Doesn’t seem like the BBC’s wheelhouse.
Yeah the initial stuff I was reading seemed to suggest it was a fact, in which case it most definitely would’ve been their wheelhouse. It was my misinterpretation.
Does this just operate on the honor system? No worries about stolen packages.
I’m not in the UK and I also had to look up what it meant.
I was quite disappointed that it wasn’t as solid as what I was hoping for.
Nah. It’s a relatively small apartment. No one steals from each other. Need a code to get in.
Well that’s good.
I’d still be worried about delivery people. Do they have the code too or do they deliver to an office and the office puts it there?
They have a code but there are cameras.
Ahh…cameras. Well, that’s good enough.
That’s about one week worth of stuff for my wife. I’m not even joking.
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Same same. Also not joking. Basically the only shopping we do that’s not amazon or 2nd hand seller sites is for groceries. I have no idea the last time I walked into a brick and mortar retail store, that wasn’t to buy food.
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Me too. It’s truly ridiculous
That much stuff…per week?
What? How?
Amazon is pretty addictive. When you click the little button your brain does a little BING BING BING dopamine hit. I think a lot of people are addicted to Amazon purchases in the same way people are addicted to social media. It’s the same dystopian capitalism.
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Those landfills aren’t going to fill themselves.
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Amazon may enable materialistic people to accumulate possessions more easily, but those people already had the problem of being addicted to wanting and having thing, often compounded by being more concerned with superficial rather than utilitarian features. I’m not sure if my non-food/grocery purchases for the year will have as much physical volume as the boxes in that picture.
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Yes, but the point is that your Facebooks and Amazons of the world have been ruthlessly optimizing their algorithms to yank the absolute maximum out of everyone they can reach. I don’t care if @Riverman 's wife is naturally “materialistic” or not. Contemporary tech companies are just as bad as drug dealers at preying on people using brain chemistry.
Using Amazon is why Dejoy still has a job.
Inflation is out of control! The government must do something to slow the economy.
Feds raise rates to slow the economy.
The economy slows.
Omg we are in a recession!
I hate everyone. Just sayin’
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The natural inclination is to want to restrict these tech companies, but part of the problem is that people prove over and over that they can’t be trusted to make decisions and we really need to consider taking steps to give them less choice.
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