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Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like. (news.yahoo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Only one item can be delivered at a time. It can’t weigh more than 5 pounds. It can’t be too big. It can’t be something breakable, since the drone drops it from 12 feet. The drones can’t fly when it is too hot or too windy or too rainy.

You need to be home to put out the landing target and to make sure that a porch pirate doesn’t make off with your item or that it doesn’t roll into the street (which happened once to Lord and Silverman). But your car can’t be in the driveway. Letting the drone land in the backyard would avoid some of these problems, but not if there are trees.

Amazon has also warned customers that drone delivery is unavailable during periods of high demand for drone delivery.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Replacing the hand plow with the horse plow didn't needlessly cost anyone their job.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did you determine this? Also why are you assuming a job is in itself a good thing instead of what the job does being a good thing?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because the same farmer was plowing the same field.

And a job is better than no job in the Western world if you want to eat and have a roof over your head.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Omg seriously? Do you have any freaken idea how developing world farming works? This is freaken sad. Ok fine. In the real world it wasn't a farmer it was a farming family. Children as young as 3 would work the land. Being able to use an animal to plow unleashed abundant food and freed up multiple members of the family.

Yes having a job is better than not but that doesn't mean you are entailed to a make work job because you refuse to use your brains.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

When Amazon fires all of the delivery people for to save money, what are all of those delivery people supposed to do to buy things so that they can survive? People seem to think 'just get another job' is a viable answer to thousands of people out of work.

[–] hamms@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That seems extremely unlikely to me.