U.S. App Store downloads are dropping, new data indicates

There’s a concerning new trend taking place on the U.S. App Store which is impacting companies large and small: many apps are seeing their downloads decline, even as overall App Store revenue grows. The data, which comes from app intelligence firm Appfigures, suggests that some of the biggest apps on the market are slowly losing […]

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Sometimes You Adopt A Dog, Sometimes A Dog Adopts You

Dog owners will attest to the fact that sometimes, their dogs had picked them instead of the usual way of the human picking out the dog.

Scout is one of those types of dogs. Scout was brought into a shelter in the northern part of Michigan as a stray. Nothing was known about him except that he had apparently been abused and even shot at some time. One thing that wasn't known about Scout was that he was an escape artist. One night, he climbed two different fences to get out of the shelter and then crossed a busy highway to get to a nursing home down the street. Once at the nursing home, he just strolled in and picked a couch and curled up to sleep.

He was returned to the shelter, but did the same damn thing a couple more times in short order. The administrator knew fate when she was seeing it and the shelter adopted the dog. Finally, after getting the stupey hoomins to understand that this was his place now, he got down to business. He makes his daily rounds, paying special attention to the residents who have treats or who might have memory issues or who are transitioning. And, of course, he lets all visitors know that this his place and that he's watching them.

Having the love of a good dog is always something special. But when the dog seeks you out, it's truly a blessing.

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PS: H/T Red Painter

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myZoi wants to make remittances less costly for migrant workers

Money sent home by migrant workers not only helps their families, but also enables entire economies to develop. But transferring money comes at a high cost to workers, with remittance fees averaging about 6.5%. MyZoi wants to cut fees by more than half, starting with the five million low-income migrant workers in the United Arab […]

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Elon Musk to sue ADL for accusing him, X of antisemitism

In the newest uproar you might have missed, Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League. Musk accused the ADL, an organization that works to combat antisemitism, extremism and bigotry, of falsely accusing him and X of being antisemitic. “To clear our platform’s name on the matter of […]

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Max Q: An inside look at Astra’s Apollo Fusion acquisition

In this issue: Astra’s Apollo Fusion acquisition followed by delays and desertion, news from SpaceX and more

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Wisconsin Justice Has A Case Of Supreme Fauxtrage

Like every other Wisconsin Republican and her colleague Justice Annette Ziegler, Justice Rebecca Bradley is having a meltdown about newly elected Justice Janet Protasiewicz and two upcoming cases regarding districting. She feels that since Protasiewicz received almost $10 million from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, Protasiewicz needs to recuse herself from the redistricting cases.

To give you an idea of what a class act that Bradley is, she didn't use the proper name for the party, but instead used the term favored by immature Republicans - Democrat Party. But even more demonstrative of what special kind of idiot she is, she did her ranting in a dissenting opinion of an actual court case:

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Breitbart Commenters Call Jimmy Buffett... A Stalinist Nazi?

Jimmy Buffett died this past week, and Breitbart gave him a conventional sendoff:

Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who popularized beach bum soft rock with the escapist Caribbean-flavored song “Margaritaville” and turned that celebration of loafing into an empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions, has died. He was 76.

There's no mention of politics in the obituary. But Buffett was a Democrat, a fact that turns Breitbart's commenters insane with rage:

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Loved his music. Detested his politics. I also hate that even in death he will continue to vote democrat.

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Buffett did MAJOR fundraisers for the Democrats. PRIVATE FUNDRAISERS, with MAJOR donors. With entertainers like Buffett, EVERYTHING was about politics. Demented liberal politics.

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He was a defiantly liberal lunatic.

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... left wing totalitarianism is the issue. The left's belief that they should be able to dictate to others how to live their life and the left's repressive demand that they should be able to stamp out all dissent ARE THE MAIN THREATS TO THIS COUNTRY.

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I liked Jimmy Buffett, but you can't say he wasn't a rabid left-wing democrat. With him, it WAS about politics.

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