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tyler@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Exactly this. I know millennials that use third party food delivery services for convenience, but I have not and will not. It is predatory, the drivers do not make a living wage with benefits. It also costs too much and the food arrives lukewarm and soggy.

  I enjoy eating out now and then, but I can get my ass into a car or walk to a restaurant to pick up my order myself. It is better and cheaper to DIY your own delivery.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m a millenial. I kind of use those services. Not really.

  2 years ago I moved into my apartment. I would come home, and see a bag of food delivery in the lobby.

  So I would go up to my apartment, think nothing of it.

  Then I’d take out my trash at 6am, and see it still sitting there. One day I checked the tag. Delivered 8pm the day day before.

  It kept happening. Different apartments, delivery anywhere between 3pm and 10pm. I’d come home from work at 1am, and it still would be there.

  Eventually I just started checking the tag, and if it’s been more than 2 hours, fuck it. Free dinner for me!

  I still don’t get why these delivery drivers won’t deliver to the apartment door, always leaving food in the lobby. I also don’t get why the customers who paid for their food don’t come get it.

  Either way, roughly once every 2 weeks, I have free dinner.

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  • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    They have atrict time lines for delivery. Some apartment buildings are an absolute maze, and others have highly restricted access to the living spaces.

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• dingus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Seems to be unpopular to admit in this post, but I use food delivery apps. Yes, the fees are ridiculous, but I can afford it. I don’t do it every day, but I do at least once a week.

  I hate cooking and I hate dishes. It’s never pleasant. No, I can’t personally make something at home “better than most takeouts”. If you can, good for you. It’s not for me and I’m lucky that I am able to get takeout.

  Honestly, I don’t know how in the world one human is able to keep up with working 40 hours a week, laundry, cook, clean, etc. It’s all too much for me. Hell, the state of my laundry has been insane the last several weeks.

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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d rather use a laundry that picks up and delivers folded clothes than get food delivered.

    You’re allowed to use paper plates and throw them away after one use.

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    • EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      There is a gig service for that. Hampr.

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      • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        [off topic]

        There’s a fascinating history of laundry in America.

        During the Gold Rush, they’d ship laundry from San Francisco to Hawai’i because that was the cheapest option.

        “Chinese Hand Laundry” was ubiquitous for decades in American cities. Back in the day, laundry was ‘women’s work,’ and men would rather work in sewers than lower themselves to do it. The Chinese immigrants were happy with any work, and created their own niche.

        Around 1950 they polled American men and women about the greatest invention of the 20th Century. The men mostly picked the car; the women went for the washing machine.

        Now I’ve cleared out my brain for a while…

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Once you learn how to reduce a lot of that, there is less waste and less cooking and waiting and yes the food is better than food delivered to your door. Even the cheapest frozen pizzas are better than the majority of pizzas delivered to door and pizza companies are the best at delivering fresh food to your door.

    If you don’t want to do dishes then use paper plates. Like, you can both simultaneously generate less trash and have better food.

    I agree that it’s impossible to keep up with chores. I do just a little every day and that helps keep the number down but it’s still impossible. But like if I’m going to get food from a restaurant (which i do) i go pick it up. It will get to me faster, I’ll eat it fresher, it will taste better, and it will be cheaper. Like the only upside to the food delivery apps is that you don’t have to go outside, which honestly is a downside for a lot of people in this day and age. We need people to interact more.

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    • cm0002@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Even the cheapest frozen pizzas are better than the majority of pizzas delivered to door and pizza companies are the best at delivering fresh food to your door.

      Man you must have some absolute shit pizza places near you, I’ve had lots of frozen pizza and lots of pizza delivery. Frozen pizza can beat out the bottom tier chain pizza places (e.g. Little Caesars), but that’s about it

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pro tip. Go to the laundromat. They have 75gallon machines. You can do a whole months worth of laundry in 1 go for a whole family. 30 minutes wash, 30-60 minutes dry. 1 afternoon, clothes for a month.

    Or do drop off service, which costs 10x more, but you don’t have to do anything. Some even pickup/deliver

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You need to actually have enough clothes to last a month without washing, though. I’d last 10 days, maybe.

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      • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The best place to get clothes is the local uniform supply/restaurant supply/hardware store.

        Work type clothes are designed to be worn every day. Even if you have a small place you can store clothes in a box under the bed or at the bottom of the closet.

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• imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Jumping on the “not knowing any millennials who do uses door dash every day/often” train, but also acknowledging that I cant possibly know every single person in the world.

  Even tho the fact that people often use these services always bemused me, I cant pass the fact that these services are still thriving and there seems no end to their popularity.

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah like i said, people are using them, but it’s almost guaranteed to be an even spread across the population.

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