It is also due to these lower end governments getting used to no one showing up for any of their meetings. Normally the only people that will show up are the local wingnuts, so they treat everyone as one.
I am in small town government and this happened right in front of me. Even valid issues are treated with the same contempt as the lady that wants us (the town counsel) to “do something” about those damn chem trails.
Really? I used to order subs as a child often. Guess it depends where you where. Here in Canada things are spaced out when not in city’s and maybe that made delivery more common?
Point is still that places like DoorDash and the like are not positives for communities overall and the extra costs while paying less to drivers is causing real harm.
That is the truly insidious part, people did know and use delivery often back in the day. It was in movies (remember the Chinese take out boxes all the time, those where delivered), it was promoted in every grocery store and was many a young persons first job. But like all things its gone in a weird way, now no one seems to deliver anything out side of being a contractor for an app. Our charities have changed in a similar way, less on the ground help (when I was 12 I helped a version of meals on wheels that had over 6 active vans in a city of 30,000) and more on remote support and fundraising. Not saying they are not trying to do good work, but what people expect in their community now is kinda depressing in its tiny underwhelming way.
Your right it is driving costs up, and also not always improving access outside of major cites. Here is a personal example; I used to be able to get food delivered at my house in a small rural town (1400 people) from the nearest city (25 min drive away). It was more money since you had to pay for the extra distance, and the delivery people did not like it (it cut down on tips spending 50+ min driving for one call) but it was possible. Now I don’t have that option, the Dashes/Ubers/Justeats just don’t even try. It might be that no one would take that job, it might be they never thought of it. Oh and we have as a town had to fund and support a local handibus non profit to deliver things to or drive to appointments people with mobility issues (for whatever the reason is).
It was a video. And covered in said video.
As stated in the video, this was not done long ago. This is why he has to wait 60 days.
I worked delivering food when I was young, all food was able to be delivered way back. It was not just pizza and very common, DoorDash and the like have just gaslit everyone into thinking they are needed. I remember the small town I lived in even had a program to pay for cabs to get groceries for people with limited mobility (this was in the 90’s). We have abandoned working systems like meals on wheels in favor of for profit middlemen.
Yeah, it looks like that is by design then. Glad I don’t deal with those programs myself. I would worry opening the thing on my phone.
Yeah, good thing our time is not worth anything. And if those drives are ordered for a project? Eh you got your money back 4 weeks later so what are you to complain about?
Really this is why things are so bad, we all take this shit and think its fine. If I stole your wallet and you caught me, be returning it does not make the event not happen.
If I buy a thing, and its DOA the very min is money back and most of the time if that is the case there better be a fucking amazing reason for that. If I spend time, money and effort to first buy a thing then jump though hoops when it does not work I am not made whole by “undoing” that transaction. I have spent many many many hours on hold and texting support chats when bad products are shipped, those are not done to get my $ back, they are to get what I needed when I paid for the thing. If after all that they think I will not burn and salt the very earth the company sits on by giving me my money back, they don’t understand. I have and will refuse money back, I will and have paid money to make sure I get what I ordered and if they will not send me a working thing, I will never do business with them again while making sure anyone I can talk to knows what they did.
And before you think I don’t get the other end of the relation ship, I for many years did RMA and or warranty work for places like Cisco and Lenovo. I don’t expect mistakes to never happen, I don’t expect everything will show up without issue, I don’t expect instant results. But I hold places to the same standards I was held to, if I could not fix the thing I had to return to try again, and again, and again until it was fixed. I have never once been able to just say fuck it and give the person the money value of the device and walk away (in fact there where times where my company spent several times the devices value on the service).
Charge back time! That is like full on Karen mode appropriate (a very rare occurrence).
Since we know what happened is the liquor store just has every order that comes in “confirmed” by default and its just better for them and Dash to work this way. Like what if a child had hit the button? Fuck you I guess?
Yes, before the invention of DoorDash people with health challenges just died. No one could order food and have it delivered by cabs or the restaurant. Not like pizza places did delivery at all let alone base their whole business model around it. Really just a good thing such Uber and Dash companies came along to be super valuable middlemen charging a fee to everyone involved.
A reminder that a non zero amount of people get shot each year from leaving firearms loaded in the oven in the states.
Honestly I am just shocked that a physical phone exists at all.
Apparently in this case guns don’t kill ram, dogs with guns kill ram.
… the much more pleasant problem of shopping for a replacement PC with a $3,500 budget.
Uhhhh how much PC does that get a person these days? 2 Gigs of ddr3 ram?
Your example is a poor choice, Linux overall is one example of an OS for users. There are more OS choices then Linux, that is good. Nothing like web browsers where people where actively trying to make everything chromium based. The ecosystem is unhealthy when there is one choice for an entire type of software (so for OS you have Linux, Windows, and Mac as big players) and outside of Firefox and its forks all web browsers are Chromium based. Oh and although there are other fringe options they don’t matter much, much like in the OS world Temple OS is not a real choice.
My point was that it would be very very bad if Firefox was not there (or turned into chromium) as an ecosystem of one is a massive risk regardless of who controls it.
They designed the AI cloud to be super private.
HA! This is gold, I can not think of two words put together that implies less privacy. Well maybe “fucking stage”.
And an ecosystem of one engine is not healthy. Even if google was not google, this is a massive risk to take for the Easy™ way.
What an odd thing to say from the “land of the free”
Yes, that is correct.
They want to look like they care, not actually care.