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points by skeledrew 5 days ago | 0 comments
The water supply got an update. Reservoir instead of wells. There may be a difference in taste but you'll get used to it. Or learn to dig a well.
[–] ceejayoz 5 days ago
That's more honest, but quite the goalpost move.

The local population is probably allowed to complain that you built the reservoir with toxic waste, too, or that you filled the old well with construction debris.

[–] skeledrew 4 days ago
It's not a goalpost move though, as there was never a guarantee to remain on well water.

But anyway I personally would find someone offering well water if I don't like the reservoir. And I've been using DuckDuckGo exclusively for search since they first appeared, so I've never had to deal with what Google's doing. I know the reservoir exists, but I've never drank from it.

[–] rockskon 4 days ago
> It's not a goalpost move though, as there was never a guarantee to remain on well water.

That sounds like an argument to never depend on Google for anything ever again under any circumstance short of severe punitive legislative action.

[–] skeledrew 4 days ago
It really doesn't make sense to use a service and expect that service to not ever change (or be replaced), particularly when you're not the owner of said service. I love how HN is but I wouldn't blink if it changed tomorrow for example. Heck, there have been recent changes: there's now a filter system for LLM-generated content, for one.
[–] rockskon 4 days ago
It really doesn't make sense for businessowners to see themselves as independent from the society they operate in.

Especially in Google's case where they've invested so much into remaking how society works worldwide. To expect people to simply accept anything and everything Google wants to do just because they're a private business regardless of how many billions of people their actions affect?

Lunacy.

[–] skeledrew 4 days ago
How you want businesses to work and how they actually work are different things. By default, a business has no relations to society beyond beyond those facilitating financial transactions in such a way that said business makes a profit for its owner/stakeholders. Anything else is adopted strictly with the purpose of advancing that primary purpose, or is externally mandated via regulation, community pressure, etc. An entity that doesn't prioritize profit (given no external pressure) isn't a business.
[–] rockskon 4 days ago
How you want governments to work and how they actually work are different things.

How you want public perception to work and how it actually works are different things.

[–] nativeit 4 days ago
It’s got what plants crave.