iOS 14.5 Beta Directs ‘Safe Browsing’ Traffic in Safari Through Apple Server Instead of Google to Protect Personal User Data - MacRumors

While Google doesn’t know which specific URL you’re trying to visit, it may collect your IP address during its interaction with Safari.

This is an important, and very good, move.

Google is not a technology company, they’re an advertising company. They primarily make money by collecting every possible point of data on you, build a profile, and then selling that profile to advertisers.

Even if you don’t have an account with them, a process that makes this transaction much easier for them, they still want to profile you. Every free service is merely a means for them to collect and sell data.

By chipping away, one by one, at their lines of attack, it becomes possible for you to experience the free Internet once again.

Impeachment Sequel To Go Straight To DVD - The Babylon Bee

Due to budgetary concerns and lack of interest, the movie will skip theatres and go straight to home video.

Children only sleep in on days when you have somewhere that you need to be.

Why Democrats Want a Trump Trial - WSJ

Mr. Trump’s electoral defeats are a more compelling rebuke than a partisan ban by Congress.

Strong, strong agree.

The irony of this trial is that Republicans would like to move on to debating Mr. Biden’s agenda, but Democrats can’t let Mr. Trump go.

For Some Single Women, Pandemic Means Rethinking Route to Motherhood - WSJ

“I began looking into ways I could take control of my fertility, without a man.” She booked a consultation at a fertility clinic and plans to freeze her eggs this spring.

The need for cogent, easily comprehensible and accessible bioethics has never been greater.

CDC: ‘Just Because You Got The Vaccine Doesn’t Mean You Should Go Outside Or Ever Experience Joy Again’ - The Babylon Bee

We noticed people were getting the vaccine and then just assuming because vaccines are designed to make people immune to viruses that they are immune to the virus. Then, they were doing crazy things like going outside, interacting with other people, and being happy.

I love on Internet forums when people reply to dormant threads over four years after the original post.

Ready for the Polar Vortex. ❄️

Conservatives Sit Down For A Relaxing Evening Of Being Insulted By Every Major Corporation In America - The Babylon Bee

According to sources, millions of Americans are looking forward to taking a much-needed break from scolding about masks, social justice, immigration, and toxic masculinity to be scolded about all of those things while watching a really fun football game.

Woke Capital’s Political Warning - WSJ

The collapse came not among Democrats, whose skeptical views were virtually unchanged, but among Republicans.

Interesting. All of their donations, photo filters, and corporate activism on behalf of progressive movements curried them no favor from the beneficiaries. At the same time, those actions alienated them from their traditional base of support.

The left hates them for being successful and the right hates them for throwing cultural issues in their faces 24/7.

Afternoon walk.

$1.9 Billion Stimulus Bill Expected To Stimulate National Debt - The Babylon Bee

“We will pass this stimulus bill without Republican support,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “Doing so will help hard-working Americans and breathe fresh new life into our national debt!”

Biden Bars Trump From Receiving Intelligence Briefings, Citing ‘Erratic Behavior’ - The New York Times

Ms. Gordon, one of the most respected intelligence officers of her generation, wrote that the danger of providing intelligence to a president whose business deals might make him beholden to foreign investors and lenders was just too great.

Yeah! He should stick to getting filthy rich off of book deals, speaking fees, and media production like a normal former President.

I’m so tired of the word “safe.”

‘So Should I Invoice You Later?’ Says Janet Yellen Trying To Secure Speaking Fee After Meeting With Regulators - The Onion

Also, it’s no big deal, but I requested a veggie platter in my rider, and there wasn’t one here, so if you could just be aware of that for next time, that’d be great.

Amazon’s U.S. Tax Costs Jumped in 2020. It Likely Would Pay Even More Under Biden Plan. - WSJ

The reason Amazon pays less than 21% stems, in part, from decisions by lawmakers. Amazon reported $639 million in tax credits, which companies can get for favored activities such as conducting research or investing in renewable energy. It also got $372 million from a break related to foreign sales from the U.S. and $1.1 billion in benefits from the way its workers’ stock-based compensation is treated.

You mean to tell me that lawmakers come up with complex and convoluted ways to micromanage the economy through the tax code, companies oblige, and then those same lawmakers are upset with the result?

Friday breakfast.