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Standing in the way of slop bowls: the woman blocking food delivery robots (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm sorry but a robot box delivering my food doesn't make it "slop," this isn't like AI at all. The food isn't worse, or even colder, it's just being delivered by a robot instead of an underpaid guy on a bike or in a car. Why are we fighting to maintain an extremely exploitative gig economy and tipping culture at the same time? I thought both were bad? I don't get it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    For one it's a big box blocking the road for people and there will not be few of them.

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  • [–] 4 points 20 hours ago

    But the ubereats guy is whizzing along footpaths as quick as he dares on an electric bike because hes gotta get back to make more deliveries to survive.

    I live in a tiny town where that doesnt happen, but whenever I go into my local Big City I'm always dodging them, terrified.

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  • [–] 2 points 17 hours ago

    Except they don't block the road. I live and work in an area with a ton of these things all the time. They usually are annoyingly cautious not to block the road, leading to them sometimes sitting at crosswalks for several cycles. That's just not true. They don't even really block the sidewalks even though there are a ton of them.

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