Lady Liberty enters chat.

Article is oversimplified. But scientists have already altered the entropic lean of quantum particles, just not to this degree. We can watch it happen, but we can not do much with it, yet. As far as I’m aware. I’m all for this congregation of scientists for this endeavor though.

P&P isn’t a romance novel, by our standards or back then either (it was and is a satire). The focus is on the social maladies even to the people who ascribe to them, that occur when one adheres to the social norms and how quite comical it can be when one chooses not to adhere to them, by just how silly and “romanticized” it can get.

That said, I don’t believe and didn’t read that passage as a “I’m not like other girls”, but more of “look how much he doesn’t think of me like the ones who approach him!” By now, Darcy has been SHOWN how judgmental he can be, and this scrutiny isn’t one based on sex (though we find that out later); but one based on pure character. Not even personality. If anything, he holds even his own little sister to this unspoken and private standard, one that is eventually shared with Elizabeth later in the novel. I believe one can fall for the setup of his pride, that Austen adopts. And read even into Elizabeth, our own sense of pride against Elizabeth’s prejudice.

I wholly agree with you that it certainly sours me to Elizabeth, that not as a woman who loved a man for growing and changing and holding himself accountable by her standards, but that it’s very much cannon that she was utterly and overwhelmingly was falling in love when she visited his estate. But I also believe (maybe wrongly) that’s it’s what she sees there, not the material wealth, but the exact items she gazed upon that changes her mind about his wealth. Sort of like you deciding to donate to a philanthropist irregardless of his mansion, but because within it contain photos of the people and the causes they helped found and flourish.

Investing in biotech leads to innovations which can be used and sold off. It’s a simple solution to complicated problems. Starvation on a national level has no easy fix of ‘just throw money at it’. And I am all for making sure the most needy get a healthy chance at life. But fiscally, I rather that large money come from selling creations and discoveries made by the home nation than by stripping other public help of their already meager coffers.