Almost every vehicle available today is over 1 ton by weight. Most trucks are at least 2 tons by weight. The 1/4, 1/2, and 1 ton in reference to trucks is cargo capacity.
Companies are also really good at coming up with values and creating bonus structures that incentivize going against those values. Most companies like to say they value teamwork and collaboration, but also give out individual awards to people who do the most visible work while ignoring the contributions of the 100 other people that made a project succeed. Nothing kills morale faster than giving awards and bonuses to the manager that forced massive overtime to complete a project, and giving the team a pizza party.
Scrum came from a world where product folks and developers never directly talked to each other. Everything was a formal written request with some requirements and there were SLAs for how long developers could look at it before providing questions and estimates back. After one (two if you're lucky) round(s) of questions a deadline is established, and work begins.
In that world, creating a single product owner that had the full complete say of this is what will happen that met with developers on a daily basis is a huge improvement of individuals and interactions. This is the single biggest win of Scrum, getting people to just talk to each other regularly, by having mandatory meetings all the time. If an organization has good communication or a product is too large for a single person to manage, Scrum ceases to be as useful option.
This works until it doesn't, and then you are screwed. Once a single property falls into foreclosure, you lose the refinance option and everything starts collapsing when payments come due you never intended to have to pay.
Grid capacity is a bigger problem than people want to admit, just saying charge at night isn't really a solution. My state is already struggling to update infrastructure just from legal marijuana (pot farms use a ton of electricity), more charging stations just makes that harder.
The cost of school is fairly minor in the reason's not to become a doctor. It's the massive increase in administration overhead that has reduced a doctor's time spent treating patients and practicing medicine significantly. EMR systems are slow compared to paper/dictation from a doctor's perspective, they also produce extremely verbose reports, so more time is spent sifting through records to find the useful bits. Doctor's need to perform X task that is often irrelevant to qualify for increased reimbursement from Medicare. Doctors have to justify why they prescribed X medication with prior auths and appeals just to get a patient the help they need. The additional scrutiny on opioid medications forces people to come in more often even if they've been compliant and successfully managed for years. Doctors that serve the neediest patient populations get rewarded with the most expensive malpractice insurance, because poor people are far more litigious than average, and often get paid less as Medicaid has some of the lowest reimbursement levels.
Just applying an inflation adjustment isn't the whole story though. There's more people and more stuff than 20 years ago. New construction requires higher standards through code enforcement than 20 years ago. Infrastructure costs have ballooned way faster than inflation over 20 years, and repair/replace costs more to remove the broken stuff on top of just construction.
The only reason they would have made more is reduced competition. Streaming allows historical catalogs to be infinitely available, and vastly lowers the bar for smaller musicians to add their music to the catalog. There's also more foreign music available then ever before. The supply of music is vastly increased thanks to streaming, but demand really can't increase, so obviously the price is going to fall.
There's actually pretty good evidence that being overly clean and sterile is bad for an immune system. Yes, getting exposed to highly dangerous diseases like Ebola, polio, measles, small pox, etc. is bad, covid with a vaccine doesn't really rise to that level.
Valve has released a handful of hardware pieces, though most were failures. There was the steam machine(s), which were just Linux pcs that valve put together as a response to windows thinking about going to an exclusive app store, the steam deck is really a continuation of that effort. Steam also had the link, which is actually a pretty good casting device to link a pc to a tv over wifi/ethernet, but the lag was a bit too much for gaming, especially without a wired connection. The steam controller was marketed alongside the link as a way to make a pc more like a console, it had some positive buzz, but never got super popular. Valve also released a vr headset called the Index back in the vr craze, but that whole market is pretty niche.
TLDR. Valve has been making hardware for a while now, but it's mostly about proving there is a viable non-Microsoft market if they are forced out of Windows.
Forcing cops to double as firefighters helps a lot to keep undesirable officers out. It forces all cops to be in firefighting shape, which is significantly more difficult that the average police requirements. It also means cops need to be willing to run into burning buildings, which is more danger than the average cop would ever face.
They weren't actually interested in being unbiased though, they only like attacking Republicans, and as political power shifted, they ran out of credible targets.
In about the same period Taco Bell had the .79/.89/.99 menu options. You could feed a family of four for about $10. Now even the $5 combo box is becoming rare.
It's about insuring employees, not the items. Businesses have insurance so that if a worker is hurt during work, they don't have to directly pay the related bills. That company will assume the risk that an employee helping a customer put a tv on a cart results in injury, but they absolutely won't assume the risk of confronting a potential thief.
I really don't know why it's so hard to get basic competency in public sector to use bcc or restrict send access to large groups. That said, I enjoyed the drama when an email devolved into requests to stop replying all and requests to be taken off the list.
It's amazing to me how many people are so far removed from food production in modern times that they've forgotten what most of our ancestors knew, "Subsistence farming sucks."
The closest I've seen to Tesla using more automation was just Musk spouting off random bullshit. Actual deep dives have shown that the automation tesla was trying to do isn't ready and they spent as long or longer fixing every car, often meaning they had lower output and more human involvement than competitors.
The problem is getting people to actually agree to plug in their car and let the power company run it. That's a huge ask to get people to agree to, it's going to take serious compensation that power companies won't want to do.
Disney is definitely active in shaping narratives on Rotten Tomatoes. The best example is probably The Last Jedi, which has had several people document the removal of negative reviews multiple times.
It used to, the professional critics were mostly just those that were paid by newspapers or similar. Lately as in the last few years the gates were opened to basically anyone with a blog viewed by more than their parents. This let everything be manipulated much more easily.
The same way it does now. Simply having a character resurrect in a story doesn't violate copyright of the Bible; Game of Thrones; Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe; Harry Potter; Lord of the Rings; etc. Writing a Story About Luke Skywalker as a ten-year-old kid exploring Tatooine, is likely to run into problems.
You need more training data and more sensors and completely different rules that are often opposite the rules for good conditions. The things you really need for snow/ice that are hard for computers are anticipation and flexible rules.