Aluminum chain mail!

These look nice. I met someone with juggling balls made of aluminum chain mail, I immediately thought it was the best material for the purpose. She said she made them herself, then shared the instructions with me. It was a great COVID project. Now I have three juggling balls, and a bunch of leftover rings that I use occasionally for small repair and mounting tasks.

Right, 100 trucks delivering 100 single items to 100 homes, or 100 consumers each making 1 trip to buy 100 things. It really depends on the details too much to simplify it so far.

It is more like 1 truck delivering 100 single items to 100 homes.

With there typically being a free shipping minimum (or a relatively fixed shipping cost for daily goods), it seems like the benefits of the 1 truck model are likely even greater as customers are explicitly encouraged to group purchases together.

Well, maybe more than one truck.

One truck per delivery service

Multiple times a week.

For the aforementioned 100 homes, if the 100-items-in-1-truck are needed multiple times per week, then the 100-items-in-100-cars are likely also needed multiple times per week, so the extra CO2 etc would be even worse.

Just anecdotally, I think the typical Costco trip is alongside trips someone would have taken already.

Go to work, take a 5 minute detour to stop by Costco for your prescriptions, gas, and groceries on the way back

As a non-American, all of these threads are utterly fascinating.

I suggested it to my young kids and it became an instant favorite.

Do you experience many "life challenges" at work?

Is the super-consumption aspect of it really so different than any other big box store?

The consumption aspect is perhaps similar, but the crowds at Costco are much, much worse (in quantity mainly) than any other grocery or big-box store I've ever been to.

I also refuse to go to Costco these days. Every once in a while my memory fades and I agree to accompany a family member or friend, and am quickly reminded why I should stick to Aldi.

In steam deck desktop mode, the touchpad-as-mouse makes it just bearable enough to use. I can't use desktop mode with a wireless Xbox controller with no touchpads. It's really the missing input type that makes the steam deck a complete tv-docked PC.

As they say, history rhymes

Isn’t that what George Lukas said about Star Wars?

You might enjoy Hominids by Robert Sawyer

Tangentially related, The Man from Earth is really good as well.

Very few films choose to shoot on a camcorder, and fewer still pull it off well.

I just randomly watched that a month or two ago. A really interesting idea.

Seconding this recommendation; the entire trilogy of books is great.

Ti89 emulator on my android. Muscle memory from high school and college use is strong.