I get what they're trying to accumplish, but wouldn't it be better to prevent them from being bought by corporations?

For sure, taking responsibility for one's actions should be paramout; however, in the world of plastics, it's not quite that simple.
1. the plastics industry is selling their product on the basis that it is recyclable, the problem is that may of those plastics are not being recycled.
    a) it's not cost effective
    b) the region does not have the means to recycle that kind of plastic
    c) that plastic is not easily identified by the processor
2. not all plastics are recyclable (mixed plastics)
    a) they're included with many products
    b) the consumer doesn't know what plastics they're getting until they've arrived
3. not all recyclable plastics get recycled
    a) consumer directly throws them in the trash
    b) processor discards the plastics (see point 1)

Back in the old days, before plastic was used in all kinds of packaging, we used cardboard and glass. Cardboard really can be recycled, glass can too, but glass has another neat trick: it can be disinfected and reused. Cans are great too, they can be recycled. In Europe, they use steel cans which can be sorted magnetically. In the US, they're aluminum which has to be separated manually.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

Rhetoric from the left? What? Wear a mask, social distance and donâ(TM)t listen to those dicks trying to kill you with misinformation? Thereâ(TM)s only one party in control at the federal level, theyâ(TM)re setting the tone, and theyâ(TM)re bearers of the majority of the blame.

The assumption is that all information in the internet is correct. The fact is there is a lot of misinformation, conspiracy theories and other noise. Groups of people buy into these misrepresentations because they feel powerless or they jive with their own skewed viewpoints. There's nothing to indicate that these mistruths are just that. There's no feedback device. Back with traditional news outlets, they had reputations. Some you knew were truthful, they won Pulitzer Prizes, and others were fictional (Michael Jack's space baby). The availability of 3G allows someone to access the whole internet for a $200 spend on a phone, whereas before, they needed a computer and a modem. Many countries don't even have the infrastructure for a computer and modem but they have extensive 3G networks. This brings us back to how can we associate global reputations with these sprawling web sites, and how can society disparage the nutters? Just because you're unpopular doesn't mean you're not right, but often times you aren't.

Linear Energy Transfer

It's not radioactive. When high-energy particles strike it, they break apart into lower-energy particles that are more harmful. So, you need enough shielding to catch the particles that break apart in the top layer of your shielding.

While radiation mostly results in transient errors, it can also cause latch-ups that blow a gate off of the die. For rad-hard equipment in space this is mitigated by silicon-on-insulator fabrication, so that you can't have a latch-up between the substrate and a silicon feature.

We could have REAL ZOMBIES! YEAH!

:-)

I hear you. Going to be an interesting future, if we live.

Someone who broke their neck and was suffering from paralysis. You can control a chair or exoskeleton. People who can not hear today have cochlear implants, this is not all that different and might (eventually) work better. Or speak, or see. Other people who are disabled in various ways.

Oops. To continue: I'm just not seeing that it is so hard to access. But then, I use a Linux desktop, which has always come with a proper PDF renderer, there has never been a need to download "Acrobat".

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

Lithium battery fires are in the news because they are new. There are many more gasoline fires every day.