“My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed.”

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/parkinsons-spoons#product-options

Yes, and such intelligent systems can also optimize for pedestrian traffic,

In the US, these types of “intelligent” systems almost always degrade pedestrian traffic quite severely.

Sorry, but it is mainly Biden’s policies. The administration has largely ignored white collar crime, especially when it comes to things like price collusion, antitrust, etc.

Case in point: the DOJ lawsuit against RealPage software (which landlords were using to collude on apartment prices). The company was engaged in extremely serious criminal activity, but the DOJ did not file any criminal charges.