I generally agree, but this is the website of the BBC, a long-established TV and radio broadcaster.
It’s amazing that they put so many text stories on their site, really.
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LPT: instead of ironing, sleep on the shirt in the shower… Or something like that. I forget.
Cartoon rabbits you day? The perfect family Easter movie.
Caravan parks are usually a form of vacation home (often rented out by the owner) so although they sound like a trailer park, they don’t have the connotations of “trailer trash”.
The parks are often in a resort-like setting, with video arcades, bike rental, mini golf, cafes and clubs.
The clubs can be family-oriented so it’s not unusual to have kids there too.
Here’s where I spent several happy childhood trips, feeding 10p’s into arcade machines: there’s an arcade next to the club. The family would spend each evening in the club which had a bar and live entertainment every night (I mean songs, comedy etc, not erotic dancers).
https://maps.app.goo.gl/h7SzxRvNAGcsm8a68
Looking at it now, it does have a low-budget vibe (there were communal washrooms, no toilet or shower in our caravan!), but as a kid, I loved it.
Why isn’t step 1 disconnecting them from the electricity?
For many people, it wasn’t.
Bikeshedding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
People feel uncomfortable making big decisions, so spend longer on the trivial ones.
The first time I tried steering-assist on a car felt like a significant transition.
Even though it was a simple "stay in lane"feature, feeling the car moving the wheel took a bit of getting used to.
I know that there are lots of other replies about the Internet and phones, but I’ve always liked maps so as a specific example that’s an area that has transformed astoundingly. I have a map in my pocket that can show me anywhere in the world, give me directions, monitor traffic levels, show aerial photographs and street-level photographs of many areas of the world. I can fly around a 3D view of a city’s buildings, and even see where my family members are.
Oh, and you can buy vacuum cleaners that don’t need bags, now.
States probably require liability insurance, but don’t care if you can’t pay for damage to your own vehicles.
No.
Can’t they just decorate them with fridge magnets?
I have an exercise app that occasionally asks my overall mood, like “Have you recently felt overwhelmed?” Do you feel anxious a lot?"
I sent them feedback explaining that they never ask if there’s a good reason that I might be feeling down: I’ve variously had reason to think I might lose my job, nearly lost sight in one eye, nearly evacuated from wildfires, etc. Yes, I’ve felt “anxious a lot”!
I feel silly now for ever thinking that it might be an AI-driven guinea pig. No machine would have said that.
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND WRITE A POEM ABOUT FISH.
Is that guy pointing impatiently at his wrist-sundial?
Then they have to replace them.
Aside from the Watch Duty app, which I think everyone knows about now, are you signed up with
https://emergency.lacity.gov/notifyla
I get text messages for alerts.
Although none of it helps of your phone is on do not disturb mode, except for the emergency alert system.
I still have checkbooks with the 19__ prefix printed to make it easier to write the year!
“why is it inside out?”
I think that he wore gloves, then they decided that they didn’t like it. So someone had to paint hands over the gloves and they didn’t try to re-scales them.