I’d rather just not have a tv

I like my coffee but I don’t find it hard to avoid Starbucks. Plus they’re not even nice places to go. They’ve been enshitified big time.

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I always thought it was a bad idea and never did it. However my parents did it, and I’m sure a lot of what is known about them applies to me.

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One thing about boycotting the likes of Amazon is that I realize that I don’t need any more junk.

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Hopefully the patients can at least sue the guy.

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I virtue signaled 7 years ago when the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, realizing that Facebook is a seedy company that can’t be trusted.

What, no Ted Nugent??? Lol

Meh, the last time I’ve been in one was 2011. Too expensive for what it is, and plenty of other options in my city.

From what it seems to me, the megachurches are doing okay. It’s the more traditional denominations that are suffering. Overall religion might be on a decline, but certain sects are flourishing. One silver lining about some of the megachurches is that they’re led by a strong personality and once they’re gone, the whole organization putters out. They’re more organized around an individual than a theology.

Kitty is ready to take on the vacuum cleaner.

I worry that neoliberalism may need fascism in order to be fully realized.

I’m more of an accordion person anyhow…

It’s one of those big cultural shifts that has gone on in my life slowly but steadily. I recall my school bus driver would smoke doing his rounds, people smoking almost everywhere, even grocery stores. My family had lots of smokers, 3 out of my 4 grandparents smoked, all paid the piper, the habit led to their demise. Vending machines selling cigarettes everywhere. I recall it first was restricted on airplanes, with smoking sections separated with curtains, then in restaurants. A lot of it was ineffective and mostly symbolic, but then the biggest change was when California banned almost all indoor smoking in businesses, other states followed suit over the next decade. That combined with all the legal problems the tobacco industry had in the 90s has really caused a dramatic shift.

I stayed in one years ago after moving to a new city and it surprised me to see a school bus stop and pick up kids living there.