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Cake day: October 15th, 2023

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  • This is really part of it, but it’s not included explicitly in that article like it should be.

    Other activists, faith-based leaders and consumers already are organizing boycotts to protest companies that have scaled back their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and to oppose President Donald Trump’s moves to abolish all federal DEI programs and policies.
















  • He took a series of very shallow breaths, and then said as quickly and as quietly as he could, ‘Door, if you can hear me, say so very, very quietly.’

    Very, very quietly, the door murmured, ‘I can hear you.’

    ‘Good. Now, in a moment, I’m going to ask you to open. When you open do not want you to say that you enjoyed it, OK?’

    ‘ΟΚ.’

    ‘And I don’t want you to say to me that I have made a simple door very happy, or that it is your pleasure to open for me and your satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done, OK?’

    ‘ΟΚ.’

    'And do not want you to ask me to have a nice day, understand?"

    ‘I understand.’

    ‘OK,’ said Zaphod, tensing himself, ‘open now.’

    The door slid open quietly. Zaphod slipped quietly through. The door closed quietly behind him.

    ‘Is that the way you like it, Mr Beeblebrox?’ said the door out loud.

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