Get better gear? With the headphones at work, I can stand next to industrial engines and barely hear it. Peopleâ(TM)s voices? Definitely silenced. (I have no idea what brand they are. Theyâ(TM)re orange.)

A) It's not just the headset. It's the ability to record very large files, back up to correct mistakes, compile the whole thing into a coherent sound file, tag it for chapters, and be comfortable enough to wear for hours of reading. There's a notable expense in having a good enough computer and processing software, which is generally more than the ancient laptops and hand-me-down desktops needed to write text. B) No, most cheap headsets weren't actually good enough until 2021-ish. C) $100 is a substantial expense for the bulk of book authors -- the majority do not write as their primary income.

You should use caution when claiming some "obvious" improvement to someone else's profession -- it's rarely as simple as it looks to outsiders (otherwise a lot of people as smart as you would've already done it).

Most of human society is ill-equipped to deal with something human-esque that runs at thousands to millions of times our speed. That's why we have had such fundamental breakdowns every time we get new tech that automates something only humans could do before. This one is poised to be bigger than the previous ones, if it keeps going as it has been going.

Creating a decent sound studio has been a major stumbling block for most until really the end of pandemic when home recording took such giant leaps forward. And then there's the voice acting that is, frankly, quite hard. The number of authors reading their own books has increased significantly in the last two years, but nothing compared to the massive increase that AI brings to the table.

Well, choice number one was to choose to lobby the Congress and state legislators to believe in climate change instead of lobbying to cut funding of science. Choice number two was to believe scientists who said "we have a problem" and not protest at the city councils when things tried to change in small ways to reduce carbon output.

The problem is "viable and better alternative than what you want to replace" was not an option... and still isn't. There were (are) going to have to be changes in lifestyle, but they could've been small changes. In the past, we could've gotten a lot out of "drive less and build more public transit." But people wanted a zero-carbon personal car. That's essentially impossible even in today's technology, much less 30 years ago. Now the choices are to make even bigger changes, like having to be vegetarians because the price of meat is expected to rise so much.

The choices were plentiful offered over the last 30 years. Plenty of ways to reduce carbon. The options keep reducing. It is clear now that it will only be by force of nature, not government, that anything changes.

Who is Aristotle? :-)

The article you cite says, "Any of these seven cities are worthy of the title 'Music Capital of the World'..."
And number 2 on the list is Nashville, TN. So... by your own citation, yes, it is viable for the state to claim that title.

Right, but the tracking of all BMWs is (weirdly, in my opinion) not protected by the US Constitution. The tracking of everyone's media habits is explicitly protected under the First Amendment. Stopping this kind of overreach is why so many librarians across the USA over the last decade stopped saving information about who had previously checked out books and why some went so far as to stop tracking who currently had books checked out, relying on most people to be on their honor to return materials. This is gross overreach. Frankly, I think pulling all the BMW driving records should be equally off limits as it is effectively the modern equivalent of quartering in people's homes (Third Amendment): if you can see everywhere and react as if you were physically there, you have violated the reason that amendment exists even if you haven't violated the physicality of that amendment.

It busted the pad once. That was unexpected. The fault has been addressed. It didnâ(TM)t happen on the next two launches. The damage done by the rocks, while not trivial, is hardly destruction of the entire landscape. EPA does regular surveys of the site for compliance.

Exactly.

The output is water. Starship burns methane. Moreover, the outputs from even 1000 Falcon rockets (which burn kerosene) is dwarfed by the airline industry.

No one said it was operational yet for general activity. Yes, it might carry payloads on the next flight, but SpaceX acknowledges that there will still be several more test flights before itâ(TM)s doing what Falcon does.

These new rockets burn methane⦠their output is water.

Stroller for under age 5. Car seat per kid up to age 8 depending upon US state (not sure about overseas). If you're trying to avoid checking luggage, these common requirements pose challenges.