Re: Today in Trump cult stupidity (kills your 401ks goodbye)

Don Marti wrote on 2025-04-03 14:38:

 > They also said that Google is going to have to sell the Chrome web
 > browser.

They can list it for sale, but who's buying it?

Even if free, the maintenance burden would be enormous. A modern day 
white elephant.


> ...and probably a change in spam handling on Gmail. As long as they play 
> ball with the [s]administration[/s]GOP, [...]

Did that - years ago:

 > On Thursday, the Federal Election Commission approved a new proposal
 > from Google to keep campaign emails from being marked as spam.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/11/23301554/google-gmail-spam-filters-republicans-gop-trump


 > Google moves to keep campaign messages out of spam

 > Republican leadership introduced a bill this month that would require
 > platforms to share how their filtering techniques work and make it
 > illegal to put campaign emails into spam unless a user asks.

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/27/google-campaign-email-spam-gmail



 > Don't know what Apple is going to have to do for their exception

They've shown they're ready and willing (eager!) to comply:

 > Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-inauguration



Never thought a coup in America would be welcomed by so many and yet, 
despite the despair of many (the majority?), hardly a damned whimper 
would be heard.

Can't do anything to incite the baddies, that may cause them to drop the 
restraint they're so famous for. Apparently.


Good luck down there.