I've got 570 channels of shit on the TV to choose from.

Pink Floyd's original lyric was "I've got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from".

Wouldn't helicopters and air drops be better, more efficient and faster means of disaster relief compared to waiting a week for an airship to mosey its way over, weather permitting?

"Be a shame if something were to... happen to it."

This. Whether it works or not, clicking the "unsubscribe" button in an email tells the sender that they've got an active email account, which increases its value when they sell it to other companies.

Don't click "unsubscribe" buttons.

"Would you like to know more?"

You can get induction plates for induction stove tops that allow you to use cookware that doesn't normally work with induction. Basically a thin steel plate that sits between the cookware and the element. There's a whole bunch of them on Amazon.

I'm retired now but my last job was at a company for which, since its inception, all employees worked remotely. We did have a small rented office in the city centre but it wasn't used for, as you put it, useless meetings for managers seeking to justify their existence; it was necessary because our clients were other companies and from time to time they would visit and want to vet the team.

Having said that, I worked there for four years and only saw that office three times.

You know how in science fiction the AI has to trick the humans into giving it access to the Internet? I think those writers vastly overestimated the common sense of humans. Won't make much difference in this case but should general AI show up at some point...

...where I can buy AA batteries that last for five years?

...but I can't think of a better way to get something done right than to panic, race to get it done and get it out the door as fast as possible. I mean, that always works, right? Just ask CD Projekt Red.

Ah, M.U.L.E., a game my friend and I played so much back in the day that we wound up turning it into a drinking game.

Seems like a good idea on the face of it but there are several situations where a crash means you are no longer on a road. Perhaps in the middle of someone's living room after going airborne off a curb, for example.

On the other hand, in such a situation, it's likely that 911 is going to get called manually by one or more people anyway, so the general usefulness of this feature seems dubious to me.

Didn't GM already do that with their EV1 back in the late 1990s? People were only allowed to lease the car and in 2002, under the terms of the lease, they demanded the return of all of them, which they subsequently destroyed.

If the objective is to revive populations of endangered species and the process requires you to have a given species available as well its eggs, then why not just leave those eggs as is rather than turning them into clones, stripping away all genetic diversity from said species?

Am I missing something here?

... it's time to grow up?