This is little different than how on assembly lines occasionally something goes wrong and the machines need human babysitters to make sure the product or machine doesn't get mangled or jammed. In this version the product is custom pictures/text, and babysitters need to prevent defects such as hallucinations or offensive or irrelevant content. Like with assembly lines, there's potential for ever less human supervision, but even with a century of refinement we still need plenty of humans.

No, now the aether is called spacetime or quantum foam. We can detect vibrations in the spacetime caused by gravitational waves. However, we cannot detect motion with respect to the spacetime, as proven by the Michelson–Morley experiment. Furthermore, we now know that empty space is full of stuff.

Generally, people take this as proving that the aether as thought of in 1900 doesn't exist, much less the aether from 200 BC. However, there are various aether theories which are consistent with all known science, but they don't bear much resemblance to earlier aether theories.

Oh noes the horrors! They pledged to decrease their use of plastic and then did so.

But according to an environmentalist group making estimates via Mordor Intelligence, their plastic use in the US increased by 10% because Americans love plastic or hate damaged packages. Oh and Amazon doesn't count packaging from third-party sellers, because of course they don't.

What makes you think you're in control?

Now taking bets on whether there were AI lawyers taking part on either side of this lawsuit.

No sweat (which results in temperature and weather affecting water vapor) -- they only banned the intentional release of such chemicals, and breathing is usually subconscious. So people in Tennessee are allowed to breathe unless some asshole tells them "You are now breathing manually."

Of course it's now! How could it even be "not now" right now?

The only relevance for a simulation is that our year 2024 takes more resources to simulate than year 4000 BC, and less than 4000 AD, at least if it's a simulation focused on humans with cheap algorithms for the rest of the planet.

Whether there's free will or not is entirely independent on whether this is a simulation. At least for any definition of free will that isn't logically impossible.

Kindly explain how something which only works on parasites could possibly send very special humans to the emergency room.

That depends on how antibiotics are regulated when used for profit (eg agriculture).

Bad analogy. The president doesn't hire the economy nor tell the economy what build quality to accept.

With an "appropriate operating system". Presumably not Windows (Russians are afraid of those). Is there a version of Linux whose mascot is a Polonium Penguin?

The difference is anaerobic decomposition, which is semi-rare in nature and guaranteed in landfills.

A business always colludes with itself when it hires its employees, and bargains as the whole collective of the whole business. Seems kind of like a union, but with more money.

Courts are not fond of skipping the courts?