I have to admit that I was so pleased with that turn of phrase when it came to me that I went ahead and posted it in spite of the fact that this specific incident doesn’t appear to be a good example.
I have to admit that I was so pleased with that turn of phrase when it came to me that I went ahead and posted it in spite of the fact that this specific incident doesn’t appear to be a good example.
It’s really sort of amazing how few years it took to go from “Do no evil” to “Don’t even bother pretending not to.”
It’s cynically amusing that we’ve reached a point in US history that Supreme Court justices with no integrity don’t even bother trying to hide the fact that they have no integrity.
I think that’s actually part of the vetting process when a new nominee is chosen. Most of the public focus is on ideology, but that’s likely just the first phase of it for the people reviewing possible candidates. It’s likely that after they get a pool of candidates who are ideologically acceptable, they actually look for a particular combination of arrogance and an utter lack of integrity, so they can, it is hoped, end up with somebody who will not only be corrupt and dishonest but defiantly and determinedly corrupt and dishonest - somebody who can just be set on whatever path they’ve been bribed to follow and then set free, and their own egos will take over and keep them on that path.
Yeah - the whole dynamic of claiming that you don’t intend to do the specific shitty thing that you then intentionally and specifically do is infuriating already, and “yuck your yum” just adds an extra layer of cringe to it.
As I just noted on another response, mostly it was that I came up with a delicious turn of phrase and couldn’t not post it. And yes, while broadly I think that Google deserves every bit of shit that’s thrown their way and more - that they could vanish from the face of the Earth tomorrow and the internet could only benefit - this particular incident really isn’t a good example.