This. If other people asked you whether you can start a project or not, and you reply using "wife" as an excuse, accept it for what it is. An excuse.
I had met entrepreneur types that replied either yes or no, straight forward and no detour replies.
I would like to upvote that comment many times. The price point for the deposit is important, why is this so hard to understand?
The reason it failed is because of this simple use case:
You want to return it just after you arrived, and it is still raining outside (this is why you rent an umbrella in the first place). If you wait for the sky to be clear to go out, you won't remember the umbrella. But if it is raining again when you go out, why would you want to return the umbrella???
I have a hunch that these kind of news had been circulated before, officials threw a few sacrificial lambs in to reach the quota, then the headlines fade slowly into background.
No and no. Dietary cholesterol is almost entirely unrelated to blood cholesterol and salt intake only matters for those relative few who are sensitive.
Depending on what kind of pizza you eat, the cholesterol may also not be very high.
Roombas have to deal with stairs while this thing will probably get it's underside covered in mud (especially since it has that unshielded trimmer) and is supposed to run only inside a fenced area, so I doubt it has any provisions for that.