Assuming fair elections even happen. I’m guessing the FEC is on the list to get DOGEd, at which point all bets are off.

If I refused to patronize every business that did that, I’d likely starve to death. Which is incredibly sad.

I do try to avoid the worst offenders, though.

Honestly, my standards for “good” behavior for corporations are astoundingly low; just don’t be bigoted, don’t actively wreck the planet, and don’t kill people.

And yet most of them can’t even manage that.

So, Costco and who else?

Yeah, they were great for that. Ever since they closed, I don’t really have a local source for that kind of thing anymore.

And enough people didn’t come back that they went out of business.

Well, yeah, but the two decades of drought brought on by rising temperatures and changing weather patterns certainly didn’t help.

I mean, blaming climate change for further reducing the precipitation levels is probably accurate.

Yeah, no shit. It’s almost like the entire fucking world was telling you this when you embarked on this ridiculous plan.

Somewhere, Will Ospreay is plotting his vengeance.

No decent antitrust regulatory body would let this stand.

Of course, I doubt we’ll have one under the incoming regime.

Concerning

Is taking orders from the CEO of Intel a core tennet of Christianity?

It’s fucking weird.

So build more. Yes, that takes time. So start now.

This is only difficult because we make it difficult.

It’s actually nothing like that at all. What you’re describing is putting a societal problem on the shoulders of individuals. What I’m suggesting is that society should actually fix the problems it has created.

Every place that has taken a “housing first” approach has seen success out of it. But people insist on making the problem more complicated than it is, because we’ve built an entire society on the false idea that poor people somehow deserve to be poor and anything done to help them is somehow unjust.

We could just house them. That seems to work.

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” - Anatole France

Yes. And Costco (inadvertently) broke them here. Hence the recall.

That was the point. If we let companies ignore the law when it “should be obvious”, that gives them a lot of wiggle room to really fuck us over. And nobody wants that

He was pretty open about his disdain for religion before he became a Republican, and has shown little beyond lip service to Christianity after.

And as for the pedophilia stuff, he hung out with Epstein a lot and was known for barging into the Miss Teen USA dressing room unannounced, so…

The animal wasn’t killed because the owner didn’t have papers. The animal was killed because it was on video several times biting it’s owner, and you cannot test for rabies without killing the animal and examining its brain.