An app which purported to offer aid to refugees lost in the Mediterranean has been pulled from Apple’s App Store after it was revealed as a fake.
The I Sea app, which also won a Bronze medal at the Cannes Lions conference on Monday night, presented itself as a tool to help report refugees lost at sea, using real-time satellite footage to identify boats in trouble and highlighting their location to the Malta-based Migrant Offshore Aid Station (Moas), which would provide help.
In fact, the app did nothing of the sort. Rather than presenting real-time satellite footage – a difficult and expensive task – it instead simply shows a portion of a static, unchanging image. And while it claims to show the weather in the southern Mediterranean, that too isn’t that accurate: it’s for Western Libya.
The app was developed by Grey Group, an ad agency in Singapore that’s part of global advertising giant WPP. When it was initially released, it received favourable press from publications like Wired, Mashable, the Evening Standard and the Reuters news agency. Now, however, it’s been pulled from the iOS App Store by Apple, for breaching app store guideline 1.1.6, which bans “false information and features”.
I had a huge deep freeze once that was made in the fifties. It was ugly, but in the late nineties it was still going strong, keeping ice cream so hard you had to thaw it before you could scoop it out. It was probably the best freezer I have ever known. Stuff made back then was made with the premises that how it looked was ancillary, you would only buy one, and it had to last forever. That was all a byproduct of K-selection. Quality over quantity.
This app epitomizes the opposite. It is all attractive appearance, designed to appeal to those who are concerned with the foreign invaders who want to destroy their society. Despite the appearance, it is totally non-functional, though it gives the appearance of functionality so people who pull it down will waste their time and resources pretending to search for migrants to help. Even the weather aspect is useless, though it would seem that even an idiot would have been able to make that work right. And yet it got all the publicity, and probably had a record number of downloads. It was a success, until a group of K’s hunted down the truth, and then Apple grew embarrassed about its own reputation and pulled it.
There is a very comical aspect to r. It was the entire foundation for the humor of the movie Idiocracy. Stupidity, morons, immorality, and total fail, dressed up as success, and completely oblivious, is bound to be funny.
And yet, along with the humor, will come the utter destruction of all that is great about Western Civilization. Everything made is made cheaply, and with poor functionality. It is designed to last for a short period before you have to buy another. And some of it doesn’t even actually work. All that matters is publicity, flash, attention, and free resources.
Historically these things fix themselves, but it takes time and shortage to initiate the Apocalypse, which then culls the failure with force.
All I can say is bring it.
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You say that it (the collapse) takes time… But we don’t have it. I fear that the critical mass for the White founding stock will be too far diminished to be recoverable or at least to be conserved in a holding pattern of some sort. This brings to mind the Brexit vote today. I am not optimistic.
Whatever is best will always survive. What bugs us is we are competitive in an uncompetitive time. So yeah, a lot of losers get over on everyone. But sooner or later the cull will return, and greatness will re-emerge as the predominant feature.
For now, your part is to quietly preserve whatever greatness you can, while avoiding the conflict, so what you have is ready to pick up the reins when the next cull comes.
The world is K, and sooner or later all the rabbits end up running for their lives and then dying horrible, agonizing deaths. Why the down face?
Yeah, that’s brilliant. Syrian refugees have been stuck on over-crowded boats in the middle of the Mediterranean for the last three years and now there’s an iPhone app! What’s the point? Must you discus every red herring that you come across? Haven’t the entire steroid using muscle headed doomsday cultists already purchased your book? Tell you what, the next time you’re compelled to share your thoughts take a wash cloth first and wipe all that amygdala out of your ears!
Two things, very amusing. One, this site hits your amygdala enough to have you at a freaked out point – and yet you still read it.
And two, even libs have a picture in their head of muscled K-strategists, and puny liberals. And somehow you guys twist the muscled part in your head, into a sign of inferiority. Because if you are puny, that must just be the awesome way to be, and there is something wrong with all those muscled up guys.
Funny funny funny.
Don’t you mean “white founding stock muscled K-strategist” ? Don’t you mean “white founding stock muscled K-strategist with automatic weapons”? Really, man, get the picture right!
What the hell, there’s always the next post! What do you write, maybe two hundred thousand words a day? And it’s always about the coming apocalypse when the K-strategist will once again rule the Earth. You throw in a bunch of nonsense gibberish from an abandoned discipline that nobody cares about in order to appeal to knuckle heads. Who’s going to question you about r and k? Who gives a fuck? Nobody!
Bravo! I must be a puny person! You really nailed it! You’ve got me pegged! I guess I’ll just go crawl back to my hole with my one hundred and fifty children and eat the carrots that the government gives me!
Everything here is three to ten times the volume of what it was just a few months back. The head of AFD is actually giving lectures now at German think tanks talking about r/K and immigration, pushing the idea through European elites. And this site has only been discussing r/K for a short time, and without any media support yet. All of this is via word of mouth – all while the Conservative Policy Mood graph soars, unadjusted Economic Misery Index numbers continue to climb, and Trump ascends.
r/K is the only scientific way to explain the political divide, and based on its exponential rise, this is not only how everyone will one day see politics – I think it might actually have a tangible effect on the coming shift.
You think Brexit was huge? Wait until the debt bombs hit. It’s a K-selected world, and this is r/K’s time. It is an idea that as of now, half the world will love, and half the world will hate – and everyone will be talking about it. And those halves are shifting toward conservatism, meaning that by the time it hits, it will be way more than half for it.
BTW, you seem worked up over all this, judging by the exclamation points. What’s up with that?
Oh yeah, the new Nazi party is salivating r/K pseudo-science to German think tanks as the momentum grows towards conservative dominance! Everyone will inevitably lean towards the white founding stock muscled K-strategists with their automatic weapons because, you know, the debt bomb is hovering over humanity and doomsday is eminent! There’s no wonder there are so many exclamation points! I don’t know if it’s fear or schadenfreude.
I suggest that your irrational hogwash appeals to white supremacists and you reply that it is also considered by the AFD. Are we even having the same argument? Your only point is since society is on the precipice of collapse all the armed fatalists will soon finally be able to watch “I Dream of Jeannie” in their underwear.
Wow, that’s great to know. You could have skipped all the r/K mumbo jumbo.
Yes, because everyone who doesn’t agree with you is a “White supremacist!” who has “Automatic weapons!” and is “Well muscled!”, and anything they say that supports their position can’t possibly be right.
I bring it up mainly, because your method of argument with me seems to consist of choosing words and phrases that are, to you, amygdala stimulating, and spouting them at me, in italics, and followed by exclamation points, as if each reading of each phrase is a dagger through my heart.
The thing is, personally I think being well muscled is cool, as are automatic weapons – and a proficiency with them. The alternative is being “Puny!,” “Effeminate!,” and “Too weak and incompetent to defend myself or my loved ones!” – or as I like to call it “Pathetic!!”
You’ll notice I bolded that last one and doubled the exclamation points.
What you don’t seem to get it all of that is played out. At this point, even the black panthers are yawning when somebody shouts “racist!” As for a leftist amygdala stimulating us, it just isn’t the time. We don’t give a fuck, and it shows.
But it was a good effort.
In a K-selected society: that which is made would be excellent both in beauty and in function. Whereas in r-selection there exists only superficial beauty that are kitsch rather than the excellence that is exhibited in works like the samurai sword,gothic cathedrals and classical art.