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[–] [email protected] 85 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Capitalist dystopia in its essence. Fetish for AI and normalization of mass surveillance, after all, AI's need to be fed, right?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (5 children)

If you're in line at Burger King, your life's already in kind of a dystopian place as it is. Clearly, several things have gone wrong for you to end up here.

[–] RisingSwell 14 points 10 months ago

Hah, a line a burger king.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

No other fast food chain here (we don’t have that many options) has as many vegetarian options, so if I crave a cheap mediocre burger it will probably be Burger King.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't need to be a Burger King consumer (which I'm not) to consider this news a dystopia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I prefer Burger King over most restaurants.

I'm probably going to order a burger anyways so I don't see the need to pay extra for a fancy one that I need a knife and fork to eat when I can get just as tasty burger from BK.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Burger King where you live must be a hell of a lot better than the ones near me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

With them being a franchising you sorta expect that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They mail 5$ coupons for 2 wopper meals. It's hard to pass up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or I just have cheap taste buds. While to other people food is a pleasure to me it's fuel.

[–] Anemia 6 points 10 months ago

I think you care food-pleasure just as much as most people. Otherwise why not eat something healthier, faster or cheaper. I like to think that i didn't use to care much about taste before so for lunch i used to eat 1k kkcal in the form of a unflavoured, unsweetened meal replacement shake, took <5 min to prepare+eat+clean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The real reason to go is the Bitties in the BK Lounge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What? Their fries are so good tho.