The EU are introducing new laws that require batteries be easily user-replacable in devices like vapes. I'm hoping that'll kill them off if nothing else.
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It's quittin' time! See ya Monday!
Digital signage? They're basically monitors but often have a basic onboard OS like Android for running DS apps, but like you said they're otherwise a dumb TV without the aerial port.
Oh, SCART. We hardly knew ye. Truly France's greatest gift to the world.
Your last point is something that I often say: we'll never figure out how to reverse aging, we'll only figure out how to stop Elon Musk aging.
On the philanthropy point: We used to have more progressive taxation systems that discouraged wealth-hoarding. For someone of arbitrarily large income, massive philanthropic acts were often ways to avoid paying taxes. They were going to lose the money either way, but by building a library, expanding a hospital, funding a humanitarian project, feeding the poor or whatever they could choose where the money was spent instead and, as others have said, get some good PR and legacy-building at the same time. Now their wealth isn't threatened by taxation, why would they even consider relinquishing it?
It's only a model.
Honestly it's depressing how many people I know who won't even Google things. They expect their knowledge, news and opinions to come to them on their social feeds, a place where good bellyfeel is the measure of worth.
Preemption.
Not just when they're walking, but waiting until they're at the front of the queue to decide what to order, or being surprised when the light turns green, or getting home to find nothing to eat in the fridge... The number of people I know who just refuse to think a couple of steps ahead.
What's "this"? I can't see what you're holding.
/s
"There's nothing more we can do. I'm calling it. He's gone. Time of death, 03:39. Cause of death: planet exploding."
I just did a simulation with representative bodies that included spheroid objects of varying densities to approximate the makeup of the major solar bodies and all the fruit bounced everywhere and the lady behind the counter is really upset now.
Well, they do have batteries so, yeah. That's the issue I have with them: they're made of a finite, fairly precious and environmentally damaging material but the manufacturers specifically sell them as disposable. At least a McDonalds carton dumped on the roadside will dissolve to harmless mush in a few months, but disposable vapes won't; they're going to landfill, or down drains into rivers, or exploding in compactors and the manufacturers know it.