If there was a debunking, I’d love to see that. I know Mozilla spun some damage control talking about how the change in terms didn’t really mean anything and was strictly for legal compliance, but, well, I’ve heard that one before.

I’d suggest you change to Firefox, but they have made some… troubling changes to their privacy policy recently, so it may be a good idea to use a debranded port of it instead.

Thanks for the correction. I haven’t worked in the government, so my knowledge is a bit limited.

The morons fired every federal employee who was classified as “probationary”, in multiple departments. This is all employees with less than 90 days in their current role, but because these idiots don’t know anything about anything, they assumed it meant new hires only.

Others have pointed out that the US largely practices “at will” employment (IIRC, only one state doesn’t), and that’s true, but government workers do tend to have stronger protections than private sector workers. But probationary status is a whole other can of worms.

The “Revolting Colonies”.

The thing is, corporations are run by people. Sometimes it’s a singular personality like Musk or Zuckerberg, sometimes it’s a board, but every one of those decisions is made by one or more human beings.

A corporation is not a person, but don’t deny the agency of the people that run it. They created the awful world we live in, and they did it with the explicit goal of taking from us.

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.

We could just house them. That seems to work.