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

And don’t be so quick to judge, perhaps they are running an elaborate fraud in order to get on the next mission to Titan?

(It’s a Gattaca joke, folks)

Hear hear. I am average-slim and gay. Being easy to handle by a larger man is basically non-existent-God’s way of making up for all the other difficulties of being queer in a straight world.

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.

If they won’t learn on their own, they must be taught.

Your experience is valid, as it happened to you and none of us in this thread were there probably anyway.

In my experience, friends don’t end friendships over homophobia. They just suddenly become very busy and they have less and less time to spend with the person who comes out as bi.

‘Bi erasure’ is such a common phenomenon that we invented the term ‘bi erasure’.

Perfect, that is so fair. Please do not tell me which park or how to recognize you. It wouldn’t be sporting otherwise!

‘Standing’ is usually just a way for judges to block or promote hearing of cases. It is very arbitrary and squishy.

Due to her previous crimes and involvement in the justice system, followed by her ‘career’ as a ‘public figure’ centered around these issues, a judge can safely grant standing if they feel like doing so.

Much too soon! (but totally a good one, i ill be stealing this one)

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.

Grogu is a MacGuffin, not an actual character.

Fight me.

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!’