So do you just assume everyone lives within convenient travel distance of a wide variety of shops that would supply everything that they could possibly want, or are you claiming moral superiority because you shop at Walmart instead of online at Amazon?
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How do the other countries find out about the diagnosis? Are you expected to self-disclose?
The original series eventually delves more deeply into why the society and technology is in the state we see it during the books, but it's a gradual shift. Character focus remains the main theme throughout.
You might enjoy some of the "prequel" books written by his son, Brian, and Kevin J. Anderson (allegedly based... perhaps loosely... on Frank's unpublished notes). They tend to focus more on the setting as a whole. Personally I'm not a fan of the actual writing, but there's a ton of lore crammed into them.
Not to mention that it's questionable whether the average Republican gives more than the average Democrat, or if it is just a case of a small population of extremely wealthy individuals donating large amounts for reasons of tax benefits (in addition to the political motivations you mentioned).
Then there's also this from one of the authors of the study: 'It also wasn’t obvious “whether donors were being purely generous or whether they would also benefit from their donation. This relationship is called consumption philanthropy, in which people give to a religious organization or a school from which they will derive a benefit in the form of, say, a better religious education program or a new gymnasium.” Giving to a food bank or a homeless shelter has a very different outcome than does giving to a private school.' (https://nonprofitquarterly.org/republicans-give-more-to-charity-than-democrats-but-theres-a-bigger-story-here/)
"Without context" is one of the favorite argument methods of conservatives. It's not that they disagree about the context. They don't understand the concept of context nor its relevance.
I was especially freaked out when I realized it works offline.
"and not a lot of “so this was actually…”" That's exactly what I'm afraid of. These types of shows just don't work without that part!
I'm currently partway through the first season of From. So far its a good mixture of monsters + mystery + sheer WTF. I just hope it continues to be coherent and eventually leads the viewers to a conclusion that, if not "reasonable", at least follows some sort of consistent internal logic. That's the part that typically winds up disappointing me in shows like this, so... fingers crossed, but so far so good.
So did you just skip the first half of my comment, or did you not understand the words?
Newsflash: not everyone in America lives in a major urban area where a wide variety of shops are available, let alone small independent shops. I live 30 minutes from the nearest city, which is a small city. There's a huge amount of products that are not available in either my immediate area or even in the closes city. I don't mind paying extra to avoid major chains, and I typically look elsewhere before resorting to Amazon, but paying extra and spending 2+ hours in a car to avoid Amazon is not a viable alternative.
If you're going to talk about the "natural state of things", then I assume you simply go out into the nearest forest, cut down a tree, and build whatever you need using the assortment of stone tools you've hand crafted?