JamesRabino

They look fantastic in photos. My main criticism is the Pro won’t be available in that stellar green iteration—what a missed opportunity.

The problem is, many people think they have experience because they pedaled bikes as kids. Rolling through a stop sign at 5 mph on a quiet block is not the same as blasting around at 30 mph in commuter traffic.

You’re absolutely right: These need to be on the streets, not the lanes.

I spent a week in Paris this summer: The streets were utter chaos. Thousands of inexperienced e-scooter and e-bike riders weaved unpredictably with a near-complete disregard for traffic laws or norms. I found it far more harrowing than traversing New Delhi or Hanoi. Those cities appear tumultuous at first, but people tend to know what they’re doing—just step confidently into the street and trust the process.
You simply cannot flood western bicycle lanes with ten million speeding motorcycles over the next five years without creating utter carnage—we’ll need some serious regulation changes.

They want you to buy a new doorbell. My parents have had the same doorbell for forty years. This generation has to "upgrade" because the current smart doorbell won’t do the stupid thing that it should be able to do.

If you’re on Comcast, just go with XFINITY Mobile. It’s $40/month per line. Period. None of this "$70 for two lines, $55 for three lines, why don’t you adopt some teens and save a bundle of money…"

This occurred to me while I was recently looking to change carriers. However, I don’t want any of those "perks." I need my carrier to do one thing, and do it well. I can just imagine being in the customer service que for forty minutes—with five people ahead of me waiting for help with their ESPN login.
Do they offer discounted pricing for people who only want voice/data service from their voice/data service provider?
You referred to it as a "no cost perk," but the point of the article is that nothing is free. It all comes from somewhere (our pockets), and these marketing gimmicks are just clever ways of getting it.

If the Surface Pro 8 can deliver solid battery life…

Yup. I loved the Surface Pro 3 in many ways, but the battery life went from bad to nearly useless. I turned to the Surface Book 2 for the battery and larger drive. I’ve primarily used that spinny spin detachable screen feature to show people, "look, the screen comes off!"

"Free"

I once cut out the center of a favorite book, The Architecture of Happiness, and slipped a Nexus wireless charger inside. There was a wire running out the top, but it was better than a black square sitting on my desk.
Cool story, right?

Do you mean imperial pints or metric pints?