Which boils down to my tax dollars being used to fund private religious schools. I believe in separation of church and state. My tax dollars should in no way be funding proselytizing and indoctrination

This is a bit of an unorthodox take, but I think there are actually no schools or institutions more broadly that are truly "a-religious".

After reflection on my own experience going through the public school system, I've realized that the absence of the prototypical religion in public schools did not by any means remove "proselytizing and indoctrination". Instead, a sort of undefined religion has emerged, that we'll likely only be able to encapsulate in the rear-view mirror of history.

The most obvious form of proselytization, to me, was the constant preaching about college. While a rabbit-hole on its own, college attendance has not been leading to good outcomes for many of its attendees in recent times, and seems to have been an unquestionable tenet.

Simply put, secular public schools are not devoid of proselytizing and indoctrination. Why withhold taxpayers the option to choose their preferred form of indoctrination for their kids?

I'll add, I basically harassed my parents non-stop about smoking because of public school indoctrination.

They’re giving parents who don’t send their kids to public school a tax credit.

This prohibits discriminating against parents for how they want to raise their children.

That‘s nonsense. Those parents have exactly the same access to public schools as the rest of the public. If they decide to pay for another school, that’s their choice. I shouldn’t expect them to pay for my luxury services.

It boils down to your tax dollars (if you are in Montana) being used to fund private schools.

I live in Washington, DC, where there is no such provision. But I'd be as reluctant to see the tax dollars go to Washington International School or Georgetown Day School as I would to Sidwell Friends or Gonzaga.

Don't suppose you have ever heard the trope about jewish mothers? I think parents everywhere... :)

My parents are not like this at all, so it's not universal.

Will the rooms stick around if people leave the page in the middle of a game? My wife loves the game btw. I enjoy it as well but I appreciate the stack behind it more. Ty for your efforts.

I'm glad that your wife enjoys the game! At the end of the day, it's meant to be played and shared, rather than just existing as an interesting software artifact.

The rooms persist as long as there's at least one connected player in them. Exiting + rejoining a room under the same name will let you continue to accumulate points under that name.

(Rejoining isn't perfectly seamless: you won't necessarily be dealt the exact same hand, and if you exit + rejoin while it's your turn, your turn will be skipped)

Some persistence timeout even without any players would be nice.

It's the contraction of could have. "I could've been a contender Charlie!"

When you start looking at what Microsoft can offer now re: Microsoft365, Dynamics365, Power Platform, Sharepoint, Azure, wsl, massive sales dept. with years of experience, etc., why would the enterprise ever go with anything else? Something tells me Azure will end up kicking Amazon's ass in the end.

That's what my company is doing. We're small, already a Windows shop, so it just makes sense to centralize on Azure.

Unless they are emergency room patients. :)