I assume he really means Big Tech.

Yes, the a typical quality Blu-Ray release (not even UHD Blu-Ray, the regular Full HD release will do) will easily outclass any 4k version of the same movie from an online streaming service.

It wasn't that long that I watched a Blu-Ray release with a couple of friends and they were very surprised at the end when they learned, after they first mentioned the great image quality vs. streaming, that we had only watched a regular 1K Blu-Ray release.

This is a myth, potatoes are lacking fats, essential proteins, several vitamins etc. You might be able to stay alive eating just potatoes but you will be severely malnourished, sick and weak if that's all of your diet.

But when a life-long smoker gets lung cancer or an obese person gets type 2 diabetes, it's pretty clear what the cause is.

Facebook won't need the ID, they need a trusted setup to an a provider than can verify the user's age. It's just like using your bank login to verify your identity for another service, except the identity provider only needs to confirm the user's age, or even just age class (in this case "at least 15 years old").

This is very much a solved problem already technically and has been for years. It just needs to be adapted for this particular use case.

The latest/last trilogy started out fairly strong but went downhill from there.

Force Awakens was a well made and directed movie that was too safe and little more than a remake of Star Wars.
Last Jedi at least dared to try something new and was enjoyable enough to watch in theatres but it just didn't treat the characters well and didn't work as the second part of a trilogy - throw everything away and replace it with almost nothing is not a good idea.
Rise of Skywalker was a shitshow, exhausting to watch and just a nonsensical mess.

After FA, I had some vague hopes it would do something interesting. Like having Rey start to fall to the dark side while Kylo Ren steps back from the edge and returns to the light, perhaps this is where Luke would come in. Then in the third movie, Kylo Ren saves Rey from the dark side and they defeat whatever the ultimate evil is. So they would essentially switch places and in the end balance out. Instead we just got a mess and a main character that can't make mistakes.

Rogue one was pretty good.
Solo: you could tell there was a decent movie in there somewhere but it was ruined by the change of direction and directors mid-production and now it didn't know what it was anymore

So if there is someone out there who looks exactly like him, what then? If that person is older, does it count as prior art? If they are younger, what then?

Remember, in order to keep a trademark you have to defend it. But if that other person actually exists, you can't defend it (or the dystopian nightmare is really here in full force).

Will this also then apply to say the police and speeding tickets? Because its the same principle - you only go to court if you don't accept the fine.

The faster it pops the less damage it will do to the economy and after it pops, the industry has a chance to get on a more sustainable track without the overhype. But for sure it will not go away.

No consensus is needed. See https://www.nato.int/en/what-w...

Invade can mean several things, but in a military context it does usually mean when an army makes an incursion on to another country's territory for conquest or plunder. In any case an invasion is an act of war.

The US government statements don't really help, Trump indeed says they are in control but in reality this hasn't happened. The Venezuelan regime just swore in the vice president as the new president and nothing else changed. Rubio said that it was a law enforcement action and not a military operation so if we go by his statements it was not an invasion.

My opinion is that they are both full of it, but a quick in and out doesn't really count as an actual invasion and two people doesn't really constitute plunder. However the bombing and blockade are acts of war regardless and nothing the US says can change that. The only thing that prevents it from actually being a war is that Venezuela officially declare that their country is at war due to the attacks of the US (alternatively the US congress can also declare war on Venezuela but that's not going to happen at least at this point).

In Finland in the early 90s we also had to read complete novels. You could pick from among options or propose your own to the teacher. The tests were not questions but you had to instead write a 2-3 page summary of the book including a short review, and then briefly present it to the class. Since most pupils read separate books, I think the concept was different from the US concept where I assume there were then discussions about the books in class?

I remember reading Catch-22 and Crime and Punishment this way. Crime and Punishment was a chore but I rather enjoyed Catch-22.

Taxation and the fact that the money to fund all this expansion has to come from somewhere.

Yes this was a very bad misstep that Germany did - overreacting to Fukushima and also generally the Greens taking forever to realise that while nuclear isn't perfect, it's still way better than coal. Especially concerning climate change.

It's a rather wild leap of logic you did there. What is is about land area that makes renewables impractical?
If anything, there is less need to ship huge volumes of fuel around like with coal.