The Off Topic Topic

[Agelastus]

How much more of a delicacy is buffalo tongue than ox tongue? I can buy ox tongue to cook myself at a local butchers, and cooked ox tongue is readily available from supermarkets here.

There does not seem to even be many online suppliers of buffalo tongue from a quick google search.

[mongers]

How badly do you pay judges over there?

Maybe hers was a tongue in cheek comment?

[The Brain]

How badly do you pay judges over there?

News article said she made around $400k.

[Duque de Bragança]

How badly do you pay judges over there?

News article said she made around $400k.

I guess it's not enough for groceries in Sweden.

[The Brain]

How badly do you pay judges over there?

News article said she made around $400k.

I guess it's not enough for groceries in Sweden.

These days no. Shit's expensive af now.

[Duque de Bragança]

How badly do you pay judges over there?

News article said she made around $400k.

I guess it's not enough for groceries in Sweden.

These days no. Shit's expensive af now.

 

Bloody inflation.

[FunkMonk]

Look up: Your burrito is arriving by drone
One of the first companies to deliver food by drone in the U.S. is expanding to Texas, where residents of Granbury, outside Dallas-Fort Worth, will be able to satisfy their cravings with a drone-dropped meal in about 5 minutes.

Why it matters: Drone delivery, still a novelty in the U.S. because of regulatory limits, could address America's growing demand for instant gratification while making roads safer and less congested.

Driving the news: Flytrex, an Israeli startup already making drone deliveries in North Carolina under a pilot program, is establishing a new outpost in Granbury.

It's part of an expanded partnership with Dallas-based restaurant chain Brinker International, the parent of Chili's Grill & Bar, Maggiano's Little Italy and two carryout brands, It's Just Wings and Maggiano's Italian Classics.

How it works: Co-founder and CEO Yariv Bash describes Flytrex service as "DoorDash, but with drones."
Customers use the Flytrex app to place their order from the menus of participating restaurants. In Granbury, they're starting with It's Just Wings.

Flytrex employees, working out of a parking lot, grab the food, clip the bag to a cable and load it into the drone delivery box. It can handle up to 6.6 pounds — enough for a family meal of burgers, fries and beverages, or a mother lode of wings.

The drone flies autonomously to the destination, which must be within a mile of the takeoff location, while a trained drone operator monitors the flight.

Upon arrival, the drone hovers about 80 feet off the ground, lowers the bag to the ground via cable, then releases the clip. (Hangry customers never interact directly with the drone.) 

Where it stands: Flytrex's expansion into Texas comes on the heels of it receiving a waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration to expand its service to 10,000 homes across North Carolina.

The company currently operates in three North Carolina communities: Fayetteville, Raeford and Holly Springs.

Last year, it delivered more than 12,000 items from restaurants and retailers.

What to watch: The FAA is working on regulations that would permit drones to fly longer distances — beyond the line of sight of the operator, which would clear a major hurdle for more widespread deliveries.

https://www.axios.com/look-up-your-burrito-is-arriving-by-drone-52466d92-13e8-45f9-a699-65ce09bc4baf.html


I'll finally be able to achieve my dream of showering my wife in hundreds of Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs from the sky.

[Josquius]

Just a way to seperate investors from their money.

[Jacob]

Personally I am not particularly enamoured of the idea of regular drone traffic in residential neighbourhoods.

[Syt]

The Twitter takes on The Slap Heard 'Round the World are immense. Almost as funny as the incident itself 

My favorite (if least surprising) reaction was how the entirety of the BoJack Horseman subreddit went, "Yup, that could absolutely be a moment from the show."

I recall that on the show they had mocked the super-secretive, almost mytsical handling of the Oscar envelopes by PricewaterhouseCoopers:



On the show shenanigans lead to a major envelope SNAFU. I thought that was a reference to the real life mess-up in 2018. The episode came out in 2016. 

[The Larch]

One for Sheilbh and other Euro train aficcionados. A guy sets out from St. Pancras to try to see how far away he can get from London in 24 hours using solely trains, and narrates his trip: https://twitter.com/politic_animal/status/1509035606067888129

[Sheilbh]

Absolutely loved that. I assumed it would have just been to get to Paris and head east

Slightly tempted for my next holiday to see where I can get in twelve hours by train from London and then have a holiday there...

[mongers]

Absolutely loved that. I assumed it would have just been to get to Paris and head east

Slightly tempted for my next holiday to see where I can get in twelve hours by train from London and then have a holiday there...

Isn't that likely to take you to where you grew up or the West Highlands if you stay within the UK only?

edit:
OK I checked Thurso is 12-13 hours from London.
So it looks like the whole of the UK is within easy day travel, so will have to be the continent then,

[Sheilbh]

Train one = Eurostar

[The Larch]

Absolutely loved that. I assumed it would have just been to get to Paris and head east

Maybe the connections once he got to Poland would not take him that far? 

Slightly tempted for my next holiday to see where I can get in twelve hours by train from London and then have a holiday there...

Following his route I think you could make it to somewhere in N. Italy.