I remember when McDonald's had little electronic games, with tiny LCD screens and a beeping sound maker and only two buttons, for Sonic Adventure 2. I collected them all.

It was kinda futuristic that such a thing could be the toy in a Happy Meal, a whole video game player instead of just a chunk of plastic. But on the other hand, now that I look back on it, that had to have been a lot of electronic stuff that was played once or twice for an afternoon and then sent on it's way to a landfill. They weren't very replayable. Or all that great the first time around for that matter.

Not coding for expected issues is a time honored tradition.

How convenient, a turkey that flies to you and then cooks itself.

But that's piracy! You wouldn't download a color!

Imagine flying all the way across the stars only for some primitive species of primate to call you 'airborne trash'.

Their claim did sound unbeelievable.

Don't think of it as "trickle down economics", think of their policies as an NFT depicting a good economy,

"You can't spell idiot without IoT"

I always think of the Star Trek philosophy on the future economy. At a certain point, it's going to be necessary to re-evaluate our approach to work. Right now it seems like we value work for work's own sake, but unless we want to risk some dystopia nightmare, we will need to keep social progress ahead of increasing automation.

I stand corrected; their robots are stupid too. They've got a robot that puts on some sauce, another that spreads it, another that moves the pizza, and everything else is done by humans. That's not making things with robots, if anything, they look like they would get in the way more often than they would help. And I love how they act as if using Google maps is somehow impressive when they talk about delivery.

That whole thing looked like nothing more than a bunch of high tech buzzwords and half-baked, over-complicated solutions in search of a problem. And according to a quick search of Wikipedia, these people somehow raised over $400 million for that. Incredible.

Some of their ideas sounded stupid when I first heard them, and I still think they're dumb. Ovens on the delivery car? Why? And somehow, that's supposed to make things more sustainable, having ovens that you haul around instead of centralized pizza production point? The pizza making robots, sure, that sounds fine, after all no robot ever dropped a hair in your food, but the ovens in cars thing make it look like the whole company was based on gimmicks. Maybe their packaging side is better.

Not as many as you'd think. The difference between a transgenic and non-transgenic organism is tiny next to that organism and another organism. If human digestive tracts were so frail that we couldn't handle such changes, we'd have been toast eons ago. That's not to say that there can't be issues on a case by case basis, but by and large, there's no reason conceptually why a transgene is inherently dangerous.

I don't see why that would matter in terms of food safety. If another species of fish were doing that, it wouldn't be an issue, and another fish would be more biologically different from a salmon than a transgenic salmon would be from a non-transgenic one.

Cisgenic is actually a thing. Transgenic refers to an organism with a gene inserted from an organism that it could not naturally breed with, ex. a corn with a bacteria gene. Cisgenic is similar, but when you use a gene it could breed with, ex. a potato with a wild potato gene. Whether or not something is truly cisgenic depends on if the entirety of the inserted genetic material is cisgenic, or if it includes transgenic elements, but it is a real term.

"Hey there Grouchypants, Clippy can see you've got a big frowny face. What's wrong, does this excel chart have you down? Well you know, management says that a happy employee is a productive member of our corporate family, so if you could turn that frown upside down and show Clippy those sparkling pearly whites, I'll bet it would brighten up everybody's day and I could help auto-fill these columns a bit better. What do you say there Employee #185, can ya' give me a smile?"

This is how the Butlerian Jihad starts.