I’m with him, though, every few months the anti-self-checkout crowd is all up in arms

I somehow don’t remember the anti-ATM machine crowd angry about putting tellers out of work or the anti-microwave crowd putting restaurant workers out of work, or the anti-car crowd upset about putting trolley drivers out of work

Genx here

Ok boomer

Some of us prefer non-human interaction

I mean, induction is literally only a specific kind of electric stove. I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen or used an induction cooktop and I’ve had plenty of electric. They heat up an iron coil that you put the pan on, radiative/conductive heat same as a gas stove.

We also have machines in our kitchen sink drains to chop up food so it will go down it

That apparently fascinates the fuck out of Brits

By and large Americans hear “kettle” and think a metal can with a handle and a spout that you put on a stove (aka range aka cooker aka hob) which is used to heat the water inside. Often with a whistle over the spout so you can hear it boiling.

Electric kettles are not the norm although I will say they seem to be catching on a bit. I own a couple now and I’ve seen them at some small restaurants. But I would say in terms of heating water, in the US it goes, microwave, stove kettle, electric kettle, custom 190°F tap

Where I’m lost is does this mean he thinks billionaires are too overly physically prowessed, or because they are insufficiently intellectual?

“did the tech industry just reinvent the subway again”

I… what does that even mean?

I mean, this is corporations using decent regulations as an excuse to do something they’ve probably already wanted to do.

I don’t understand why the user doing what they want to their own possessions has any impact on the original manufacturer.

Samsung isn’t selling flashed devices as far as I know…

Or even

Wait for it

SELF DRIVING TRANSIT

Which yes is already a thing too

Pair of hook earbuds. Cheap no-name presumably Chinese brand, but they sound great and don’t fall out of my earholes.

I’m frankly not of the opinion that natural human curiosity should be described as autism.

It’s like, what, let’s not have science? Let’s not have history? Let’s not have medicine?

This is actually kind of bad because it encourages “normal” people to not ever question anything

Next time someone tells me “you wouldn’t want to live in one of those old castles” I’ll show themthis.

Hi. QA here. Stop laying us off maybe.

easy swinging every other weekend

You know damn well odds are near even that those kids are actually half brothers

No, really, it was corporate social media, and also the smartphone (iphone particularly). They don’t need to know anything anymore thanks to those two. I mean even MySpace had kids learning CSS at least.

“We used to make our own webpages…!”

ngl there’s a tea from Cornwall that is my absolute favorite black tea now

They’re getting more common. I personally used a stovetop kettle as recently as six years ago. But electric kettles are a world of difference.

Minor problem for me is currently living in a very old house that we don’t own and using a proper electric kettle will pop a breaker. I recently bought a travel kettle that uses like 1/5 the wattage instead