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Apr. 2nd, 2019 01:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zenolaliaCapitalism is hell and I shouldn't support businesses like uber that seek to destroy the lower class by disrupting our likes through massive exploitation and the destruction of stable income as well as necessary infrastructure, but also I can't really leave the house without nearly dying due to a cacophony of illnesses and this stupid fucking grocery delivery service instant-cart that they just got in town is legit saving my fucking LIFE so like.
Shit, man, I'm the fucking edge case for which it was designed.
Like, I get massive, visually distorting migraines if I'm outside during the daylight for more than about 40 minutes, but everything is at least 20 minutes drive away, there's not enough stable bus infrastructure in town for me to get anywhere by bus in less than an hour, shopping makes me so dizzy, shake, and vertiginous that I sometimes pass out inside the stores (those poor cashiers don't know what to do with me, which in fairness, I do try to do it in the bathrooms so they don't have to worry but it's not always within my control so like).
The ability to carefully hand craft my grocery list to match my budget and massive dietary restrctions over the course of like 6-8 hours while sitting in my chair in the middle of the night in the dark and the quiet of my own home, knowing that my food will be brought to me without my needing to render myself literally bedridden for the following 20-72 hours is so good, like. It's so good.
God I wish it didn't have to be done by a shitty fucking "disruption" startup in the fucking uber vein. Goddamnit, I fucking hate that. This is a service I legitimately NEED because the alternative has been, in no undertain terms, KILLING me. I have literally been told multiple times by multiple professionals to STOP GROCERY SHOPPING and that's never been realistic until now but like
Ugh.
Capitalism is a little bitch and I hope it dies.
Anyway use this referral link: https://inst.cr/t/ABCzhvFDr to try the delivery groceries for free if you're into that and live in a modest to robustly populated area, and if you like it I'll get $50 in sweet fucking food money, which is great because I'm getting a real hardcore ass runaround about whether or not the government wants to give me, an unemployed, disabled, fucking battered-spouse-runaway some FUCKING FOOD PLEASE. "We will contact you in 17-10 business days" my plush round ass.
Shit, man, I'm the fucking edge case for which it was designed.
Like, I get massive, visually distorting migraines if I'm outside during the daylight for more than about 40 minutes, but everything is at least 20 minutes drive away, there's not enough stable bus infrastructure in town for me to get anywhere by bus in less than an hour, shopping makes me so dizzy, shake, and vertiginous that I sometimes pass out inside the stores (those poor cashiers don't know what to do with me, which in fairness, I do try to do it in the bathrooms so they don't have to worry but it's not always within my control so like).
The ability to carefully hand craft my grocery list to match my budget and massive dietary restrctions over the course of like 6-8 hours while sitting in my chair in the middle of the night in the dark and the quiet of my own home, knowing that my food will be brought to me without my needing to render myself literally bedridden for the following 20-72 hours is so good, like. It's so good.
God I wish it didn't have to be done by a shitty fucking "disruption" startup in the fucking uber vein. Goddamnit, I fucking hate that. This is a service I legitimately NEED because the alternative has been, in no undertain terms, KILLING me. I have literally been told multiple times by multiple professionals to STOP GROCERY SHOPPING and that's never been realistic until now but like
Ugh.
Capitalism is a little bitch and I hope it dies.
Anyway use this referral link: https://inst.cr/t/ABCzhvFDr to try the delivery groceries for free if you're into that and live in a modest to robustly populated area, and if you like it I'll get $50 in sweet fucking food money, which is great because I'm getting a real hardcore ass runaround about whether or not the government wants to give me, an unemployed, disabled, fucking battered-spouse-runaway some FUCKING FOOD PLEASE. "We will contact you in 17-10 business days" my plush round ass.
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Date: 2019-04-04 06:33 pm (UTC)One thing I think is kind of cool is discourse about services like blue apron "selling" you the fantasy of being able to live up to impossible standards of home cooking... when actually it's really neat to have a recipe and quality ingredients for them without having to worry about excess waste, but still getting to do some level of preparation which makes you feel in touch with the cooking process and develops your kitchen-ing abilities so you're more prepared to cook without the service on other days. Like my grocery store has store brand frozen vegetables which are just like... two or three cups of chopped broccoli or chopped onions or chopped peppers, etc, and it's branded as like "recipe basics" or something and it's really neat because each bag is only a dollar and you get a whole bunch of ready-to-use frozen vegetables! And it takes me forever to dice onions (I usually devote a chunk of time to doing it in bulk and then store a big container of diced onions in the fridge for easy grabbing) plus the fumes are obnoxious, and the broccoli size is just right for mixing into a pot of mac and cheese (as opposed to other frozen broccoli, which is massive), and it's actually a good value, so like. I dunno, seems like a cool way to ease the individual burden of cooking without alienating people from the process entirely.