Enlighten me as to which union you are speaking of.

Modern cars are made by machines, not people. They haven't been made by hand in decades.

Perhaps you were unaware that for the past few decades, cars are made mostly by machines.... sure there is the wear and tear on the robots that build them and their maintenance, but this is a drop in the bucket compared to the costs of the vehicles themselves.

I think the reason why all weapons were not banned in space and why it was vetoed is simply because the definition of "weapon" is too broad, and the mere act of enabling any sort of communication with countries you might happen to be at war with can be interpreted as a "weapon" from that nation's point of view. WMD, however, is quite unambiguous.

I have no facts to back up this opinion... it is just my own personally held belief. If someone has some cold hard facts to refute it, I'm open to the debate.

The genie was already out of the bottle on that one... by the time the space treaty came into effect in 1967, there were already nukes on earth... but there weren't nukes in space... the idea was to nip it in the bud before it became an issue, and it it hadn't been for that treaty there would have been nukes in space before the end of that decade.

The best option is that Putin is somehow brought out of power as soon as possible and held directly accountable for his actions.

Think about it for a second... if someone just goes and kills the guy, then he doesn't have to live with the consequences of his own actions....sure, he's dead, and death may or may not be an effective deterrent from someone doing likewise in the future...

But meanwhile, Putin himself will be rendered completely free of all responsibility for everything he has done. Whoever succeeds him will have to bear the consequences in this world. How is that fair?

Electric cars can be made, from scratch, at a cost of about $12 or $13k in materials, the most expensive part being the batteries.

I've never seen an electric vehicle offered for sale that didn't cost at least three times that amount.

So unless they are giving their salesmen an absolutely massive commission, I'm pretty sure that this claim is nothing short of lying.

... drunk driving.

Facilitating something does not mean that they endorse or encourage it.

Surely the oldest profession will be the last one.

..... There is precisely zero way to actually enforce it.

While sure you can make the widely used tools that generate such works put watermarks in, there is no way that you can actually force someone to use one specific tool to do so, unless you also outlaw open source.

It's CGI. Yes, I agree it's disgusting, but it's CGI. No people are being harmed.

..... will take seriously?

Walk back this entire concept of charging a fee for an installation.

Full stop. It's completely fine to be required to pay for a different version after you exceed a certain dollar figure, but if you want to get devs to take your apology seriously, you have to move to a pricing model that (once you have passed the threshold for being no longer able to use the personal edition) is based only on the number of developers the company has.

This is leaving aside that your company has absolutely no way to identify a legitimate install from an illegitimate one.

... bed and breakfast places that have been around years before AirBnB was ever even conceived?

I think the qualification that it has to be 2 or fewer guests would also impact bed and breakfast places that have existed for decades.

I understand the rationale for trying to control it, but wouldn't it be simpler rather than limiting the quantity of guests to limit short term rentals only to those where the entire building in which all available accommodation was available was also owned by the host? This means if someone wants to turn their apartment into a BnB, they have to buy the whole fricken building, not just every unit they rent, but the building itself.

Interest rates can reduce demand, but it does nothing to prevent actual supply shortages, which had been the major cause of inflation since Covid.

(sarcasm, in case anyone was in doubt)

No, it's more like saying we need to close the well because it's filled with AI piss.