Direct payments to those replaced by artificial workers are a trap. If Americans had to depend on the government to provide daily sustenance, we would find out very quickly that those receiving benefits had better behave or be thrown into abject poverty. Forget the Bill of Rights, the US would become a technocracy. Defense of human labor must occur before we get to this point. If an AI worker replaces a human worker, the company employing the artificial worker must be taxed an hourly rate according to a legally-required timer that records hours worked which is multiplied by the hourly rate a human worker previously received. That ensures that it is only economically practical and profitable to employ robots in areas where humans cannot operate and the profit involved outpaces the hourly costs involved in employing artificial humans. For other jobs, there should be NO ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE for companies to replace their workforce with artificials, labor costs remain the same. Depending on how many workers were previously required to accomplish a commercial task, multiply the hourly tax by the number of workers replaced. In that way, companies can be productive, but the human labor is not devalued... or eliminated completely.

What is more important? An electric car or a proper lifestyle balanced between work and leisure. I vote for the latter.

I've trained my replacement before.

Has Apple considered that with the first alert the iPhone gets dumped in the ocean? Satisfying yes, but it won't lead to the recovery of all their property.

In one's fenced backyard, I am of the opinion that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy. This policy needs to nipped at the bud. The cops are way out of line. They should be helping the people, not looking for crimes, That doesn't even take into account the anger police may encounter when they show up at someone's party for no valid reason. Do the police even understand what their actual jobs should entail? I don't think so, at lease not in the US.

I'm pretty sure the primary anti-theft device for most automobiles is an effective local police department. IMO it is hilarious that police departments and cities are suing a car company because the police and city employees are not protecting their citizens nor their property. The suit is clearly without merit and those who filed the suits should be named and shamed.

How about any objects that are headed toward our moon from the side always facing the Earth will be competing with the force of gravity from a much larger object -- the Earth itself? No such countermanding force exists for the dark side. This would seem the simplest explanation -- objects passing between the Earth-Moon system might be more likely to strike Earth than the Moon.

A million unnecessary deaths and Biden and the congress STILL won't give us universal, single-payer healthcare. He is an arrogant, uncaring SOB. At least they could have built more hospitals and ICUs like China did. The number of hospital beds in the United States began to decline in the early 1970s and was halved by the late 1980s. It has come up since, but only as much as out for-profit healthcare non-system allows since it cuts into their bottom line. There was a big shortage of hospital beds and ICUs, similar to recently with COVID, due to the deadly strain of seasonal flu that swept through the country back in 2019, Did the media make a big deal about it? They reported on it but the didn't blame the sick people like they did with COVID.

in out corrupt kleptocracy to finally give our mail carriers relief from trucks blowing up, let's do it post haste. The last time we tried to replace the fleet with EVs it was a legislative disaster. They need new vehicles at the soonest opportunity.

Self driving cars have a different responsibility structure that human-guided vehicles. Who's at fault when one has an accident with another? Will the AI powered vehicle be given preference? I say if they are to drive autonomously, and that's the only way self-driving cars have any value, they should ride on their own roads similar to the cars-only lanes on the New Jersey Turnpike where trucks are not allowed.

This is an obvious false-flag attack by the NSA, CIA or the FBI. We know from WikiLeaks Vault-7 releases of software, the NSA purposely developed software hacking tools that not only can infiltrate foreign servers, they can leave evidence that points to another actor. Judging from past actions of these corrupt US government agencies, all one has to know is that they have this capability to know they will use that capability to destabilize governments and create international tensions that can lead to war. And, and this is the hilarious part, the ridiculous accusations made against the innocent target, will have been made at a perfectly timed moment like this. The CIA needs to disbanded. The security state needs reining in, especially the numerous NSA-employed contractors who need to have their contracts terminated in order to save the tens of billions of dollars the US spends to violate the constitutional rights of its citizens. The TSA. the most useless organization in the government, needs to be abolished and airport security responsibilities returned to civilian companies hired by the airports and airlines. The evil and deeply corrupt FBI needs to be brought to justice with hearing before congress, a complete accounting of fusion centers, collecting of citizens' biological data, violation of Americans rights and privacy, targeting of groups by FBI confidential informants and agents provocateurs in order to entrap mentally ill US citizens into a plot of the FBI's making just so they can bust them. Just take J. Edgar Hoover's garbage to the curb and reestablish the FBI as a domestic law enforcement agency rather than the political secret police they are today.

I'm waiting to hear the FBI congratulate and thank the FSB for their outstanding work. However, history shows that I should expect them to somehow turn it around and defend the hackers, because that's what they do no matter what the law says and no matter how illogical their arguments.

A disease with symptoms and severity almost identical to a common sold or the flu and running rampant during the annual cold and flu season? Never saw that one coming. Oh right, and be afraid -- very afraid.

There was no hack of either the DNC server nor John Podesta's smartphone. The smartphone intrusion was a phishing attack and the DNC server had its files copied local from the server to a thumb drive or some other local media. The theory of a Russian hack was debunked by VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) using timing information that proved the files could not have traveled across the internet at a sufficient speed. The kicker, of course, is that while testifying before congress in December of 2017, the CEO of Crowdstrike admitted they had no evidence data had been removed from the server. "In newly released Congressional testimony, Crowdstrike president Shawn Henry said that “we did not have concrete evidence” that alleged Russian hackers actually took the emails from DNC servers. “There’s circumstantial evidence, but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated,” Henry said." By the way, tat was before the Intelligence committee with Rep Adam Schiff in attendance, but continues lying about it to this day.

or get shut down. Otherwise, they're just a tool of the government, corporations and elites. Being against censorship and in favor of the free exchange of ideas used to be what distinguished us as Americans. Now the government looks and acts like the former Soviet Union except our citizens are not as savvy, brainwashed instead by "American exceptionalism". What we have today is a nightmare -- a nightmare cheered on by the mob.