I think keeping the schools from turning away kids who were driven by their parents would be a huge step.

Seriously?

Society needs to keep people working, even if the jobs are obsolete.

Yes, those lower prices will be appreciated by the automated consumers.

I hope this is sarcastic?

Shitty comparison is shitty because it lacks context. The world of a century ago is not the world today.

This has been the biggest problem about automation:

Wait, so you think water isn’t a basic human right?

Please, please, please keep your distance from bison.

Nice piece. I like the acknowledgement that the disconnect in experience between now and the past has just as much to do with the person as it does with the game. I have fond memories of the grueling wonder that preceded the ever increasing accessibility too, but it was still grueling. I think a lot of the people who…

Except he would only lift it to fix the garden’s fence.

Um. I think I want to read Squirrel Girl after those 2 pages.

He would likely be able to lift Mjölnir.

I have long held that Samwise Gamgee is the central character of the Ring novels; the story is simply about him. Frodo was a whining loser who failed in his quest; at the end Sam had to literally haul his worthless butt up Mt. Doom. Sam gets my vote for a recognition upgrade.

SCREAMING INCOHERENTLY AT YOUR QUEENLINESS

I just know he’d put his dirty socks in the hamper too, and not on the floor. I’m sold.

We can chalk this up to a larger societal problem, which is how Americans work themselves to death and sacrifice everything to appear busy. This “cult of busy” rewards people for boasting about how tired they are and why. Downtime and vacations are a dirty word in corporate America and despite how busy we are, we…

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Position or speed, but not both.