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

on for several paragraphs "justifying" why she would still buy them even now that she knows.

Sigh... blood money

We don't buy GS cookies anymore...

I would chime in but I'm probably guilty of that in some area...

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

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.

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

mikel1: when it comes to tech it's I believe literally impossible to buy hardware from a company that doesn't support the zeitgeist.

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.

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.

How Rare Are Anti-Gay-Marriage Donations in Silicon Valley? although that's employees - the company itself has no official position I could find

And yes, I did choose AMD chips in all my builds...

Only buy the cookies if they are made from real Girl Scouts

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...

yeah, and there's really no alternative. They own PostgreSQL and MySQL isn't a "real" database... But sueh sorry for hijacking your post...

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

and Starbucks. There are definitely good alternatives

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.

JlovesR:

JlovesR:

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.

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.

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?

Makemeaspark: I see the recipe in this plurk

jjoy: Last night I swear it was not there

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

They had a lot of trouble shaking that image, once it got out there.

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...

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)

a solo

Makemeaspark: Nice manager

Yep, Her name was Pat, and she was not a practicing Christian but she was on our side nevertheless