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crmd ◴[13 Nov 24 19:33 UTC] No.42129122[source]▶
Support your local restaurants. Don’t let these vampire platform companies enshitify your city’s food scene.
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fragmede ◴[13 Nov 24 19:55 UTC] No.42129294[source]▶
Which is an empty platitude if restaurants won't meet customers where they are - on their smartphones. I'll use my local restaurants' app/webpage when there is one and get pick-up, but if there isn't one, I'll be real - I just use Doordash. When I've got people over and need to order food, it'll take 45 mins between everything else going on to figure out a restaurant, and then another hour to pick some food. And then someone changes their mind while on the phone with the restaurant. Orrrr (after we pick a restaurant) we just pass the phone around.
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pie420[dead post] ◴[13 Nov 24 20:09 UTC] No.42129419[source]▶
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nilamo ◴[13 Nov 24 20:41 UTC] No.42129758[source]▶
The whole comment was about how hard it is to wrangle 10+ people. How is that digital, or not real life? It's literally a group of people spending time together face to face.
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hackable_sand ◴[14 Nov 24 07:58 UTC] No.42134007[source]▶
Being a host isn't hard at all.

You just have to care and prepare.

They are offloading their responsibilities and then complaining about friction. It is an extremely privileged and shallow take.

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fragmede ◴[16 Nov 24 03:01 UTC] No.42153767[source]▶
I didn't think I was complaing, just documenting my situation. I don't think having a cellphone and a credit card and friends and access to doordash puts me into some super privileged category among people posting here even if globally some people don't have running water or Internet.

Not sure how that makes me shallow but I'm all ears, I'd love to learn.

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1. hackable_sand ◴[16 Nov 24 10:55 UTC] No.42155773[source]▶
Maybe I'm reading into your actions and projecting my bias more than I intended.

When I used to order food through Uber eats I would always feel bad about it because the ultimate labor costs are abstracted through those layers of convenience.

If it is helpful, I consider fast online shipping to be unethical, and customer woes are misdirected at the wrong layer of abstraction, often ignoring the intensive labor costs because they are intentionally hidden.

Does that help explain my viewpoint?

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2. fragmede ◴[16 Nov 24 21:26 UTC] No.42159511[source]▶
That doesn't address why I'm shallow for describing my lived experience, or my extreme privilege because I'm someone who has access to, and has used Doordash. If you don't use their platform then the delivery people on that platform aren't getting jobs and aren't getting paid. If you want to help them, tip them 50% in cash.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, unfortunately, and we all take our stand where we choose to. I could afford a better phone, but since smarphones have matured, I chose to buy refurbished phones because of the slavery inherent in their creation. Buying refurbished phones minimizes that as best I can while not giving up modern conveniences. Similarly, I'm happy to use a restaurant's app/website instead of Doordash when there is one, but one of my favorite restaurants is only on doordash (Ben's Fast Food, which is delicious healthy food with lots of greens, they just have a terrible name).

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3. hackable_sand ◴[18 Nov 24 05:00 UTC] No.42169836[source]▶
Shallow and insecure, damn.
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4. fragmede ◴[19 Nov 24 13:38 UTC] No.42183267{3}[source]▶
Rude and mean, damn.