https://www.engadget.com/a-food-delivery-robots-footage-led-to-a-criminal-conviction-in-la-190854339.html

  • kristina [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I'm currently a courier and I've done doordash. 90% of the things I deliver now are completely worthless impulse buys that will get tossed in the garage/attic/trash after a week and never interacted with again (or they get returned a week later, yay more fossil fuels used to transport worthless trash!).

    yeah that makes sense. afaik the delivery services in china are all food. its a little weird that people are ordering things like toys or plastic baubles or even stuff like detergent on doordash when you can just order something like that via amazon / normal mail on a regular basis, the carbon impact of that is likely minimal because USPS/UPS/FedEx will already have courier routes going through your area already. probably even more minimal than going to a store in your own car.

    I will reiterate that I'm not talking about the supply chain as a whole (never disagreed that people need food) and that, of course, people shouldn't have to travel to each individual farm to get their basics. I really don't know where you're getting these assumptions about what I'm saying. All I'm saying is that personal, individual delivery as default should be heavily disincentivized for people that do not need it.

    i guess i was a little kneejerk of a response, i get very angry at people being luddites on here about tech that has very obvious uses under socialism, marx was very clear about how luddites are reactionary.

    • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      It's cool. I realized you might be thinking I'm just another anti-tech luddite but I would describe myself as more against wasteful/inefficient uses of tech and using tech as a band-aid instead of attacking the root cause of societal issues.