Crowfiend

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[–] Crowfiend 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No, they don't. It was done away with for many important reasons, including but not limited to:

-people intentionally giving the wrong address so that it takes over 30min, costing everyone from the driver to management both time and money

-drivers speeding to meet their time quota, and causing wrecks at increased rates

-driver shortages, amplifying the last point

I worked for dominos as recently as last year. The number of people that still try to scam you over the 30min/free rule is asinine, and at least twice a week I had to explain to would-be customers that 30min/free hasn't existed in at least 30yr for a lot of really good reasons. I've even had customers ask if they could tip "extra" to get it sooner. Unless you're tipping enough that everyone involved (cook, dispatch, driver) gets as much as the order's base cost (multiplying order price by 4 at minimum), we're never going to do that.

[–] Crowfiend 5 points 4 months ago

I'd have thought that too, before meeting him. Even his own family only loves him begrudgingly (though they keep a much more polite face than I could) and conspiracies aside, he's a waste of society's time and resources.

Hate me if you think I'm wrong, but if you've never met those kinds of people, you have no room to talk. They're infinitely worse than the internet can make them seem.

[–] Crowfiend 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry if I seemed rude. Ignoring life problems, I'm not great at talking to people or voicing my thoughts, I just get really angry over things since a car wreck a couple years ago. Like all my feelings towards anything at all have been amplified. I do genuinely hope you have a good rest of your day.

I do still feel that your statement on the matter excludes the fact that, since the dawn of history, the town/city has been infinitely more relevant to voting matters than rural could ever be. As I said, the people living outside the city walls were irrelevant to practical sociopolitical matters.

[–] Crowfiend 16 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I had a coworker before that was a flat-earther (lizardmen believer and all that shit), and one day he came into work saying "y'all ever wonder if the moon makes its own light??" during a dinner rush and the only thing that kept me from punching his lights out was the fact that it was dinner rush, or I would have pulled him by the collar of his shirt and beat him to near death.

I didn't think people like that really existed until him, and even then I didn't want to accept it.

https://images.app.goo.gl/rFka6zC1ejeSU2xB9

[–] Crowfiend 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I'm ancient times, people outside city walls weren't even allowed to vote. Add in the fact that humanity is tribal in nature, and your statement holds even less true.

You think the peasants outside city walls were even allowed to vote on anything? They were literally outsiders that knew little to nothing about the inner (more populated) parts of cities.

A city's overall opinion is literally more important than rural mud slinging opinion, if for no other reason than because more people live there, and are affected by policy.

Edit: sorry for being mean

[–] Crowfiend 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

According to you: they abandoned things outside cities, so they're not popular inside of cities?????

Lol tell me you're ignorant without telling me you're ignorant.

[–] Crowfiend 10 points 4 months ago

Because of the way the US handles elections.

Here's a link to my other comment that explains it as I (a laymen) understand it as I was taught in school.

https://lemmy.world/comment/11291037

[–] Crowfiend 11 points 4 months ago

As others have said, yes it is. Unfortunately it's also a strong representation of how the voting process operates in the US. At the local level (towns and cities), individual votes matter. However, for something like the presidential election (for example), then the votes are averaged by county and state.

So what happens is everyone from a county votes, and if that county is more of one side than the other, that entire county is "voting x/y". Then the counties across the state are compared, and that state is declared as "voting" for either side. Then nationally, each state is counted as either/or, so even if the more populated cities vote one way, if enough of the rural population votes the other way, the rural side wins, and the urban side loses.

It's almost as if the system urgently needs reform. Too bad the powers in charge of that were elected specifically because of it.

[–] Crowfiend 12 points 4 months ago

¡VIVA LA PROLETARIAT! DEATH TO THE RICH!

[–] Crowfiend 5 points 4 months ago

Imagine being a politician and thinking this doesn't apply to you personally

[–] Crowfiend 6 points 4 months ago

that presumes Trump isn't a draft-dodging bastard of a person. If he had been a conscientious-objector of the Vietnam "war," he would maybe have some genuine merit to his words.

Instead he's a (publicly known) selfish draft-dodger who only did it so he wouldn't get shot like the crybaby that got his ear pierced a couple weeks ago.

If you show me a Vietnam veteran that votes for Trump, I'll show you a brainwashed power tool.

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