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.

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.)

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.

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

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

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.