They are irrelevant.

Well, that's only if you've only ever lived in places with good electricity service that doesn't go out regularly, electrocute you nor set houses on fire on a regular basis. As someone that has lived in places like that as well as places with no electricity, and places where there were actually options for utility companies - I can appreciate good electricity service.

No, we just have to read it again after all Tesla owners have died.

I was going to starve my child to death, but then I drove past a graveyard and saw a statue of Superman.

But he will be correct eventually.

I'm in the middle of a sewing or knitting project, and I run out of thread or yarn. If I can order it with 30 minute delivery, I do not have to wait hours for my husband to get home with the car so I can finish the project. If it is something I'm making for sale and there is a time limit (say, it's suppose to ship out tomorrow or the next day) this can be vital.

The power is out, and the batteries in my radio die. .

I'm sitting on the toilet and run out of toilet paper. .

Heck I can think of a million reasons.

If you don't, then you don't set it to be delivered at that time.
Personally, at my house, there are very few periods of time when no one is home or awake - I have a family, and we don't all leave/sleep at the same time.
I also live in a neighborhood where I'm comfortable leaving a package on my lawn for a few hours... and my dog is going to bark if anyone gets near it, anyway (which will wake me up).

I'm pretty sure the first time, the child got it from being in the mother's uterus; not from abuse.
I'm also pretty sure that it would have to be some awfully creative abuse for female to female-4-year-old abuse to spread HIV.

How do you know the accuracy if you aren't listening while you watch the closed captions? (Or ARE you listening while watching the closed captions, in the hope of teaching the two month old to read or some such?)

Personally I don't have any hobbies that don't come down to needing internet access anymore.

I play video games, but most of the stuff I want to play nowadays is through Steam (which requires internet access, if only to set it to offline mode), or online play is a major component, or the game I want to play at that moment is not necessarily on my device (so I'd have to download it before I could play).

I read, but mostly ebooks nowadays, so I'd have to download a book before I could read it. I listen to audiobooks, same problem - and audiobooks from the library download in parts, so even if I've already started listening, there's no guarantee I'll have the next part downloaded.

I watch anime, but I watch it streaming nowadays.

I knit and crochet, but 95% of my patterns are digital - so if I want to start a new project I have to download the pattern.

I listen to Japanese music, but most of my music is in Amazon Cloud Player. There are no Japanese radio stations here.

I could go to a coffee shop or the library to use their internet access... but are they open today, what time do they close today, do I have enough gas money to drive there, enough money to buy a cup of coffee? I don't know for sure without internet access.

I could pull out some older games or a dead-tree-book or knit something I know how to do by heart, without a pattern. But it wouldn't be what I hoped and planned to do that day, so it would feel like a waste of time and/or, depending on the activity, a waste of money. Or I'd start enjoying something and come to something that needs internet access (looking up a word that is too new to be in the dictionary I have, looking up how to get past something in a game, the next part of an audiobook, where to buy new hiking boots, whatever) and then I'd get frustrated and angry. Even having a conversation with my husband usually leads to one or the other of us wanting to look something up on the internet.

I know it's a first world problem.. Usually if the internet or power is going to be out for more than a few waking hours, I go to someone elses' house (power especially because then I can't recharge my devices that can connect to the internet on their own/without my in-home internet access working).

Most crashes are a result of human error, not instrument failure. If you remove human error and emotion from the equation, things would actually be safer.

Health risks for the neighbors. Animals take it into other yards. decomposing or just dripping trash seeps into other yards, etc.

I don't know; what's the problem with that?

Well I think the issue with that is that selling crack is illegal. Whether it should be or not is another issue.

So I'm still not getting why people PARKING is an issue.

People parking on laws or not, that's a consequence of living near a roller coaster park / exhibition site (and it won't be stopped by disallowing parking on lawns); and to a lesser extent, of living near other people. The only reasonable thing that can be done is limiting noise during certain hours.

Oh no, they're making property taxes lower for people that live there and showing potential buyers the truth of living near a roller coaster park / exhibition site! Those monsters!

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And when they WERE used, it would have only been in the kind of sausage that you peel - not in those where you eat it casing and all.

Why do the neighbors take exception to it, though? How does it affect the neighbors if someone else messes up their lawn and flower bed?
From May - August my neighbors have friends over pretty much daily, enough to have (along with their own cars - they have 3 generations of family living together) 8 - 9 cars parked on their property and in front of their house (parallel parked on the street). Should I take exception to that?