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Re:Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronaviru... by tryptophan on Saturday March 14, 2020 @09:47PM (#22580459)
A quick read of the article confirms that a google subsidiary IS MAKING A WEBSITE. Trump got all the details wrong as usual, but the main idea is true.

That article just seems like its fishing for "trump bad" material.

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Re:Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronaviru... by rovr138 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @09:56PM (#22580502)
Not a subsidiary of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet.
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Re:Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronaviru... by cavisne on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:03PM (#22580544)
Why pretend there’s a difference?
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Re:Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronaviru... by zlsa on Sunday March 15, 2020 @01:53AM (#22581629)
Because there is?
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Re:Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronaviru... by allannienhuis on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:36AM (#22581791)
it's not a difference that matters in this context.
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Re:Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronaviru... by servusMachina on Sunday March 15, 2020 @12:40PM (#22584416)
Seems like it doesn't matter simply due to your political bias.
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Re:Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronaviru... by allannienhuis on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:06PM (#22585279)
You can invert that statement and it has just as much validity: "Seems like it matters simply due to your political bias"
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Re:Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronaviru... by servusMachina on Sunday March 15, 2020 @10:48PM (#22589293)
Absolutely, but only one of those statements is correct in this context.
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Re:Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronaviru... by outside1234 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:15PM (#22580614)
Nobody in the real world understands Alphabet - they just say Google.
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Re:Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronaviru... by ajross on Sunday March 15, 2020 @12:51AM (#22581370)
Under the circumstances, shouldn't we demanding that the executive branch do a bit more than getting the main idea correct? Isn't it newsworthy when the president, in probably the single most important press event of his administration, got "all the details wrong as usual"?

Isn't that... "bad"? So why is it "fishing" to report "Trump bad" in this context?

This is bad. It's BAD. We have a clearly incompetent administration trying to coordinate the response to the worse disease outbreak in 102 years. And shouldn't the media be able to say that when it's true?

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