The B61 mod 11 is a better solution to destroy Fordow ;)

But it would cause all sorts of other issues, so several GBU-57's will probably be the solution.

My fear is that Iran already has the Bomb (Or the Russians gave some to them).

Nope. At least in California, not sure about other states (Not a lawyer so this isn't legal advice):

1. You are permitted to collect unemployment of you lose your job because of no fault on your own.
2. You can be "Fired for Cause" and be barred from collecting unemployment. This is a high bar for the company to prove in California as your action has to be "willful"
3. The company can contest your unemployment claim, and there is an internal appeals process up to the point administrative law judge. After the final ruling from the administrative law judge, you can appeal to Superior court, State of California Appeals Court and California Supreme Court.
4. Contesting unemployment claims are not subject to binding arbitration (yet).
5. Depending on what you did to get fired is going to dictate how dedicated the company who fired you will fight your claim. If a company fought all claims all the way to the point where the employee gives up or it gets the the California Supreme Court, it would be so expensive that it wouldn't make business sense. To do otherwise is a surefire way for the company go out business for a number of reasons.
6. Some companies always contest every claim, but never back it up if the employee responds to the claim. They do this to lower the cost of their insurance.
7. Proving constructive dismissal is very hard to do in California. Constructive dismissal is the process of making the job of an employee so difficult and emotionally taxing that they quit. (You are better off finding another job and taking that if the employer chooses this strategy to make you leave).

When you sign the "contact of adhesion" which includes the arbitration agreement, it states who the arbitrator will be. You get to choose, the employer chooses them for you. Some of the arbitrators are severely biased towards a favorable award to the employer as they are the ones paying the arbitrator for their services. One of the better ones is the American Arbitration Association . (However a lot of employers are gravitating away from the AAA in search of someone who can produce more wins for the company)

Contracts of adhesion are presented to you on"Take it or Leave it" terms. It is highly unlikely that you have enough clout to dictate the terms of the contract be modified in your favor. (Unless you are a principal at a large and very visible company and another company is looking to poach you).

A much better system is the English "Employment Tribunal" model which is a neutral government run organization which handles all employment disputes in the UK.
Unfortunately, we in the US will never be allowed to have such a system because the US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups would see this as a threat.

Well, there's always bankruptcy if they can't pay it.

  [Watch out for corporate veil piercing, however]

Then you'd see no air fryers, smart TV's or smart speakers being sold in the UK for a reasonable price.

Data subsidizes the sale of consumer electronics regrettably. Someone somewhere is willing to pay for that data so that they can use it against the consumer who bought the connected electronics item.

The slot's contacts get contaminated with dirt and debris on peoples cards. (Looking at you Wal-mart, who don't support tap-to-pay on their CC terminals) Need to get rid of the contacts, and do close-in NFC in the slot instead. That way, the action has to be willful.

Because if income tax collections start falling off due to a high number of layoofs in the future, New York will be in fiscal trouble.

If a source of tax revenue starts to fall off, then cities and states start asking questions why.

If a lot of citizens start losing their jobs, then they become a burden to the state's unemployment trust fund. Of course, that stops becoming an issue after 26 weeks (As soon as 13 weeks in some red states)

Additionally, if a large swath of people lose their jobs, and we see unemployment north of 25% over the long term, State disability, Social Security and Medicare, and Medicaid could be in financial trouble.

So there are two ways this can go.

1. The government does nothing about the issue, and there is another great depression. We see Hoovervilles (Shanty towns) and people start dying in the streets.

2. Governments start taxing AI entities as virtual employees, implement an income replacement program to provide for a basic level of shelter and sustenance.
For those wanting to live at a higher level than basic, they will have to learn new skills continuously in order to remain employable.

I'm betting on #1. No country as ever gotten to the point where this is an issue yet, and for tens of thousands of years jobs have provided a shelter and sustenance and it will be VERY difficult to change this mindset. The government will let things deteriorate until either the elected officials get voted out, or they come up with a solution what does not fiscally break the bank. (Of course, there could be a coup and the pesky voting threat could go away).

a schematic with every radio or television you bought? Manufacturers used to print the schematics as a sticker inside the cabinet or in the back pages of the user manual. That was a different epoch than today. Back then, it was possible to diagnose and repair your electronics if you had the proper knowledge and tools.

Now due to surface mount parts, you would need more specialized tools to repair modern electronics and you might have trouble locating parts custom designed for that radio or TV.

We throw a lot of electronics away now instead of restoring it to full functionality. This is because it isn't in the best interests of a company who manufactures the electronic item to make something which will be serviceable, repairable, and that will last a long time. Have you taken apart some modern electronics recently? It's not held together with screws, it is glued together. Anything build like this is next to impossible to service. How long will this go on for? Until resources get scarce enough that this practice can no longer continue?

Another issue with recently manufactured consumer appliances is Mean Time To Repair (MTTR). I recently had a noise problem with my clothes dryer's roller wheels, and the whole dryer had to be completely dis-assembled from the top and the front of the dryer just to get at the 4 roller wheels. It used to be that you could get at most of the parts in the dryer by removing the rear panel. I don't know if this was a deliberate move to drive up repair costs, or not.

  This strategy of increasing the MTTR is also used in the automobile industry. Just try to replace the spark plugs in a 2015 Toyota Prius. You have to remove a lot of parts including the hood, windshield wiper mechanism just to get at the spark plugs. I wouldn't be surprised if that would cost $1K at a decent repair shop.

Will we see probationers next?

From David Brin's Sci Fi novel Sundiver:

"Then, as now, the Citizens loved the Probation Laws. They had no trouble forgetting the fact that they cut through every traditional Constitutional guarantee of due process. Most of them lived in countries that had never had such niceties anyway."

There were Citizens and Probationers. All probationers were required to carry a surgically implanted transponder. They weren't considered citizens and could not vote, Their movements were closely monitored and there were areas on the planet that they could not go to.

You could be a temporary probationer if you committed a crime. You could also be a permanent probationer if you had bad genes (i.e. a "Red Card"), or committed a particularly onerous crime.

Here is a better idea:

1. First 7 years. Application fee: Cost to register the copyright with the appropriate government agency.
2. Second 7 year renewal term government application fee: $1 million in 2025 USD indexed for inflation
3. Third 7 year renewal term government application fee: $10 million in 2025 USD indexed for inflation.
4. Fourth 7 year renewal term government application fee: $100 million in 2025 USD indexed for inflation.
5. Works enter public domain after 28 years.

Of course, this will never happen as long as the vested interests in the current 95 year copyright still control the levers of government.
There would also be treaties to renegotiate.

"But as soon as you talk about regulating them or taking away the almost unlimited amount of power billionaires have by limiting how much money they are allowed to have that's controversial and it ain't going to happen. Nobody is going to vote for that."

American psyche: "Don't penalize the rich, because I could be as rich as them someday". Unfortunately, the odds of you becoming rich are exceedingly small.

In contrast, your odds of living at least a comfortable life with stable non-precarious employment, and employment not tied to your job are much better if the rich and the corporations they hide behind are controlled and regulated.

Regrettably, this will never happen unless the meddling by the current elected officials in the Federal Government cause an economic collapse. If that happens, whole system could get pulled down and rebuilt from the ground up. (i.e having a constitutional convention).

Facebook refusnick here. Never installed Facebook on any computer or mobile device and never will. In my opinion, they're a giant Hoover vacuum when it comes to your privileged and personal data. I'm sorry, but the benefits of Facebook are not worth the risk of them leaking your personal data to third parties, or if they have a data breach.

Rules for thee and not for me i suppose.

Won't happen. Especially if most US citizens are deemed unemployable due to AI taking over most work. Most citizens would be a write-off then.

My future prediction:

Democracy will be ending in the United States. This is because those in power know that most people are not going to be able to be employed in the intermediate to long term future, and the citizens will try to use their voting power to try and reverse this.

Here is the plan of those who are currently running the US government: Slowly strip away constitutional protections, make voting harder, close the supreme court, suspend habeas corpus, throw people in prison on "Trumped" up charges, create an autocratic state.

Now, they are in a position to deal with those pesky unemployed citizens.

They would probably have voluntary euthanasia for a while. They'll start with senior citizens, then work their way down to younger unemployed people. The eventual endgame is mandatory euthanasia after that for anyone who is viewed as a "parasite" on society (i.e. those who are chronically unemployed). Eventually, after most of the citizens are put down, there will be 10 million people left in the united states. Out of these 10 million or so, there may be 10,000 to 100,000 who are living in a life of luxury. These will be the party and inner party members. The rest will be living on a very precarious edge where losing their job will mean being taken away to be euthanized by the secret police immediately after being terminated from employment.

Let's look at what would happen if there is a widespread attempt to overthrow the US government due to the forced euthanasia program:

If the revolutionaries are looking like they are going to win and overthrow the US government, a warning would be broadcasted stating that nuclear weapons are about to be used. If they continued to capture more and more territory, I think all it would take is one nuclear explosion in the revolutionaries center of power to force them to back down.

Sure, guerilla warfare would inevitably result. But the government could threaten to explode another.

The authoritarian government would do anything to stay in power using any means necessary up to and including nuclear civil war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

I guess China has those too.