Imagine what it’s like to trade against those who have insider info.

Look at the good side, Theil is proving religion is by and for humans, some of which consider themselves better than other humans.

My limited understanding of the history was that during the patent medicine era, medicines had proprietary formulas and varying compositions. For example, many formulas had cannabis extract, others contained opium. The initial regulations therefore were done for medical purposes of drug purity. Edited to add, it wouldn’t surprise me if the overuse of opium in the patent medicine era led directly to judging the medical usefulness of these drugs, although it’s just a guess.

While it’s just a guess, pharmaceutical lobbying is likely why. None of that happened before the FDA was created sometime in the early 1900s.

Right now we’re in the political stages of considering the regulating of internet access to minors, the addictiveness of social media is not regulated.

Trump admin insures medical experts can’t attend medical conference?

And if a pharmaceutical or drug has addictive properties with no medical uses, the government outlaws it by scheduling it as having abuse potential. Seems like a big double standard.

“Get out of our country!” he yelled, holding the unlit flag. “This is a Christian country!” He soon threw away the unlit flag and unwrapped a basic rainbow Pride flag and unfurled it in the wind. Someone then laughed at him.

It’s no wonder church attendance is falling.

Find your spines, and let the US citizenry know where you stand.

And hey, beating the bejesus out of kids is one of the fundamental pillars of US culture. How dare financial “scrutiny” get in the way of deeply entrenched custom.

Russel Vought has embraced the label Christian Nationalist. It’s not a surprise they want veto power over anything that might go against doctrine.

He cited examples of thuggery like a surge of “mob” violence by Jews against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the abuse of detainees in Israeli custody.

Reads like ICE tactics against immigrants.

We had all these laws against this kind of cruel and unusual punishment, yet the people are going to be held financially responsible for the acts of a malicious minority currently running the Executive Branch? Why have any laws if the highest people in government don’t have to follow them? Why isn’t the minority held financially responsible for breaking laws? Why will the rest of us have to pick up the tab for their abuses and lawlessness?

As these costs trickle down, outraged shoppers have taken to social media, filming videos lamenting prices they claim have quadrupled, with some vowing to plant their own gardens to avoid paying up to $8 a pound.

In California, the cost of water for consumers precludes growing high-cost vegetables to realize overall savings: unless consumers can figure a way to get their water at agricultural pricing.

I guess if I was in their service domain, I’d have a large drum filled to the rim with water. Just in case.

There’s a long tradition of physical violence towards kids in US culture. Spare the rod, spoil the child!

Zappa said something like, "They’ve moved the tables and chairs out of the way and pulled the curtains back so we can see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

Building codes should probably include Faraday-cage type shielding.

I’ve been worried about neighborhood cats and other non-human animals.

In the case of trash collection, the fine has been put in place by the trash-collection corporations. How that specifically may analogize to household-chore robots: I’m not sure. There are possibilities, but picking one among many and saying it will certainly be that one seems likely to be like gambling. Perhaps the robotic company requires you to sign an end-user agreement with lots of fine-print legalese.

I’m making what is called an analogy.

What reason would the governments have …?

The motive is money, but I didn’t say anything about governments, that was your interpretation, and I’ll admit it is a possibility. These robots are said to be AI, and I’d be very surprised if they don’t also have wireless communications of some kind, but to whom and whether those communications can be hacked are all unknowns.