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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.

The Ultimate Ukraine Irony

Posted: November 27, 2022 by datechguy in war
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Something hit me today concerning Russia with it’s army and reputation it the worst position it’s been in since Japan rolled over them at the turn of the last century.

Poland, Romania and Hungry along with the Baltic States all have a grievance with Russia over a half century of enslavement under communist rule not to mention their invasion from the east while they were trying to fight off the Nazi’s in the west. The wounds are still there and the fear of Russian Invasion after the fact never really left.

Ironically now the Pols have one of the most modern tank forces in the world, they are well trained, highly united as a country and very invested in a Ukrainian victory but there is one fact more.

If Poland decided to use it’s army and take revenge on Russia it is very likely that the Russians would not be in a position to stop them from going deep into their territory and there is no longer a US ready to provide lend lease to supply them in the event of such a war. Particularly if the other states who all own Russia a bloody nose decided to join in under the theory that there will never be a better chance to end the danger from Russia once and for all.

Now it’s my opinion that the Pols have no interest in doing so and are happy enough with the knowledge that Russia has has to fear them, but if they did decide they wanted to go after them only two things would stop them

  1. Russia’s Nukes
  2. NATO

That’s the ultimate Irony, right now NATO is the single strongest guarantor of the territorial integrity of Russia in the west.

Who woulda thunk it?

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