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And I'm sick of living in a world where thought experiments are used to casually label people as dumb, disposable, but they're ok because they mention superheroes and that makes the whole thing outlandish. Until the atrocities occur, again and then it's "why didn't someone do something sooner?".

It doesn't look shady, but I can only access the abstract which just says "plastics" and doesn't specify that part further, unfortunately.

My mistake, I misread.

I agree that discussion is important in deciding responses, but discussions like these are also used as testing grounds for gauging acceptability. It's how places like 'active clubs' recruit and promote far-right extremism, they start with gauging the response to lower-level discrimination and slowly escalate to larger acts.

Temporary self-inflicted disabilities are still disabilities!

I honestly think it probably has though. People will still make bad risky decisions when drunk, but if it's just as easy not to use that option, there has to be beneficial results. It would make an interesting study, for sure.

Entertaining for the people who are certain that they're not a member of an arbitrarily defined group. Whether their certainty is well-placed is a different problem, I guess.

I'm not sure food blogs are the best choice for this. The article goes on to talk about BPA and phthlates, but neither of those exist in pure HDPE or PP.

BPA is found in polycarbonate plastics (acrylic) (Edit: brain lapse, acrylic is PMMA) and epoxy resins. Phthalates are in PVC (vinyl). Using the word 'plastic' as a monomer mononym (Edit: lol wrong mono) is dangerous for many reasons, and causation vs correlation is one reason why.

I mean, definitely go with glass if you have the choice, sure, but let's also actually try to be accurate if we invoke the scientific method.

I would also love for there to be really robust testing of food containers of all varieties direct at the manufacturers, with heavy fines involved if they're using additives but claiming it's a food-safe plastic.

Can we please not hypothesise about eugenics and people's reactions to eugenics, with the current global climate?

As a disabled person, I'd also love it if people simply understood that what is a convenience for them is a life-changing tool for someone else, and blaming me for your employers exploiting you is another pile of top of the shit load of barriers I already deal with daily.

How do you know they aren't?

15% of the world self-identifies as having a disability. The most common category of disability is mobility-related. E.g "going to the and entering the store" may not be as easy as it is for you, or even impossible. Even if you don't have a mobility problem and can do that just fine, for other people "ordering and dealing with complications" is a lot harder if you have trouble hearing, or have facial paralysis and can't speak, or even if you just don't speak the local language fluently. There are a million reasons that might make the simple task of getting food impossible for a person, and there's way more people out there who experience things like this than you might guess.

Maybe you simply never saw these people in person previously, because they weren't able to order from you at all. Maybe you just assumed your customers didn't have a disability because they didn't say so. You have no idea how many people ordering from you have disabilities. You can't know. Assume it's one out of every 4 people you meet if you live somewhere poorer, because that's realistic.

When mobile ordering went online, it meant that so many more people were able to choose what to eat, which meant more business for restaurants, which meant restaurants needed to staff their restaurant sufficiently, or upgrade tools. They don't just get to enjoy the extra profits for nothing.

And yet your frustration is directed at the people who are just trying to eat. I would like to offer you a reframing of this situation and suggest that your problem is not with customers at all.

Customers ordering shit we ran out of

People can't be expected to know a restaurant's stock inventory. The responsibility is on the business to communicate that to the customers. Some restaurant's make the cashiers say it in person to every single customer. Some restaurants erase them from displayed menus in the store. These days, restaurants can just tick the box "unavailable" in an app to let all future and present customers know immediately. It can even be scheduled, or automatically respond to events like "removing the last pack of an ingredient from the fridge". These options all exist already, your employers need to figure out how to use them properly, or the software they use needs to add these features, or they can just not accept online orders when the restaurant is too busy. Your beef is with management or the order service companies they use.

shit we no longer offer

Same deal, but an even worse look for your management for not ensuring they tell their delivery services that something is permanently gone. Your beef is with management or the services they use.

setting the pickup time 5 minutes after placing the order then getting mad when it’s not done on time.

Still a software and management problem. They need to be able to set minimum waiting times, and management needs to update them if they know the restaurant is too busy. Your beef is with management or the services they use.

All this while we can’t communicate with the customer at all until they arrive to find the order incomplete because we couldn’t contact them to figure out what they wanted to do.

I have ordered online and later received an automated notification when the restaurant has had to extend waiting times unexpectedly.

I have also ordered online and then had a restaurant send an automated notification that a specific item went out of stock after I ordered and asked me to choose an alternative item or just leave it off the order. It also automatically recalculated my payment when I decided to leave it off. No in-person interaction required.

These features all already exist. It's up to the managers of the restaurant to use them and to take the burden off the people they manage. It's up to the owner to only use companies which provide useful tools that don't harm their employees and customers. It's up to the software companies to put features in which don't harm customers and restaurants.

Your beef is with management or the services they use. You are misdirecting your frustration at the only people in the situation with the most reasonable time-sensitive important problem out of everyone involved. None of the problems you listed are the customer's fault, they have no idea how your workplace runs or what is normal for them.

Start a union instead of blaming people for ordering food and you might not have to experience years more of the same.

This is how baby Blackshirts are made.

Hell yeah Artie, and here's to 17 more!

Because citizens of many countries are not pressuring their elected officials to change advertising laws such that there is accountability, but companies are most certainly constantly lobbying for relaxed regulations.

It's not often you can look to Brasil for policy guidance, so São Paulo's ban on billboards/outside advertising is pretty remarkable in a number of ways. If they can rid a city of outdoor advertising, surely the world can get a few advertising oversight laws?

The downside is that you can't just throw up your hands and say "Someone else should fix this! Why haven't they?" and walk off. It's a chore that takes time and energy from an already time and energy poor population, and I respect that there is a lot of broken shit in this world that needs fixing.

Doesn't this happen every year, like some sort of dysfunctional system clock?

Not that one, deceivingly. it's called 'Magnification' and there are some options for mapping the activation of it. It works as a whole OS visual zoom overlay, but is still sometimes handy for terrible websites.

Huh, thankyou for introducing me to Eruda, this is a nice looking tool. I wouldn't install it as a plugin just for this, but luckily you don't need to. Do not use this tool on any page where you're entering information or viewing private info though, these are dangerous powertools and allowing plugins to do arbitrary JS evaluation is like not using a safety guard.

This should work though:

1. Make a new bookmark on mobile Firefox
2. Paste as the location: javascript:(function () { var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/eruda"; document.body.append(script); script.onload = function () { eruda.init(); } })();

This loads Eruda scoped to that tab only from their CDN, which hopefully limits possible damage it can do.

Here is what you need Eruda to do: const naughtyMetaTag = document.head.querySelectorAll('meta[name="viewport"]'); !!naughtyMetaTag ?? naughtyMetaTag[0].setAttribute('content', '');

It will fail silently if it doesn't find the tag with the name viewport, otherwise it will empty the contents of it and you'll be able to zoom.

The much safer alternative is to use Android's built in accessibility zoom functionality for this specific task though, to be honest.

Edit: on second thought, we can avoid Eruda altogether for this task. I haven't tested this at all but try bookmarking this instead javascript:(function () { const naughtyMetaTag = document.head.querySelectorAll('meta[name="viewport"]'); !!naughtyMetaTag ?? naughtyMetaTag[0].setAttribute('content', ''); })(); and visiting it when on a bad page. Much safer and worth trying first.

Yeah that one will only let you look, you need the Inspector tools secret magic to make viewable changes on the fly.

Luckily for you, html does not need to be compiled and your built-in browser inspector is all you need to start messing with any webpage. Deleting a single line and setting what happens is a great way to start too.

I see you're a Firefox user, if you go to your shitty URL on desktop, right click somewhere on the page and select "Inspect Element", a new window/docked window will pop up. (Or open the Inspector using a different method. This is the HTML and CSS page viewer and editor. One pane will have your highlighted/inspected element HTML. Ignore the element you highlighted, and scroll up to the big chunk of tags near the top of the HTML document - that's where you'll likely find the source of your pain, somewhere between the opening and closing tag. There should be a search box nearby in the UI you can use to do that. When you find the tag you want to change, right click on it (or otherwise open the context menu) choose Delete Node, and see if that has improved your zoom experience.

Mobile is a bit trickier but it can still be done in Firefox... I think.

Anything you edit won't survive a page refresh or navigation to a new page though. Which is good, because you can't actually ruin anything and can mess around deleting things on whatever page you want to your heart's content.

It's not the only technique used to stop zooming, sadly, so no guarantees. But it is a common technique that's very easy to work around in a few seconds, and can lead to hours of fun. And strangely, entire careers.

You certainly can with mica. The downside is mica mining has definite links with child slave labour depending on the source, so, not as fun as hoped. https://brewglitter.com/collections/whiskey-liquor-glitters

It's also painful to me, which is why I sat quietly through the training, gave the answers they wanted, and then made managerial decisions that were deliberately people-prioritising and at least somewhat inconspicuous. Luckily, they had trained me to know what they're looking for.