefox isn’t exactly doing great either, and they’re a non profit.
I agree that Alphabet needs to be broken up, but it should probably be done in ways that leave viable, non monopolistic businesses in place.
I think it’s either:
You mean by hanging out with Liz Cheney and talking about a ‘lethal military’?
I have a feeling this is equally as bad with the context.
The pandemic and Ukraine shows you can’t just count on global markets in a crisis, and we’re heading into a world with more, not less crises. Countries everywhere are onshoring critical industries, and the BRICS countries are working on getting off the dollar. That’s happening whether Trump is President or not (and unfortunately he is).
Strategic doesn’t mean just military. It means strategically investing in this capacity so you don’t get caught with your pants down when Russia turns off the tap and destroys your economy overnight. We’re past the globalist world now, and if your country is still making decisions as if we are, you’re not doing it right.
Or they could use a distro that’s already been created by a European vendor, maybe even create a competitive tender. There’s no point in creating a new distro, add a new repository if you must.
Sure, there’d be some arbitrage, but pretty much every country that has a functional government will invest in domestic capacity for strategic reasons. You won’t have countries that have none at all and have to import everything.
Yeah, there’s no reason to be transporting hydrogen long distances. You can make it anywhere that has water and electricity. And if you’ve transitioned to a hydrogen based economy (which is a big if), ships wouldn’t run on oil any more anyway, so there’s no problem there.
The famously leftist NYPD.
Lol, that’s basically cops and fentanyl now.
It’s a real shame that generally lefties don’t really care about or ‘get’ software freedom. You should be pushing for free software on all levels. In your personal life and in government. It’s crazy how much power a company like Apple, Microsoft or Google has over everyone.
Yeah, they’re currently playing both sides of the digital ad market place, and that’s definitely where you should start when breaking up Alphabet.