Anti-war pacifists like myself may be the most qualified to speak out on hose subjects. Unlike war supporters like yourself we're realistic enough to realize that NO ONE ever wins a war, just one side which loses less than the other.

That's utterly false. Those are not "defense" weapons, drones which need to locate their position are OFFENSE systems. Defensive drones only have to locate the attacking aircraft, they don't care where they are in relation to anything else. This whole PR game of pretending that offensive weapons are something else just irritates the hell out of me.

No, it's because in the real world storage, network bandwidth and compute power all cost money. People who think that Ring and Alexa are retaining the minutia of your daily life don't seem to understand that either.

A lot of forces won't even investigate most misdemeanors any longer because there aren't enough prosecutors to even file the case much less pursue it. I heard a cop who was told about a stolen bicycle the victim had located, "Go steal it back tonight. Then buy a better lock." because they wouldn't dispatch anyone for a bike which valued less than a felony warrant.

They tend to rely overly on authority figures, since they can't understand the world on their own. Unfortunately their authority figures tend to rely overly on questionable, or outright corrupt, sources of information like the MSM and political leaders.

I've always wanted a prehensile tail, it would be handy when working on the car sometimes.

That "gulf" would last about five years, when the exponentially dropping price of gene editing makes it available to the masses. See my post above:
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Outlaw it in the US and people will just go to Paraguay or Vanuatu on "vacation" and come back pregnant with designer babies. Cloning will go the same way.

Something that is generally overlooked is how the tech associated with genetics is advancing exponentially while getting exponentially cheaper. In the '90s it cost billions and took thousands of researchers most of a decade to decode the genes of one person. Today you FedEx your cheek swab, the tech puts it in the machine and emails you the results for a hundred bucks. Genetic manipulation will be limited to the rich and powerful at first, but it won't be long before the price makes it down to us plebes and they'll embrace it. Face it, who wants to have the dumbest, weakest, sickest and ugliest kid in their school?

The original "criminal" has served his sentence now, and says he'll do it again without hesitation using the better tools available now.

Religious fanatics and rightwingnuts (another class of religion) don't need either data or facts, they just KNOW that they're correct and that ends it. After all, wasn't "my opinions are equally valid as your facts" enshrined by various recent presidents?

It's even worse, I just checked and the average yearly cost for a nursing home stay is $119.

Really? Know what they call the guy who barely scrapes through med school dead last in his class? Doctor.

On the other hand, once you teach an AI or robot to do a procedure or process a set of test results it will do it consistently and exactly correctly every time. Even better, the cost to train 1000 robots is the cost to train one and copy/paste. Already robots are better than humans at several aspects of medical care, and getting better.

Elder care is one place where robots are going to dominate in the near future. Home health care aids and nursing home staff have enormous turnover because it's such a stressful workplace, and injuries from moving patients are rampant. Surprisingly senior citizens seem quite accepting of the assistance robots that are being tested.

I just wish they'd eliminate the ACs.

Texas is already one of the main location where they're putting solar fields, they have thousands of acres of them already.

But, but, when WE do it then it's perfectly acceptable! It's only when the BAD guys do it that it isn't! . . . What do you mean most of the world considers us the 'bad guys'?