Am I Just Old, or is this Choice by Google the problem?

[Pepper]

Today, D-Day, is one of the most important events of Western History. I was expecting a nice cartoon on Google in Celebration. Google IS Celebrating, But Not D-D


Celebrating Jeanne CórdovaIn honor of Pride Month, today’s Doodle celebrates lesbian Chicana activist, feminist, and author Jeanne Córdova, who is widely known for her leadership in the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
Jeanne Córdova was an American writer and supporter of the lesbian and gay rights movement, founder of The Lesbian Tide, and a founder of the West Coast LGBT movement. A former Catholic nun, Córdova was a second-wave feminist lesbian activist and self-described butch.

I definitely don't mind this. Not Today. Not today.

 

[dilettante]

Idiocracy is well under way.

 

[hollydolly]

How very strange. We have no google cartoon today... just plain Google word.. nothing more...

 

[Pepper]

"Can we email Google?

Unfortunately, there is no way to directly contact Google. You cannot call or email the Gmail support team as there is no number or email address for you to use. You can, however, try to use Google's Support Center to solve your problem. Use the username recovery tool.Apr 10, 2024"

 

[Pepper]

How very strange. We have no google cartoon today... just plain Google word.. nothing more...

Because Britain still understands and reveres today, unlike the USA?

 

[Pepper]

So many, most all, days are cartoon free by Google. Yet, they pick today.

 

[hearlady]

Google is the problem.

 

[Pepper]

And, @hearlady we can't Call or Email!! A "letter to the editor". NYPost would take it, I'm pretty sure! Now, if only I weren't so lazy these days.......
These days. Who am I kidding?

 

[dilettante]

Google uses vast numbers of foreign workers. Even the actual citizens they employ are significantly large numbers of women who've never faced and almost certainly never will face a draft, or even volunteer for service in numbers approaching anything close to parity.

The double and triple standard involved most likely colors Google's corporate perception of what the significant events and people throughout history were.

Basically, the kind of decadence that brought Rome down: non-stakeholders getting an outsized voice.

 

[Pepper]

You've raised a lot of points there @dilettante. I would like an explanation from Google, and I would advise everyone, not me, write a Letter to the Editor of their local rag. Who knows, I just might get around to it.

It is repulsive and as I mentioned, would have been better not to print a cartoon today. eta Or, were they, in the USA more afraid of that?

Holly in UK reports no cartoon today. What about our Canadians & Australians, etc? eta those countries not part of the Axis powers!

 

[Pinky]

Nothing from Google today.

 

[Pepper]

Why those !@#$%^&*(_+*&^%$#@!

 

[Pepper]

I will not delve further, but I can see where it is a ploy to influence November.

 

[dilettante]

It is repulsive and as I mentioned, would have been better not to print a cartoon today. eta Or, were they, in the USA more afraid of that?

I don't want to step over any line into the political. Many other parts of the world are more fully cowed or under quite a heavy thumb right now though, making indoctrination less of a priority.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Today I thanked my husband for his service in the military.

 

[Pepper]

I don't want to step over any line into the political. Many other parts of the world are more fully cowed or under quite a heavy thumb right now though, making indoctrination less of a priority.

No, I don't buy that. I am sorry the only answer I have, now that evidence is in from other Allied countries, is verboten and of course I respect that. It is obviously a message to the American people.

So, for myself, I conclude by saying no matter what the reason, or no reason at all, I am outraged, and that doesn't happen all that much to me these days. Or, at least I am hard at work not allowing it to.