Potentially, but an awful lot of stuff today is being dumped instead of diverted to food pantries. There is a lot of “surplus” food that is not close to a food bank, and a lot of people who don’t have easy access to one either. And there are a lot of people who would gladly pay a little for food than have to get it…

Amazon is missing an opportunity here. If they offered nominally “out of date” food at a discount, I would be all over that deal. Same thing if they offered less-than-beautiful fruit and veg. In the US we throw away absurd amounts of perfectly good food for bad reasons. 

Watching a movie on the seat-back screen is tough when the person in front of you has their seat reclined all the way to your nose

The show got significantly revamped between the pilot and going to series.

Whenever my young son didn’t want to put on anything from socks to jacket, I would try to put it on myself. He would laugh at how ridiculous I looked then tell me “No, Daddy! That’s for me!” and promptly put it on.

OK, that makes more sense. I deduce that you get a lot more out of the riding part than I would — my reference point would be to just take the train both ways. When I was much younger I rode a Vespa, and always associate it with the necessity of what I could afford, rather than any joy...

if I want to say, go out drinking and don’t want to be responsible for getting my bike back home safely

I like the form factor in principle, because I have small hands (nobody, not even the rain, has smaller hands). But I suspect that this thing is going to be priced like an Italian fashion accessory, not like a communication device.

I’m going to assume that his lawyers have told him, many times, to settle before he had to give a deposition that left him looking like a petulant child but being one of those people who thinks he’s always the smartest guy in the room, Musk was determined to go ahead.

Two things I don’t understand. One: If my boss called me in for a 5am meeting and I knew I was toast, I would not show. Hell, I’m not sure I’d even let them know beforehand I wasn’t going to show. What are they going to do, fire me?

Fun fact: scientific research shows there’s no real benefit to flossing. So now we can all stop feeling guilty that we don’t.

Next time you’re about to deliver a witticism to someone who’s doing their job—or make a joke about their name, or about their physical appearance or something else they can’t control

I have a *very* unusual last name. (How unusual? Several genealogy sites think I’m globally unique). You have no idea how often people point that out to me. For a while I would respond to “that’s an unusual name!” with “Is it? I never noticed. Everybody in my family is called that”, but pretty soon I got even more…

FIFA needs to suspend Israel under it’s political interference rules.

I recommend that airpod owners put them in the cutlery basket of their dishwasher.

Good article. I disliked Gladwell long before this, so now I can add “disgusted” to “disliked”. Gladwell is a stupid person’s idea of what a smart person sounds like.

How bad does it have to get before Netflix acknowledges that its user-hostile interface is driving users away? Like many, many other people I’d like to be able to peacefully browse for something unexpected and interesting without an annoying trailer kicking in that I can only escape by moving to the next thing.

Google Play Music is great as an additional backup of my CDs, but awful as a podcast player. I tried a lot of apps before finding one that did the basics well: play podcasts in sequence, auto-download new ones, auto-delete old ones, etc. Castbox was where I landed. YMMV but I don’t think any of the streaming services…

I once volunteered my exit row seat — the one with about four feet of space in front of it — to the guy behind me who really looked like he needed it. I later found out that he was a moderately well-known college basketball player (I don’t follow the game, don’t ask me his name).

Since we are on the topic of smart people saying dumb things: how about we put Richard Stallman and Elon Musk in a room and let them argue it out?