Volvo under Geely isn't badge engineered like some models under Ford were to a degree, In terms of bad engineering under it was the reverse for the most part. Ford bought Volvo to get its self engineered P2 Platform (used for the 1st generation S80, XC90, S60). Ford built a several models including the Ford Taurus from a cheaper derivative of the Volvo's P2 Platform.

Already bantered around about this with I.T. co-workers.

However I think this is short sighted. I could theorize many scenarios where a robot could be used in an active shooter or hostage situation to bring the situation to an end quicker and, or risking less lives. I remember Columbine Police Officers being criticized for not entering the high school to take on the active shooters. A robot could give flexibility to at least disable or slow down violent criminals without putting more lives at risk. I am a member of a minority group in the USA and I have no qualms with robots being used as aid for policing however I would expect robots to reflect the attitude and biases of the controlling organization. The attitude and bias is what needs to be fixed.

Us older production DBAs are doomed, decades of off-hour changes, emergencies often caused by hardware/network issues. Perhaps as more "self managed" cloud infrastructure is used we can get more sleep.

I'm a Black DBA that supported MySQL - the term never bothered me while doing so. I am socially liberal myself and grew up with a father that survived Jim Crow in Alabama and was gassed and jailed marching for the right to vote in Selma, AL (where he grew up). I'm under 50 for those who like to think we are "ages" away from racist past of the USA. My father was a science fiction buff (first black family in his neighborhood w/ a TV set and he became hooked on the Twilight Zone) , reader of Isaac Asimov stories and steered me towards science & technology.

To get more free press in the right circle- not a bad idea.

I have had Amazon Prime and for years & with low cost defective items I have bought I have not been required to return them for replacement which of course make sense.

Mercedes owners would LOVE to have difficult/expensive to replace parts that last 11 to 12 years versus 6-7 years as is my experience. SBC Brake failure, Electronic Valve body (transmission component) that are known defective yet Mercedes resells the cars with CPO warranties knowing you will be stranded at some point instead or proactively replacing the known defective part before reselling the car as CPO. Never again.

leave it to McDonald's to find a way to save the planet by killing off the consumer even faster

Cleaning staff has physical access generally off hours if not 24 hours I wouldn't bet low paid cleaning staff who may or may not be a citizen of the nation they are working in aren't vulnerable (money talks) to be manipulated to gain, give access to a computer in a office or home for that matter. Do employers really verify the identify of cleaning staff hired through a contracting company?

My Mercedes is 2009 so definitely not new however you can override rain sensing wipers with the manual stalk control - speaking of reliability I will never buy a Mercedes again and it has nothing to do with touchscreen sense mine doesn't have one.

Its nice to know these products can kill SARS-CoV-2 but it doesn't do much good if hardly anyone can buy such.

I joined because of Jessica Jones, then got into DareDevil, Iron Fist and Stranger Things. Without the Marvel shows I can't justify keeping Netflix just to watch Stranger Things especially with the long gap between seasons. I am keeping Amazon Prime for shopping but get some benefit w/ its shows & movies offerings. I'd rather buy a few movies a year that I really want to see on Amazon Prime then pay for Netflix month after month which seems to be throwing spaghetti against the wall w/ its Netflix movies.

The Volvo V40 sold in Europe at least has had an external deploying pedestrian airbag since 2012; most likely engineered and manufactured by Autoliv of Sweden. Side note- notice no Volvo passenger vehicles are part of the global scale Takata airbag recalls.

I still buy CDs as MP3 sound quality is not good enough and both my cars have Surround Stereos. The difference between playback of MP3 vs a CD is night and day. However even within the team of IT professionals I work on I am the only one that is concerned about sound quality - MP3 suffices for the rest. AptX ? They've never heard of it. I rip my CDs to FLAC using the highest sampling rate available in EAC and use a dedicated Sony High Resolution Audio player with AptX paired with Sony Bluetooth headphones with AptX for playback while hiking/walking or on long flights. I believe the lack of concern for music quality mirrors the quality of the politicians we elect in the USA which also mirrors the lack of outrage over internet speeds - we are Mediocre, be proud!