Apple To Pay $113 Million Settlement Over Its iPhone 'Batterygate' Slowdowns (cnet.com)
The settlement involves the 2017 revelation that Apple was purposely slowing older phones when their batteries began to degrade.
Apple To Pay $113 Million Settlement Over Its iPhone 'Batterygate' Slowdowns (cnet.com)
The settlement involves the 2017 revelation that Apple was purposely slowing older phones when their batteries began to degrade.
The Secret Club for Billionaires Who Care About Climate Change (Bloomberg, alt)
Creo Syndicate helps the world’s richest families invest in businesses fighting global warming.
Aztec Forest Garden
Mexico city was formerly an island that was self sufficient, it fed 200 000 inhabitants from floating gardens called Chinampas.
'Extremely Aggressive' Internet Censorship Spreads In the World's Democracies (umich.edu)
#Comment: The Banana-republic-yfication and breakdown of nation-states continues to move forward at breathtaking speed. The increasingly extreme use of surveillance, repression and violence by governments and corporations is a clear sign of the growing desperation of the ruling elites, which completely lost the plot and are highly vulnerable. Fun times.
Inhale and Exhale my dear friend - Why so serious and tense? Celebrate and laugh - for life is truly a wonderfully mysterious and equally comedic situation! Beyond words and other forms of symbolic reasoning and semiotic shadow-boxing, lies a vast ocean of direct experience. The fiction created by the spell of words people weave around them, can lead to great distortions of meaning. While being "right" can be fun - being "effective" - "kind, receptive and present" is essential. Hence, "Chill out. Do less. Enjoy more" remains a timeless mantra - and true sophistication is signified by its tendency toward simplicity, love and peace.
The Diamond Sutra - "for universal free distribution"
"The oldest known printed book and first known creative work with an explicit public domain dedication, as its colophon at the end states that it was created "for universal free distribution."
Question: Does a majority of the people who suddenly in 2020 started to be terribly concerned with the health of themselves and especially others, actively practice a healthy lifestyle?
Question: How did giant corporate monopolies with a long track-record of promoting and exploiting illness and addiction - become widely regarded as trustworthy almost over night?
Plants cry for help and thus recruit the enemies of their enemies as well as soil microbes that both assist the plant in its defence against insect herbivores
How did France get all that gold?
"France has the fourth largest gold reserves of 2,436 tons, without a single gold mine in France. Mali (occupied by France) does not have any gold reserves in its banks, although it has 860 gold mines and produces 50 tons per year. How did France get all that gold?"
Near vertical stairs going up to Mt Hua Sharn, outside of Xi'an, China.
Direct Experience
The #Art of #Automation (via)
"Throughout the training there is an implicit understanding that words often get in the way. The realities of direct experience, and the fiction created by the spell of words people weave around them, can lead to great distortions of meaning."
Deutsche Bank Recovery Plan: Tax People for the “Privilege” of Working from Home
Deutsche Bank warns of too much Corona goverment aid - "Allow creative destruction"
Deutsche Bank Admits It Helped Hitler : Confronting a Dark Past (1995)
Deutsche Bank AG actively aided the expropriation of Jewish businesses and helped Hitler consolidate control over Germany's neighbors between 1933 and 1945, according to a history of the bank to be published in March.
The cryptocrats want everyone to know, that its "Time to heal" and then "Build Back Better" (and shut up, take their gene modification vaccination, adopt their post-national digital ID/Money - and accept the restructuring of the global economy that remove any sense of ownership & agency for most). The collapsing western "Great Reset" empire is a shit show.