A lot of Americans don’t have a private area outside of their car
I can’t tell you how many of my telehealth therapy clients meet me from their car because they don’t have a truly private space in their own home. I actually can tell you, it’s like 40-50% depending on when you ask me
I've had telehealth appointments in the car because I'm using a break from work to make the appointment. It's bizarre that our society expects us to work 9-5, but also expects us to somehow get every necessary appointment done within that same time frame. I'm not given enough time off to run home and come back, so an appointment in the car it is.
But your point stands true. My boyfriend has a telehealth call every weekend. Our tiny apartment doesn't offer much privacy, so he gets the living room (where the computer is) while I either stay in the bedroom, or go out somewhere for an hour to give him space.
I'd think the bathroom would be anotherboption.
Yiu can take the ham radio license exam over Zoom now, but you need to be in a closed room to imply you're not being coached. The evaluators said I was far from the first to do it in the loo.
If you can't ask family for a private space for an hour long therapy session, chances are you won't feel safe/private in the bathroom either. Maybe you don't want them to know you're in therapy. Much less sus it you're just out of the house for an hour.
To add to this, life can be noisy. If you have multiple people working from home and pets, it’s hard to get a quiet time when it’s convenient for you. You can’t ask me to be quiet, if I have meetings scheduled all day so you can’t ask film a food review video.
Ugh, this is so true. My mom started going to therapy in 2020 (after her own mom died of Covid), and she's been keeping it a secret from my dad all this time. When I lived with them, my mom would schedule telehealth calls for when my dad was out of the house and asked me to let her know if he was coming home early.
Honestly, my dad's a smart guy and I don't doubt he'd be understanding of therapy if she talked to him about it - I never got any "anti-therapy" messages from him. But my mom's anxiety is deep-set from her childhood, and although I would handle the situation differently with my own partners, I'm at least glad she's talking to a professional.
This one does come up too though but less often. At least once the person made toilet sounds and I had to end the session early as they were clearly taking a shit and I was uncomfortable proceeding
Don't wanna excuse car-centric development, but i'd guess that they want the food to be fresh and they don't wanna film inside the restaurant, and car provide them some soundproofing from outside.
Take the takeout home?
Too far away in the US
Even outside of the US, it's gonna be significantly less good if you don't eat it there. I live 4 minutes away from where I buy my hotdogs, if I eat it at the store, it's great, go home first? 4 minutes that's now a cold dog and it's shit.
And that's why this post is on here.
Unless we're talking about fast food, hot food continues to cook after serving, the longer it takes for you to start eating it the food is gonna be different than when it's just served. Which is why they all eat inside their car, because taking it home will mean letting the food sit for 10/15/20 minutes. Also they might not be reviewing said food in their neighborhood, they could be driven 20km or 30km away for it, food reviewer tend to go places further than their area.
I'm sure their professional home film studio would work but the kids running around and such just brings the whole vibe of the video down.
Eh. Would you rather they sit in the restaurant and annoy everyone with their filming and talking?
It is actually possible to talk at a normal volume and film discreetly in the restaurant without bothering anyone, Americans are just loud as hell
The number of "why do influencers always film in public" that I've seen leads me to believe that if they were filming in a restaurant instead, this post would not exist, but a "Social Media brainrot. That's why. They think they can just film anywhere." post in some other community instead.
Look, I agree, "fuck cars"; but eating and filming in the car you own is just not problematic beyond owning the car in and on itself, at all. There's plenty of valid car criticism to be had, you don't have to go looking for things to be enraged by.
It's the only way you can hear us over the gunshots
Yeah, I feel like it's a lot more normal than filming in a car to be honest
If I see someone filming in a restaurant, I am not going in there. I'm probably not alone. I honestly don't get what this post has to do with cars in the first place.
Is someone sitting accross from a camera and quietly talking to it really much different from someone sitting accross from a person and talking to them?
It's the lack of third places in the US (and increasingly everywhere else). The only place they can unconditionally exist at, outside of their house, is their car.
I think this is the real reason that carbrain has so thoroughly overtaken America. It's our last remaining free space outside our house. You will get trespassed or ticketed for loitering if we hang out anywhere in public
In these third places in Europe, can I film there? Would it be rude or possibly illegal to film there?
Y'all are wildly reading into something that’s pointless. You’re trying to beat someone down in your own class and finding ways to allow a divide in to separate you. These people reviewing food in their car aren’t your enemy. City planners, department of transportation, landlords, and CEOs are your enemy. They’re the ones that make the system the way it is that necessitates people having cars.
A third place isn’t going to solve this. No third place is going to be set for filming. Is going to be socially comfortable for filming. Just let these people exist and move the fuck on.
European third spaces often have street performers doing all kinds of crazy stuff, so no, it wouldn't be rude to film your little review.
I really don't understand who even watches videos like this. I don't trust anyone to have a good sense of taste except myself and my wife. Unless someone is a chef I trust, I don't want them telling me how the food "tastes" since most people simply can't.
If you want to try food, then try it. If you can't afford it, then don't think about it. You can probably make something like it yourself cheaper and better if you put in the effort.
Also, fuck large chain restaurants, support local food and establishments that treat workers well.
Also, fuck large chain restaurants,
Exactly my first thought... Fucking Red Lobster reviews are "starting to trickle in"? What??
I hope these idiots are at least sponsored...
Because the US is a dystopian nightmare
Actual reason: acoustics for media presentation. A car is a vocal booth.
Yeah, reviewing in the restaurant would be rude and reviewing at home would get cold.
Yeah exactly this. Can't give an accurate food review if you can't eat it immediately as presented. And if one-sided phone calls in restaurants weren't bad enough presenting loudly to a camera would likely get you walked out.
Also posting from affluential areas to increase the chances of the algorithm pushing their videos to more people
i was driven by an uber driver yesterday who seriously thought cycling should be illegal.
his rationale was that bicycles are "unregistered vehicles and so if they cause accident who is going to pay?!" when i pointed out that probably they should pay just as anyone else he just dismissed it like this: "that is not possible. if a cyclist crashes into me and kills me who is gonna pay me?!" i was speechless after that.
That's a one star trip for sure.
I guess walking should be outlawed too, after all someone could be walking on a sidewalk and accidentally bump into you and knock you into the street. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shoes are unregistered vehicles!
They live in the car because they cannot afford to live in a real house or flat. This is not the car's fault.
Actually car centric design is one of the biggest factors that contributes to the housing affordability crisis happening in North America. So it is at least partially car dependancy's fault they cannot afford their own place.
Here's some support for this claim.
This citynerd video must have been posted here a million times - but here it is again - about 13 minutes is the bit about housing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kSTJnT0tUE
This is a summary of this article , section 6.3.4 is housing https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267#bb0390
I'll allow it for Wreckless Eating coz they call the show CarBS (carbs hint hint), the only show where he sits in a car and BS about it. They are lovely bastards lol
Man, I cannot stand eating even chips in a car, yet this guy ate a whole lobster meal with butter dressing in it. Just seeing the thumbnail sends me shivers.
TBF you want the food to be fresh and you also want an isolated place to review it alone.
Because there are kids and spouses and often parents and other family at home, can't shoot a video with all that noise.
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
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