undergroundoverground , 3 months ago

No, it doesn’t look like a prison. It looks more like a school or a factory.

…wait a minute.

Jimbo , 3 months ago

You say that but dear god, that tree has seen some shit

johannesvanderwhales , 3 months ago

Seems to me like there’s a pretty wide variety of McDonald’s interiors.

ricdeh , 3 months ago

Top one looks like from a horror movie…

FlyingSquid OP , 3 months ago

You didn’t grow up in the 70s or 80s, did you? That was what half the shows we watched looked like.

And by design.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Televisio….

Daft_ish , 3 months ago

I’ve don’t think this person has seen prison.

thorbot , 3 months ago

Hurrdurr Apple bad

FlyingSquid OP , 3 months ago

Please tell me five good things about Apple.

thorbot , 3 months ago

Why would I waste my time talking to a brick wall

FlyingSquid OP , 3 months ago

In other words, you can’t.

boonhet , 2 months ago

Fuck it, I love playing devil’s advocate.

1. Seamless integration between their products (at the cost of having to be in their walled garden)
2. Best, smoothest mobile UX out there (and I’ve used many Androids, including custom ROMs)
3. Moving their computers from from x86 to ARM (much better power consumption to performance ratio). This will likely improve Linux ARM support too, as people use Asahi on Apple Silicon Macs and more packages are then created for ARM.
4. Taking active part in creating industry standards (such as USB-C, which they admittedly should’ve adopted on their phones long ago, but they DID promise not to change plugs for 10 years when moving to Lightning).
5. Macbooks don’t bend like a lot of plastic non-Apple laptops do. Their batteries also seem to last longer - might be anecdotal, but I’ve fixed thousands of laptops, easily over a thousand Macbooks produced in the 2010-2017 era (I quit that job in 2019).

Swedneck , 2 months ago

hurrdurr “hurdurr apple bad”

Sgn , 3 months ago

Top image looks like a dystopia abandoned place from a Disney villain. Low image looks like a nice simple area

fidodo , 2 months ago

Old MacDonalds was a trip gone bad

Lommy , 2 months ago

E I E I O

HawlSera , 2 months ago

And that’s why I hate everything and everyone

raptore39 , 2 months ago

I’m guessing it’s for more efficient cleaning. Bummer.

Swedneck , 2 months ago

That doesn’t mean it has to be eye searing white, imagine if they went with gray granite-like surfaces instead, that would be so much mre pleasant.

TGTX , 2 months ago

They don’t want you to spend time in the restaurant. Less and less McDonalds PlayCenters are surviving. The seats in the restaurant purposely get uncomfortable after 20 minutes of sitting. Harsh lighting. Drab surfaces. They want you to get your food and go. Even better if you use the drive thru or mobile app. Any modern fast food restaurant like McDonald’s, but especially Starbucks, does not want to be your “third place”.

A_Chilean_Cyborg , 2 months ago

https://feddit.cl/pictrs/image/cf951ecf-254a-4f71-9795-49d862fe87b5.jpeg

TwoBeeSan , 2 months ago

“Come into my fun Playland”

postmateDumbass , 2 months ago

youtu.be/FHqcNj0Pv6c

experbia , 2 months ago

FUN!!!

IvanOverdrive , 2 months ago

That tree looks like the stranger on the street who offers to babysit your daughters for free.

helpImTrappedOnline , 2 months ago

And you say “okay… come on over” and make sure that stranger is never seen again.

mrmanager , 2 months ago

The world is not McDonald’s though. But yes, there is a trend towards sterile clean environments with muted colors.

Steak , 2 months ago

Have you seen the beige baby stuff? My wife watches weird videos and apparently there’s a trend to have a colorless baby pretty much.

mrmanager , 2 months ago

Humanity slowly goes insane… :)

fne8w2ah , 2 months ago

And the old style chairs which you could “twist” the seat on lol 🤣

Swedneck , 2 months ago

Idk if other countries had this period, but there was a time where mcdonalds in sweden all had these semi-transparent glittery green glass mosaics on the walls and that is 100% the nicest it has ever been, it was actually nice to look at and the generally dark interiors made it very comfortable to be there.

The current interiors are… okay, but so fucking uninspired… At least they have some wood panels here and there, but christ would it kill them to tone down all the stark white?

melpomenesclevage , 2 months ago

Shit that sounds really cool.

Swedneck , 2 months ago

it was! It baffles me that they changed it because during that era it was genuinely quite nice to go to mcdonalds and just hang out over some food.

melpomenesclevage , 2 months ago

Nothing cool can be allowed to exist.

Swedneck , 2 months ago

I mean, i definitely think the new touchscreen displays for ordering are pretty cool.

My conclusion is more that capitalism sucks and higher-ups are blithering idiots who make worse decisions than a random number generator.

melpomenesclevage , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

This is true. Its one of my better arguments for revolution.

This society is not for you, in the sense that even with all the efficiency of machinery/automation and economies og scale and expert craftsmen, its probably still less work for your clumsy not-a-boat-maker ass to look up a wikihow and build a boat from scratch than it is for you to ‘earn’ enough to buy a boat.

Its less work and expense to grow food from scratch to feed starving kids in your community than it is to lobby the government to use food that would have been thrown away to feed kids.

And I don’t know if any random stranger would make good decisions that wouldn’t get lots of people killed, but making any random dipshit off the street supreme emperor of earth, you wouldn’t get, on average, worse decisions than our current oligarchs. Like, basically anyone could do better. Maybe not good enough; we’ve got some apocalypses on the horizon, but at least not worse. And I think we could do better than random dipshit emperor if we put our anything to it.