The Harbinger of the Dystopia
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.I mean, I wouldn't say no to a brutalist McDonald's.
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If it were borne out of a progressive, socialist democracy, I'd be on board. Auth-right brutalist fast food would be a horror show.
Upton Sinclair has entered the chat
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
Welcome to McDonald's, the All-American Restaurant, papers please
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Libraries are basically the only remaining third space, but they don't fill the same need as the original commentor. Libraries don't have places for kids to run around, be noisy, and climb things. That would be awesome though
Some do. My library has a play area set up for littles and another area set up for infants. On Saturdays they have a sing along story hour thing, and other events like that throughout the week. We also have plenty of local parks with playground equipment. No free place with indoor slides and ball pits though like McDonald's used to have.
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I'm actually going to say that I think designing a restaurant for disastrously unhealthy fast food in a way that makes it look and feel like a playground shouldn't be legal, and I'm happy to see them look as dull and unappealing as possible to young children.
The ongoing health crisis is so severe in no small part because of things like that 1990s picture getting kids addicted to trash. This post feels like someone from the 1970s yearning for the days of Joe Camel. Plain packaging does work.
Edit: I thought Joe Camel was much older than it really is.
it's not about mc d's. almost every business is doing this. Everything fun, colorful, expressive and artistic MUST go. All must be replaced with homogeneous minimalism.
mc d's is used as the example because they led the way with this shit.
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.wrote on last edited by [email protected]
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Are you the ob/gyn that recommends pregnant people to swap chocolate for broccoli?
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it's not about mc d's. almost every business is doing this. Everything fun, colorful, expressive and artistic MUST go. All must be replaced with homogeneous minimalism.
mc d's is used as the example because they led the way with this shit.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Fair point! I entirely agree with that perspective in other areas. If we're using this as an example, then I understand why, but I actually think this is one example where the change is a tangibly good thing.
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From beautiful 19th century architecture to boring modern office lounge. Not everything needs to be updated for current trends.
My college did this. It might have been due to bedbugs. They swapped the cozy built in furniture with this weird vinyl stuff. Bugs can't get into the seams.
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"Two golden menus!"
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
The soon one makes sense 'cause of global warming. We don't be able to do it like the good old times.
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Fair point! I entirely agree with that perspective in other areas. If we're using this as an example, then I understand why, but I actually think this is one example where the change is a tangibly good thing.
That's what makes using mc d's as the example is a bad choice, but nobody consulted me about it.
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I mean, I wouldn't say no to a brutalist McDonald's.
I would, but I'm rejecting the mc d's part not the brutalist part.
brutalist architecture is fucking cool.
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Libraries are basically the only remaining third space, but they don't fill the same need as the original commentor. Libraries don't have places for kids to run around, be noisy, and climb things. That would be awesome though
And the right+libertarians want to destroy libraries too.
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Libraries don't have playgrounds, and don't allow food, drink, or birthday parties with friends.
Actually a lot of libraries do events. They have separate areas for it
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
Oh, it's been harbinged. We're in it.
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I was born in the early '80s. The 2000s picture was what my McDonald's always looked like throughout my childhood. I've never seen a McDonald's that looked like the '90s pic.
The 2020 pic shows current McDonald's, but they changed to that sometime in the mid-2010s.
That 1990's McDonald's picture is the specific restaurant that was across the entrance from the Dallas Zoo, hence the animal theme. While it's now remodeled and much more dull, it still looked like the picture up until just a few years ago. In any case, it's not typical of what a McDonald's has ever looked like.
As someone born around the same time as you, I do remember when the typical McDonald's had a bright red roof with the yellow lights, which the 2000's pic is a toned-down version of.
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
The order needs to be reversed. People don't really read from the bottom up.
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Actually a lot of libraries do events. They have separate areas for it
Whaat, my library barely has computers.
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Wow, which piece of shit did they bribe for that? They completely destroyed the interior of the building. Isn't there any heritage protection?
AFAIK it was part of a larger restoration of the whole building complex (this is the Budapest Nyugati railway station), and the global redesign of McDonalds. They justified it by saying that the architecture is closer to the original - the lower level only became part of it when they built the McDonalds in 1990, before that it was a separate diner for the poors in third class. The furniture is default McDonalds.
The overall restoration on the building at large is not bad per se, but they basically destroyed a symbol of the Hungarian 90s - 00s. This was the place where if you lived in Budapest and got wasted, you could get some nutrition in the city center, and it wasn't full of tourists because they didn't think that the railway station buffet was so good.
BTW the local franchisee is trying to cater more to a "fast casual" crowd rather than the bare minimum, so a McDonalds in Hungary has a menu three times as long as one in the Netherlands for example. All I'm saying is that it was a nice place considering. Sic transit gloria mundi I guess.
