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You can see the current McDonald's international selections at that Chicago location on Uber Eats, choose "Global Favorites":

https://www.ubereats.com/store/mcdonalds-global-menu-restaur...

The selections are sadly, very limited.

Maybe this will reduce the amount of nonsensical tech added to each vehicle. We don't need an AI chatbot to turn on the heater when a physical button will do.

I was told this by a second-generation Korean immigrant who's not a fan of the practice either. I don't know if it's still common but it's not something that would be advertised outside of their culture.

Specifically for South Korea:

Most horrifically, there is a widely held belief that in order to produce tender meat, dogs should have high adrenaline levels right before they die. To achieve this, dogs are sadistically made to experience extreme fear and suffering in the lead up to their deaths.

https://awionline.org/awi-quarterly/winter-2012/friend-or-fo...

You are referring to a Corsi–Rosenthal Box. You are correct that they will get you 90% of the way there, but they also tend to be large, loud, and ugly. We can build better things now that we have time and resources.

A Pebble is probably the closest option. Casio doesn't seem to put much effort on their watches that have health or fitness tracking.

I think you are grossly minimizing the effects on your change on both users and developers. Neither are going to comply and then you have further fragmented the user base and removed a bunch of apps.

I use an Android tablet and I only backswipe at the upper left.

I am surprised that nothing is mentioned about weather, as people have been moving to cities that are dependent on air conditioning.

It estimates that about 1% of the population [of Phoenix], or 13,250 people, would die, and half the city, or 816,570 people, would be put in emergency rooms if power was completely out for two days, then slowly restored throughout the region over the next three.

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2023/06/05/study-phoenix-face...

It could be just Zwift, not a new program.

Although I only found the highly-rated Philips Ultra Definition bulbs at Walmart, of all places.

Apparently many new cars come with tires with less than normal tread, one of the reasons is to have greater fuel economy.

Google seems to have "directives from high" where they shoehorn the latest fad into all their existing devices, regardless of whether it works or not, on a tight schedule. Gemini is the latest one.

I had Google WiFi points that worked fine, and then there was a directive to merge them into Google Home. They didn't show up correctly in the Home app for a year or so.

Some parents seem to believe that quality family time would spontaneously happen, if not for all those darn screens taking away all our attention and free time.

There's a tiny bit of truth in that, but sometimes parents need to actually do parenting and force their family to put down the phone or stop watching the tv and do things together.

Self-driving cars are going to make this worse through no fault of the passenger.

My Tesla gets confused at an area where there are three intersections in very close proximity. It needs to turn at the third one. It tries to turn at the first one. The second one is a railroad crossing, and turning there would be very dangerous.

You don't build datacenters on the most expensive land with the most expensive electricity.

I wonder if the ports play a role in getting additional updates over the years. Every year or so, NMS gets a port to a different platform, with a sales bump, and maybe part of that process includes adding just a little bit more to the base game.

> 2. Confirm that their home, meter, and electricity contract are compatible.

This seems like the hardest step. The costs of "just a battery" are much lower by comparison.

The 900 person layoffs were in 2021.

$40K for a month, not a year.

$40k a month for a year is nearly half a million dollars.

Even the actual money they spent for the month, $13k, comes out to more than $150k a year. And that's after taxes.

Obviously no one is going on Hawaii vacations every month. But this is a dumb article trying to promote the author's book.

Cars are slowly becoming subsidized by subscriptions and advertisements. And to some extent, costs of maintenance and gasoline.

The fast food places near me closed all their dining rooms when indoor dining was banned during the pandemic. They converted their front doors into Doordash-only pickup. I was expecting that change to be permanent for fast food joints, but no, they've all reopened their indoor dining areas.

In-N-Out may have a lot of staff but my experience is that they are extraordinarily slow for "fast food", and this was before the pandemic. They would never meet the metrics of other chains. Arguably, they have always been understaffed.

I sometimes have the urge to go to an In-N-Out, but the drive through line loops through their own parking lot and into the one next door. There are people standing outside the restaurant because the indoor dining line extends past the doors. I don't really want to sit in my car or stand in line for 30 minutes.

I used to go to In-N-Out weekly when I worked a late shift; the line after midnight is much shorter.

Waymo has taken significant market share from Lyft and Uber in San Francisco already:

https://underscoresf.com/in-san-francisco-waymo-has-now-best...

It does monthly trends: https://m-cdn.phonearena.com/images/articles/452350-image/in...

That image also implies that not only does it know trends, but it also has an absolute good/bad value.

Fitbit is probably gone by the end of the decade.

The Fitbit app has been replaced by the Google Health app. Other than the Fitbit Air released this year and the Fitbit Ace for kids, the last Fitbit device was released in 2023. Both of those newer devices are reduced functionality versions of older Fitbit products.

I assume all the companies have zero respect for any of their users now. At least Apple can maintain a tablet and laptop line for more than a few years without the urge to restart it with "brand new ideas".

DC Rainmaker has done his own test: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2026/08/google-pixel-watch-5-gps...

That's the only plausible scenario, but it also came out in 2023 and people stopped caring at least a year before. And it persisted for a few years so either someone thought they could salvage something from it, or no one had a better idea what to put there.

It's not just that it's too expensive. It's the uncertainty. No one knows how much anything costs until you get the bill several months afterwards. Every time you go to the doctor, you're giving them a blank check.

I was legitimately excited to get an iPhone Mini. Every new phone feels like a downgrade. I don't care if the phone is faster if it's an annoyance to carry, or hold in one hand.