The funny thing about these automated factories is the question, how long it will take to build them and who will build them? How long until the product is done as quickly as cheaply as overseas, without these work robots constantly malfunctioning or needing repairs? There is a reason only certain industries are almost fully automated, it’s simply not efficient to use (fairly expensive) robots for everything. You need a product that sells for a lot of money (like cars) for it to create a profit. But what do I know I’m not a billionaire.

I visited Japan last year, most toilet seats are heated there (also featuring built-in bidet). I got used to it very quickly and miss it now.

Merkel had to explain that to Trump 11 times last time he was president. I bet he forgot it again.

This is a guy who thinks physical activity drains the body like a battery. Like a finite amount of energy and when we have used it up, we die.

He really is just very stupid.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he really believed that because all the yes-men around him are constantly telling him how great he is.

They could leave it first, but yes.

We are literally a Black Mirror episode watched right now in some parallel universe. Probably with the viewers going “it’s a little far fetched!”

Fascism always turns to gulags or concentration camps. In the United States of Trump they will be for-profit prisons employing modern slave labor. These external solutions are just stepping stones until any resemblance of democracy is eradicated.

Surely the free speech absolutists will be staunchly opposed. Why, if they weren’t, one could think it was never about free speech and always just about hate…

It’s not even a smile, I don’t think he can genuinely smile. It’s a rictus grin devoid of real joy.

He has always been a sociopathic, narcistic asshole. His sociopathy just latched onto the transgender thing.

That would be straight out of Hitler’s playbook, so I wouldn’t be surprised.