If that were true, Google wouldn’t be fighting them so hard.

Not quite.

You can get a case.

That’s not much of a defense.

I would feel sorry for the people left holding the bag there, but…

Whatever interval for reevaluation is chosen, it’s not going to be daily.

Isn’t that just Doller General?

Yeah, they’re basically giving up future marketshare to make a quick buck. No long term thought whatsoever.

They don’t have to do anything. This is a rare case where the nimby are the heros.

They were (mostly) attributing it to the wrong people. Also, the biggest accusers were running that network.

these limitations and exclusions apply to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

This is the actually important part. Companies drop unenforceable shit in t&c all the time. It’s just there to intimidate you and force you to give up your rights.

Thing is, original cost was usually higher than current market value. It’s only recently that has started biting them in the ass.

Chinese and pizza were the only places you could be sure would deliver. Grocery deliveries, outside of charities that were not well known, were expensive enough to make doordash look like a charity.

Now if you go back a century or so, you might be able to phone the local General store and have little Jimmy bring a box of stuff for you, but little Jimmy is in the home now, and those times have been long gone before either of us were born.

Overuse of AI accusations only helps AI.

It can do that precisely because it’s not intelligent.

We don’t need AI making it worse.

You know what AI isn’t doing? Grueling labor.

A broken tool that cost way too much even when they were giving it away.

He was too much of a fight junkie to kill a strong opponent.

It did add a bald CEO in later years, but that’s about it.