Food Stupidity from Waymo and Uber. Word is they're now testing food delivery by robotaxis. Instead of a delivery to your door, you have to run outside, flag down the car, and remove the food from the trunk. I'm sure this will be REALLY popular. Totally tone deaf.

@lauren I can TOTALLY see that working for customers who are disabled, elderly, sick, live up five flights of stairs, etc. Way to downsize your customer base!

@cstross @lauren I would love to see Uber eats go away and people rediscover the joy of making their own food.

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@mlevison @cstross @lauren

Apart from the question of whether someone can sustainably cook for themselves, some people won't enjoy cooking (just like some people don't enjoy reading Apollo Program's systems' handbooks). A world where they can't avoid doing that is not more joyful for them.

That aside, I could imagine that Uber Eats itself (as opposed to food delivery in general) might be causing people to enjoy life less by not cooking. If this is what you meant, I would appreciate some verbosification, because I can only vaguely imagine potential mechanisms.

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