I think all streaming providers recognize that the current situation doesn't work, that it promotes piracy, frustrates customers, and ultimately will lead to subscription cancellations. However, none of the streaming providers are ready to flinch because they're afraid that they could be the one left out when things finally stabilize. Especially for the traditional studios, their fear is that they're going to be financially beholden to some tech company like the music industry is to Apple, Google, and Spotify.

The engineers should be running the show is a tired and misinformed trope at this point. Dennis Muilenburg was a heritage Boeing engineer. Harry Stonecipher was a physics major that started as a lab tech. Phil Condit was also an aerodynamics engineer. Meanwhile, some of the historical, "great" Boeing CEO's weren't engineers either - William Allen, who "bet the farm" on the 367-80 and launched the Boeing 707, 727, 737, and 747, was a Harvard lawyer. Frank Shrontz, was also both a lawyer and *GASP* a Harvard MBA. Maybe Boeing really needs to elevate a lawyer to leadership instead.

I feel like gig workers are just the latest in the same kind of abuse of the contractor system, similar to adjuncts in academia. Legally, these types of employees were carved out with the idea of bringing in highly skilled specialists to support very specific and discrete projects and tasks. Like that specialized IT network specialist to build out a new network, a working professional to teach a special evening course, or a full time employee who wants to earn a few extra bucks driving a few hours in the morning. However, it's being abused by employers to create a permanent underclass that's effectively working full time without the benefits and protections a full time worker should be getting: an adjunct teaching four classes a semester for decades or a driver and their car working 40+ hours a week driving. Not sure how to close the loophole, but it is a blatant abuse of existing labor laws.

All the discussion on the broader EV market and whatnot is just noise. The real story is simple - Buick as a brand no longer has critical mass in terms of automotive sales, so dealerships would rather walk away from the brand than make the sizeable infrastructure investments for the next generation of Buicks. The brand is dying.

Two forces, Grover Norquist and the American tax prep industry led by Intuit and H&R Block. Grover Norquist lobbies Congress to intentionally make paying taxes as complicated and as painful as possible so that Americans resent paying taxes and thus become more anti-tax. Meanwhile, tax prep folks want to make it complicated so that you need to pay for their services to file it. A quote from a past news article on this very topic:

Norquist isn't even shy or secretive about it - he openly talks about this position in interviews with the press.

Birthrates have collapsed in large part because of large structural and cultural issues. Japanese society and the economy hasn't properly adapted to the concept of working mothers - effectively it forces women to pick between careers or being a housewife - financial security or raising children. Some of it is structural - for example, the lack of childcare to enable women to keep working. However, even if you solved those, there are larger, cultural issues at play. A lot of employers still see married women as a liability, believing that they'll drop out of the workforce the moment they become pregnant. Equally, a lot of employers reward employees based on hours worked and thus frown upon women having to take shorter hours to go home and take care of kids. For men, the corporate work culture demands such pointless long and late hours that it makes it difficult for them to help their partners with child rearing and enable a dual income household. The Japanese government has recognized some of this as a problem, the late Prime Minister Abe tried to push some with a policy called "Womenomics", but it fell far short of its goals.

I think protests against the government of Israel are quite fair, but some of the tenor you're starting to be similar to people hating on Muslims post-9/11 because the terrorists were from the heart of Islam in Saudi Arabia. Just because you're a Jew doesn't mean you support Israel. Similar to just because you're a Muslim (or even a Palestinian) doesn't mean you support Hamas.

I think a lot of commenters are heavily discounting / dismissing the power of social pressure arrayed against women trying to enter the field. Even if you put aside the misogyny and sexual harassment, when a field becomes so lopsided to one gender, it is really hard to overcome. While it's not exactly the same, think about a male trying to enter a female dominated field like nursing: it's a high demand field (substantial shortages) with good pay. Why aren't more men doing it? A huge part is the negative reinforcing stigma cycle created when it became so lopsided toward women: people questioning the masculinity of male nurses, women in the field being uncomfortable or isolating them because of the "girls club", questions on whether or not they can do the job effectively because they must not have stereotypical female traits associated with the field, etc. Wouldn't it better if we could remove the stigma and open up the field and increasing the recruiting pool? Maybe show examples of men as nurses where they aren't being belittled for their career choice?

One of the tragedies is that this unregulated fraud undermines the scientific community's credibility, giving ammunition to the anti-science crowd to dismiss any scientific study that they disagree with (e.g. climate change, vaccines, etc.). Even if the science is established, this gives just enough doubt that they can hide behind it to dismiss any scientific criticism of their beliefs.

Best deal ever for the American taxpayer.

We'll see what Lockheed produces, but let's be honest, they're doing this to build a better bomber.

That's what gets me for Google. While I agree that the landowners are very much the most liable party, one would think that Google Maps would have updated their maps, and their navigation, during that period. Their Map View certainly updated the images with a downed bridge.

One of the problems is that these aircraft still require pilots, and those pilots are one of the most expensive and limited resources when it comes to growing aircraft fleets. It's going to heavily constrain the market growth. In theory, autonomy could break this limitation by removing the pilot, but no one has yet successfully certified autonomous passenger carrying aircraft in civil airspace (and it's not going to happen for years).

Let's be honest, in a country like India, it's not even EV versus ICE. Car ownership in general is a status symbol / luxury item.

The problem is that the US is now producing so many four year degrees, employers are using them as an easy screening tool to weed out potential new hires, particularly for starting level white collar positions. It's not fair a lot of times because there are a lot of great candidates that don't hold four year degrees, but it's an easy and obvious certification that ensures a minimal academic competence, ability to focus and execute (because, even with a low threshold, it shows the candidate has enough ability to at least get through high school and college), etc. Candidates can overcome it with enough work experience, but for people who are early career, you're in a "chicken and egg" situation where you need to find someone who will give you a chance to prove your capabilities.