Yeah, I'm sure that less than an hour's pay each at minimum wage (or, to be precise, about $3 each) will solve everyone's problems.

Steal a hundred billion dollars from evil rich people and it adds up to about $600 per worker in the US. Which is to say, less than a week's pay at minimum wage in most states.

Nowadays? What rock have you been living under for the last century?

Putting the government in charge of a bad idea is always worse than having someone, anyone, else, in charge of a bad idea.

While trying to get reelected.

So you believe that virtually everyone posting here is drunk?

Plausible, I guess, but dude, you've led a very sheltered life.

4 hours won't cover the average outage, but it's long enough to prepare for it.

Mixed with first rate marketing.

It's also disingenuous to call a merger "swallowing." While the bigger company (if it was bigger at the time) usually comes out on top, it's not a guarantee. Smaller companies often have far more agile political chops and end up taking control. There are several examples in the banking industry.

With a teacher that makes up what you want to hear.

(Sadly, that happens with live teachers, too.)

No-haggle dealerships aren't a new idea. They've been around for decades (Saturn was no-haggle at all their dealerships). The ones that have reasonable prices do well, the ones that don't die.

Something that sits between the internet and the browser and alters the page before the browser sees it? Then Google can pound sand.

I hate puppies.

Because running a university is a business. Even a public university. They're going to admit x number of students. They'll choose the top x number of applicants, whether those students score well or poorly on the admission exams. If the top x applicants signed their applications with an "x" in crayon, they'd be admitted, because that's the best the pool has to offer. Because there are quotas.

And yet, we created (or didn't) covid, and the entire world panicked in the most insanely stupid, suicidal way possible for better than a year, causing economic damage that nobody alive today will live long enough to see the full recovery from.

It always comes down to who defines the terms. If a robot can't allow you to come to harm, who defines what constitutes harm? Even "not allowed to harm a human" is easily subverted, in the "Convert to (insert deity of your choice) or die!" "OK, I convert." "Now I have to kill you to keep from going back to your wicked ways and damning your soul for all eternity! It's for your own good!" sort of way.

I'm all for such rules, as long as I, and only I, get to define the terms.