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Maybe the issue is people getting off their butts and making some coffee. We're turning into a species that's so fat and lazy that we don't even want to go to t

Maybe the issue is people getting off their butts and making some coffee. We're turning into a species that's so fat and lazy that we don't even want to go to the store anymore to get our empty calories. Maybe on paper silent drone deliveries are a great idea for people who can't get out of their homes but even then what we're doing is removing yet another chance for them to interact directly with another human being. So I dunno. What actually is a positive use for drone delivery?

gpt5 5y ago
Why don’t you trust people to do other “important” things with the time they saved making food or coffee?
- Voloskaya 5y ago
  Because we all very well know it's overwhelmingly not the case.
  - nsonha 5y ago
    You know that, I dont
- wavefunction 5y ago
  Personally, it's because I know other people. Having gone through artificial panics and unreasonable demand-based shortages based entirely on fear I know that my fellow human being is often irrational, selfish and short-sighted when left to their own devices. The _only_ solution to resolving those periods of irrationality I experienced were limits placed on their behavior like rationing of gasoline or toilet-paper or water or etc.
  - exporectomy 5y ago
    Another solution is to not worry about it. Rational people will have enough toilet paper to survive the shortages caused by panic buying of irrational people. You did have enough toilet paper, didn't you? Or were you short-sightedly assuming the shops would always have what you wanted when you wanted it?
- speed_spread 5y ago
  If you don't have time to make coffee or go grab one, you're overspecializing and not working for the same humanity as I am. Your work output is never worth _that_ much. Go out, breathe in, take the time to accept time constraints of the physical world.
veidr 5y ago
No doubt some fat and lazy people appreciate coffee delivery, but I think probably a lot of slim, highly motivated and productive people do as well. (Also, surely, a few serial killers and pedophiles.) Adequate human interaction (modulo the ongoing pandemic) is indeed important (I think, at least for most people), but a wide swath of people probably have an overabundance of it, and wouldn't benefit from the additional interactions involved with physically going get their own coffee from some human in a coffee-vending establishment. The positive use for drone delivery is the same for any other delivery service. The pros and cons compared to human delivery, animal delivery, wheeled robot delivery, etc. are debatable.
ta3453737 5y ago
I can think of a few, but that was my first thought as well, how hard is it to make a nice cup of coffee at home? A semi-decent espresso machine and it'll be better than a tepid drone-delivered one any time, long as you have the coffee grounds/beans. I'd probably use it for times I've run out of something essential I don't have at home though, if its quick enough. Tobacco after a few beers and not wanting to drive, exotic spices I can't find locally assuming the drone can fly far enough to other places, and also assuming its more environmentally friendly than getting in the car and burning petrol.

gpt5 5y ago

Why don’t you trust people to do other “important” things with the time they saved making food or coffee?

Voloskaya 5y ago
Because we all very well know it's overwhelmingly not the case.
- nsonha 5y ago
  You know that, I dont
wavefunction 5y ago
Personally, it's because I know other people. Having gone through artificial panics and unreasonable demand-based shortages based entirely on fear I know that my fellow human being is often irrational, selfish and short-sighted when left to their own devices. The _only_ solution to resolving those periods of irrationality I experienced were limits placed on their behavior like rationing of gasoline or toilet-paper or water or etc.
- exporectomy 5y ago
  Another solution is to not worry about it. Rational people will have enough toilet paper to survive the shortages caused by panic buying of irrational people. You did have enough toilet paper, didn't you? Or were you short-sightedly assuming the shops would always have what you wanted when you wanted it?
speed_spread 5y ago
If you don't have time to make coffee or go grab one, you're overspecializing and not working for the same humanity as I am. Your work output is never worth _that_ much. Go out, breathe in, take the time to accept time constraints of the physical world.

veidr 5y ago

No doubt some fat and lazy people appreciate coffee delivery, but I think probably a lot of slim, highly motivated and productive people do as well. (Also, surely, a few serial killers and pedophiles.) Adequate human interaction (modulo the ongoing pandemic) is indeed important (I think, at least for most people), but a wide swath of people probably have an overabundance of it, and wouldn't benefit from the additional interactions involved with physically going get their own coffee from some human in a coffee-vending establishment. The positive use for drone delivery is the same for any other delivery service. The pros and cons compared to human delivery, animal delivery, wheeled robot delivery, etc. are debatable.

ta3453737 5y ago

I can think of a few, but that was my first thought as well, how hard is it to make a nice cup of coffee at home? A semi-decent espresso machine and it'll be better than a tepid drone-delivered one any time, long as you have the coffee grounds/beans. I'd probably use it for times I've run out of something essential I don't have at home though, if its quick enough. Tobacco after a few beers and not wanting to drive, exotic spices I can't find locally assuming the drone can fly far enough to other places, and also assuming its more environmentally friendly than getting in the car and burning petrol.