I remember seeing my first drone at a music festival in 2010ish. Totally blew me away, pun unintended

They voted for Selena Meyer too

If an app asks me to rate it, or checks what my rating is going to be before sending me to either a feedback form or Google Play, depending on my response, then it instantly gets a 1 star review

SmartTube is some of the greatest software ever made

I think all these other countries only care about the fact that India has a burgeoning middle class and is going to become the next consumption led market. Everyone has too much of their own stuff to deal with at the moment, but they love the idea of huge cohort of new customers over the coming decades, regardless of who's in charge

Not to take away from your post, which is nuanced and interesting. But I think the buck stops at the economics for most

Blood and Oil is a fascinating book about the rise of MBS. They literally had a guy on the inside in Twitter in California who would feed them back information like this. Definitely not a boring book, it reads like a thriller more often than not

Absolutely, this return to office stuff has been an absolute gift for CEOs wanting to downsize, it's the perfect fluffy PR way to turn the thumbscrews. Factor in the popular idea that you're a slacker if you don't work hard all the time and you basically have public support too.

I'm sure plenty of people will just suck it up and view the past few years as a very extended break from office nonsense and commuting hassle, but enough will jump ship to fill quotas

• It is a solar-powered watch that uses Citizen's Eco-Drive technology. This means it converts any light, natural or artificial, into energy to recharge the battery. So it never needs a traditional battery replacement.

• The Satellite Wave model has the added ability to sync its time globally using signals from GPS satellites. There is a small antenna under the dial that receives satellite signals.

• When in range of GPS signals, the watch syncs to the atomic clock time signal from satellites orbiting the Earth. This keeps the time accurate anywhere in the world and automatically adjusts for daylight savings time.

• Syncing can happen automatically when the watch is exposed to bright light. There is also a button on the case you can push to manually trigger a time sync if needed.

• Between syncs, the Eco-Drive technology keeps the watch powered and keeping accurate quartz time. The power reserve when fully charged is about 6 months

Very cool!

I travel a lot and I swear I've never seen the same shower design twice. There's so many different freakin' ways to deliver a stream of water to your head and they nearly all require some level of finessing. I'm assuming it all stems from an 1800s court case about patents but fuck that judge and everyone involved that day

European here. A friend of mine bought a house in Cairns a while back. Is it an area that's known to have problems with wildfires? I realised this is a vague question but she was asking me about whether or not she should sell the house based on the global financial situation, but she never mentioned wildfires. I assume she's factoring it in based on the insane wildfires you guys had a couple of years back but you can never be sure

Bit of a mixed bag

I leave it on, the suggestions are good as far as I can tell. What's everyone's beef with it?

I don't get the YouTube hate in general. It's much more interesting than Netflix or TV so I'm happy to pay, although I pay Argentina rates courtesy of subscribing while connected to my VPN and I use Sponsor Block to skip the in-video ad reads. It still counts