sueh
2016-01-19T22:40:09.000Z
Amazing how we all make excuses for still doing what we want. A friend posted on FB about buying GS cookies (she was dieting but gave in). Then to my surprise, one of our 40 Days leaders commented that she
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sueh
2016-01-19T22:41:37.000Z
freezes hers. I then, of course, had to comment that I stopped supporting them due the documented ties to PP, even tho their website denies it. This "leader" replied that she was unaware BUT... and then went
sueh
2016-01-19T22:43:09.000Z
on for several paragraphs "justifying" why she would still buy them even now that she knows.
Advent Spark
2016-01-19T22:57:22.000Z
Sigh... blood money
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20SoCalDude25 says
2016-01-19T22:58:57.000Z
We don't buy GS cookies anymore...
Mike L
2016-01-19T23:59:22.000Z
I would chime in but I'm probably guilty of that in some area...
Advent Spark
2016-01-20T00:14:30.000Z
If you can get your hands on mint Chocolate chips, you can make the girl scout thin mints really easily. You melt the chips in a double boiler or microwave, see directions for safe melting, then dip plain
Advent Spark
2016-01-20T00:15:21.000Z
Ritz crackers in the melted chocolate until fully coated and dry on wax paper. The mint will flavor the crackers within about a day. They are awesome.
Mike L
2016-01-20T00:15:56.000Z
Makemeaspark: oh I don't buy (or even like) GS cookies. I just mean I'm sure there are things I do that I justify. Like buying Apple products, maybe
frival
2016-01-20T00:17:22.000Z
mikel1: when it comes to tech it's I believe literally impossible to buy hardware from a company that doesn't support the zeitgeist.
Mike L
2016-01-20T00:31:14.000Z
frival: Perhaps, but Apple is a big gorilla in the same sex "marriage" push, and I could make do with generic HW running a much less odious Linux distro. Phones are a tougher problem.
frival
2016-01-20T00:33:55.000Z
mikel1: True, but so is Intel, albeit more quietly than Apple. If you looked I'd bet AMD is as well, and that leaves you with no realistic x86 chips to power the system.
Mike L
2016-01-20T00:42:35.000Z
How Rare Are Anti-Gay-Marriage Donations in Silicon Valley? although that's employees - the company itself has no official position I could find
Mike L
2016-01-20T00:43:00.000Z
And yes, I did choose AMD chips in all my builds...
JlovesR
2016-01-20T00:47:11.000Z
Only buy the cookies if they are made from real Girl Scouts
frival
2016-01-20T00:56:18.000Z
mikel1: just don't look at Oracle's info... :-& You'd think a company with such a hard-nosed capitalist reputation wouldn't succumb so easily, but they get 100% ratings from HRC every year...
Mike L
2016-01-20T01:02:01.000Z
yeah, and there's really no alternative. They own PostgreSQL and MySQL isn't a "real" database... But sueh sorry for hijacking your post...
sueh
2016-01-20T01:08:16.000Z
mikel1: No probs. It is good info and makes a good point. Some times you have no choice and/or the alternative would be too costly in one way or the other. I was thinking more along the lines of GS cookies
sueh
2016-01-20T01:08:44.000Z
and Starbucks. There are definitely good alternatives :-)
Mike L
2016-01-20T01:11:18.000Z
sueh: yes, there are, and many of them are cheaper and/or better quality alternatives too. I boycotted Home Depot for years - they finally softened their position, but I'm still wary.
Jjoy
2016-01-20T02:31:37.000Z
Paulcoholic
2016-01-20T03:13:22.000Z
Paulcoholic
2016-01-20T03:14:47.000Z
Dollar General sells GS cookies (but they're NOT branded as GS.) Someone, perhaps in sueh 's thread, or coincidentally elsewhere, said that Aldi's sells tasty knock-offs of GS cookies.
Advent Spark
2016-01-20T05:33:36.000Z
My mom used to be a Cookie chair person, the GS's put out the annual sale for bidders, for instance ours usually got made by Burry Biscuit Co.
Advent Spark
2016-01-20T05:35:58.000Z
That is SO WEIRD! I thought i INputted a recipe' for thin mints before I left the house this afternoon. maybe I put it on the wrong plurk?
Jjoy
2016-01-20T14:12:21.000Z
Makemeaspark: I see the recipe in this plurk
Advent Spark
2016-01-20T16:40:36.000Z
jjoy: Last night I swear it was not there
Advent Spark
2016-01-20T16:43:29.000Z
mikel1: Mike, FYI I worked for Home Depot back in the early 2000s and I know that they were bullied into the SS benifit thing. There was a period there where someone was going after them, as a white guy club
Advent Spark
2016-01-20T16:43:47.000Z
They had a lot of trouble shaking that image, once it got out there.
Mike L
2016-01-20T17:13:44.000Z
Makemeaspark: They were also holding children's seminars at "pride" parades, and sponsoring and marching in same. They forbid employees to wear crosses, but allowed rainbow flags. It wasn't the benefits...
Advent Spark
2016-01-20T22:08:18.000Z
mikel1: ewwww, that sure is different from when I worked there. My manager told me that she would put sunday morning radio mass on the pa if I was singing (this was in the late ninties-early 2000's)
Advent Spark
2016-01-20T22:08:32.000Z
a solo
Mike L
2016-01-20T22:36:04.000Z
Makemeaspark: Nice manager :-D
Advent Spark
2016-01-20T23:34:10.000Z
Yep, Her name was Pat, and she was not a practicing Christian but she was on our side nevertheless
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