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MJBrune

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“most Americans” don’t live in a city that dense and certainly drive to the store for groceries.

Nah, they certainly do.

this is half America’s population and each of those places is centered around major cities in the area.

when I say “to the store” it’s not the same as what Europeans think. It’s not a little corner store where you get your groceries for the day. It’s a giant Walmart/Kroger where you load up for the whole week so you don’t have to go as often.

Sure, that’s what the bulk of Americans do because it’s easier but it’s certainly possible for them to walk to the store. Everyone drives because they are lazy. I’m American, you can’t tell me we are lazy and fat and thus only want to go to the store once a week or less. Also compared to European stores, our stores are huge and purposely confusing. So they can get you to walk around the store more. So your fat lazy ass will get hungry and impulse buy a bunch of stuff. Also, the things at eye level have the most markup which tend to be the most processed foods.

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Eh, I feel like the sampling is clearly biased toward those who would install a game engine through a service that auto-updates it. (Novices and hobbyists.)

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Yeah for the majority that live in the cities. Less people live in the country and most of the country towns still have a food mart. So most Americans don’t live that far from a store.

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Exactly, humans are the issue. Not the platforms. It’s a society issue.

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Good, any shit company that can’t make living wages work don’t deserve to be in business.

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It’s not that it’s easier it’s that it allows the companies to gouge you. If the store said the bottle of coke was 2.15 instead of 1.99 you might realize that it’s not a good price for acidic sugar water and pick something else. Like the free water out of the faucet. This also means public water would be higher quality because people would actually use it and demand cleaner water.

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I’m in America and I’ve always lived a 10 to 15 minute walk away from the store. It’s that a long walk compared to Europeans? I think I was further from a store when I was in Germany for a week. Like 30 minute walk.

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Honestly it’s really pointed to the fact that human are the issue, not the platform.

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