<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"> <span class="gmail_default" style="">> </span>Google is simply too big and powerful,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></font></i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>The world is big and powerful<span class="gmail_default" style=""> so it's inevitable that there are going to be big and powerful things in it. If not corporations then what do you want those big and powerful things to be, lots of high technology corporations or one huge nation state? As for me, I'm an unrepentant capitalist. </span> </b></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>and seems to be getting moreso all the time. </i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Yes<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> that's because the world is getting larger and more powerful, and that growth rate is about to go into hyperdrive.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>I'm fairly sure that I'm the only person I know in real life that doesn't have one</i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i></i>[a Google account] </span></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I wouldn't be surprised.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Contrast this with the browsers that we use, or the operating system/s we favour. </i></font></blockquote><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>I assume you have a phone, if so <span class="gmail_default" style="">its</span> operating system<span class="gmail_default" style=""> almost certainly came from Apple or Google, and your web browser probably came from Apple, Google or Microsoft, mine sure does and I thank them for it. </span></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">> </span>When I said "I'd hate to lose this list", I wasn't referring to Google shutting the list down, I was referring to the fact that if it moved to Google, I wouldn't be able to take part in it any more. The same reason I sometimes read, but never post to, the Extropolis list.</font><br></i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I'm sincerely<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>sorry to hear that, I'd really<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>like to <span class="gmail_default" style="">get</span> your input.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> But what negative consequences do you envision happening if you were to make such a post? </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark See what's on my new list at </font><font size="6"><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Extropolis</a></font></font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><font size="1" color="#ffffff">5t5</font><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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