It’s a chance to sit and collect various thoughts I’ve had through the week. Or something.
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There’s folks who are trying to do things absent the big tech big tech cancellation. I heard about this on a podcast yesterday.
Registered. And no email. Hm. Things work more slowly. I guess the immediacy is something that people really value these days. I’m okay waiting.
Unrelated, but somewhat along the same lines, with the cancel culture, it can work in the other way. My thinking on this started seeing this in one of my newsfeeds. Companies are refusing customers left and right. I remember having mixed thoughts about what happened with Sarah Sanders at a restaurant here in Virginia.
I guess this speaks a bit towards to what Barry Goldwater’s objections to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were.
Virginia law doesn’t apply the protections of that act to private businesses.
It’s a tough thing. In 1964, there were many places where there was only a single provider for many things.
That’s not true anymore. You can choose to live your life separately. Yes, it might be difficult, but it’s really not that difficult.
Do it.
And if you own/run a business, choose your customers. Choose how you will be reimbursed, too. Crypto. Barter. Whatever Government has shown repeatedly that it’s incapable of doing much correctly. Or, as Harry Browne put it, Government Doesn’t Work. (Yes, that’s a huge PDF, but it came up in my search results, and the shopping links were all from that company with which I will not do business..)
I got distracted by an alert about the impeachment trial. They voted for witnesses. Senator Graham changed his vote at the end when it was clear that there would be witnesses. So, nothing will get done in the Senate until this comedy of errors is finished. Democracy at work!!1!