I have just read this sentence: "Usually I pick up Starbucks for my morning coffee because it's closer than my local coffee shop and I don't have to put on real clothes to drive through it..."
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I have just read this sentence: "Usually I pick up Starbucks for my morning coffee because it's closer than my local coffee shop and I don't have to put on real clothes to drive through it..."
And I'm just. Staring into the distance in European. You DRIVE to get COFFEE before putting on your CLOTHES? You can't be bothered to put on clothes because you haven't had your morning coffee but you will DRIVE to a fully another location that isn't YOUR FUCKING HOUSE to get it??? You will operate. The machinery! On the roads, that you share with other people! To drive to a location?? When you could just make it at home??
I try not to judge but, dear reader, I am fucking judging
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@sinituulia if you want to have your mind blown even more. Many drive throughs do not service people on foot or bikes. We are simply not people until we have an automobile. This was even true in early COVID vaccines, where many of the first places were drive throughs, and people not in cars were not allowed.
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@skinnylatte Haha oh god. It's not like the people most vulnerable would also have problems with owning or driving a car due to disability... What a nightmare.
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@sinituulia exactly
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@skinnylatte @sinituulia Stanford Medicine at least did a good job on their COVID drive-through testing setup. Galvez Lot (https://maps.app.goo.gl/rqCNSjRfvfMZQsDX8) was their main PCR testing location starting from pretty early in the pandemic (until maybe early summer of 2021). It was primarily drive through, but they definitely accepted people on foot or on bikes, and I went through on foot a bunch of times.
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@dbaron @sinituulia from what I know about this sort of set up, it took a couple of weeks to be able to accept people on foot and bikes. There was some stuff the state had to clarify. Glad it eventually went ok. But I do also remember the utter bewilderment of new immigrants going to Burger King or something in SoCal and not being able to food coz of the car thing!
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If you're on foot or bike, can't you simply go inside and order there? The few Dutch drive throughs I've seen always have a regular restaurant. But I can imagine it's different in the US with their extreme car dependency.
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@mcv @sinituulia there is no ‘inside’, many places are only drive-throughs!
not every place is like that, but it is true that a lot of this country is like that. sadly it also wasn’t always like this (a century ago even the most car-centric cities had better transit and walkability)