It reminds me, or vice versa, of the Culture series. It's a universe that's so post scarcity it makes Star Trek look a bit mercantile.
One of the most coveted and sought after things in The Culture are jobs. Because AI Minds do pretty much all the necessary labor, only jobs that organic brains and bodies are required for still exist and they are seen as prestigious. Everyone has everything they could desire and the only thing left to work for is purpose.
Why would you hold self-driving cars to a standard that we don't hold drivers? If you are a driver and realize you are about to harm a pedestrian, there is no circumstance when the law suggests you ram a car into a building or pole instead of the pedestrian. Your insurance would rather you hit the pedestrian, usually. Because in an animal strike, hitting the animal is comprehensive (in America) and swerving to hit a fence is collision. You can't be at fault for comprehensive. A pedestrian is a different mater and not comprehensive, but they'd rather you mitigate liability, and then mitigate cost. And there's a chance the pedestrian was at fault, at least partially. The building/pole can't be.
But all of this is a moot point. Self-driving cars will NEVER be programmed to harm the driver before an outside person. Simply for the fact no one will ever buy or ride in a car that chooses to kill the passenger over others. No one will ride in the Suicide Car.
Caveman absolutely proud of you. Hunter-gatherer lifestyle was closer to how most animals live: most of their lives are spent resting. Periods of hunting take up a lot of energy and most animals spend most of the waking hours conserving energy. Humans weren't that much of an exception.
A descendant who rests the majority of their lives is living the dream. Especially when pretty much all prehistory threats are eliminated: predators, neighboring tribes killing you (for most of us anyways...), starvation, prevalent disease, infant mortality, extreme seasons, etc.
Contrast that to the founding father's age in America: those rich assholes hated and feared the working class. They had incredible animosity directed at any non-owner class people. They even created a nation and had the gall to say "every man is created equal" and then most states denied voting rights to non-landowners, non-men, non-white people, and often based on age and religion. It could be as low when the Constitution was ratified as 20-25%. So it's safe to say the white-haired ancestor would find the average person's lack of hard work and life of some leisure a good thing, in general those asshats were closer to modern billionaires.
I'm still baffled how the creators of that site haven't been arrested. It's clearly conspiracy to commit treason or insurrection and they've taken steps to commit the crime.
Yes absolutely. There's a huge segment of the population that doesn't want a fascist dictator but wants to be convinced Trump is having to sidestep fringe groups that are fascist. These people want to buy into the fear culture and want their feeling of privilege restored (see: persecute minorities), but don't want to appear fascist so they don't lose their social connections like friends and family ever talking to them again.
But if Trump is elected they will shrug their shoulders while the rest of the country alternatingly rejoices and cries out in despair.
Fence-sitters, centrists, and others not publicly decrying Trump are just embarrassed Trump supporters.
Based on Realm of Fear, you are conscious throughout the whole transport, and it shows that you maintain your existence.
Is that the only episode where that is mentioned? Because there have been a lot of transporter accidents that copy, clone+alter, combine, etc, transporter victims.
Yep. The 14th13th Amendment is anti-slavery but has a carve-out for prisoners. Prisons use slave labor and private prisons are companies that profit from slavery.
It's been a while since I watched the prequels, but the idea I got was everyone knew the Jedi existed: they were major players in the galactic senate as you referenced. But very few people would ever get to see Jedis use force powers. They might see them brandish a lightsaber. Which to a culture who had space ships, blasters, and the ability to block lightsabers (even if the materials were rare), laser swords might have seemed antiquated and quaint.
And the powers the Jedi seemed to use in populated places the most often were mind powers which aren't necessarily observable: even Luke watching Obi-Wan mind-trick a stormtrooper was baffled. Seeing Yoda throw ships around might be a thing only a handful of people saw in a century and became little more than legend.
Ooor I might be rationalizing a lot of plot holes without realizing it. :)
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Well yeah. You gotta keep all the explosions to a single room.