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> "older people insist on going to stores"

> "This is completely preventable already"

Sorry, but some people in some place have no other choice but to go to the store while it's open or face starvation, and when you live in a place where nobody gives a rat's ass if you live or die (because we all know that everyone over 30 should just die because they're worthless, right?), you have to go to the store.

As to "completely preventable", sure. But the problem is that people don't want to prevent jack-shit. They want the world to burn and everyone to die, and sadly, I'm starting to agree with them at this point in my life.

Eagerly awaiting my downvotes, because I already know that nobody wants to hear truth.

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The stores here are open during the morning and late night when the temperature is not outright deadly. You're not wrong that some older people don't have anyone to fetch groceries for them and do not have the money to pay someone.. but this is a very needlessly hostile way of saying it?

I'd also clarify that by "older" I mean retirement age. Not 30 year olds who definitely won't die on their way to the store if they don't have a severe underlying condition. Also, I've never met anyone who thinks 30 year olds are old and should die that wasn't a teenager.

I read "older people insist on going to stores during the day" as meaning between 11pm and 5pm, when the weather is unbearably hot, instead of during the cooler morning period.

It's pretty rare for shops selling staples to open later than 9am, at least here in Australia. Most supermarkets open around 7am. There's plenty of time to get your shopping done before the day gets over 25c/80f in most towns, and shops in places like Marble Bar (which is very slightly cooler than Death Valley) open earlier.

I want the world to burn so that a better one can be reforged in the flames. Sadly, I fear there will be needless death on either path we take but I think there will be less suffering overall if we burn it down and rebuild it rather than staying on our current slow descent into dystopia.

> Sorry, but some people in some place have no other choice but to go to the store while it's open or face starvation, and when you live in a place where nobody gives a rat's ass if you live or die (because we all know that everyone over 30 should just die because they're worthless, right?), you have to go to the store.

Do these places not offer grocery delivery?

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