It used to be workers had some leverage because they were essential to keeping the gears of the economy turning. Now, it's only the machines, databases, and AI that matter. The small amount of labor required to keep businesses functioning means workers are quickly becoming an irrelevant component of the economy. Good luck with that next wage negotiation.

The only report of an on-field death I can find in NFL history was in 1971, which was a heart attack.

That's the NFL's solution to everything: make a rule that is complicated, ambiguous, and unenforceable. Predictably, that kind of rule never fixes the problem.

If you want to reduce concussions, eliminate helmets. All that has been accomplished with helmet improvements is players use their heads increasingly as battering rams.

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A switch on the wall that you can use to turn lights on and off. We live in truly magical times.

You're only learning now that the primary governing principle for this administration is spite?

It's hard to work up any enthusiasm for defending big pharma, but he's not wrong. The current administration is hell bent on turning back the clock on medical advances of the past century. This will be difficult to undo and many people will suffer in the meantime.

So, the lesson is: human drivers run into busses. That sounds like an argument in favor of automation.

...and killed people who dared to peacefully protest.

It might be a little easier to take this seriously if he wasn't simultaneously subverting efforts to bring alternative energy sources on line.

It sounds like you've been asleep for a few years. They are getting quite realistic and will continue to become even more so. If you were the victim of one of these, you wouldn't be claiming they are harmless.

I also have an inherent dislike of subscriptions. But, I've noticed this: my ios apps that are subscriptions instead of one-time purchases get way better updates and support.

There are many things that could be done with VR to enhance the viewing experience, but no, that's not the complaint expressed in TFA about how Apple is doing the broadcast.

His primary criticism is that there are cuts between cameras. The alternative would be a view from a single place which, even from a courtside seat, isn't as good a view of the action as you can get from multiple cameras. It might be a realistic experience, but that single point of view would get tiresome pretty quickly.