This article leaves out the full description, in a gross in justice.
She was hospitalized with "permanent bodily injury" and "vaginal lacerations," the complaint said. It said that the incident also caused her bowel to protrude "through her abdominal wall" in a hernia. [1]
This is another corporate ploy at influencing public opinion. The use of the word "Wedgie" is a disgusting misrepresentation akin to the McDonalds coffee accident that caused 3rd degree burns[2].
I'm genuinely shocked at the lack of quality discussion here. Did anyone actually try reading the article? The concept here is not to obfuscate things but rather to de-couple Google's search engine and Google's Adwords products.
Most opinion in this thread is "lol alphabet is google" which is apparent to everyone. Of course they are functionally the same entity, but someone whose job depends on it has proposed this as a solution. Are we really to assume that they just woke up and decided to turn their brain off? There's clearly going to be some actual change that attempts to satisfy regulators here.
We can look at history and possibly speculate how this looks, and we can also identify a few things.
1. Google is a search engine
2. Google the company sells AdWords as a product to advertisers.
3. Google benefits tremendously from owning both of these things.
Here's my take: Google wants to decouple their search and ads teams, move ads to a separate entity that works as an advertising marketplace, generate revenue there. Search will now sell its advertising space, likely in a way that can also be taxed, to the highest bidder rather than itself.
I also predict that google will want to pressure other platforms, which will enable them to break into other markets. META is the second largest advertiser online, but they do all of their advertising on two platforms, Instagram and Facebook. If google can push for the forced decoupling, then it will likely also apply to META. They can then swing their AdsWords product on top of FB/IG and start to eat back some of the traffic that they have been losing in recent years[1]. It's a bit of a gamble, but Google is betting on their AdWords software to be stronger, and a lot of the history would agree.
Also, now that I think about it, this has pretty big implications for user data sharing cross platform. Now you have to formalize the way that personal information is exchanged for the purpose of advertising.
"Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics"
While I actually agree with this rhetoric I find it hard to convince others, and I think now is not the time to openly express this opinion or share data on this topic. It's hard to say exactly how Delta behaves, or what dangers it poses. The water is muddy-- many people are vaccinated and many are not, vaccine efficacy for variants* is not fully understood yet.
In a few months I will be able to look back, but I don't think quarantine restrictions will become substantially stricter, regardless of impact. I also don't think the growth of cases is soon to decline in the immediate future.
It's all quite hard to say. I do know that this would be easier if all able people were to be vaccinated.
She was hospitalized with "permanent bodily injury" and "vaginal lacerations," the complaint said. It said that the incident also caused her bowel to protrude "through her abdominal wall" in a hernia. [1]
This is another corporate ploy at influencing public opinion. The use of the word "Wedgie" is a disgusting misrepresentation akin to the McDonalds coffee accident that caused 3rd degree burns[2].
[1] https://www.insider.com/woman-sues-disney-claims-water-slide...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...