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Cake day: March 7th, 2024

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  • Everyone has different values, different pieces of information (and different amounts of time to do research), and different resources.

    No, I don’t judge people for not boycotting something I’m boycotting, though I’ll mention it if it’s going to cause a problem. For example, a friend is a massive fan of seeing things in theaters, including re-releases. If they want to see a re-release of Harry Potter, I’ll decline, saying that I’m boycotting Rowling, and offer an alternative.

    However, if they’ve been saying that they’re really for/against something and seem to be going to buy something from a company that opposes that view, I’ll mention, “Hey, I don’t know if you know, but they support XYZ.” If they still have to get it, then it’s none of my business: everyone has different needs and different resources.
















  • Campers were not allowed to bring mobile phones, and counselors were made to surrender theirs, leaving them unable to see the emergency alerts themselves

    The kids, I understand, but I think the counselors should have been allowed to keep their phones, at least after hours.

    The Post said the NWS alert did not contain an order or recommendation for evacuation, a power it said rests with local government officials.

    Yeah, the local government officials that debated a flood warning system for over a decade because they didn’t want to pay the $1 million themselves, then were given $10 million in pandemic funds and re-directed most of it to the sheriff’s department, and a footpath.

    “We’ve heard accounts of trailer after trailer after trailer being swept into the river with families in them. [We] can’t find the trailers, we don’t know how many of them there are,” the county judge, Rob Kelly, said. One trailer was found “completely covered in gravel” 27ft below the surface of the river, he said, adding that sonar crews were searching the river and local lakes. Two reservoir lakes attached to the river would be drained to aid the search, officials said.

    The more I hear, the sicker - and angrier! - I feel.