Right in the center of Houston.
Which is 30 minutes drive from anyone outside 610.
But if you work in downtown, it’s always the option to grab it on your way home.
That’s true, assuming traffic in that area isn’t miserable. There’s also a WholeFoods in the Galleria Area that has had similiar services, but I don’t even try to get near it during rush hour, because its pure gridlock.
Too many people don’t want to put in any effort to make things better, they just want to point at corporations and say “not my problem.”
I don’t think that’s true. What I have found to be the case is that independent action is expensive and time-consuming. You need some kind of business model to make it work, and that quickly turns “community effort” into “full-time job”. And if you’ve already got a full-time job, you’re not going to be able to afford to sidestep all the businesses on every corner offering you the easy way out.
At some level, it absolutely is a corporate problem. Because even if you do succeed at a local level, you’re working in the scale of gallons while they’re working in the scale of mega-barrels. Systematic problems require systematic solutions. It can’t just be half a dozen people on one street in Houston changing where they shop.
You can both try to do better and push for better policy.
Okay, but then when do you have time to do anything else?
No one is denying it is a corporate problem too, they have the lions share of it; the only one denying responsibility here is you.
And you are (implicitly) arguing that you can’t put any effort in, because it’s either do nothing or it’s a full time job. This is nonsense. I go to this store once, maybe twice a month. But the latter only because it’s convenient. It’s not even remotely a full time job.
But also no one is saying you have to do everything at once. I even noted i’m still very much a work in progress.
The important thing is to try, rather than just throw your hands up and claim you have no responsibility.
the only one denying responsibility here is you.
Oh good. Then there’s no problem. My output is infinitesimal on a global scale.
I was worried for a minute, but I guess since everyone else is taking this problem seriously, it should be fixed shortly.
The important thing is to try
An individual endlessly forced to attempt an exhausting futile endeavor is a punishment in Greek Mythology.
But on Lemmy, its supposed to be a panacea.
My output is infinitesimal on a global scale.
Even the single most offending business can claim only a small percent of the total damage. Does that absolve them? We both agree the answer is “no.”
I was worried for a minute, but I guess since everyone else is taking this problem seriously, it should be fixed shortly.
None of this was said nor implied. I’ve been talking about how we are all responsible, and you’ve been trying to justify taking no individual steps to make things better.
An individual endlessly forced to attempt an exhausting futile endeavor is a punishment in Greek Mythology.
I disagree that it’s futile, as I’ve already mentioned that the more people do it, the more businesses will cater to that. And if every individual makes the change, it would be massive.
But on Lemmy, its supposed to be a panacea.
Your argument is failing which is why you have to put words into my mouth. I think you’re beginning to realize this. I just hope it turns into actually taking responsibility for what you can control: your own actions.
