:sicko-biker: :sicko-biker: :sicko-biker:

edit: let me clarify that I understand biking isn't feasible for everyone or even safe considering how dangerous city streets are. is just funny meme because bikes are cool.

  • wantonviolins [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    bikes work great when you have insulated bags and less fragile food items, and are only going about a mile, mile and a half. like it works but hauling groceries by bike can easily be miserable.

    I love bikes! I’m not anti-bike at all, but the vastly superior solution is just to have small corner groceries and inexpensive local restaurants all over the place so you’re always within walking distance of food

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I remember I got into an argument on Reddit once, maybe on the old sub, when I suggested that a multitude of cornerstores is a far better alternative to big box stores. I think they were mad because people would still have to have service jobs, but assuming you get honest pay then that sort of work really isn't that bad.

      I guess the alternative to having food vendors would be a quartermaster who gives you rations, or maybe trading for food from farmers if we go back to a village structure.

      • wantonviolins [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        working food service was only tolerable when I did it because I was literally stealing shitloads of food and money (pocketing leftovers and intentionally-prepared extras and cooking the books), but if I had been working with customers I didn't despise, for a comfortable wage, I'd have probably preferred it to the bullshit desk job I'm doing now

        I had to fetch wine bottles for the fucking Waltons, shit was miserable

        • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I've never worked in restaurants, though basically everyone I know has at some point in their lives (and some still are). I have been a shelf-stocker, though.

          Honestly, if I'd been paid a wage I could live comfortably off of, and then used my free time to pursue hobbies/life, I coulda done that forever. Did I love the job? Of course not. But it was easy, simple work.

          Obligatory fuck the Waltons. I was having a fantasy the other day of seeing a Storming the Winter Palace style painting but instead of the Tsar's Winter Palace it's the Walton family estate.