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Succinct and accurate. Really wish people were more objective and less polarized on software.

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I don't see why my headphones need a sp-

Conveniently built in to your headset, you can use the spanner to adjust bolt tightness on-the-go!

Okay, but that's not wh-

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Spanner may sometimes only appear to tighten bolts. Please don't ask us the energy cost of manufacturing the spanner.

25th or 26th October seems likely to me based on the first announcement (Twitter link).

I'm weeping at the damage to those floorboards. Could they not have been lifted first?

Mark Gurman, who's normally dead on the money when it comes to Apple, thinks they're unlikely to keep up annual releases (though I should note the linked article suggests the new iPhone model schedule is unlikely to change for now).

There's no safe way to answer this without giving away plot points, I don't think. Most important thing is that it's sci-fi, not a drama about developers in the way you might expect.

I loved Season 1, but I felt it became bogged down after that - almost a soap opera.

It was a joke, but the article itself does explicitly conclude this as one of its observations:

The findings raise big questions about the limits and future of polling, which relies on voters giving responses reflecting their real-life political behavior.

The post links both The Guardian and MBFC. The bot has picked up both links and posted the following (verbatim):

You mock now, but when you next need your telephone sanitized...

"Significant minority of people lie in polls, a poll reveals."

"Surplus" tickles me for some reason. "I was really sorry to hear that Min-jun passed away, but to be fair, he was surplus to requirement."