Literally 1984

In wwIII These are going to required flared bases, for uh... Reasons.

Hey, it's a tradition (see : dangou, 談合). Don't insult a whole culture based on your westerner view point.

Not cool bro. Unlike the (expensives) icecreams.

Indeed not, I hope they weren't relying on it to chill their ice cream.

Price fixing is not cool.

She looks like it's not her first can of the day.

UK these days:

• Shock and moral outrage over national icon being desecrated by migrant Yobs
• Or: Local lads on tour just being lads, no harm no foul, just being cheeky

Outcome hinges on skin colour and fluency in english

I feel like the story wants me to be outraged but I am borderline jealous of this guy and his car overstuffed with happy healthy floofs

Funerals are already celebrations of life. At least, every one that I have been to has been.

LOL...so true.

Can the Talking Flower connect to the internet? Will it receive updates?

No, it cannot connect to the internet, and there are no updates available.

I still wouldn't buy this but it could be much worse

tech writers seem to have the habit of buying the most useless consumerist dystopian things that corporations throw out, and then make a full article on how the thing didn't work out well and they're stopping to use it. Maybe they just to that to have something to write about, or maybe they really live in a different reality in order to not notice the absurdity upfront.

...someone actually bought that thing? Wow...Reginal Perrin was probably really on to something.

This is why funerals are, psychologically, a bad idea.

Wakes, the whole intent of them, are much better for morale. It’s better to celebrate the life someone had, even if the death wasn’t natural or premature.

The flower got it right, that was kinda what they needed to hear at that moment but they were in the wrong headspace.

Seems like a cultural issue to me. The flower isn't wrong. If they attended a celebration of life instead of a funeral, the message would read much differently.

I only ever correct mistakes like that if I think it would be something a non-native speaker might appreciate. I'm not trying to score points.

You're forgiven for thinking English is my native language. :)

I lived on a circle near Google’s campus back when they were still testing and training these cars. They loved driving around in a circle even back then

Please, someone who lives there, just drag one of your bins into the middle of the road.

*inherent

At present, autonomous vehicle have three times as many accidents as human-driven vehicles on average (accidents in total, not fatalities). Waymo is much better than Tesla about taking precautions, but it’s still a circus at the expense of regular drivers as seen above.

Haha. America is a such weird place. What is the benefit of having one of these things pick you up vs. inherit risks?

Oversize pencils can lead to this ...

Why though? They’re terrible now.

It sounds like there were not enough sun beds full stop, which is more ridiculous for a hotel than the reserving situation, as it sounds like they went at 6 but no beds were left so their kids were on the floor. I'd be outraged too