Elting
@Elting@piefed.social
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 2 days ago:
If for some reason you can’t boil an egg, or use a microwave, then you should be in an assisted living situation and you are beyond having doordash be a lifeline for you. There is just no scenario in which doordash is an essential service and not an unnecessary convenience. Also most pizza places have and always will do their own delivery (and they pay their employees more because they don’t get to count it as a gig job.). Im not against getting shit delivered, just against paying a middleman for it.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 3 days ago:
You have really made a character there. My 90 yo grandma gets by on getting her groceries delivered. Most places do that themselves since the pandemic (or you can get curbside.) and you dont even have to pay doordash for it.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 3 days ago:
I could feed 10 people ribs and potato salad and it wouldn’t even come close to breaking a hundo (I usually feed more on labor day). That is the power of doing your own cooking.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 3 days ago:
I used to do that with the meal delivery services, mostly to see where the quality and portion sizes were at. Even when they were heavily discounted the math didn’t math though, I could still go to a grocery store and get more for less. You pay a lot for convenience no matter what when it comes to food.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 3 days ago:
Doordash is an evil corporation that taxes idiots by middlemaning for them. By paying for a meal through them, you are enabling them to continue doing that. They are very literally stealing food from people, but they do it through the margins. Not tryna defend the drivers that do this, but they have to eat too and when you are employed through doordash, stealing probably is the best way to do that.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 3 days ago:
I just grew up poor and find the level of fiscal irresponsibility involved in ride sharing your meals appalling. Not one of those “pull yourself up from your bootstraps” guys (there are lots of forces that keep people in poverty), but you might aswell be lighting money on fire if you get doordash.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 3 days ago:
Nah. Cuz frankly, if you are willing to pay that much for a delivered meal, then you deserve for some stupid bullshit to happen. Door dash would not be able to exist in a world with sane and deliberating consumers. You let them take advantage of you, especially if you know how they work and their reputation.
- Comment on What do you do if you lose an argument, but it turns out that you were actually right? 4 days ago:
Yeah, and sometimes an argument can help you from reaching one of them.
- Comment on What do you do if you lose an argument, but it turns out that you were actually right? 4 days ago:
If its something that can be let go, let go of it. If it something that is important for some reason, like someones safety or something, then bring it up with tact.
- Comment on What do you do if you lose an argument, but it turns out that you were actually right? 4 days ago:
Then you end up like my family where we communicate that something is wrong in ways that are so esoteric and obtuse that only a few people can tell something is wrong and they have to guess what it is.
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 1 week ago:
I read/heard something recently that they found evidence that it has to do with bipedalism and keeping the sun off of you. Don’t need fur all over to do that if you stand up straight and grow hair from the top. Still, adaptation and trait selection is incredibly complicated and you probably can’t boil this one down into a nice answer.
- Comment on Steam Controller Review: Now You're Playing with Power - Nerrel 1 week ago:
They have been coming out in a very slow trickle. Some reports that it hasn’t gone strictly in order of reservation either.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
I don’t get this either. Good fucking luck getting to the bank when you work bank hours.
- Comment on Scary indeed. 1 week ago:
Are y’all really this excited for the re-re-re-release of a 30 year old game?
- Comment on AI Billionaires Are Starting to Panic 2 weeks ago:
TLDR:
Any improvements in LLM output in the last 3 years have come from brute force recursion, not from fundamental improvements. This means a couple things; the technology itself has plateaued, and they’re not going to be able to continue spending at this rate to pretend it hasn’t. - Comment on Yall are missing out 3 weeks ago:
People have been saying that but me and my over-ripe butthole enjoy the pain of a thousand wipes.
- Comment on You definitely won't regret doubling the mass of our atmosphere! 3 weeks ago:
HUH?!! WHATS THAT? I CANT HEAR YOU OUT OF THE BLOOD IN MY EARS.
- Comment on Mr Fraser, if you're nasty 3 weeks ago:
Working better than intended.
- Comment on NSFW shitpost/meme community when? 3 weeks ago:
Some instances, like the one I’m on, are defederated from the purely NSFW ones.
- Comment on Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains | Jetbrains 3 weeks ago:
My left nut is more useful and it’s gone on account of giving me cancer.
- Comment on I love astronomers so much 3 weeks ago:
These stargazers have a little more than just wanderlust huh.
- Comment on Vibe management 4 weeks ago:
There is a degree of subjectivity to it, but at some point you pass a threshold where it should become obvious to most people. When I was in college, a CS degree was the one degree everyone knew would land you a well paying job right from graduation. It had been like that before I got there, and it was like that after I left. That isn’t the case anymore, and you can’t blame it all on AI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tLEszJs7hc
This is a good video that shows how the industry has been changing.
- Comment on Vibe management 4 weeks ago:
The tech sector had been over hiring for a decade. The cutbacks were inevitable in any course. Whats funny about it is that by using AI as a standover they are enshittifying their product faster and costing themselves more in the process than if they had just started firing people.
Nonpaywalled version of that article: https://archive.is/HolQ7
- Comment on Is it just me or is Lemmy less active than reddit? 5 weeks ago:
I really enjoy being able to browse by new and the feed isnt just a bunch of junk.
- Comment on Wonder why? 1 month ago:
I’m sure they will carry on the world hegemon tradition of being generally contemptible.
- Comment on Literally shitposting 1 month ago:
Dont mushrooms farmers use it as substrate?
- Comment on Possibility of translating the messages of dogs, cats, and other pets 1 month ago:
Frankly if you cant understand your dog yourself, an app probably wont help. They don’t talk but they are excellent communicators if you understand how to listen to them. This is especially true for dogs and cats but all animals have body language. Birds are special because they have very specific calls per species that you can learn to recognize, but they are so consistent that apps work too.
- Comment on According to an MIT study, relying on ChatGPT for stuff like essays and creativity leads to cognitive atrophy and such. What should I do when writing stories without ChatGPT and other AI chatbots? 2 months ago:
The whole point of writing is that im engaging internally with the process. Words are just words if Im not writing or reading them, completely vapid and inane. Anybody with half a brain who reads can tell writing from output. It has no soul because none was lent it.
- Comment on Just a flock of birds 2 months ago:
Horny posting on main all day so we can keep tabs.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If they’re looking in my windows, that’s on them man.