Porksnort enjoys laying in the sunshine. Porksnort will not refuse any offer of a snack.
That’s why I am a Wobbly. I was raised to be a white pro-labor racist by religious weirdos. Yet the best, kindest, most understanding friends I ever made on the playground were non-white.
I am grateful that I cannot tolerate cognitive dissonance and have distanced myself from racism and kept my pro-labor stances.
It’s a long multi-generational fight, but what else can a person who strives to be decent do?
The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.
Get fucked, Target.
He’s upset that Forbes did not do actual journalism. Anyone who looked into Theranos would have known that it was smelly from the beginning.
It was initially difficult to claim outright fraud, but the lack of peer reviewed research coming out of that company or that the diagnostics were even based on would have triggered anyone who was marginally competent in medical testing or even just biochemistry.
So Forbes sucks, and they printed what they were told.
If you have ever been low income, $1700 is enough to get your attention. You know where that money comes from and when you are low income, a sudden in flow of essentially an extra month and a half of salary for a rural person?
Well, you’re paying attention to that. So maybe have some perspective about what that kind of money means to a person who has a shitty truck and a barely adequate house and spends months in it through a long winter.
I agree, and perhaps some deep diving to find an older dot matrix printer? Should be supremely hackable. I only have experience with these:
They were extremely durable and low maintenance. Also loud and more stress inducing than a modern SMS notification.
Good times
That was a complete rabbit hole. Thanks.
The only thing possibly more epic would be converting a Linotype to a Linux terminal. It uses hot lead to create type for newspapers, etc.
I was trained to use one as there were so many in use they still have some niche applications for specialty printing.
Anyhow, I call them Satan’s Typewriters and still have small scars from hot lead all over my forearms. And I love technology.
A good film:
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.
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.
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 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.
Being seen as having rizz at the national level is nothing to scoff at. We disdain celebrity but it is hard to obtain and keep. It can be used for good or ill, but the competencies needed for durable celebrity status are many.
Think about all the skills and consistency a person who is on camera all the time has to have. They need to be internally consistent. They need to know who they are and project themselves well. they need to know how to manage a media career and they need to speak ideas that resonate with an audience and make people want to remember their name.
You are absolutely correct celebrity and politician have always been intertwined professions.
That is because we are in the Good Place.
About what specifically? I am curious genuinely. Food distribution is messed up and can surely be done better. It is a very difficult space to innovate in however. So always interested in different perspectives
It won’t change Jizzedina Davenport Vance’s mind. It will embolden others to do the same and eventually maybe he gets a proper crowd-sourced spa treatment.