Let those &^%&*& people have choices and look what happens

96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5, analytics find

(Well done, people. Well done.)

Still

Hitchcock lives

Flock of giant California condors trashes woman’s home

The birds have trashed the deck — ruining a spa cover, decorative flags and lawn ornaments. Plants have been knocked over, railings scratched and there’s poop everywhere.

The Birds 

The very thought of it

Nebraska launches ‘beef passport’ program for meat eating

“Who wants to eat three cups of quinoa anyway?” he said.

The Tulip Sisters say good morning

Wait a minute: Let's hear more about this "extraterrestrial agriculture"

Wine that went to space for sale with $1 million price tag

The Pétrus 2000 is one of 12 bottles sent into space in November 2019 by researchers exploring the potential for extraterrestrial agriculture.

Meanwhile…

The trip turned a $10,000-a-bottle wine known for its complexity, silky, ripe tannins and flavors of black cherry, cigar box and leather into a scientific novelty

And I have to pay them to drink it?

Why am I so confused?

Rainy morning

But we need more colds and flu next year, you pikers

After an 11% profit spike, CVS outlook for 2021 grows rosy

A weak cough, cold and flu season brought on in part by mask wearing and social distancing hurt sales in both the company’s drugstore business and its pharmacy benefits management operations, which run drug plans for big clients like insurers and employers.

Across the board…

…we need fewer laws and better enforcement of the laws we have. 

How companies rip off poor employees — and get away with it

Companies have little incentive to follow the law. The Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, which investigates federal wage-theft complaints, rarely penalizes repeat offenders, according to a review of data from the division.

Be *at least* the 10,001st

Thu May 6th, 2021

Password Day

Business Insider did research to determine just how vulnerable accounts were, and discovered that 10,000 of the most common passwords allow access to 98% of all accounts. In other words, most people are using the same passwords – and many for years at a time.

Yes, it's a real thing. 

The end of the analog auto? (Don't bet on it.)

Your Car Is About To Be a Software Platform, Subscriptions and All

“It’s a subscription world and we just live in it,” says Karl Brauer, executive analyst at iSeeCars.com. “There could be dozens — even hundreds — of unique capabilities that you may or may not have soon, depending on what you pay every month.”

May

And not a moment too soon

Birds too?

How one naughty bird cheats with fancy feather structures

Male tanager birds have more than way to make their colors really pop for the ladies

Backside

 

Outrage Manifesto

Outrage, in the parlance of our age, has been monitized. It turns a pretty profit. It’s easy to sell and cheap to manufacture—especially on the internet, where you don’t even have to buy the ink. The market is, apparently, insatiable. People who’ve already got it invariably seem to want more.

I decline to chose sides.