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I blame The Chosen for this Change in Me

Posted: December 1, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Yesterday was the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle who was crucified under Nero on an X shaped cross in Greece.

Normally there is a small intellectual connection and a faith connection to these events but this year it’s something different.

For two seasons now I’ve seen Andrew on The Chosen and while it is a dramatic portrayal based on scripture it has “humanized’ the apostle to me not as a saint from long ago, but as a person with all the strengths, faults and foibles that we all have. Someone I can relate to.

So now when I think of Andrew killed on the cross I don’t think of the remote saint dying the death of a martyr, I think of the fellow that Dallas Jenkins and Noah James has introduced me to, someone I know, suffering and dying for Christ. That produces a an emotional reaction and a realization of just what he did for the sake of those who would believe.

Perhaps this is something that should have been the case for all this time before the Chosen came out but regardless of the reason I’ll never look at the feast day of any of the Apostles the same way again.

God Mammon & Apple

Posted: November 30, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

Matthew 6:24

The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.

William H Vanderbilt

One of the things I’ve learned to dislike over the years is virtue signaling and the worst kind of virtue signaling comes from cooporations.

We saw a lot of this from tech companies, the whole “don’t be evil” BS and the like. It was all about feeling good about themselves as they made a buck they would be thinking like Bogart in Sabrina

But for many of these companies it’s not about what an industry can bring it’s about maxing out the profit and if that means playing ball with a place like China, well Apple is very happy to obligue:

Hidden in the update was a change that only applies to iPhones sold in mainland China: AirDrop can only be set to receive messages from everyone for 10 minutes, before switching off. There’s no longer a way to keep the “everyone” setting on permanently on Chinese iPhones. The change, first noticed by Chinese readers of 9to5Mac, doesn’t apply anywhere else.

In other words, Chinese iPhone users can’t do or say anything without the CCP knowing about it. Dissent can be quashed before it even starts. The Chinese people can be kept under the CCP’s thumb. And Apple is helping.

Now I have no problem with making a profit nor trying to maximize said profit, what bugs me is when Apple makes a big fuss about virtue, and hits they will pull out of Twitter because they don’t like Elon Musk’s way of doing things while at the same time helping Communist China crush dissent.

It insults my intelligence and it should insult yours.

Spinning Your Life Insurance Away

Posted: November 29, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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Here is a story you might have missed via the Hill:

Life insurers pay record death benefits in 2021

From the piece:

Life insurance payouts reached a new high in 2021, according to a leading trade association.  

New data released by the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) shows companies paid $100 billion to the beneficiaries of policyholders who died last year.  

That number is the highest amount life insurance companies have paid out to policyholder beneficiaries in a single year, according to a release from the ACLI.  

That data is not any surprise to those who have followed the mRNA shots and the VERAS information, and who have highlighted the “died suddenly” stories that the left has done it’s best to avoid, deny or suppress.

The problem becomes how does one spin this data to preserve the desired narrative, well apparently you do it like this:

And that spike is driven by two reasons: the disease’s presence resulting in more Americans purchasing life insurance and the sheer number of people who have died as a result of being infected with the virus.  

Given the age range of those who are dying from COVID this conclusion is laughable particularly when you compare the overall death rates in the country over the last 10 years.

Where the life insurance takes a hit is when young healthy people who are expected to live a lot longer die.

I wonder what might be causing that?

I predict that in the next few years, if it hasn’t started already, insurers will take into account if you have had the COVID shot when quoting you a rate and the unvaccinated will find themselves with a price advantage.

Unexpectedly of course

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Dave Portnoy puts out The Most Important Tweet You Will Read Today or likely for the rest of this year:

Posted: November 28, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Note carefully the timeframe involved here

You should always presume any person working for the MSM is a dishonest and dishonorable, that any statements they make to you are dishonest and/or dishonorable and the motive for any attempt to contact you is dishonest and dishonorable.

All that is a start but most important of all as I have said many times NEVER TALK TO THE MSM UNLESS YOU HAVE A CAMERA RUNNING FILMING THE EXCHANGE WHILE YOU DO SO!

Closing thought: I suspect six months ago that tweet would have been flagged for disinformation.

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