BluesF @ BluesF @feddit.uk

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I absolutely agree that local shops closing is a bad thing, but for a lot of niche goods companies like Amazon are a good thing. Delivery by one vehicle is far more efficient than everyone driving their own vehicle to whatever niche shop has your stuff. Don't get me wrong, Amazon is 100% a big evil corporation with huge problems... but the fact that they deliver goods to your house is not the problem lol. Doubly so since you can designate a day for them to deliver and just be in on that day!

Man like man movie, with big strong men do big action. Sissy lady like wussy movie with kissy kissy love. Man only like superhero and tank.

I am horrified by the number of people who will leave animal excrement just sitting in their damn house for many hours. Makes me wonder about those times when I've been to someone's house that has that je ne sais quoi cat scent lingering in the air.

The C suite's purpose is to generate value for the shareholders. Unless AI-C delivers that value the old guard will be back in no time.

Not a lot of minerals you can just munch down on, ice is fun.

if you were going to drizzle some olive oil on a salad...

Vehement agreement from the UK

Perhaps because of the persistent and aggressive narrative that if you don't support Israel you're an antisemite?

Yeah you don't find Jesus smashing up moneylenders shops in general... just that one time when they were in a temple.

Science fiction presents a vision of the future - it is, I think, an effective mirror for the collective thoughts and beliefs about what is to come. For much of the 20th century people were strongly optimistic about the future - postwar and into the tech boom in the 80s and 90s it seemed like everything was only going to get better.

Nowadays though... we don't have that optimism anymore. We have climate change rapidly escalating, corporation's sucking us dry, states doing fuck all about it. This is reflected in those grim police robots and dark themes, just as the shiny space ships and friendly aliens of the past reflected the optimism of the time.

N.b. I do agree with the other commenter who said audience expectations of "realism" play a role - but I also think audiences have a pretty warped idea of what is realistic.

I can't imagine a scenario when you need to be able to do BOTH positive and negative numbers at the same time 😂

N.B. maximize air content while minimising air movement and therefore convection. Otherwise you could just have cavities in your walls for maximum air.

It's less about reacting and more about anticipating - learn the timing rather than trying to wait for a moment and then react.

That's a novel right there baby

Man I can't come up with anything that isn't just utter nonsense when actually tripping. Granted these songs have nonsense lyrics, but there's no way I could put my nonsense to music while watching the walls melt 😂 it's impressive that they managed as much sense as they did.

And in between are all the ones about LSD. It's a mystery really.

Maybe not for you or I, but the police use it.

Altruism is not without reward, even if it seems like it is. No one acts selflessly for no reason, they do so because they are rewarded by their body with dopamine and other "reward" hormones - i.e. because it feels good to do so.

People probably don't want to lose their job because they can't afford to. You acknowledged it yourself in your OP, most people don't have the money to just leave a job. I could probably afford to be out of work for a little while, but I've been applying for jobs for ages with no luck... So I'm not exactly confident even my reasonable nest egg would last me until I found something.

In gendered languages the "gender" of things other than people doesn't really relate to human gender at all. It's just a grammatical construct.