Or, crazy idea I know, maybe wealthy people aren't universally - or even mostly - stuck up self obsessed narcissists, and that's just your own seething envy and sense of self justification?
If I had to choose between Walmart vs a store that literally filters out the poorest at the door, I know where I'd rather work or shop.
I'd put it another way: the "you have to pay to even GET IN THE DOOR" keeps out the rifraff.
"...describes the stores as spaces of "cooperation, courtesy, and grown-ups mostly acting like grown-ups." Shoppers follow unwritten rules: move along, don't block the way, step aside to check your phone. Checkout lines form orderly queues.
Note the entire article is about how civilized an experience it is, and how "weird" that is; that Atlantic tries to paint it as "cult like" shows how utterly fucked up our Intelligentsia has become.
I'm sorry that Sad Oregonian Cunt is bad at the google. I understand. It's hard to fight deep-seated quasi-religious beliefs.
I apologize that my use of the word 'healthier' confused you. I know that enraged leftists routinely forget concepts like vernacular and idiom, retreating to semantic hairsplitting but I'm assuming here in good faith that you're LEGITIMATELY confused by my broadly using the term 'health' to include 'reproductive success'. I am, of course, talking more precisely about eggshell thinning and impact on bird reproductive health, which was flogged around by Silent Spring, the just-born EPA, and used as a reason for the global ban on DDT despite the ruling of a judge to the contrary.
Here's a much-footnoted paper that maybe helps you understand what you're trying to talk about.
https://nationalcenter.org/ncp...
To your specific accusation "This is a lie. It is not supported by your link or any literature." Well, it's literally what happened, something you could find if you bothered to, y'know, check something other than your back-library of Mother Jones magazines.
When carefully reviewed, Dr. Bitmanâ(TM)s study revealed that the quail in the study were fed a diet with a calcium content of only 0.56 percent (a normal quail diet consists of 2.7 percent calcium). Calcium deficiency is a known cause of thin eggshells.21-23 After much criticism, Bitman repeated the test, this time with sufficient calcium levels. The birds produced eggs without thinned shells.24
After many years of carefully controlled feeding experiments, Dr. M. L. Scott and associates of the Department of Poultry Science at Cornell University âoefound no tremors, no mortality, no thinning of eggshells and no interference with reproduction caused by levels of DDT which were as high as those reported to be present in most of the wild birds where âcatastrophicâ(TM) decreases in shell quality and reproduction have been claimed.â23 In fact, thinning eggshells can have many causes, including season of the year, nutrition (in particular insufficient calcium, phosphorus, vitamin D, and manganese), temperature rise, type of soil, and breeding conditions (e.g., sunlight and crowding).25
And in case that's still too hard for stupid fucks to follow, let me help you:
21 Greely F. Effects of Calcium Deficiency. J Wildlife Management. 1960; 70:149-153.
22 Romanoff AL, Romanoff AJ. The Avian Egg. New York: Wiley & Sons; 1949:154.
23 Scott ML, Zimmermann JR, Marinsky S, Mullenhoff PA. Effects of PCBs, DDT, and Mercury Compounds Upon Egg Production, Hatchability and Shell Quality in Chickens and Japanese Quail. Poultry Science. 1975; 54:350-368.
24 Cecil HC, Bitman J, Harris SJ. No Effects on Eggshells, If Adequate Calcium is in DDT Diet. Poultry Science. 1971; 50:656-659.
25 The Avian Egg:152-156, 266.
My actual point, against which a very narrow facet made you so incensed, was that if malaria is an issue, we should go back to using DDT, which was banned based on lies. The fact is that Carson was a deep, deep liar, misrepresenting and mispresenting facts throughout her moronic screed. (Since you love sources and details, here's a nearly page-by-page refutation (up to around p125) of the tidal wave of bullshit in Silent Spring: https://21sci-tech.com/article...)
So, please: go fuck yourself and have a great New Year while you're at it!
Somehow this is still Trump's fault.
Slashdot: +1, insightful, obviously.
Maybe do your research, midwit.
Notice I said that the researchers realized that they'd underfed the birds calcium.
You think that might have something to do with the resulting strength of their EGGS.
Here, let me help since you're stupid: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q...
When they re-ran the experiment, feeding the birds the CORRECT amount of calcium they get in the wild, the eggs were - SURPRISE! - just fine.
SOME species do indeed show minor eggshell thinning; then again, others seem to benefit.
Certainly it's nothing like the case made to justify banning DDT.
https://www.thenewatlantis.com...
"Responding to (environmentalists') pressure, in 1971 the newly-formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched an investigation of the pesticide. Lasting seven months, the investigative hearings led by Judge Edmund Sweeney gathered testimony from 125 expert witnesses with 365 exhibits. The conclusion of the inquest, however, was exactly the opposite of what the environmentalists had hoped for. After assessing all the evidence, Judge Sweeney found: âoeThe uses of DDT under the registration involved here do not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds, or other wildlifeâ¦. DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to manâ¦. DDT is not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man.â[20] Accordingly, Judge Sweeney ruled that DDT should remain available for use.
Unfortunately, however, the administrator of the EPA was William D. Ruckelshaus, who reportedly did not attend a single hour of the investigative hearings, and according to his chief of staff, did not even read Judge Sweeneyâ(TM)s report.[21] Instead, he apparently chose to ignore the science: overruling Sweeney, in 1972 Ruckelshaus banned the use of DDT in the United States except under conditions of medical emergencies.[22]"
Need data, sources, proof? How about from the California Environmental Protection agency? Is that progressive enough?
https://www.calepa.ca.gov/wp-c...
Sometimes apparently even scientists believe dogmatic bullshit with the blind faith of a drooling Evangelical Christian.
Well, if malaria is such an issue:
1) go back to using ddt. The entire Silent Spring thing was a load of crap based on poorly designed experiments (the scientists that did the original experiment recognized this and reran the same thing except this time giving the birds the normal amount of calcium they're have gotten from natural diets. The result was that ddt was NO IMPACT - actually the ddt heavy birds were slightly healthier, albeit not statistically significantly).
2) why would the US bear the responsibility for curing 37% of the world's malaria problem by itself? Please provide an answer that's not a paraphrase of "white man's burden".
"low-level creative jobs offer practice time and pathways for mentorship"
More importantly, ultimately, is they offer pathways to high level creative jobs eventually.
Training an ai offers a pathway to... Nothing.
Are you seriously asserting that European leadership aren't overwhelmingly and negatively focused on whatever Trump does? I'm sure it's coincidence that the EU only warns Twitter
The use of the term "MAGA" is only used to shut down arguments. Anyone who uses it is clearly a clown arguing in bad faith, so meh.
I'm looking at the $50 he's already venmo'd me. LOL.
You guys are so predictable.
In other news, cabin staff on Titanic also successfully formed a union to demand fair treatment 0115 on April 15 1912.
"A human communicating with a person who develops psychosis as a direct result of the communication is blamed, and investigated for wrongdoing. "
It could be that part of the problem for movie theaters conceptually is that they are consensual public events. There's a strong element of the social contract to movie going; we agree to share a space to ostensibly enjoy a thing together.
Unfortunately, the technological impetus compelling us to do so has faded: we no longer need gather physically in one room because only collectively can our purchasing tickets that way fund the equipment and space capable of displaying that production at is highest quality. Now, one can (assuming a 2 person movie evening is about $100) buy a large screen, high def monitor with an adequate sound bar for as little as the price of five film visits. A single such purchase and an Internet connection and you literally never have to go to a movie theater again, ever.
More compellingly, the social contract is largely gone. COVID proved to many people that, y'know what? Larger collections of other people are increasingly tiresome. Been to a mass market movie lately? People viewing their phones and acting like selfish assholes. These people have always existed if course, but formerly this might get you a warning from an usher or even ejected. Not any longer; the theaters themselves (almost entirely today owned by some faceless conglomerate somewhere else)don't care, and a minimum-wage show house staffer certainly isn't going to risk their neck to confront anyone, god forbid they be a motivated Karen or some other victim class that could blow the theater up on social media (or worse).
Don't get me wrong, a collection of motivated enthusiasts are self disciplined and moviegoing can still be a delightful experience (cf The Trylon in Minneapolis has made an art-house scale income of it - that is, rather little compared to the efforts of its largely middle aged and older volunteers). But in that case everyone is actually there to deliberately enjoy the film in such a context. Such places proved there is still some magic to being part of a group all laughing at a joke together or gasping at a Hitchcockian surprise (even though with these old films only the few first timers responses are genuine and spontaneous). It bears mentioning that Trylon also offers reasonable ticket prices and reasonable concessions pricing, two reasons they barely limp along. Further reasons that alongside my patronage I cheerfully donate to the organization as well.
But aside from such places, I see no value in going to the movies any more no matter how recliney the seats or if they serve me (obscenely priced) pizza to it.
Except at the root this is not about data sovereignty, this is about TDS.
How dare he tell Germans they shouldn't rely on Russian gas (as Obama did before him)!
How dare he be blunt and rude about Europeans holding to their defense spending promises (that they made to Obama before Trump)!
How dare he bluntly observe that the US has literally no strategic interests in Ukraine (famously identified by the Guardian as "the most corrupt country in Europe" pre-invasion) and that while the US dominated the first several years of support (including Trump's administration being the first to send weapons as aid) saying openly that the US cannot support Ukraine indefinitely.
How dare he observe that Europe's suicidal empathy for illegals is destroying their societies. He made the same observation here, got elected almost entirely on that basis, and promptly reduced Bidens "unstoppable illegal tide" by 95%+ in what, 3 months?
Don't misunderstand me: Trump is a blunt clod diplomatically. He enjoys breaking norms which I believe can ultimately be counterproductive to policy goals. I don't understand the stupid Greenland thing, for example. The whole conversation is stupid.
But in some ways he's not actually wrong. People deeply wedded to their TDS simply cannot allow themselves to agree with anything he see says, ever, and that's stupid too.
Maybe you lack reading comprehension, lots of ACs seem to.
I said the PLAN was shit. The plan: to use a not-yet-invented launch system to stage fuel resupply points in orbit to facilitate the setup of some sort of orbital base station around the moon to set up repeated lunar landings ultimately likely to end up with a base on the moon.
It sounds like a Hollywood script, there's so much magical deus ex machina we assume the boffins will pour forth on command from the lab as needed.
That's a shitty PLAN.
Nothing in that has anything to do with the basic engineering of successful launch vehicles. That's a whole additional set of hand-waving pies-in-the-sky fantasies, but nothing to do precisely with THE PLAN.
Try to keep them straight?
That is a completely fair distinction, and I'll admit I was lazy to lump them together.
Well pointed-out. Thanks.
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.
