Rose colored glasses wearing-ass post

Which makes no sense to me because I could swear there’s a legal retention policy that supercedes this.

Surely my ideology will rise from the ashes.

My company locks it down and deletes email older than 3 months but default unless you request a special group asking for longer storage.

Welcome to the fortune 500.

My org auto deletes emails over 3 months old and I’m pretty sure it’s to CYA.

Actual Outlook problem, though: if you paste an image into the email, it doesn’t always attach when I hit send, because it’s linking to a local image on my machine. The recipients see a broken image placeholder. Who came up with that system? This is through the app on Mac.

When I was much younger, a verified user meant that you were someone important. :-/

If only Black MESA had hired differently. Tragedy, really.

keep demonizing gig workers

Not demonizing the workers. Demonizing the tech bros and customers exploiting them.

I am legitimately imagining this person pitching a fit because he got invited to a party and they want to order pizza.

Otherwise you’d have to imagine me as a normal person arguing that the service you use is a net negative on society, I guess. Just chilling here petting my dog and posting PRs at work while bsing on the Internet.

the majority of people in these suburbs got along fine without exploiting that labor before.

Lol, no they fucking didn’t

You sittin’ there arguing that the majority of people were begging others to go shopping for them?

Took you 3 attempts to get that response out, eh?

The actual point is that I can comment on any issue I want, and dismissing that comment because it doesn’t solve what you believe to be an overarching problem is silly.

You don’t need to start from the top or the bottom. You can address any issue you want regardless of its perceived priority.

Trying to silence someone from doing so is silly.

I’m sorry you had multiple jobs that did this to you.

You shouldn’t let that make you feel like it is the norm that any job will do to you.

“Oh man, it won’t fix capitalism? Guess I better keep my mouth shut then unless I can fix the entire thing.”

See how silly that sounds?

Good.

these services are relatively new and the majority of people in these suburbs got along fine without exploiting that labor before.

There are edge cases that this may benefit (meals on wheels type situations) but I’d argue it’s still borderline immoral to use them.

I prefer my grandma to use them over driving herself. This stuff arrived over the pandemic but its niche is permanent, not everyone using it is doing it out of laziness.

I didn’t say everyone was doing it out of laziness.

I said the majority got along fine before.

I said some portions of the pop’n benefit from it now.

It’s still exploitative and I believe borderline immoral. The gig economy is bad for the overall economy.

I’ve met delivery app drivers who were literally crying on delivery because they’re having trouble with bills and realizing there getting paid $40 to look around a store for 2 hours in addition to driving and delivering the actual food.

To be fair, any job will do that to a person

That’s not being fair. I’ve been in several jobs that didn’t.

Cherry tomatoes are tomatoes.

While your statement is objectively correct, surely you would have a preference when it comes to tomatoes on sandwiches, or when making a caprese/other recipes that use sliced tomatoes.

As is the fate of every generation, it seems.

These damned kids with their hoola hoops and pacman video games-

If you don’t own a car, or can’t drive (at the moment) for some other reason, in a lot of suburbs in the US you literally don’t have a choice.

Counter point: these services are relatively new and the majority of people in these suburbs got along fine without exploiting that labor before. There are edge cases that this may benefit (meals on wheels type situations) but I’d argue it’s still borderline immoral to use them.