So you finally realized the world is not you.

Again, how would you know unless you have access to everyone's calendar?

1) You said no one uses or has a calendar. That's entirely different than no one can see your calendar. Why would you lie? 2) My entire point was no one should be able to see your calendar. What part of that was unclear to you?

And you know this, how? Do you have access to everyone's calendar?

In the case of surgery, you mean besides to remind people I work with that I'm having surgery so I will be out for X number of days? In the case of maternity leave, I have a coworker that I do not interact with on a daily basis. She's out on maternity leave but I don't know when she started or when she gets back. Guess what scheduling a meeting tell would tell me: She's out until [date].

In what world do you live in? I have 2 calendars: Outlook and Zoom. How do people at your work schedule meetings again? Telepathy? Text messages?

What does a cashier have to do with Amazon again? You do understand Amazon has office workers right?

Let me see if I understand you correctly: According to you no one uses a calendar even though I have 2 of them to keep track of meetings. No one blocks off time in their calendar so that people know not to schedule a meeting or that someone is unavailable. Do you actually work in an office because it seems like you do not.

Sure, but they make big leaps every time they launch. It's not incremental like SpaceX, so it's hard to say how they compare.

They are putting fibre on the poles now. Not just BT, around here we have Cityfibre using the poles for their connections.

To be fair there are advantages to above ground lines. Japan got onto fibre very early because they opened up their above ground infrastructure so that other companies could use the poles for their own cables. It looks messy but they are a couple of decades ahead of the UK for internet access.

They are above ground around here. Had to get them to come and fix the neighbour's cable that was attached to a bracket on my house. The guy took a look at it and said it was too much hassle to get the cherry picker, but if I just cut it myself they would eventually send someone. So I did. And they did. With the cherry picker.

Dyson ran out of good ideas some time ago. Their vacuum cleaners are still good, but overpriced. Even there, they copied the dust detector laser thing from Japanese manufacturers. The stopped making washing machines because they weren't profitable enough, and abandoned their car. Their snot canon, the weird headphones that filter air and blow it in your face, sending respiratory diseases in all directions, never gained much traction in the market.

I doubt these things work very well. Water flossers are in general pretty useless. They dislodge large bits of food, but do little with plaque. You need actual floss to scrub it off.

As much as it pains me to say it, I don't think Blue Origin is that far behind. They just have a different methodology to SpaceX. Instead of failing fast and often while they iterate, Blue Origin does a lot of testing and then a successful launch. So it's very hard to say exactly where they are in comparison to SpaceX, but we will find out in the next few years when they are supposed to deliver the first crewed lunar lander to NASA.

A camera that reports on people who don't floss. They could sell the research data to dentists.

Bro, your dentist already knows. And is judging you every time you visit.

You can get 15 minute pricing in the UK. With your own solar and battery you can do quite well out of it.

Herp derp all equally bad both sides so I voted for the fascist.

The really shitty politicians want you to think exactly that so you might vote for them even knowing how shitty they are.

Those are total rip off prices. The components for a 1200W kit are under £300 if you buy them separately, although of course they are not certified. There is no enforcement and many people have been running them for years already. In Germany the kits are under £300.

Maybe when one of the German supermarkets (Lidl or Aldi) comes out with a kit we will get some reasonable prices.

It really depends. You can have overall negative bills with a decent solar array, battery, and feed-in tariff.

The problem in the UK is that the price of electricity is set by the most expensive source that is required at the time, which is almost always gas. On top of that we have to pay over the odds for nuclear power, if it is needed or not.

500W panels will be around $125-150 each, so let's say 4.5k for those. 15kWh battery should be around $2000. The inverter itself doesn't cost much, a few hundred, but you will have some additional labour costs if you want it to do off-grid, i.e. whole house UPS. Some cable and mounting hardware. The rest will be labour.

Yeah, shingles, roof tiles, whatever you want to call them. Rather than those you can have panels that are the surface of the roof: https://www.wienerberger.co.uk...

So you don't need to buy shingles or tiles for those areas, or have them fitted. No need for bird fences to keep them out either, as they can't get underneath.

In your world people just take time off medical leave without reasons?

They are not supposed to be visible which is the point you are missing.

Good for you?

And here is the crux of the problem: You do not represent everyone but somehow think you do.