There really isn't a better way to deal with the abuses. Here's some personal experience.

Fortune 500 company - bottom half of that group is all I will say about them - laid me and some others off in a big layoff a few years ago. Yeah, they got rid of a few H1-Bs in the layoffs, but the vast overwhelming majority of layoffs were white American males over 40 years old, who just happened to be making good money. In my department, only Americans got laid off and not a single H1-B was impacted by the layoffs. I've been told that this is supposedly "illegal", but it's exactly what happened. They kept the H1-Bs because they make less money and they can't leave unless they want to return to India.

Same company, but a few months before I was laid off, a college student I barely know (friend of a friend kind of thing) was offered an internship by the company. I told the student that I knew his manager and I thought highly of her so I figured working there would be OK. Probably didn't hurt that this manager was Indian as was the student. He told me his dream was to work on stuff that gets patented. I told him that in our state we did not work on that kind of thing, but we had an R&D office in another state that did. I told him that he'd never get to work on stuff that gets patented here but if he got his foot in the door with the internship, maybe he could eventually get there because the company liked to hire its interns. He did indeed get a job offer after the internship, which he accepted, making him an H1-B. I have some limited contact with him and he's still there. And he has no plans to ever transfer out of state to the R&D org and work on patented stuff. All it took to make him completely give up on his dreams was an H1-B paycheck.

Final story about the same company. You might remember in Trump's first term he put limitations on H1-Bs in IT because of abuses. My company wrote a job description up for a job they wanted to fill during those restrictions. I saw it early one morning when I was getting coffee as it was on a bulletin board. The job was in another state and the requirements were super specific and honestly a whole lot of bs like the job required a master's degree and experience doing chip design. My guess is that if an American with the very specific skills somehow applied for the job, they'd just offer the H1-B salary and expect the American to say no. So the job stays open for I guess maybe half a year or more and finally they get permission to hire a specific guy for the job from India. Know what he does? He writes code in Java for them. That chip design and master's degree "requirement' stuff was bs to try to make sure only he could match those "requirements". He was the only employee our org in the company hired for an entire year. I mean, if you can't hire H1-Bs, they simply weren't interested in hiring anybody.

They got more self-driving cabs than Tesla, and Tesla is getting hundreds of billions in valuation from their "Robotaxi".

In either case, if they can scale this there's loads of money waiting. I think they're currently Waymo's only real competitor.

You usually can't skip commercials via any type of streaming that has them. And some of the so-called "commercial free" streaming services changed their terms of service so that under certain conditions they can still show you some commercials. Paramount+ is one I remember that made that change.

You can't say he didn't boldly go.

True, but it's a hell of a lot easier to upload a torrent of scanned books than purchased and scan them yourselves.

Plugging in your car while parked? Assuming there is an outlet near by, you have an extension cord, and your heater cable is in good shape?

I thought you didn't want any obstacles to using your vehicle.

You know what else happens in -40C? Your oil turns to sludge and the weakened battery in your ICE vehicle is unable to get the engine running.

I'd rather an EV with reduced range than my ICE car not starting.

Nah, that's BS. As far as I can tell PP refused the clearance so he would have an excuse to demand it be public (so he could see the report) at best, and at worst not seeing gave him more latitude to scaremonger.

The guy literally went into an election campaign willingly blindfolded about foreign attempts to infiltrate his party. That's damn close to disqualifying in my book.

I'm in the Edmonton area, -40 happens, but it's pretty rare (especially with global warming).

And cold does hurt the range, but it's not insurmountable.

If you go backpacking in the mountains it's not hard to get out of range of cell service, even if you're on fairly standard trails.

This wouldn't be a bad thing to have on a multi-day hike.

100% agree, but that's not what makes this exchange interesting.

They have a reputation for being technocrats. This shows that, at least in the medical domain, they're still just uneducated fools.

It's also telling that two old dictators are bonding over extending lifespans.

The association is real, but not necessarily the outcome. I couldn't see the full study but couldn't see any mention of BMI. Midlife obesity is associated with cognitive aging. If overweight civil servants were consuming artificial sweeteners in an attempt to lose weight then that could be the source of your associate right there.

If we could all be so lucky.

Is that really true though? I've seen men of all types with girlfriends. But for any woman with a few extra pounds, much less actual obesity, they're very often single.

It seems to be the problem isn't women being picky, it's the hordes of guys who don't want to settle for anything but a hot intelligent women with a great personality.

If you're running a business "keeping the lights on" includes salaries.

Of course, companies really don't want to downside, but the thing management really wants is big profits, which generics don't bring.

To the extent that US pharmas make beta blockers, if folks stop buying the workers would generally get reallocated to other projects.