This is kind of non-news. It is essentially just an ongoing process that has been occurring since the very first industrial robots were introduced.

Do I have to? I feel like eating the muskrat is likely to cause a ketamine overdose.

To be fair, the 60's one probably still kinda works. The digital one is for sure dead.

Probably. In Canada there's no Hulu, so all the fox catalog ended up on Disney+.

Yeah, that's not how physics works. Things can't stop instantly.

If you are blind to the world with your nose stuck in a phone, and unexpectedly wonder off the sidewalk into the path of a bus, you die and it's 100% your own fault.

Wrong definition there bud.

A government promising it's worth something carries a hell of a lot more weight than some random tech-bro promising it.

the ads are minimally intrusive — that is, highly relevant and engaging — they should not detract from the overall user experience

In what universe do ads, no matter how "relevant and engaging", ever not detract from the overall experience?

It kind of blows my mind that forced arbitration is legal at all.

With TVs starting to get USB-C inputs, which are displayport under the hood, hopefully HDMI fucks off.

I do industrial automation for a living, and I just want to point out that automating things that exist purely in the digital domain is far easier than automating things like ship breaking.

You heard it here first folks. Jesus was of the radical left.

Right wingers have lost their goddamn minds.

Does anyone work in a place where this is a real thing? I don't know if I've ever heard of an employer making you take a random IQ test.

As a millennial, at no point did we actually want participation trophies. The feeling of coming in last was not changed in the slightest by receiving a junk trophy.

I'm still worried about how he's even going to accomplish that, seeing as he's also planning to deport the cheapest sources of agricultural labor.

The last stars will burn out in 120 trillion years

We think. We still haven't solved things like the dark matter/energy problem. The answer to that alone could drastically change what we estimate will happen in the distant future.

Anti-vaxx jokes at a hospital fundraiser. That's one of the stupider moves I've seen today.

I do industrial programming. Everything is so far behind that yelling at the "computers" does nothing. Physical violence is just about the only thing they respect.

For the shoplifting thing, it depends which store it is. Big chain grocery store? Yeah, I couldn't care less what someone takes. Small single owner shop? Fuck you for stealing from that guy. Those stores struggle enough just trying to compete with the Walmarts of the world.