It’s not even about Kirk. It’s about calling out Trump for being full of shit. Trump got asked about grieving Kirk, said he was fine then began talking about trucks starting construction.

Yeah, I don’t think it is, but it’s the end result that concerns me.

The UK is the testing grounds. After they figure it out, they’ll be rolling it out everywhere else.

Which sucks because I did use to think that “Made in the USA” meant better quality.

That’s true, but we could subsidize the cost of labor too. People make a living wage, but the company pays less than that because government covers the difference.

Maybe the USA should heavily invest in the industry of the USA, just like China does, in order to keep up? No, then USian companies would have oversight & have to meet expectations, and we all know that they wouldn’t want that.

Harassment sure, but not abuse.

Well radio was originally mostly about advertising, and when TV came around it was just gonna be radio but with moving pictures! So yeah, it was about spreading more advertisements around to more people.

I wasn’t talking about the kidneys that time, more generally about others deciding who dies

No, I think whenever it’s up to someone else, without my permission, it’s always bad.

Edit: as in I’d rather not have someone else choose when I die. That’s between me & physics or god or the universe or something that isn’t some other person.

Damn yo, why the hate? I was asking a genuine question.

It would be clearer if you capitalized Questionable Content. I read it a few times before I understood what you meant.

Naaaahhhh, I was a daily reader of Questionable Content like a decade ago (got married had a kid & forgot about QC), and I don’t at all agree that marrying a sentient robot in QC is like marrying an elf in a fantasy setting. Elves are people, just not human people, in those settings; both are organic & come with that dirty nasty that is reproduction. I fully recognize we can fall in love for personality or mind (which a sufficiently advanced AI could host), but biological love is different.

I was being snarky

I just watched a Veritasium video that said that IQ is not very strongly correlated with higher income.

I’ll take a look at the article too.

Yeah. It’s much more cozy when a human being is the one that tells you you don’t get to live anymore.

I dunno, everyone was cool with the love story of Wanda & The Vision from the MCU. I guess fucking robots is not ok, but becoming emotionally attached to one is?

Who?