Joe's in his own room, shitting himself, and wondering if that was , umm, you know, the thing.

Because everyone can have a cushy office job and we don't need anyone to grow food, build roads, weld pipes, etc. You're essentially a living parody of "learn to code".

Sounds like a franchise-opportunity.

It's not the money as much as the prestige. It's one of the worst aspects of doctor-culture, this idea that only MD's are competent to decide things. If you've ever listened to a doctor rail nurses about getting uppity and "you're not doctors, after all", you'd know what I mean. It really chaps the AMA's ass to see the growth of things like Nurse Practitioners. Every expansion of non-MD authority and responsibility in medicine has always been opposed by the AMA. When the concept of paramedics was first floated in the 60's, it was MD's that most bitterly opposed putting the idea into practice. They insisted common people simply couldn't be trained for those kind of serious duties (which was silly considering that the military had been training enlisted field medics for 50 years at that point).

Did he not endorse the concept, though?

Isn't that all media-interfacing technologies though? The Internet itself was heralded as a Golden Age where everyone would have the modern equivalent of the Library of Alexandria at their fingertips, and it would usher us into a new age of philosophy and science, making higher learning available to all.

People responded with spam and dancing baby videos.

Any higher purpose you imagine for tech that interfaces with people will always be dominated by the lowest stuff.

Because wild bullshit that can neither be proved nor disproved is how many physicists get notoriety and job security these days (*waves to our 10-dimensions String Theory peeps*).

Yes, but then we masked them, kept them six feet apart, and enacted banana-from-home, and they're saved.

We've been constantly reminded that Panama Disease will likely wipe out large scale Cavendish banana farming in a few years, with the Beeb calling it a "Banana Pandemic".

Lawful. Resident. Noncitizens.

As if rationality was ever a bastion of the stock market before now. Wanna buy some tulips or shares in DrKoop.com?

Yep. But the thing is, it'll still be disappointing. We're hoping to find the Kraken, or something exotic down there, but most of the time it's just sand and tubeworms and small fish adapted to the pressure. As someone once put it, "We got to the Moon and there were no Klingons there, so we stopped going to the Moon". Our imaginations tend to be more exciting than reality when it comes to this type of exploration, so it makes it hard to get support for it.

You're conflating illegal aliens with visitors that had their visas revoked for one offense or another. When you're a guest in someone's country, it's best not to be a complete ass. You get your visa revoked when you do that. This is not new or uncommon, and the State Department makes it clear that it can revoke visas for a full range of reasons:

As you full well know, there is no right to be in someone else's country.

This presupposes that aliens, legal or illegal, have all the rights and privileges of citizens. SCOTUS has never ruled to that effect, and the very notion makes a mockery of the whole concept of citizenship, or even nationhood, for that matter. Now if that's the hill that you want to die on, be my guest, and please, convince the Democratic Party to openly run on that notion. By all means, run on "If they make it across the border, they get to stay unless a judge says so". No one with a lick of sanity is going to endorse that.

They're not "migrants". They're illegal aliens. Pretty up the language all you like, it doesn't change what they are. It also doesn't change the fact that under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, section 235, they're subject to immediate expulsion: