From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 23/12/2025 22:48, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   > Whenever I start feeling too paranoid, I remind myself of Hanlon's   
   > Razor: "Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately be   
   > explained by stupidity."  But then a little voice in the back of   
   > my head says, "But Google isn't stupid!"   
      
   This is true, but they are, so to speak, unwise.   
      
   All over the world we have clever men in positions of political power   
   who are abusing those positions for fame or fortune, to the extent that   
   it threatens the very systems they are notionally in charge of.   
      
   The hills are alive the the desperate honks of golden geese being strangled.   
      
   And so is the Internet.   
      
   When everything is monetised, none of it is worth paying attention to.   
      
      
      
   --   
   "The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll   
   look exactly the same afterwards."   
      
   Billy Connolly   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)