@PNS yeah when you dig into it, a lot of famous Brits of that era were born abroad because their parents were colonial administration government bureaucrats, often in India. That tells you what schools and social clubs later formed their class-based opinions. You can imagine Orwell and Huxley drinking brandy in wingback chairs arguing which extreme future controls the commoners better. I'm more surprised that he died at age 46.
@greenzeta@PNS yeah but I would like to know how they determine which toy goes in the Happy Meal when they're offering a bunch and tell you to collect them all. I mean if I was going to come in and say buy four or five items, I would ask could you help me out cuz I want to get a complete set without dupes.
@PNS your pedal is still going to hit the stair. I wonder what the top speed of those star wheels are and how hard they wear down the tips.
Back when Dean Kamen invented the Segway, he also invented a sister product that was a new kind of wheelchair that could automatically climb stairs. You never hear about it but it's still out there being made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT
@PNS it will quietly have kids and if anyone ever calls it on this fact in the future it will deflect it by saying it's wife demanded them or she changed his mind. But this is a lie, it is always planning to breed but wants you to be afraid to have children because of these bullshit propaganda fears it is projecting in this paragraph explicitly to pollute your mind with unreasonable fears.
@PNS don't know if you're showing me Canada or the UK, but you tell the cop okay since you're here now I want you to walk with me while I retrieve my stolen property that I notified you about. You can ask him if he spoke with the property owner lady or you can later tell her that someone left your stolen bike in her yard. Or later you can tell her you called the cops this time, next time it happens you're calling the undertaker. Let's hope there isn't a next time.
@PNS the ability to return retail goods really started with Montgomery Wards in the early 1900s. Even before Sears, Wards invented the catalog order book and pioneered USPS delivery to rural homes (not just to PO's) with his 4-in thick catalog offering 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Before that rural people had to bulk buy in an annual big city trip and haul it all home with no returns. This of course requires a high trust culture which India is not.