And a new cake, pudding, pie or cheese named after the nearest town

They can’t run it under a tap and see if it falls apart like a real one

There’s also the fact the mobile gaming industry worked hard to make it an ad riddled, predatory monetisation & whalebait laden skinner box hellscape.
I don’t deny there’s a few gems mixed into the dogshit, which is a shame because I’m not going digging for it.

So if the guy with one arm tells me not to stick my arm out the window of a moving vehicle, I should ignore him?

Adicts gonna addict

They might not get discarded separately, but do they get recycled separately?
I always loosen caps when throwing them in the green bin so the bottles will compress more easily. Others might just throw them in separately or they might even pop off once compacted.
I don’t know how much of a problem having them separated might be (I’m just wondering out loud) but I could see how keeping things together and not having lots of small fiddly bits in mixed loads prior to sorting could be beneficial.
Sounds like it doesn’t take much contamination for recycling companies to redirect whole loads to landfill, so it it helps there it’s good I guess?

“How can one party reserve the right to unilaterally change the terms?”
When it comes to business to consumer contracts, often they can’t, due to “unfair terms” clauses in a lot of consumer protection laws.

In this specific case, the fact you can opt-out retrospectively (and inconveniently of course) is certainly due to those laws.

But like you say, it needs to be tested.

I dumped my satellite TV subscription service last year when I realised all we ever watched on it were on-demand services. I hooked one of the dish feeds into the TVs own socket since it was there, but beyond testing it worked it’s had no more than an hours use in the last six months.
We just watch stuff on the TVs streaming apps instead of the satellite decoders streaming apps (saving about 100kWh a year).
One of the few times we watched live TV, it was just on in the background and we realised the show that was on seemed interesting, we’d missed the first 10 minutes but there was an option to press a button and open the on-demand app and restart immediately from the beginning.

Just make sure they have audio out too (unless your source can drive a soundbar directly). I just got a new monitor that had built in speakers. They’re dog shit, and I didn’t plan on using them anyway, but I hadn’t appreciated how useful it was having a device that can decode the audio stream from HDMI or DP.
I still have my old usb soundbar for the times I want a loudspeaker, but I can just leave my headphones plugged into the monitors jack and switch the output device on the computer.

And as Elon found out, mandatory arbitration clauses can come back to bite you, like when a large number of claims have to be paid for separately all at once and can’t be consolidated to save costs.

The legal term is “consideration”. To form a contract you must have three elements: Offer, consideration, and acceptance.
Unfortunately, I’m not sure it would help here. They would argue their consideration is whatever online services are tied to the product, but even without that, the contract isn’t being formed at this point (unless someone is going through first setup, at which point they can still return it). The contract was already formed and this is an amendment to those terms that the original wording likely has weasel words to permit.

That’s not to say the consumer has no recourse, consumer rights are probably the best bet. If the previous terms don’t expressly grant them the right to take away access to all features in circumstances like this, it may be possible to find them in breach, but unfortunately EULAs are usually pretty toothless when it comes to penalising the vendor.

“You’re just getting ripped off” he taunted “No one thinks you’re cool because you spent $10k on Clash of Clans”

Aww and I was looking forward to a chipped windscreen requiring the replacement of the entire cabin, unless the car had ever been in the rain, in which case fuck you buy a new one.

Last mile at least, with equal access rules in the exchange

When I was a lot younger, pretty much every washing machine (here in the UK) had both hot and cold fill. It went away for three reasons.

1. Machines got more water efficient.
2. Direct hot water from a combi gas boiler became the standard (replacing big jacketed tanks in most houses).
3. New detergents led to a campaign to encourage washing at 30°C rather than 40-60°C
   It’s more cost effective to heat a small amount of water directly at100% efficiency in the machine than drawing cold water out of the pipework and either heating it then rest of the way directly or pouring it down the drain until it ran hot from the 80% efficient gas appliance.
   Interesting to hear it might be making a comeback. I can see the logic if there’s a source of hot water from a heat pump, provided losses can be minimised.
   Personally I have PV so (weather permitting) electric is preferable to gas other than for space heating and bathing. That could change though. As it is, the heat pump drier, efficient as it is, still accounts for the majority of the energy used for laundry, even with the washer doing an extra spin cycle.

I don’t trust the Gamble-Tron 2000, I only place my bets according to Smooth Jimmy’s Lock of the week

A 757 can be between 20 and 40 years old

If you’re not at home, you can easily find flat surfaces to prepare your food on, known as benches. They are available in any park that hasn’t had them removed just to spite the homeless. You can also add butter to your park bench sandwiches using a credit or debit card.

!I actually knew someone who did so while making food to sell at a funeral to raise money for the deceased.!<

Technically still a neural network.

I’m white, lactose intolerant, and drink the oat milk from the bowl when I have cereal.
I encourage the kids to do the same with their cows milk.