Doesn't he know he's supposed to play the fiddle while he destroys his country?

It will be interesting to see if any mergers/takeovers happen, because anyone attempting it will be gambling that the next Democrat administration (assuming there is one) won't reverse it and force them to break up their media empire.

Could SCOTUS also force it to happen too? Not that it is likely at the moment.

Ah yeah, I get that. Can't sit still, destroy office chairs in a few years. It's exercise I suppose.

I'm sorry to hear that. I have CFS/ME which seems to be similar, so I know a bit of what you are living with.
At least in my case things did get better eventually, so don't give up hope.

I have auto immune issues, and it seems like the exact nature of the response is different enough that it doesn't affect me as badly. I'm not a biologist but my understanding is that mRNA vaccines bypass a step in the process of creating immunity, so maybe it's that step that is causing me problems.

If my car showed me ads I'd return it and get a refund. It's a separate issue.

In my personal experience, for what little that is worth, the traditional AstraZenica vaccine really screwed me up. Badly enough that I couldn't work for a while.

The mRNA COVID vaccines have been fine. Maybe a day or two of feeling off, some shivers the first time. The traditional flu vaccine is much worse.

If they could create a generic flu one that would be great, so they don't have to predict it every year.

It's mandatory on all new cars, but you can disable it yourself if you want to. You are also allowed to replace it with your own system, although I'm not sure why you would want to. The eCall system is heavily regulated, so it only triggers in the event of a serious crash (usually only when the airbags deploy) and then calls the emergency services on speakerphone, as well as sending your location and direction of travel (using GNSS). It works in all EU countries and the UK, and there is no subscription cost.

The cost to the manufacturer is the hardware and some tiny per-vehicle fee to the mobile networks. IoT SIMs start from cents per month for small amounts of data in single quantities, for consumers, so the deal that the manufacturer has is going to be much better.

I'm skeptical about that second part.

As for trolls, I wonder if some anti-vax propaganda is being pushed by hostile foreign powers as a way of hurting us.

Sorry to hear you have those issues. I have some auto-immune issues too, though not that bad, and I was really worried during COVID.

Even now I usually get a private COVID and flu vaccination every year. I'm not in any of the categories that get them for free, but aside from the safety they provide, I usually travel over the new year and I don't want to get sick while I'm on holiday.

This has to be a troll. Nobody on Slashdot is actually this stupid.

I often wonder how all these people who believed that COVID vaccines were a plot to sterilize or murder humanity have justified to themselves the continued-unchanged existence of babies-in-specific and humans-in-general, respectively.

Darwinism at work.

Not so much a double standard, it's liability. If a human crashes their car, they are responsible. If a robotaxi crashes, the operator is responsible.

The operator will have a fleet of vehicles, so as well as the potential for a large number of very large claims being made against them, if the problem is systemic it might get their whole fleet "grounded" until they can put it right.

Are you talking about Waymo? That's not true at all. Their cars do drive themselves most of the time. They have the ability to call a human when they get into a situation they don't know how to handle, but even then the human doesn't do the driving, it only tells the computer if its plan is acceptable or if it should do something else.

In particular, all the safety stuff is done on the car.