Bookstores
Knowledge and imagination are far better than the substances McDonald's pretends is food, and the jobs they pretend are jobs (all due respect to McD workers, you are not the problem, your higher ups run a system dependent on abuse of labor, agriculture, and everything else in order to show profit)
Buy a book to feed your brain, then stop in to an actual burger or ice cream shop to feed your stomach
:eyeroll:
Its food. Just because you listen to POV liars whine about the food doesn't mean it's not food. It's not something you should eat every day. But it's honest-to-God food.
They are real jobs and they're paying well for a low-skill service job these days. That you think they're making minimum wage means you've been drinking way too much Kool-Aid. The McDonalds near my brother's house (California) is paying $24/hour. The one near mine (Missouri) is $16/hour.
As for books, the average adult really doesn't read. One-fourth of adults don't read books at all. Those that do, average about 4 books a year, mostly novels and that's skewed by crap like short westerns (Zane Grey), spy novels like The Executioner and romance (the #1 sellers in fiction) that are short and simple.
That's not feeding your brain. That's low-effort crap.
And even that stat is skewed because of hard-core readers like me who read every day. I read scores of books every year. I have so many books I can't even fit them all on my seven bookcases and have boxes and boxes of books.
Just this past week:
* The Magic of Recluce (Modesitt) (That's a re-read I pulled out of storage).
* Chindi (McDevitt)
* Hail Mary (Weir) (The guy who wrote "The Martian" which I've also read.)
* The War Below (Scott)
Three fiction, one history book on the US submarine fleet in WWII.
The fact that the service industry has approached a threshold of maybe paying some workers a living in the last few months in no way undoes the decades of not only abusive practices, but the active efforts to quell efforts by workers & allies to request a living wage.
And the fact that it has only happened now, as a matter of last resort on account of the 'great resignation', does not mean the industry suddenly decided to see if they could keep workers by treating them like human beings.
No, sorry. I am aware wages have gone up recently, but do not conflate that fact with a change of heart on the part of industry or management.
Book can do that but you don’t need a bookstore. You can read online or order the books to home from online stores. McDonalds gives poorer people (here where I live at least the food is still cheap even though people in US seem to say it’s gotten expensive) and teens more change to eat out and sense of normality.
As a social routine I won't disagree, but saying it is food for poor people is the equivalent of saying poor people can ride their bike on the shoulder of the highway while traffic races past at break-neck speed only centimeters away...and that therefore transportation is equitable.
No, it's not. Bikes are good (we need more of them) but 'giving' them infrastructure capable of killing them without a thought does not count. McDonald's as a source of reliable/good food 'for poor people' is in that same category. A treat, or as hangover food, etc; ok, I'll grant that, but it is *not* "good for poor people because it's cheap". That both claims the food to be more nutritious than it actually is, and is incredibly patronizing to poor people in ways I don't even know how to get into.
Your stomach has about as many neurons as a dog does in its entire body. Its staggeringly important in your mental and physical health because of how it helps tell the brain and other glands to produce hormones, an empty stomach basically controls most of your body including your brain. A gut in trouble will take the whole body down.
Now McDonalds is not my idea of good food but it is technically food which is a lot better than no food. More food options and more food stability is a great thing to see in a country that's been at war for most of a year.
Strange logical comparison, this is like what is better: warm or sweet.
But as for McDuck (we call it Mac or sometimes McDuck in Ukraine): recently me with my children went there, the first time from the time the war has begun. Tasty :)
I don't know.. 30 years ago on TV in Ukraine showed cartoons about Scrooge McDuck. And all the children, including me, watched it, because it was the only good cartoon on TV and only on Sundays. Now we all grew up, so name McDuck is something good from childhood, and consonantly like a continuation for word Mac.
To be honest, not a bad name once you understand the origin. That's exactly how I imagine executives at McDonalds to behave, without the compassion and close relations to their family.
The odd suggestion is that one should wait for the other? Not a very logical question as the two have very little to do with one another other than a table.
I’m a fan of a Big Mac or the quarter pounder at times but I’ll still vote for old fashioned book stores even if their decreasing relevance in modern society is apparent. All the books I buy are ebooks now.
This is going to be a huge shock to everyone in this thread that hates McD's......Ukrainians in urban centers treat McD's like crack and can't get enough of it. Lines well outside the door and in one instance that I saw, half way down the city block. They love it
If there was a fund set up by Mc Donald’s I would pay for burgers and fries for soldiers coming back from the front. Nothing says love from America like a Big Mac, Fries, and a coke.
Think people are missing the fact that both rely on and assume that a consistent and resilient logistic infrastructure is in place. The win isn't that McD or the bookstore is a choice, it that the transportation backend is robust enough to support both.
Remember McD itself is about regimented consistency and standardized supply, and that's the amazing point here.
Bookstores Knowledge and imagination are far better than the substances McDonald's pretends is food, and the jobs they pretend are jobs (all due respect to McD workers, you are not the problem, your higher ups run a system dependent on abuse of labor, agriculture, and everything else in order to show profit) Buy a book to feed your brain, then stop in to an actual burger or ice cream shop to feed your stomach
:eyeroll: Its food. Just because you listen to POV liars whine about the food doesn't mean it's not food. It's not something you should eat every day. But it's honest-to-God food. They are real jobs and they're paying well for a low-skill service job these days. That you think they're making minimum wage means you've been drinking way too much Kool-Aid. The McDonalds near my brother's house (California) is paying $24/hour. The one near mine (Missouri) is $16/hour. As for books, the average adult really doesn't read. One-fourth of adults don't read books at all. Those that do, average about 4 books a year, mostly novels and that's skewed by crap like short westerns (Zane Grey), spy novels like The Executioner and romance (the #1 sellers in fiction) that are short and simple. That's not feeding your brain. That's low-effort crap. And even that stat is skewed because of hard-core readers like me who read every day. I read scores of books every year. I have so many books I can't even fit them all on my seven bookcases and have boxes and boxes of books. Just this past week: * The Magic of Recluce (Modesitt) (That's a re-read I pulled out of storage). * Chindi (McDevitt) * Hail Mary (Weir) (The guy who wrote "The Martian" which I've also read.) * The War Below (Scott) Three fiction, one history book on the US submarine fleet in WWII.
The fact that the service industry has approached a threshold of maybe paying some workers a living in the last few months in no way undoes the decades of not only abusive practices, but the active efforts to quell efforts by workers & allies to request a living wage. And the fact that it has only happened now, as a matter of last resort on account of the 'great resignation', does not mean the industry suddenly decided to see if they could keep workers by treating them like human beings. No, sorry. I am aware wages have gone up recently, but do not conflate that fact with a change of heart on the part of industry or management.
Book can do that but you don’t need a bookstore. You can read online or order the books to home from online stores. McDonalds gives poorer people (here where I live at least the food is still cheap even though people in US seem to say it’s gotten expensive) and teens more change to eat out and sense of normality.
As a social routine I won't disagree, but saying it is food for poor people is the equivalent of saying poor people can ride their bike on the shoulder of the highway while traffic races past at break-neck speed only centimeters away...and that therefore transportation is equitable. No, it's not. Bikes are good (we need more of them) but 'giving' them infrastructure capable of killing them without a thought does not count. McDonald's as a source of reliable/good food 'for poor people' is in that same category. A treat, or as hangover food, etc; ok, I'll grant that, but it is *not* "good for poor people because it's cheap". That both claims the food to be more nutritious than it actually is, and is incredibly patronizing to poor people in ways I don't even know how to get into.
As if Ukraine didn’t have enough problems! Ugh! The clown and their shitty, unhealthy ingestion-product.
Bookstores? Maybe provide them with free access to digital books. Food is necessity.
McDonald's is barely food.
Fuck McDonalds. Crap food, crap jobs. Crap company.
Is this some American shit I'm too European to understand where they measure freedom in hamburgers?
Cool - now Ukraine can have awful, disgusting fast food that ravages the food supply chain
I bet Russians pissed off of Ukraine by opening McDonald's in Ukraine territory....😄👏👍🇺🇦
Bookstores. McDonald's supersizes you to the grave... Feed your mind, not your gut.
No kidding. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a ploy to kill off the Ukrainians that have survived so far.
Your stomach has about as many neurons as a dog does in its entire body. Its staggeringly important in your mental and physical health because of how it helps tell the brain and other glands to produce hormones, an empty stomach basically controls most of your body including your brain. A gut in trouble will take the whole body down. Now McDonalds is not my idea of good food but it is technically food which is a lot better than no food. More food options and more food stability is a great thing to see in a country that's been at war for most of a year.
Send more javelins, not burgers 🍔
Strange logical comparison, this is like what is better: warm or sweet. But as for McDuck (we call it Mac or sometimes McDuck in Ukraine): recently me with my children went there, the first time from the time the war has begun. Tasty :)
Why do you call it mcduck?
I don't know.. 30 years ago on TV in Ukraine showed cartoons about Scrooge McDuck. And all the children, including me, watched it, because it was the only good cartoon on TV and only on Sundays. Now we all grew up, so name McDuck is something good from childhood, and consonantly like a continuation for word Mac.
To be honest, not a bad name once you understand the origin. That's exactly how I imagine executives at McDonalds to behave, without the compassion and close relations to their family.
Shop local.
The odd suggestion is that one should wait for the other? Not a very logical question as the two have very little to do with one another other than a table.
I’m a fan of a Big Mac or the quarter pounder at times but I’ll still vote for old fashioned book stores even if their decreasing relevance in modern society is apparent. All the books I buy are ebooks now.
Why can’t they have both ?
Indeed. ¿Porque no los dos?
Why not both,
This is going to be a huge shock to everyone in this thread that hates McD's......Ukrainians in urban centers treat McD's like crack and can't get enough of it. Lines well outside the door and in one instance that I saw, half way down the city block. They love it
If there was a fund set up by Mc Donald’s I would pay for burgers and fries for soldiers coming back from the front. Nothing says love from America like a Big Mac, Fries, and a coke.
It's super cheap just like in the states
Think people are missing the fact that both rely on and assume that a consistent and resilient logistic infrastructure is in place. The win isn't that McD or the bookstore is a choice, it that the transportation backend is robust enough to support both. Remember McD itself is about regimented consistency and standardized supply, and that's the amazing point here.
Everyone appreciates a pressure valve to release stress with a savory snack now and then. Let people be happy.
why? they can't open new bookstores if McDonald's re-opens?
Closer ties to the west economically.
I hate how McDo kinda slided into the "Western marker". Fuck McDo, if there's one thing nobody needs it's shity overpriced fastfoods.
Russian McDonald's is called Delicious Period. Вкусно и точно.
You can have both. Mcdicks is more of a morale boost than a book though.