Eh, if those things start launching then you're probably as good as dead anyway.
ArbitraryValue
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I wanted that to be real but it's edited and the original comic said "Twinkies". There used to be Twinkies ads including short, very silly comics with DC characters.
Although the law does not define what a reasonable policy should look like, it says the companies should not deactivate drivers for failing to drive enough hours, falling below a minimum customer rating or turning down ride offers and deactivation should not be based on the results of a background check or driver record, except in egregious circumstances.
Wait what? This sounds rather extreme. I suppose Uber could have some sort of mechanism for evaluating driver performance other than customer ratings, but I'm not sure what that could be in practice.
I think it's ironic and even darkly funny that people maintain a system that most of them hate, and that they blame the part of that system that has the least ability to do anything other than what it does, but I don't blame anyone. As I said, blame isn't productive in this situation. (What would it even mean to blame "fellow Americans"?)
Blame doesn't even provide the satisfaction of knowing who to hate, despite what some confused people think. The responsibility is so diffuse that it isn't even responsibility anymore. Each person is just a snowflake in an avalanche.
I do support attempts to improve the system, although so far that has meant only that I voted for Democrats. I'm just a single snowflake too.
The conclusion of this essay should be neither surprising nor outrageous. A corporation is a machine specifically designed for the sole purpose of maximizing shareholder value. If that's not what it's doing, it's malfunctioning.
We the people have, via our elected representatives, chosen to have a system where corporations control what healthcare we can receive. If you want to blame someone (which isn't productive) then blame the fellow Americans whose votes have supported and continue to support the current system. They're the ones whose job is to make decisions guided by morality.
Blaming corporations is particularly unproductive because they can't make decisions guided by morality. If they appear to do so, it's because creating that appearance is expected to maximize shareholder value and the appearance will be maintained only as long as it continues to maximize shareholder value.
People laugh at the products with warnings on them against doing something that should obviously be a bad idea. Well this thing says "aim away from face" and the public keeps aiming the thing at its face. Whose fault is that?
Musk is doing the setup for a joke, because back in the day we had "Boehner loses control of his caucus." Now it's Johnson's turn.
Fine, how about one of these?
Is he the dude falling into the water?
'Tis the season to be jolly!
From when Turkey first invaded Syria:
Ulrike Franke, a fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said it is "incredibly unlikely" that Turkey would invoke Article 5 in this situation. Asking for help would amount to an embarrassing "admission of failure" on Ankara's part. And even if Turkey did, Article 5 does not mandate NATO members to join the Syrian war on Turkey's side. It merely requires allies to assist with "such action as it deems necessary."
I don't know about you, but that would be enough for me to chew.
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It seems to me that if being bright white was a form of camouflage, it would be a common feature of nocturnal predatory birds, and it's not. There are many other bird species with bright plumage and my understanding is that it's usually for attracting mates. Has that been ruled out in this case?