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I doubt the person who drew this comic has had the misfortune of trying to order food in China. It's basically a literal form of what the comic is poking fun of, and it's ubiquitous.
In China, you can go up to the counter, but you cannot place an order. Sometimes, you cannot even read a physical menu. Not even so much as a menu on the screen. You have to scan the QR code using the Panopticon app (also known as WeChat) and then get bombarded with advertisements. Like us and get a free drink! Click here for a random coupon! Join our WeChat group! No, no, no, no. Then click through their garbage UI to find the one thing you actually want. Make sure you don't accidentally replace your order with one of their "recommendations" that pop up! Then, try to check out. Do you want to join our WeChat group for exclusive deals? Do you want to create an account? Dismiss, dismiss, dismiss.
Click here to pay. Only WeChat Pay is accepted. No cash, you backwards peon. Enter your mobile number here. Required to order. Ha ha, nice try, 123456789 is not your mobile number. No worries, we got it from WeChat. You'll get 3 order confirmation texts and 2 advertisements a week for the next six months.
jesus fucking christ.
Mfw the "communist" country that can do no wrong according to the tankie instances out-enshittifies the home country of enshittification and capitalism in general π€¦π»π
Meanwhile, the best baseball player in the world is Japanese, the number one ranked player in the NBA is Serbian, and they've even been overtaken as the most obese people by the citizenship-deprived residents of American Samoa!
If not for Handegg and money hoarding, the US would hardly be #1 at ANYTHING anymore!
they're the current leaders at global terror
I thought that was Israel, US is being led, not leading
israel is just a US colony.
It only exists so the US has a "friend" in the sandbox, and that friend has been getting the US hurt lately.
Israel and Russia keep their shit pretty localised (espionage notwithstanding). The US exports its shit globally.
The US has ended like 40 wars this year alone!
The US has ended just the Iran war 40 times already, without even counting the others.
Sir, this is a Wendyβs.
Now download our app.
Hey now, we're still the #1 lapdog of the petrochemical industry!
I saw a post about this last night. Really scary stuff.
I'm so sorry but you are full of shit. You can definitely order on the counter, all restaurants still have physical menus. I see it all the time with the elderly. They struggle with wechat or AliPay - which are apps western countries can only dream off - hence all stores can serve you normally.
And most shops have AliPay over wechat anyway except in 3rd and 4th line cities.
If you use AliPay, nothing gets bounded. Not your phone number or anything. The mini app isn't even available again until you go scan or NFC again.
And the UI of the miniapps in general is very good and intuitive because they want you to order quickly.
Also you don't have to link your wechat account, nor your phone number. This is specifically forbidden by the Chinese version of the GDPR in regards to personal privacy.
I know it is extremely popular to shit all over China because 'China bad'. Most western that come here are amazed at the technology and convenience of shopping, travelling and ordering. My parents who speak no Chinese and are in their late seventies, happily go to any small local shop and order their meal without my help.
You clearly want to karma farm and keep the negative western propaganda flowing, up to you but be real and do not tell such bullshit.
Never been to Luckin Coffee I see
Also there is no such thing as karma on Lemmy
No I haven't because in Shanghai where I live, there are fantastic coffee shops,like now as most of China. Shanghai has the most coffee shops in the world actually.
So why would I go to a such a terrible chain that is almost more shit than Starbucks?
Well, at least we can agree on that lol. I hate Luckin Coffee
Let me guess nothing happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989?
EDIT: Well I rest my case. Struck a nerve didn't i
Let me guess? Nothing happened to the indigenous people of the US and the few that remain are forced to live on reservations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_genocide_in_the_United_States
Just like China washes their history, I'm sure this is not on the forefront of any American history book. And this is only a smitchen of shit the US has pulled and is pulling to this day.
But good on you, regurgitating the one thing that you know off that happened in China 40 years ago.
Edit: why don't you defend the 52 citizen that died in ICE or DHS custody since DJT took office? Not to mention the blatant murder of Renee Good - mother of 3 or Rubin Martinez - a nurse
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/06/25/us-deaths-in-ice-custody-surge-under-trump
Sycophants like you just rub me the wrong way.
Iβve seen this in Abu Dhabi. A bit creepy but it came with inbuilt convenience like letting your party members each pay for their items or splitting into X portions (you can pay for n*X portions if you want). Sure itβs handy but just give me a paper menu for fucks sake, let me ask the staff for a recommendation