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I know... but how?

[Inspired Taste @inspiredtaste]

After our @NBCNews interview aired nationally on TV and being quoted in major @bloomberg and @cnn articles, we felt the need to post one last 2025 example to symbolize just how far Google has strayed from their original goal of supporting the open web which made them into the successful company they are today. Google is using our photo mashed together with other photos that aren’t ours, along side a full untested plagiarized Frankenstein recipe, using our actual names (started happening after the news articles were published), our actual recipe page isn’t being cited at all, and we have no way to stop this madness. This is happening to all search verticals. Hopefully this is rock bottom. Let’s hope 2026 is better! Let’s have a great New Year 🎉 cc @rustybrick

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‘Free Me 💀 [Copyright Free]’ by NEFFEX is on #SoundCloud https://t.co/vYvXp6wJQr

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@brodieseo is it even me anymore

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@brodieseo 🫣

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@GaelBreton 🧻

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@vivaldibrowser there is no universal way to organize information systems

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@vivaldibrowser but you saw that on reddit maybe already

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@vivaldibrowser there is more trust me :D

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@remkusdevries never look at me, thank you (not that you have or need to though, but dont even try)

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@remkusdevries sadly I cannot unlock my valut... you know why. Who am I.

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@faajifm40 got u

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see you l8r, bums! https://t.co/EapHUSGzX2

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@vivaldibrowser Already using it, why are you not switching over to social media not owned by fascists tho? Oh, poor reach!

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@RiotSupport I just broke your kernel AC, send me an email.

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Watch me. https://t.co/NHyYFIjCMz

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Google + Reddit + "AI" =

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A candid shot of the audience, Google I/O 2024 pretty much sums the event up.

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@MattTutt1 I liked that guy at first, but the stuff he spouts now seems like borderline insanity. Dude is obsessed with money and there are many like him here. It is crazy how unhinged Twitter got after Melon.

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An equivalent of cancer, people who think economic growth is all that matters and it is forever sustainable. What a moron.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

The most concerning part about this is that most Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has now become

Europeans are literally blue-pilled and are mostly concerned with climate change, immigration and the Ukraine war

Nobody in Europe is thinking why increasingly everything they use is made in China running on American software

The knee jerk reaction is to proudly pass regulation against American tech

The chad reaction would be to reduce regulation so that European entrepreneurs would actually stay in Europe to build European startups increasing Europe's GDP and making Europeans richer!

I am European and I have regular conversations about this with people here, it's just not on top of mind AT ALL! While it should be because Europe's GDP is stagnant and the real innovation now happens in US and China and elsewhere, not in Europe

People in Europe do love to complain about rising cost of living and the increasing unaffordability of living, but they don't realize why. They point at foreigners/immigrants as the problem, which can't be the whole story

Other Europeans I talk to get visibly upset if I ask them about stagnant GDP numbers: "why should everything be about money?" they say in a thick German accent

The whole story is that Europe has made it very difficult for people to start a business, raise capital, innovate and get the reward for taking that risk, so why would anybody?

And for the Europeans that do, it's way easier to open a US Delaware company, raise capital in US, sell your stock or IPO in the US, because why even do that in EU, where it's too hard? The proof is in the pudding, if it was so easy in EU then why is startup funding in US $270B AUM with 330 million people vs $44B AUM with 746 million people? That's almost 14x bigger startup funding market per capita

Why doesn't EU have ANY trillion dollar companies? While US has six? Why isn't there any European company in the top 10 of largest companies? While 80% is American?

Why is Stripe, a company founded by two Irish brothers, an American company and not a European one? It could have been

Very few Europeans will agree with this post because they can't see it, if they would've seen it, we wouldn't be here in the first place!

What's the role left for Europe in the future?

Signed,
- A techno-optimist European who'd love to see Europe become wealthy again