Silicon Valley Warms to Trump After a Chilly Start
Two days after Donald J. Trump won the 2016 election, executives at Google consoled their employees in an all-staff meeting broadcast around the world.
"There is a lot of fear within Google," said Sundar Pichai, the company's chief executive, according to a video of the meeting viewed by The New York Times. When asked by an employee if there was any silver lining to Mr. Trump's election, the Google co-founder Sergey Brin said, "Boy, that's a really tough one right now." Ruth Porat, the finance chief, said Mr. Trump's victory felt "like a ton of bricks dropped on my chest." Then she instructed members of the audience to hug the person next to them.
Sixteen months later, Google's parent company, Alphabet, has most likely saved billions of dollars in taxes on its overseas cash under a new tax law signed by Mr. Trump. Alphabet also stands to benefit from the Trump administration's looser regulations for self-driving cars and delivery drones, as well as from proposed changes to the trade pact with Mexico and Canada that would limit Google's liability for user content on its sites.
Once one of Mr. Trump's most vocal opponents, Silicon Valley's technology industry has increasingly found common ground with the White House. When Mr. Trump was elected, tech executives were largely up in arms over a leader who espoused policies on immigration and other issues that were antithetical to their companies' values. Now, many of the industry's executives are growing more comfortable with the president and how his economic agenda furthers their business interests, even as many of their employees continue to disagree with Mr. Trump on social issues.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 31 2018, @12:44AM (3 children)
"Mexican" salsas here in America aren't very hot. That is a very bad issue in the United States. We can blame Silicon Valley and their cultural appropriation for burritos wrapped in cold and flaccid flour tortillas and salsas that pack the Scolville heat of Heinz ketchup (The "Chipotle" effect). Some Mexicans are good, they know how to make hot salsas.
(Score: 3, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:10AM (2 children)
Flour tortillas were invented in the US by formerly Mexican people after they lost the Mexican-American War.
It wasn't enough that the Yanquis slaughtered so many without the slightest pretense of provocation, they had to add insult to injury by doing away with corn crops and replacing them with wheat, which the formerly Mexican people did not know how to eat.
Japan had the same problem with wheat after it lost World War II, but a really cool frood invented Ramen.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:29AM
Flour tortillas were not utilized by a people who knew how to slap them onto a gas grill, or even an electric one for a few delicious minutes, to serve them to the Gringo rubes or feed their own Gringos. The ones who knew how to slap them onto a gas or electric grill already knew how to cook real tacos and burritos, the ones who didn't moved to San Jose and worked for Google and started a food company called Chipotle, then moved their tribe back downward to Irvine. The latter were working for Aztlan to poison the Gringos.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 31 2018, @03:40AM
Looks like they learned fast then. Plus, Mexico grows its own wheat which was introduced [gramene.org] way before Yanquis were involved.
I don't buy that wheat tortillas were invented centuries later because of the merely presence of the devilish Yanquis.
The US didn't replace Japan's rice crops with wheat. Japan was almost completely depleted, food-wise, due to the destruction of the war. Instead, the wheat and whatnot was what the US had to give. did the Navajo [whatscookingamerica.net].
The US version of "May you live in interesting times" is "May your food come from a quartermaster."