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[–] 35 points 2 months ago (21 children)

Because if your car has broken down, or you're exhausted from a long day of work and your family is hungry, or you're too drunk to safely drive but still want food, or if you straight up don't have a car and don't want to cook that night, or you are on vacation at a hotel or airbnb and don't have other access to food, or you have a baby that you can't just leave alone for a few minutes to go pick the food up, or you are in the middle of a study session and it would be more convenient to have the food come to you rather than going to get it.

Looks like there's lots of reasons people might take advantage of the service that can deliver food to them, and it's not unreasonable for them to expect that service to not completely fuck it up.

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  • [+] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Yeah seriously

    I started doing Doordash recently to try and get on top of my finances and I'd feel awful about the stuff here

    And to be honest

    They're fucking everyone over, the Dashers make basically minimum wage if that, Doordash marks up all the items on the menus, and adds a bunch of bullshit fees.

    The only money reliably making it from the customers to the dashers are the tips, and only because they're required to by law.

    But for my case, it's something flexible and relatively low-effort that I can do when I'm not working my day job

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    This is why living in a city is awesome. Just walk 6 blocks and get a bite to eat.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Did you read a fucking word they said? About being exhausted, or having to look after kids, or having housework to do... You're still gonna find time for 45+ minutes to walk 6 blocks, wait in line, pay, and walk back and still have all the shit you need to do and still eat before it gets cold?

    Christ sake... "Just walk 6 blocks". Tell a single mom that.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 months ago (11 children)
  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Yea dude. Not wanting to drive after drinking is just laziness.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah bro. Before all these slop delivery apps how did anyone ever survive. Do better. For fucks sake. Such a lazy excuse.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago*

    They ordered pizza or Chinese or some local store that had their own delivery drivers. That doesn't exist anymore. Stores outsource their deliveries to companies like door dash.

    Oh sorry, was this supposed to be some dumbass "gotcha" that completely ignores reality?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Getting drunk without food prepared ahead of time is laziness. People safely fed themselves for centuries before delivery apps existed, they can do it now too.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Yes, and for centuries, leaving your house while drunk to go get food was a viable option because walking or riding a horse while drunk is a lot safer than driving a car.

    Then we got cars, and the roads became dangerous. And yes, there was a brief period where there were no delivery services from restaurants. But very quickly, restaurants realized they could get more sales if they offered to deliver food to people for reasons like the many I listed above.

    So to be clear, are you pining for that brief period of time a handful of decades long, between the time of cars being widely adopted and restaurants offering delivery and using that as an example for something you believe everyone should return to?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Completely impossible to get food ahead of time. Just no way to have a pizza in your freezer in case you get hungry after a night out drinking. I just spontaneously get drunk sometimes so it comes out of nowhere and I'm not able to plan ahead. I need DoorDash or I would literally starve.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    The freezer pizza is nowhere near as good as a fresh pizza from a decent pizzeria though?

    You'd have to cook your own pizza for it to even be comparable.

    Like yes I always have something I can heat up at 3 AM if I'm working an all nighter to catch up on shit, but you know what tastes best when drunk? Hot fast food I didn't have to prepare at all.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    I mean literally. We all had to get food before these apps came in. I don’t understand the why we can’t now besides being pure fucking lazy and not willing to do anything to change the status quo instead just bitching about it online acting like there is nothing left to do. It’s so fucking maddening.

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