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A Strange Aeon posted:Why does anybody use Doordash or Uber Eats or Lyft Carbs or whatever? Even if it's convenient to have food delivered, it seems like it costs way more and the quality is often questionable. Convenience, learned helplessness
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A Strange Aeon posted:Why does anybody use Doordash or Uber Eats or Lyft Carbs or whatever? Even if it's convenient to have food delivered, it seems like it costs way more and the quality is often questionable. Yep. I've used Doordash or something twice during the pandemic yeah, just too expensive. If a place uses a service like that for delivery, I just don't order from them.
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AARD VARKMAN posted:unless I'm misunderstanding, it goes towards the $6 of that minimum order that, if there was no tip at all, the company would have had to pay the driver Ok I didn’t understand it
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Tunicate posted:Open source software ui is even worse, have you tried doing literally anything with the GIMP I use a proprietary piece of fossilized 90s software (PhotoImpact) for that
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Dec 12, 2023 23:15
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It’s literally the only way to order delivery from 99% of the restaurants in my area
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Dec 12, 2023 23:18
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Yeah especially during the pandemic, Doordash and Postmates etc. partnered up with all of the services that started offering convenient online ordering to restaurants (before the pandemic most restaurants had no way to order online or get your food delivered directly through their website). So they don't actually have to sign up or operate within Doordash/Postmates/etc but when an order is placed on their website it gets sent to a Doordash/Postmates/etc driver to deliver it. Not many places employ their own delivery drivers anymore because of this. I guess a lot of pizza places do but even those are starting to cut their delivery driver positions and just rely on the courier services. This lets them get around the 30% doordash markup on items but you still have to deal with Doordash's tipping bullshit. And depending on what middleman service the restaurant uses to connect your order with a courier service, they might be getting charged some big fat fees through that middleman too.
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Dec 12, 2023 23:26
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:It’s literally the only way to order delivery from 99% of the restaurants in my area Yeah a whole lot of places here too. So in my situation, I just rarely get delivery anymore. 
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Dec 12, 2023 23:27
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I've never had food delivered, and certainly not using an app. Who is happy with those apps? The customer? I know restaurants themselves (at least the couple I talked to) don't like the app ordering services either.
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Dec 13, 2023 01:14
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Every time I think about food delivery apps I remember a Reddit post from 4-5 years ago where someone tallied up their orders at the end of the year and realized they spent $16,000 in food deliveries for one year
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Dec 13, 2023 01:16
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redshirt posted:I've never had food delivered, and certainly not using an app. The guys selling all the data they scrape from everyones phones are probably very happy with the state of things.
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Dec 13, 2023 01:18
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I never use them I have family whose cooking skills weren’t great to begin with but are basically non existent now because they just order everything or eat energy bars The kids will never learn how to cook, so I guess the restaurant companies will be happy?
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edit: ^^^ my ex-wife's family was like that. They'd get takeout just about every single night. Probably during the day too. They were rich of course. Her dad was a corporate pilot. I, quite literally, had to teach her how to boil water. I know what you're thinking, "no loving way anyone could be that incompetent." You are wrong my friend. deep dish peat moss posted:Every time I think about food delivery apps I remember a Reddit post from 4-5 years ago where someone tallied up their orders at the end of the year and realized they spent $16,000 in food deliveries for one year  That's more than I spend on food period. Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Dec 13, 2023 |
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Dec 13, 2023 01:37
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i mean did they burn the water? there's internet posts of cooking stupidity that are amazingly low.
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Dec 13, 2023 01:48
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gently caress thats more than i spend on rent
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PhazonLink posted:i mean did they burn the water? She just didn't know how. I stared at her blankly for a while and said to put water in the pot and apply high heat and wait until it boils. But I don't know if she understood what boiling was.
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Cactus Ghost posted:gently caress thats more than i spend on rent Double my mortgage lol.
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Doing some rough calculations here, but I reckon I have spent less than $16k in total on groceries the last 3~ years.
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It might have been this very thread, but somebody suggested signing up to deliver for UberEats or whatever, picking up the most expensive order, taking it home and eating it, then uninstalling the app. I keep meaning to do that.
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PhazonLink posted:there's internet posts of cooking stupidity that are amazingly low. Do not insult Masaokis this way he is an unbridled genius
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Woolie Wool posted:I use a proprietary piece of fossilized 90s software (PhotoImpact) for that Yeah, I was just going to say, I’m still using Paint Shop Pro 7. It’s so quick to start up, I can sometimes load, edit, and save something before Photoshop has finished initializing.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Every time I think about food delivery apps I remember a Reddit post from 4-5 years ago where someone tallied up their orders at the end of the year and realized they spent $16,000 in food deliveries for one year Yeah, I remember some thread where someone was making good 6-figure USD and complaining they didn't have any savings, people asked them for budget and they were spending $50-100 daily on Uber Eats. I don't want to sound like the Avocado Toast meme, but I often see people who complain about how things are rigged and it's impossible to save up anymore and mention elsewhere that they use these food delivery and other services where you pay a disgusting premium. I just don't get it, like it's not hard to just not use these apps, although sometimes I feel like people take pride in that they don't know how to do basic skills anymore.
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it isn't even that people dont want to learn to cook. you can eat from a modern grocery store without ever learning to cook, and all but the most expensive restaurants do take-out. that dude's just got some learned bad habits or pathology or something.
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Cactus Ghost posted:it isn't even that people dont want to learn to cook. you can eat from a modern grocery store without ever learning to cook, and all but the most expensive restaurants do take-out. that dude's just got some learned bad habits or pathology or something. I would lean towards pathologic given how upset some of these people get when someone suggests that they occasionally don't eat delivery fastfood. Like a child who decided he wants mcdonalds for every meal never grew up.
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Dec 13, 2023 05:19
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geez no wonder why techbros want a an ai god.
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The explosion in prepared food delivery is the one thing that brings out the grumpy old scold in me. It's bad for everyone involved except the app company. It seems like a sign of a sick society
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Prepared food and delivery aren't intrinsically bad, we just live in a world where almost every prepared food option is terrible and delivery is run by huge, exploitative corporations. Absent massive profits, delivery should be cheaper, faster, and healthier then what you could make at home as a single individual.
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:Prepared food and delivery aren't intrinsically bad, we just live in a world where almost every prepared food option is terrible and delivery is run by huge, exploitative corporations. Absent massive profits, delivery should be cheaper, faster, and healthier then what you could make at home as a single individual. Hence why it's basically impossible to lose money running a restaurant
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These are the same reason I have never used a “ride share” service
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We're using this new project management software at work. If you want to change the status of a task you just click a button to move it to the next status, except every time you do it opens a loving popup directly over the button to inform you that you just clicked the button. So when I want to complete a task I have to click the button, wait for the "You just moved this task to In Progress!" popup to disappear, click the button, wait for the "You just moved this task to Under Review!" popup to disappear, click the button, wait for the "You just moved this task to Customer Review!" popup to disappear.....
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Cerekk posted:Hence why it's basically impossible to lose money running a restaurant Unless you're absolutely spectacularly bad at running a kitchen, food is not where unprofitable restaurants lose their money.
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God drat, how did the US Global Entry website manage to get even worse. Green checks with "no errors found" when there is just whole new sections of stuff I need to enter as I try to renew. Luckily for them I payed with the "plastic card" choice and not my bank account!
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is pepsi ok posted:We're using this new project management software at work. If you want to change the status of a task you just click a button to move it to the next status, except every time you do it opens a loving popup directly over the button to inform you that you just clicked the button. I run into one of these daily which is a box that pops up and says "Are you sure you want to acknowledge this page?" The use case for this is if you wanted to work on the issue while your pager keeps going off? Yes, please keep beeping, I'm going to go make a sandwich and I don't want to forget? It's insane.
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Virigoth posted:God drat, how did the US Global Entry website manage to get even worse. Green checks with "no errors found" when there is just whole new sections of stuff I need to enter as I try to renew. Luckily for them I payed with the "plastic card" choice and not my bank account! Global Entry itself is a big premium consumer enshittification
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Love that Ad blocking browser extensions are also just businesses now, they make deals to pass ads through and try to beg users for donations when the extension gets updated or something. Your whole loving product was created to subvert how websites make money online and now you're begging for it, loving losers
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I don't understand how people use delivery apps. What's a better system? You <-----> restaurant OR You <----> corporation designed to make owners rich <----> restaurant Honestly, I look down on anybody I hear gushing about delivery apps. I'm sure there's some useful customers but how the heck did the apps get so big? Food delivery is also bad because of all the single use items. Every day 100 box trucks drive into Manhattan filled with single use items, and 100 garbage trucks filled with used single use items drive out.
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I used to get my groceries delivered and it kind of owned because it would be a $10ish delivery fee and the items weren't marked up. $10 to save whatever time it takes to go to the store and shop was worth it and I didn't have a car so it saved me a ton of headache and hassle. These days it probably costs way more though
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My girlfriend and I went to a tiki bar and wanted to Lyft there. It was a 15 minute drive and $45 one-way sans tip (I just drank less booze instead)
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Trying to find a non-Google-assistant way to look for a song that was in a video I watched about Cruelty Squad, albeit uncited. Eventually found it, but god drat is searching for anything just completely useless anymore. You want Bulgarian choirs and folk songs? HOW ABOUT CHEAP FLIGHTS TO BULGARIA? WANT TO GET TICKETS FOR CHOIRS NEAR YOU? INSTALL OUR APP. INSTALL OUR BROWSER EXTENSION. MAKE SURE YOU'RE USING CHROME SO OUR SHITBOX JS CAN RUN ON YOUR ANAL RING 0. Y'all kids want some ANALYTICS in your NOTE TAKING APP? TRY SCRONGLEFUNGING TODAY! Here's a popup! Here's a modal! Here's an overlay! Here's a link to our discord! Here's a link to our zendesk! Here's a link to everything you don't want to see and nothing to anything you do want to see - UNREGRETTED USER SECONDS ARE UP UP UP. Sorry but holy poo poo. Just holy poo poo. The fuckin' antichrist is here, dude, and his name is BI-elzebub. Everything is slime and the irony of getting to this point trying to find a song attached to a CruS video is not lost on me at all. Anyway, the song in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4QGSF3HCSU Enjoy.
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mawarannahr posted:Global Entry itself is a big premium consumer enshittification Yes it is and I'll use that poo poo every time I can to not get stuck in an enshittified understaffed customs line. The last time I used it I was still walking up to the machine when it was like "welcome back Virigoth, go on through" and I breezed right through.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I used to get my groceries delivered and it kind of owned because it would be a $10ish delivery fee and the items weren't marked up. $10 to save whatever time it takes to go to the store and shop was worth it and I didn't have a car so it saved me a ton of headache and hassle. I can get groceries delivered for £2-5 same or next day delivery, but I also have four large supermarkets, five small ones and like a dozen little convenience stores within a 20 minute walk (I don't drive). Deliveries are great if I am buying heavy stuff (like cat litter), frozen food or things with a long shelf life in bulk, but they tend to give you fresh meat, fruit and veg with a short shelf life so it's not as good if you're trying to plan a whole week or more worth of food in one purchase.
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