If you find that amazing, it will blow your mind to learn that most office workers are not employed to read and write emails!

I’m no auto engineer, but they make the passenger compartment as stiff as possible, so the roll cage should be a benefit to crash safety and not interfere with the crumple zones, which are in front of and behind the passenger compartment.

Your take about his cars was bad the first time and now I'm starting to wonder if you're jealous.

Also critically, they are both extreme authoritarian approaches, though they differ on other political axes.

That would have made him less correct, not more.

That is true, but the people in the C suite don’t care how inconvenient it is for middle managers to manage hundreds of operators.  They just want to know the bottom line.  Cheaper to hire hundreds of operators, and no sacrifice of quality or whatever else is important to them?  They’ll do it.  Cheaper to hire…

It’s too early to assess whether the jobs will be a net positive or negative for wages and employment in the transportation sector, but they do offer a glimpse into the future.

Look at, say, meteorology: Your weather forecast is still written by a human

If it were cheaper to continue employing elevator operators rather than repair technicians, businesses would do that.  The fact that the operators are gone means it costs less money to do it the new way, not more.

Those are parentheses.

That’s all very interesting, but I was looking for support for the following claims:

I don’t think a number would be that useful, but I like the idea a green status light that changes to yellow when it’s getting uncertain.

There are reasons I never joined the military.  I don’t want a similar experience when I travel.

Turns out it is harder than it might seem to remove a lot of carbon from the air and store it long term. Multiple companies are working on this currently, and if you want to know more, do an internet search on the phrase I mentioned before.  Hopefully some of them pan out and can be scaled up well.

Or just tax the crap out of it.  There would be a few rich people who might still buy enough to get drunk, but most people wouldn’t bother if a single drink was $20.  At least I think they wouldn’t.  It’s worth trying anyway.

If you want people beaten up on the way to their cars, this might be a good way to accomplish that.  I would prefer a solution that doesn’t screw over everyone else on the plane.

The Dickey Amendment exists because the CDC was doing gun control advocacy rather than unbiased research. They have been funded to do actual research for decades but don’t like the results... surveys the CDC actually suppressed for several years.

I’m assuming I fell for a troll at this point.

Perhaps you have not heard of something called “carbon capture and sequestration”?  People are working on exactly that, minus the mountains because it doesn’t really matter where you pull the carbon from.

I think it’s the most likely scenario.  We’re clearly not reducing carbon output quickly enough to avoid disaster.  I am skeptical carbon capture is going to ramp up quickly enough to solve the problem.  I believe we will end up spraying chemicals into the upper atmosphere to cool down the planet, because whatever the…