"Oh, you want me to pay £2 to park in a car park in a mobile deadspot? With no coin-based fallback. How am I supposed to download parking app number five with no mobile service and then agree to a 50 page ToS just to park the fucking car?"

The tech we have to use to interact with ordinary life is joyless, buggy spyware that has contempt for the end user. It's like a swarm of little Horizon systems making life a teeny bit shittier every day.

(AI enters from stage left with a swagger.)