Omg, you are such a Monica.

Human personalities can be clustered into which member of the cast of Friends they most resemble.

Fortunately, Friends is so brilliantly written that they managed to capture the entire spectrum of human diversity.

(this is snark. I am totally a Chandler.)

Isn’t not wanting to work your whole life and still freeze to death under a bridge such an entitled attitude?

My favorite feature of being a lefty is how well we get along with each other.

My favorite lefties work on themselves and seek to genuinely understand the roots of any disagreement.

At the best of times, they cut through the crap by aligning with me on the basic values we all hold. Such as:

• Don’t kill babies to get free real estate.
• People who rape kids need to be stopped.
• Don’t intentionally starve the population of your country because the potatoes they grew fetched a higher price internationally.

Isn’t this everyone’s experience?

Biological evolution also suffers from survivor bias. ;)

Exactly. ‘Capital’ is more than just money. Industrial infrastructure once built is a form of capital. And so is a happy, healthy, educated and engaged populace.

The love of money is the root of all evil. The short sighted plantation pig-fuckers squandered their own futures because they lacked the imagination needed to build a better future, even for their own descendants.

You are absolutely correct that is a major theme, especially in the Foundation books. To be fair, Asimov also buried that point in ponderous prose and scattered it across centuries of book-time.

I think Goyer did the best one could do in adapting Foundation to visual media. He had to invent and re-imagine a lot in order to give continuity and cohesion to a sprawling story. If he had stayed more true to the books, it would have flopped instantly.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

Remember that one time Jesus lost his cool? He made a whip and went H.A.M. on some crypto bros in the temple.

So yeah….

I lived on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake for two summers doing field research. It was an amazing place, simultaneously ’dead’ and also vibrantly and abundantly alive.

If humans were wiser about managing natural resources, this paper summarizes just how small human interventions can either improve biological systems or ruin them with simple changes.

The diversity of migratory birds that pause there along the way is stunning. On some sunrise mornings, the sky in the direction of Bear River Bay would be blackened by the huge flocks that stopped there on the way elsewhere.

He’s the second coming of Joseph Smith.

JS was a charismatic grifter by nature and upbringing who sold folks on the existence of a magic gold book that had extra-special info about American Jesus. He told them he found it after G*d told him where to dig.

This was just a few years after he had been hauled into court to face charges of running a ‘treasure hunting’ scheme on local farmers.

Now that I think about it more, the parallels are many.

In conclusion, shysters gonna shyst.

I hope Zelensky goes back to comedy after his political career. So much source material!

Nerdwallet has a recent article on this. One makes less than a minimum wage job once all expenses and time are accounted for. The only benefit to the driver is flexibility. It’s the same story for ridesharing too.

bupkis, that’s what

Doordash has a market cap of ~106 billion, so . . .

How have you found them useful? I have not yet been able to find a practical use.

I hate modern photography!!!

(Not everyone has seen Pecker, this line is from Pecker.)

Oh thanks for following up. That’s one thing I like about Lemmy. Sometimes a thread can turn into a real discussion.

I see your point that direct-to-door delivery of groceries could theoretically be cheaper. The current Amazon model of basing more and more of their food delivery through Whole Foods exists because it builds on existing infrastructure that is proven to work.

There are smaller grocery delivery services that do direct delivery with no public storefront. One I know of is in Colorado called pinemelon.com. They are essentially a direct distributor for farms in the region. It is a bit expensive, partly by their choice as they are clearly going for the posh end of the market, as Whole Foods first did. (WFM is on par with most major chains for basic foods like produce. They still have costly nibbles, but they had to make basic food items more competitive to gain more market share.)

Food is complicated and I think Amazon is very quickly going to discover that they suck at it. Why? Because Amazon constitutionally hates human beings. It’s in their DNA as a corporate entity.

This shows in the horrific conditions in their non-food warehouses. Yet food is a very human thing. When a dear friend breaks an awesome brownie in half to share with you, it is going to taste better than an identical brownie that arrives in your mailbox.

So I think we agree quite closely. Food is for humans to see and share.

Thank you for introducing me to the term ‘thundercunt’. It has me thinking of cosplay ideas.

However, Siri and notifications volume is controlled separately from media volume on iOS. You can just turn it down.

You can also set a repeating reminder to call Apple a bunch of throbbing thundercunts, perhaps weekly? Which is still a very important thing to do.

I know, right? The actual (purported) words of Jesus will fit on an index card. They can be further summarized to ‘Be excellent to each other. Wyld Stallyns rule!’

sticks and stones, I guess

I have to agree here. Injecting ‘nuance’ is an easy way to derail a discussion so that the obvious harms of a thing get obscured. The discussion devolves into emotional reactions to some aspect of the ‘nuance’ and the original point is lost. And nothing changes, which suits the powers that be just fine.

Nuance is a powerful tool for maintaining the status quo by disrupting the conversation. Leave the nuance to the academics.

Effective messaging campaigns require message discipline and dead simple provocative points repeated endlessly for a generation or two to effect change, usually.

It didn’t work apparently. He just read the writing on the wall and changed his strategy for enacting his loathsome world view.