Succinct and accurate. Really wish people were more objective and less polarized on software.

We’re excited to announce the new Sony WH1000XM6 headphones, enhanced by the power of spanners!

I don’t see why my headphones need a sp-

Conveniently built in to your headset, you can use the spanner to adjust bolt tightness on-the-go!

Okay, but that’s not wh-

We’re proud to be leading the market in spanner-augmented products to bring a new level of convenience to your life.

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Spanner may sometimes only appear to tighten bolts. Please don’t ask us the energy cost of manufacturing the spanner.

It’s part of the Manoogian collection in Detroit, MI. It’s called Shore of the Turquoise Sea or sometimes just Emerald Sea.

Remastering mistake, I think - in the ComicVine link you posted, the rightmost finger is absent.

25th or 26th October seems likely to me based on the first announcement (Twitter link).

There’s a ton of history on Wikipedia. Most of it is the council coming up with new reasons to demolish it or plans to change it, with no convincing motive.

The most notable things for me were:

• An allegation that they want the bridge demolished to remove the trams that mar the modernity of the waterfront regeneration project nearby.
• A mention of Chinese lenders bankrolling the demolition and construction a Chinese construction firm being awarded the contract for constructing a new bridge.
• A mention of a Russian construction and design group submitting plans for transforming and relocating the existing bridge.

I’m weeping at the damage to those floorboards. Could they not have been lifted first?

Mark Gurman, who’s normally dead on the money when it comes to Apple, thinks they’re unlikely to keep up annual releases (though I should note the linked article suggests the new iPhone model schedule is unlikely to change for now).

There’s no safe way to answer this without giving away plot points, I don’t think. Most important thing is that it’s sci-fi, not a drama about developers in the way you might expect.

I loved Season 1, but I felt it became bogged down after that - almost a soap opera.

The gameplay was fun (though I agree about the ghosts), but I found the writing obnoxious. Super melodramatic and weirdly absurdist, but at the same time really quite tedious.

Gandalf is the name of a dwarf in the Norse Poetic Edda (from which Tolkien borrowed a bunch of names, mostly dwarves). He supposed – probably accurately – that it meant “wand-elf”, but he originally gave the name to Thorin.

Ah - “lost” in OP’s link is a misleading word, then!

That’s nearly 1 in 200 Russian citizens that have died been injured or killed in the Ukrainian invasion, if my math is correct:

696410 / 144544546 * 100 ‎ = 0.482

It was a joke, but the article itself does explicitly conclude this as one of its observations:

The findings raise big questions about the limits and future of polling, which relies on voters giving responses reflecting their real-life political behavior.

The post links both The Guardian and MBFC. The bot has picked up both links and posted the following (verbatim):

Media Bias Fact Check | bot support

You mock now, but when you next need your telephone sanitized…

“Significant minority of people lie in polls, a poll reveals.”

Works for the UK too — high street chemists have given way to supermarket pharmacy counters to some extent, and most supermarkets will have fuel and fast food nearby.

You have to learn a lot about US culture and infrastructure (inductively) to use English-language social media; I don’t see why a meme that’s centric to a different country should be an issue.