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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • Say you don’t care about cleanliness of the outside bag, you trust the little seal if any on the bag, and… the order is made fresh AND picked up AND delivered INSTANTANEOUSLY!

    Magic! …except… $20 for $7 of food?!?!

    PS: general public shouldn’t have that driver cleanliness concern, portions are generally extravagant nationwide (fast food too for combo meals … OK anything beyond bog standard combo), assume extremely-delayed food is rare enough it’s NBD—and still we are on the same page (where it counts!)

    Simplifying yours then:

    You pay $20 for $7 of food, how many more times you gonna do that :D (tech office workers say “MORE!” but, normal people… priced like gold for normals) [low mobility etc. excepted]








  • In a high cost of living area that’s like seven spicy potato soft tacos each!

    Not that the kids’ appetites will be driven by that small line of text on the menu board… (also this reminds me of people who have a no soda policy for the family so they can go out to eat and consistently save like three dollars a person)


    My favorite part of modern eating is gating the best deals behind a spyware app so presumably they can sell your data (to your health insurer or something, when the next CEO decides they need a boost)



  • That’s too bad people can’t behave.

    Mind if I share where I’m grappling with the following from a privacy perspective?

    screenshot of article text: The phrase “did you think anybody here wants to hear about Instagram” isn’t just a personal reaction, it’s doing something shittier than that. It turns this one person’s annoyance into a claim about everyone in the space, as if a single viewpoint can stand in for the whole community.  That jump from “I don’t want this here” to “nobody here wants this” is where it starts to fall apart, because it flattens a group of individuals into one assumed opinion, ignoring the fact that people show up in these spaces with very different interests, tolerances, and reasons for being there.

    I can imagine a privacy hawk making that comment with a deep concern for others and desire to force a very difficult social change.

    I remember someone complained everyone in their life said “I’m not even really on Facebook! …I just use it for <thing everyone uses Facebook for>”

    Maybe I am a bad person to judge because the underlying concern resonates with me, so I can be sympathetic and treat it as hyperbole. (edit: lol it’s so wrong on its face, IG like world’s most popular platform or almost)

    Thank you for your analysis and reporting here!




  • They don’t care about the negative impacts because it doesn’t actually affect them.

    How odd.

    Wealth has a tremendous capacity to insulate, but nothing is unlimited.

    Whose kids could be rich enough to live as safely or comfortably in a world that regresses/declines beyond various tipping points? (I also want their safety & comfort, we would all win)