It still drives me insane on Ios that there's no way to share to Google Tasks. For years I've asked for this simple option as my main work flow is to share from the browser to tasks for things to revisit later.
It was super convenient to fly out of Mather Field to San Jose and be door to door in like an hour and change. But prob uneconomical in today's zoom world although I imagine the cost of lost time going from PDX to SMF then getting to the local office means losing half a days work.
UPS in the UK is absolutely atrocious. The drivers are not motivated to deliver at all and there must be some externality that means no downside to failed attempts. I'd say 50% of my packages go to a crappy convenient store a mile away from home which is a huge hassle to get to and has surly staff who are very displeased to see you and make the absolute least effort. Makes UPS in the US look absolutely gold plated. I assume they must send their flunkies from Atlanta to the overseas regions if they're too incompetent to work in the US system but it's really appalling. My childhood rural UPS drivers were absolutely lovely but the UK makes me despise this carrier nearly as much as Hermes/Evri
Aside from fraud and weird toll numbers, for bonafide use its often calls (esp to mobile) in certain countries where there's less competition, often smaller island nations like British Virgin Islands or the Maldives https://www.voipkredi.com/page.php?page=betamax-dellmont
These work horribly in England. At my local M&S (a middle to upper market grocery store) the self checkout fails at some point about 60% of the time requiring an overburdened overseer watching 25+ terminals to come over and swipe their card without even really looking what's wrong. Most of the time it seems to be poorly calibrated weight sensors or too tight a margin where product variability is not accounted for properly. Probably some stupid outsourced IT team setting a single weight for each sku and not understanding that an apple could be a few hundred grams different.
Really fascinating area of science. They were ignored in lieu of antibiotics in the post war forming of big Pharma (except for pockets like France and Russia). Startups are working in this space now https://www.phagos.org/
I haven’t followed them enough but is it possible to support them without supporting other charitable causes of a political persuasion I don’t support? I fully support everything directly related to their cause but it gets me very upset when charities are supporting other various agendas around gender/immigration for example that are unrelated to their main goal.
until charities decide to start buying them on behalf of drug users and giving them new ones after their ban. No one will be able to stand up to the complaints that a person can be banned from the toilet no matter how badly they destroy it