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I was going to say ‘didn’t they just blow up a neighborhood with fireworks the same way a few years ago?’, but that was the LAPD. Of course they learned nothing from watching someone else fuck up.

This is doubly true for the card payment terminals. The on screen options are all in different places, orders, and with random questions thrown in. What’s your phone number? Do you want to round up to donate a car to starving kittens? What’s your zip code? Debit or credit?

Also, because this system is apparently developed by a maniac: where I live (might be national and not state level, not sure) EBT cards have to be used on some terminals by swiping, not the chip that comes on the card. But to swipe, first you have to use the chip and let that fail. So if you see someone using an EBT card that looks like they have no fucking clue how to use a card, it’s probably that they’re actually using it the only way they can.

Absolutely insane design choice, especially for people who may already be facing delays like separating items into two separate transactions for non-covered items, having to remove items that seem like they should be covered but aren’t, etc.

Cuddle sized!

What is the point of shitting on someone for being working poor? Weird and gross.

Part of the reason it’s as terrible for the environment as it is is because billions are being poured into keeping it running even though it’s not as profitable (or profitable at all) as they want you to believe it is. If the users actually had to pay the cost it takes to train and run these things, nobody (except maybe propaganda mills) would pay it because it would be a wildly expensive ripoff. The corporations and venture capitalists are hoping to get everyone addicted to it before they start squeezing.

If taxes pump the brakes on this shit even faster, all the better.

I’m sure it depends to an extent on the buildings, I can’t say how they do it in super ritzy buildings. But when I lived in a lower middle class/working class neighborhood all the apartment buildings just had a row of buzzers at the building entrance with each apartment number on them, and each apartment had a speaker inside it that may or may not work to talk to whoever’s down there, and you go down to pick up your stuff. If you’re really unlucky they can’t hear you reply at all (either from street noise or one of the speakers not working) and you have to race down however many flights of stairs to meet them.

Edit: oh, I forgot you could also buzz them in, but they usually wouldn’t come up the stairs.

NYC encompasses 5 boroughs with varying levels of walkability and transit even within the same borough. Especially in winter, when not all property/business owners de-ice sidewalks like they’re supposed to.

I mean, yeah, some disabled people do make a lot of money or have upper middle class family who won’t miss the ordering out money. And if you’re disabled and on SNAP you can be eligible for them to go towards hot meals (ie, restaurant meals and hot prepared foods) rather than only groceries.

They still existed before you thought about them, they just either used local delivery through the restaurant instead of Doordash or relied on someone else to prepare food for them.

I would say it’s improved, but still not good. They’re ramping up frequency of service for some lines and adding new lines, but it’s been improvements by inches when we’re miles behind.

That said, the price is good ($1.75) and the accommodations for disabled riders blows anything else I’ve seen out of the water. I see a lot more people with mobility devices on Metro here than I have anywhere else I’ve lived.

It annoys me on social media, and I wouldn’t know how to react if someone did that in front of me. If I wanted to see what the slop machine slopped out I’d go slop-raking myself.

I don’t know how to explain it, but all fake linocut/woodblock print images are kind of samey in a way that sticks out when you see it, compared to linocut/woodblock prints by artists.

It’s almost always this same background color/texture in generated images too, whereas with real prints you might have paper that looks very different even if it’s that exact color. And plenty of artists go wild with the paper and ink colors.

It’s not just one thing, it’s a lot of little things that give it a bad vibe.

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