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  • nomy@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldTotal sense
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    1 month ago

    I’m happy that you are physically able, that you have places within walking distance to pick the food up from, or if not that you own a vehicle and are not vision impaired or afflicted with some other ailment that would make driving impossible

    The implication being that thankfully for UberEats people who aren’t physically able, don’t have places within walking distance, don’t own a vehicle, or are vision impaired or afflicted with some other ailment that makes driving impossible, they can get their food delivered.

    UberEats is a cancer and honestly, everyone I’ve known who’s disabled or on a fixed income in some way couldn’t afford the insane markup.


  • nomy@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldTotal sense
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    1 month ago

    It was a completely reasonable take and everyone understood what you meant.

    Only on lemmy would someone try to paint an exploitative middleman like UberEats as a noble service for those unable to journey to the store.

    There are actually services that do that and they don’t charge a 30% markup. That actually seems even more exploitative and you’d think the other commenter would be enraged at Uber.


  • nomy@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldTotal sense
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    1 month ago

    Things are fucked from the top down. It’s by design, It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).” They’ve been very successful and those think tanks are now pipelines used to funnel ideological purists into powerful positions like our current Supreme Court.

    It’s not even a conspiracy, it’s all easily verifiable. These people do not share our American values. They do not value freedoms (speech, press, religion, etc) the same way that many of us do. They want a return to the gilded age with them as the robber barons and landed gentry and everyone else as a permanent, toiling underclass.












  • nomy@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldDating
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    2 months ago

    We could all lose a few pounds but sharing a meal is a huge thing, take that thicc person out and enjoy meal with another human being you animals. You might even find you have some commonality and you’ll feel slightly less isolated when the meal is done.