or just claim that the driver didn't deliver the full amount (who's gonna believe some immigrant driver). There are so many ways to game this I can't believe it's even being suggested.

Strippers don't like it when you put coins in their g-string. Too cold and they fall out too easily.

The US also has an oversupply of EV (at least a certain type of EV). Musk had to make his other companies buy surplus cybertrucks to make Telsa's bottom line look better. I guess Chinese and American carmakers aren't that different after all.

HR departments have expanded because they are able to do the mundane tasks that managers are supposed to be doing (hiring, firing, evaluations, settling employee disputes, etc), leaving the managers more time for higher level tasks like three martini lunches and golf junkets.

>> It took the US nearly 30 years to recover from the WW2 debt.

Did you mean the UK? Because the US was booming in the 50s and 60s. 30 years after WW2 was when things in the US started getting bad again but that was mostly due to the oil crisis.

>>The new device -- designed for students, businesses and casual users -- will target people who primarily browse the web, work on documents or conduct light media editing, according to people familiar with the matter.

This could sell well to K-12 schools but I can't see any businesses being interested and casual users are probably better off with an iPad.

It was never even about bots that much. Deciphering distorted text was actually training AI to read poorly scanned documents. Clicking traffic lights and bikes was training AI to analyze photographs. AI doesn't need our help for those tasks any more so those "bot tests" have disappeared.

>>The four-month program began with seminars on Western civilization, U.S. history, and leaders including Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill.

Because people who skip college to work in a technical job are most in need of remedial history courses?

>>"The darkness of permanent savings time would be especially harmful for school children and working Americans."

There is nothing stopping schools or businesses in northern areas from starting an hour later in the winter. Don't make everybody go through this hell because you are too unimaginative to fix your own problems.

The delivery services charge fees to the customers AND to the restaurants. Additionally they also screw over their own drivers so that they are basically working for tips (which are on top of all the fees). It's a predatory business model and I refuse to participate in it.

Layoff half the workers to be "replaced" by AI. The rest of the workers now must work twice as long and be thankful they weren't part of the first group. AI is a scam just like robots, outsourcing, offshoring, rightsizing, 7 sigma, etc etc. Some new technology or management technique promises huge productivity gains but actually delivers minimal (or no) gains. The real gains come from threatening workers. Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.

[citation required]

I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or genuine stupidity.

For the people we are talking about, $20,000 IS a little bit of money. Welcome to the world of income disparity. A few people with too much money and not enough to spend it on driving up prices for everyone else.

Is this finally the year of Linux on the desktop?
Is anyone here old enough to remember that joke?