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Speaking of Russia, it’s not giving Google any treats, but it just treated the world to a sweet bit of hilarity. You can’t say Russians don’t have a sense of humor. As further evidence we are living in a badly programmed simulation, the UK Independent ran a not-joking story yesterday headlined, “Russia fines Google $2.5 decillion (that’s 2.5 trillion trillion trillion dollars).”




Russia is, apparently, getting sick and tired of its citizens being censored by Google. It’s been nonstop since 2022, since Google’s pudgy Gen-Z “trust and safety” teams and the search giant’s embedded deep-state moles think anything a random Russian says online must be Putin propaganda. (I know how Russia feels.)

So, obviously exasperated, a Russian court yesterday fined Google more money than there is in the entire world. It’s literally unaffordable. The amount was probably calculated using some kind of formula, like $100 per YouTube banned by Google’s censorship staff or $10 per Russian citizen put in YouTube jail or something like that. The article didn’t say.

As Russia and NATO have, Russia and Google have been fighting each other ever since the Proxy War started. I’m not saying Google is fighting with Russia like NATO because it is wholly owned by the same party or parties who also wholly own NATO, or that Google has become a hollowed out, deep state tool useful for ginning up color revolutions and stuff but not to much for searches anymore, which is also why it hasn’t innovated in any meaningful way for years and its searches get worse and worse instead of better and better like SpaceX rockets and Tesla cars.