Reminds me of how Alexa was pitched as a tool to get people to buy more things from Amazon, but few people were willing to let it buy anything especially as Amazon's marketplace is filled with alphabet soup products and obvious fakes.

A Porsche owner is not likely to be concerned about these items.

The real question is why the younger generations aren't adopting the same behaviors. Is there something special about millennials that they drank more or something special about Gen Z that they drink less?

When you see that "X" did shit to you parents then you probably won't want to use "X" anymore if you are remotely sane person.

Wait until future kids see what X (Twitter) does to society today.

The idea that anything important is online seems to be ruining in-person activities. Many of those activities you mention are poorly advertised online and easily drowned out by advertising / ragebait / influencer slop. My local food court has a trivia night but the most prominent advertising for it is at the food court itself with posters.

There are always going to be reasons to not get out of bed in the morning.

It's the city of Camden that had its police department closed, not Newark.

Oh, sorry! Yes, I meant Camden.

It's the Duo. Technically correct but the Duo is at a higher price tier than the Pro and reveals the silliness of product naming.

Pretty weird how little they use the physical keyboard in the demo. I'd expect for at least their own apps / launcher, you could navigate with WASD. Instead, they're switching between tabs by clicking on the very top of the screen while the phone is on a table, which is very much not one-handed mode.

There's a better video here which describes a text-based interface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryFV1wHD8FM

This used to bother me, but I've been giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming they are used to working with remote people in all time zones and it's actually a check to see if I'm present. If I don't respond, they'll try someone else and get an answer faster.

The calling analogy doesn't work because the person on the other side of the phone had to pick up and is present. The "hello" is more like leaving a voicemail saying "If you're there, pick up, but you don't need to call back".

Almost all chat apps provide presence and availability information to would be chatters.

Five minutes is basically the same time to put gasoline in a car, and there hasn't been a huge push to have overstay fines there.

I don’t disagree with that, but that doesn’t change the fact that overstay fees currently do exist on some EV chargers, e.g. Tesla chargers. I’d also not like to regress and have to wait that extra 5 minutes if possible since I don’t have to currently do that - plug in, leave the car and by the time I’m finished eating (20 mins) it’s ready.

It is also expected that you move your car immediately after filling (then paying) an ICE, in my country at least. Sometimes this can mean people waiting a few extra minutes for them to move their car while they go in to pay.

I think it's a chicken-and-egg problem: chargers have overstay fees because charging times can be very long and it's expected that people will plug in and then leave to do something else. If charging times were extremely short (five minutes), then this expectation would vanish and people would be expected to stay with the car while its charging and then vacate as soon as possible, and then there would be no need for overstay fees.

The current laws ban cars connected to/associated with China, not just their manufacturing location. Polestar was recently banned entirely even though one of their cars was manufactured in the US. BYD cars manufactured in Canada would still be banned from import.

Although decisions have been arbitrary and capricious lately, and laws haven't been consistently enforced.