Survival of the Fittest: They just keep on losing

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

They just keep on losing

Last night, they had a 4-1 lead going into the 6th inning. By the end of the 7th inning, the score was tied. In the 8th inning, I went to bed because I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. When I woke up this morning, I found that the Rays scored 4 runs in the 9th, winning the game 8-4.

If the Red Sox don't solve whatever problem is eating at them right now, they run the real risk of seeing their season go rapidly down the toilet.

For the record, if that happens, I will continue to watch them because, well, it's what I do.

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There are two lines in this story that should worry you:

“Apple plans to scan users’ encrypted messages for sexually explicit content as a child safety measure.

That tells me Apple plans to break its encryption which is something they have always refused to do, even when a subpoena was issued by the courts. That tells me that I cannot trust their encryption. No sir, not one bit.

Parents snapping innocent photos of a child in the bath presumably need not worry.

Bullshit. A naked child is a naked child. All it will take is for some Apple "reviewer" to have a bad day and before you know it, child protective services is showing up at the door of some young family, grabbing kids and putting them into "safe places" while the local sheriff is locking mom and dad up for child pornography.

Also, who the hell decided Apple is the acme of moral character in our society? Seems to me that Apple is a heartless corporation with little or no moral compass. The executives like to think they are ethical and moral but they aren't. They only do what is best for the company, not for society.

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If you haven't seen the front page of the New York Post, let me show it to you:

That's a funny front page.

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Time for me to say thanks to Mr. Willis Carrier for his excellent invention and to watch some baseball.

Here are the links I found for you: