Company: Blizzard Entertainment Payment Processor: Adyen Infraction: Inability to decline permission to retain CC data after purchase. Judged bad faith as purchase of battletag change allows this decline, but subscription does not because….? (They don’t want you to have to explicitly renew. They know you most likely will forget. They will profit from helping it […]
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/what-big-oil-knew-about-climate-change-in-its-own-words/ar-AAQ2zRP?ocid=winp1taskbar As more and more proof continues to stream into the public eye on things like this, I have gone from being activated to being mooted before the reality of how profoundly incompetent humans are as a species. Not only did these people know what they were doing was catastrophic to the future sustainability of […]
Corporate infiltration of government is not a recent event. In fact, it was a quiet coup that happened about 1910. That this was after the disbandment of the populist party should not surprise anyone. There was minimal government concession and regulation of pavement level fruit (i.e., not low-hanging) that corporations have gnashed their teeth about […]
the truth in nature that we most like to deny is the truth of nature that our own evils decry the secret best hidden while sitting in plain sight the secret worst heeded that creates today’s plight yet within almost every home or in neighborhoods each day once more the public secret is naturally on […]
I am an apple, cored my seeds, now racing from me my energy, a fruit, desiccated I rest closer than breath to the ancestral tree It is the way of things, I think; all life feeds off of living, feeds off its environment, feeds off of whatever is slow enough to be captured, to be caught, […]
There’s something liberating about the blank page. The initial thought is to just regurgitate the past; that somewhat odd manner of lingering over it as if it holds an inherent value or impact upon this “now” that I have not, knowingly or ignorantly, granted place, point, and purpose in my being, life, and mind. I […]
I am preternaturally good at reducing any problem to its lowest, common denominator. In Math? Oh stars, no. Not in math. In everything EXCEPTING math. And it occurs to me (finally!) what “my problem” is: Humans do not want this in any form, shape, or way. We are stunningly unwilling to ‘do the work’ of […]