I think you are wrong. People do hard time in cases of traffic accidents. Especially if it results in fatalities. For example, in Canada:

Impaired driving causing death: 4 to 10 years
Dangerous driving causing death: Up to life
Criminal negligence causing death: 4 to life
Hit and run: Up to life

The above are just general figures.

A few actual examples:

Sentences for fatal vehicle accidents (2020–2025):

High-profile impaired and dangerous driving cases
Brady Robertson (Ontario):
Accident: On June 18, 2020, Robertson killed a mother and her three young daughters in a crash in Brampton, Ontario. He was driving with THC in his system at eight times the legal limit.
Sentence: 17 years in prison, with a 20-year driving ban after his release. He was found guilty of four counts of impaired driving causing death.
Akam Jot Sandu (Ontario):
Accident: On September 11, 2021, Sandu, who was drunk and high on marijuana, drove 124 km/h in a 60 km/h zone and killed a ride-share passenger in a collision.
Sentence: 8 years in prison for impaired and dangerous driving causing death.
Deepak Chararma (Halifax):
Accident: In 2024, Chararma was involved in a fatal hit-and-run that killed a university student in a marked crosswalk.
Sentence: 4 years in prison for criminal negligence causing death. He had fled from two other collisions on the same night and was driving 126 km/h in a 50 km/h zone.
Tara MacMunn (Toronto):
Accident: On April 18, 2023, MacMunn, an unlicensed driver, caused a four-vehicle crash that killed a woman.
Sentence: 4 years in prison after pleading guilty to impaired driving causing death.
Artur Kotula (Toronto):
Accident: On October 12, 2021, Kotula, a suspended driver, sped down a residential street, killing two people in a collision.
Sentence: 6.5 years in prison for dangerous driving causing death. Kotula, who is not a permanent resident, faces deportation after serving his time.
Mathis Veillette (Quebec):
Accident: In 2023, a drunk driver caused a crash that killed Veillette, a passenger in the other car involved.
Sentence: 6 years in prison and a 12-year driving ban for drunk driving.
Truck driver involved in Highway 400 crash (Ontario):
Accident: On June 25, 2021, a truck driver on two hours of sleep caused a highway crash that killed four people, including a family of three.
Sentence: 8 years in prison. The judge stated that a message needed to be sent to the trucking industry about driving without sufficient sleep.

Or "one half". I mean a half is a half why add "one" before it?

Try fireflies.ai. it's pretty good and better than Teams AI.

You invite a fireflies agent to a meeting. At the end it will summarize the salient points from any shared presentation/docs and who said what etc.

Fixed that for you!

Part 2 reminds me of Asimov's, "The Bicentennial Man" where a robot wanted to be a human.

Yup. That pretty much describes the Republican pary in the US!

I thought the dog whistle started with, "when Mexicos sends its people . . . " and culminated with "they're eating the dogs".

Obama deported the most illegal immigrants in history. But his fault was that he didn't demonize Mexicans.

Apparently that's what the majority of Americans wanted!

First, they deleted all my apps from the app store. The excuse being that I hadn't "updated" them for a while, and I'm not talking about complying with the latest APIs. Then they deleted my account for lack of activity, i.e., updating of existing apps or uploading new ones.

I have Bose bluetooth/wired over the ears. Cheaper ones, not the top of the line noise cancelling. I don't think earbuds come close to over the ears. But then I haven't tested many.

I like Bose because they're really comfortable even when I wear them for a long time.

India's official stated position is to foment disturbances and separatist insurgents in Pakistan. Go look up the statements of senior Indian officials (foreign minister, interior minister, etc.), won't be too hard to google. Why would India/Pakistan inform the other side of imminent terrorist attack? During the recent terrorist train hijacking in Pakistan, while the event was ongoing, Indian media gave full coverage to the masked terrorists, lauding them as freedom fighters.

As to war, India has tried limited "surgical strikes" with embarrassing results. India has substantial edge over Pakistan in a conventional war. Consequently, Pakistan hasn't signed any "no first use" of nuclear weapons.

There are hard line dumbasses on both sides and there won't be any progress in the foreseeable future.

A decent pair of wireless headphones works best for me. I can hear a pin drop and, of course, crystal clear conversations. Bass is not bad at all. I doubt this could be matched by even a calibrated mid-tier sound system.

"The black hole is about seven times as massive as the sun, give or take 0.8 solar masses"

How does 7xSun equal 0.8 solar masses?

The world has already learned the lesson. Canada in particular. US is not a reliable partner. In any way.

You seem to be fixated on one (one in a multi-million) outlying use-case! First of all, a meatball (human) can make a final call after detailed and precise explanation by the chatbot. And before you start another rant about how it isn't possible because of the "law", the "law" isn't set in stone. Also, the law isn't worldwide.