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Today I'm going to stray from my usual political pontifications and tell a tale of the ageless struggle between man and nature. To wit, man, a supposedly superior being equipped with cognitive percipience, and nature, a creature with a supposedly lesser developed encephalon with not much more than a primal awareness for survival.

It's a tale about the natural evolution of that being which emerged from the primordial watery stew of teeming eukaryotes cells many millennia ago, and, with time, developed arms and legs and learned to walk upright as the crown of all creation.

It's a tale of vastly superior intelligence equipped with well adapted opposable digit dexterity, and how that superiority can be tested by a natural survival adaptation of a supposedly inferior lower life form.

But most of all it's a tale of wit and the witless, of consequence and kharma, of ego and humility, of the conqueror and the conquered.

The Title Is Hilarious

Matt Stoller just wrote this and the title made me laugh and laugh and laugh... 'Apple F$@ks Around with Court Order, Finds Out'. The introductory lead to the story is also funny:

"It's our F$@KING STORE." Apple decided not to obey a court order telling it to open its app store to Fortnite. Yesterday Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers smacked them down, backed up by an appeals court.

As the article says, it's not really that Judge Gonzalez Rogers has been stern with and judged against Apple, at least up until recently. Apple's gotten away with lots. However, the last judgment basically made Apple open their App store to Fortnite (Epic Games) and other App developers. And Apple wouldn't do it... for Fortnite - the other app developers got app store access right away.

From this older, but also good, article: Apple vs Epic Games vs The People

I'm not digitally oriented at all. Yesterday, I had trouble unlocking the gate to a storage facility I'm using because I couldn't get the "app" to work. I couldn't remember my password, had the bluetooth turned off, was using a later "smart phone" supposedly more advanced than the antique I had been using which had served me better for quite a while. So, I'm the proverbial elderly person that just can't keep up trying to adjust to all the changes.

The bozos on Fox are calling it a scandal as a recording of his fuzzy headed babbling two years ago has miraculously showed up in the news.

CBS via You Tube

Rambling thoughts are all I have left.
No matter who is in the White House, nothing ever changes.
The same with the Congress, both houses, nothing ever changes.