It's the latest hustle, work for a giant company, join a union, stop working, get fired, sue for the company's "anti-union activities" and hope for a quick settlement.

I have to point out that if you have cattle grazing the land, said cattle will be collect as much carbon as they can into themselves instead of the topsoil, as well as that cattle, on the whole, are the number one producer of a different greenhouse gas that we really would like to reduce if possible.

That's all fun and games until you want to eat, unfortunately.

You know a paper is going to be good when they have to salt their premise with "likely".

Ah yes, the plan is to accept more foreign students who just happen to have to pay full price for college tuition, in cash. Shocker there, like MIT would have any problem finding enough American student to fill its classrooms.

Yeah, all we need to do is manifest millions of tons of rare earth elements out of thin air, that should be no problem for auto manufacturers.

Don't forget encouraged to cut corporate taxes to near zero.

Nothing in the 1st amendment mentions or protects parody. Fair use is from common law and predates the constitution. In the US, it is part of copyright law.

You don't need to be an IP lawyer to know that the 1st amendment doesn't protect breaking IP law.

Parody is protected speech under the 1st amendment in the same sense that you won't get tossed in jail for drawing a picture of Mario and hanging it on your wall. If you want to make Star Wars porn parodies, go right ahead, no one is going to stop you, until you start distributing copies, at which point Disney might have some disagreement as to your uses of the copyrights and/or trademarks. The copyright issue you can fight under the fair use doctrine, not the 1st amendment, and on the trademark issue you can expect to open your wallet and pay because there's no defense there, especially if you name your product Star Wars XXX.

Ah Vice, bastion of accurate reporting. I expect the followup, "Fusion power to Fuel Revolution in Blunt Manufacturing" any day now.

It's still a parasocial relationship, that's never the best idea.

If you were replacing jet fuel for every jet on the planet, you'd have to go with cryogenic.

It isn't so much the culture dying that'd be the issue so much as something else, like say regular old normal yeast that is found pretty much everywhere, making itself at home and spoiling the batch.

That really depends on what it takes to scale that up to industrial levels. Wheat currently is capable of growing in dirt under the open sky, if this process requires temperature controlled sealed tanks that have to be kept in sterile conditions, this is not a viable solution.

Not really, there's lots of talk about prices going down, "One tenth the price by 202X" and all that, but launch prices are still pretty much the same as they have been.

I think they are missing the expanded version of this question. If a robot does a job that humans have done in the past, but which wasn't currently being done by a human, has a job been lost to a robot?