just following the rules, that they paid for.

Greg Abbot just gave a speech where he apologized on behalf of Texas for any corporate profit losses that this may have caused.

The topic here is Starbucks right? Not going to Starbacks and instead going to a local ultra-lib hipster coffee place isn't out of reach for me. Obviously I don't have a choice when it comes to paying my water or power bill. Our choices are more limited than not.

But some of us do. Our wallet is out most powerful vote. I don't want to buy shoes from a shoemaker that sends his profits to causes that are againist my values.

You're describing capitalism where all things are ok until they they cross my self-interest, but you're wrong because IT IS heavily informed by politics.

Imagine using a metaphor of drug dealers and addiction but thinking that process is absent of politics.

Is it so they have a list of people to pardon?

Waste of money to orbit moon.

So they consume the hardware market for their crypto and AI projects then tell us we have to move towards cloud terminals because hardware is too expensive. Sounds organic.

Confederate flags at half-staff today.

Right, and I don't like math because all my math teachers hated math.

I don't know. I would start by completely eliminating tech (computer based learning, ipads, laptops) from schools so kids at least are forced into offline mode for part of the day and then hope those habits carry over.

The school can assign work and grade output. They cannot "make sure" that students develop the necessary skills. Lack of reading for joy, reading comprehension, and literary rates are societal problems. The schools are just a fraction of that problem.

Yea older people are more familir with older technology. It's like sailers from the 19th century time traveling and mocking people for not knowing how to use a sextant.

funny to see Christians realizing secularism is good and now deperately trying to take credit for it.