When your residential blocks electricity is on only 4 days a week in order to feed AI data centers, then we'll start trading books and reading again.

It's still marginally profitable if you are stealing electricity.

Blade Runner, The Terminator, Short Circuit. We've been watching films about AI all through the 80's.
And of course before that there was 2001 and Metropolis.

Chasing realism on a flat 2D surface was always a fool's errand. But dumping a bunch of money into post processing and editing is what investors want to see, as it is far more difficult to quantify storytelling and good acting. Studios and producers have become so risk adverse they run every film like a business, but are hamstrung by that very lack of risk taking when it comes to art. At best such films can only achieve the level of mediocre entertainment, although often profitable. But they are not films that can be remembered as good art. And at worst they are stinkers that not only didn't take risks but also failed to entertain or make money.

If only pets.com said they would ship for free for only $139/year then they would be as successful as Amazon

A rookie mistake. I once used a 12 gauge to open a can of beans. Beans everywhere. Which is why every household needs a variety of gauges and calibers suitable for many situations.

Wasn't it 70 points for children under 12 and 100 points for the elderly?

They might have had a legal right to refuse (I don't know). But if something like that comes up in a future civil injury case, it could be used to suggest a pattern of irresponsible behavior and lack of concern.

Agreed. If I drove 25 different cars and got infractions in each, the government is going to be rather peeved with me.

Sounds like self driving certification needs to be done on a per state basis. Even if that means some additional training and software is required to comply with state laws and potentially updated each year.

Wait until your health insurance uses chatbots for prescription refills

These cheeks never shave or wax.

I'd boycott but I need same day delivery too much.

Multi-national corporations by their very nature spend the money you give them (revenue) on other countries.

Globalization happened. Deal with it. No way to turn back the clock, we certainly can't go back to Second Industrial Revolution and even going back to the Third Industrial Revolution is going to destroy the US's position in world finance and make us all poorer. But the Jeff Bezos of the world will still be rich in that scenario.

Do what that guy in the UAE did (Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, national security advisor and UAE President's brother), buy a $500 million stake in Trump's crypto company (World Liberty Financial). With that kind of payola you could easily call the President whenever you wanted!