…not quite sure where the hostility is coming from.

The question OP asked is what is likely to vanish in 10 years, and I described the already forced-digitization of household appliances and took it one step further to depict Appliances-as-a-Service, based on the model the printer industry is already rolling out.

How his offends anyone, is a little beyond me. Maybe I should have added quotes?

Yup. Worse still, I can see this extending to other appliances. Haven’t paid your monthly washing machine service fee? Our partnership with the only water company in your area authorizes us to shut off your water.

Manual appliances. You can open the fridge, but only if you pay your monthly subscription fee to keep it restocked.

We work hand-in-hand with retailers to make online shopping the default, whilst making the UI only accessible to AI bots, so if you want a stocked fridge; pay your fees.

self-inflicted, if they played nice we would all be printing from home.

upside is less paper waste

thank god for that drippy background music on that BBC video, for a second there I almost forgot where I was

aioli

Poor man’s ranch dressing for anyone not of the continent

If it’s good enough for NASA, it’s good ebough for me

Thank you so much!

WKUK are always good, and the current guy on their channel is pushing very apt sketches in our current world crisis

Thanks for checking IMDB, I didn’t think to look there! I wonder if they have a wiki of sorts with this info

This was before Thomas Ladder

I was thinking the exact same thing. Mud walls are great insulators, and keep really cool during the intense summer heat

Mud huttingdon:

Big beautiful brutalistic concrete block with some fucking space!

I think that era is over. GTA 6 is looking to be another visually pretty rendition with limited innovation, and the satirical elements being sidelined for actual americana bs.

We’ve had games with destructible environments, realistic reactions, and decent physics, 15 years ago, and somehow the only envelope R* push are visuals, which are incremental at best, and online play, which are pay-to-win toxic casinos.

“I know a place on the edge of the red-light district where we can lay low, but my hands are all messed up, so you better drive, brother!”

“Senor Diiickheeead!”

Best opening lines with the most exposition. We learned everything we needed to know

Nah, I loved gulping that battery acid

I remember their orange juice being so thick and rich for something like 30p per litre. The richer parents bought the brands with pulp

remember when Tesco products were white packages with blue stripes?

Climate Scientists:

• The lightbulb is broken, and there’s reason to believe that the ceiling might cave in
• Offers advice on how to fix the contacts, or to replace the bulb entirely, or put up struts to support the ceiling in an impassioned plea to the higher ups.
• CTO is committed already to candles, CFO wants to wait and see what happens, and CEO labels it as a marketing problem.

Starmer kissing the pinkie ring paid off I guess, well done to him for navigating that