I just think they need to be treated and regulated like cars due to their proliferation. Plate em, tax em, safe inspect them, etc. Put no motorized vehicle signs in parks, etc.
My city is very well known for the imbalance of the application of law. One part of town is assumed innocent until proven guilty and the other side is considered guilty simply by how you look. This leads to all sorts of systemic inequities.
If folks of color did this en-masse, it would be sensationalized and clamped down hard.
On the power tools front if you want to save money don't buy into the battery pack craze. The replacements are really expensive and for 99% of tasks corded works just fine.
Requirement of authentication apps is making it trickier too. If you want to go to a concert or sporting event vended by ticketmaster, you're fucked outside of Android and iOS.
Clocking into jobs increasingly requires Android or iOS.
Wish we lived in a world where open source was funded even at a single percentage of what this oligopoly pulls in each year. We'd have a viable alternative to the duopoly by now.
No. Lots of sweet wines are fermented until dry. Then they add potassium metabisulfite to kill the yeast, then "back sweeten" the wine by adding sugar once the yeast is dead.
I've had more than a few Out for Delivery shipments that take two days or Undeliverable, No One Home when I've been home with dogs who tell me when a bird farts so yeah. Those deliver folks are overworked and underpaid but heck it is frustrating.
When this happens, I always forget to change the password through the server/localhost URL. Always gets confusing when I don't.