"The door refused to open. It said, 'Five cents, please.'"

You know you're living in the future when you can't direct your robotic vacuum cleaner to programmed areas due to a "cloud outage". After staring at the blank app for a couple of minutes I realize I'm lucky my brush and dustpan work fine without a needing to contact a service gateway.

It's a shame that these days, we are focused on hyper-specialization and don't see these sort of polymaths.

I still support the idea of a debt jubilee. After all, it doesn't do me any good to be the sole economic survivor.

Maybe triage the type of debt. Cancel payday loans first, no one will feel sorry for those vultures. Cancel student loans next, Democrats would support that. After that cancel small business loans, take that load off their business. Then some types of securitized debt, like car loans. Not sure about credit card debt. Not as keen on that one because, most of the time, those are voluntary expenses. Maybe credit card debt for low earners.

Banks are already getting basically free cash from the treasury. They can't survive without an ongoing government bailout. They can either fall in line or get cut off.

A man who thinks plagues are a sign the magic sky wizard is going to come back and thump some mofos.

These systems will not drive the last mile to completely autonomous cars. If you want to see the state of the art, you need to look at Waymo. Self-driving trucks running between transit points outside of town will be on the roads sooner than self-driving cars. They don't have to learn every driving situation, they only have know one stretch of road.

The problem with being a serial liar, cheat and fraud is no one believes anything you say. There's always the nagging question of what corrupt practice is backing any statement he makes.

The Boeing 737 Starliner is perfectly safe. It's the best spacecraft ever produced, it's perfect. It wasn't the software, it was pilot error.

I guess we'll just have to get along without their crap content. Whatever will we do?!

I remember InMotionHosting got hacked a few years ago and accounts were filled with spam links. They tried to blame the users, insisting everything was fine on their end. Denial is a stupid strategy. Just admit there's a problem and fix it. Though maybe denial is the default when the company doesn't want to issue refunds.

Cable companies should be sweating Starlink but, so far, hardly a peep. I have noticed Xfinity offering deals that require a 2 year contract, maybe that's partly the strategy.

When it's available Starlink will offer internet access with decent speeds and lag time anywhere. No cables, no wires, no ground-based infrastructure. Just point a small antenna toward the sky and you're in business.

"Television is the easiest place to find people who like TV,"

Television is where you find the shrinking pool of people who still watch broadcast TV. We're getting an air antenna for the few things we care about which is mostly local news and maybe the occasional football game.

I thought those socialist countries with universal healthcare were teetering constantly on the brink of insolvency? I thought companies were exporting jobs to get away from the high taxes?

But they still have billions to buy other companies. It's almost like Libertarian economics is complete bullocks paid for by a self-serving wealthy elite.

It's time to admit the 737 Max is never going to fly right and consign it to the scrap heap of aviation history.

When they were selling out our country to the Russians privacy wasn't a big deal. Now, trying to tame foreign influence...oww, privacy!