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

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)

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.

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!’

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.

She is a unitary executive

Except that they will use Lindsey as a scapegoat in an attempt to make it ok to say fake mean shit about gay people.

Kim Davis is asking the Supremes to reverse the decision that enabled gay marriage nationwide.

These idiots all talk to each other, and they are acting in coordination.

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

Smedley Butler will always be my favorite General.

War is a racket

The food is coming from grocery stores, mostly the Whole Foods Market that Amazon bought over five years ago. So one is paying regular grocery store prices and a delivery charge (Prime membership or straight cash).

It cannot be cheaper than grocery stores, one has to keep food somewhere with all associated costs of that and add the extra costs for the logistics of delivery to individual homes.