In other words, it would be the ultimate super-31337 status symbol.

As an ignorant outsider shooting off his mouth on the internet, I would speculate that hybrids are likely helping the adoption of purely electric cars in a minor way, by adding scale to the production of various electric components.

A hybrid EV (at least the type popularized by Toyota) is just an EV with a local gasoline engine+alternator bolted on, right? So there are still electric motors in each. And I ass/u/me all the stuff that would be on an ICE's serpentine belt are electrically-powered on a hybrid, so the AC compressor in this hybrid could theoretically be the same exact AC compressor as in that pure-EV, etc. Thus some of the two markets' parts can scale as one, making them both slightly cheaper.

Throw in plug-in hybrids, and then we also get the fact that these plug-in hybrid drivers are creating some demand for charging networks, which of course increases the utility of pure EVs as well.

No kissing and telling! I demand you scrub from the internet all references to the personal information about the hugs and kisses I received from you.

He put money into the companies he wanted to support, by purchasing parts of them. He could retract his money at any time by selling the shares. That is either an endorsement of what they are doing, or an endorsement of what they plan to do.

The majority of what Musk claims is not true. He's had at best a shaky relationship with reality for some time. He happily endorses and propagates - amongst other things - the false narrative that he launched Tesla. Don't count on his narrative of "sleeping in the factory" to actually mean anything beyond occasionally yelling at employees there and then leaving to go sleep in the nicest hotel in town.

I can't speak to all cases of "administrators", but I can very much speak to one case in higher education where I was employed for some time.

Where I worked, employees were grouped into three different bins, depending on their role. There were "faculty" (rather self-explanatory), "civil service" (mostly janitors, along with lab techs, some librarians, and other roles), and "professional and administrative (or P&A)". The P&A was often misconstrued in the public to be composed entirely of administrators, which was nowhere near correct, it had far more professionals - especially professional research staff which were largely non-faculty scientists with advanced degrees.

Even more so to counter your point, *nobody* in the P&A category were union. All the unionized workers were "civil service" - though lots of civil service were not unionized. The union couldn't have cared less about the count of administrators.

If you go in - as an adult - to a mass shooting event at a school, how do you expect to survive? The police are trying to stop the shooter and will reasonably expect that anyone who is not a student could potentially be a shooter. Police have mistaken cell phones for guns in other situations, don't expect to be exempt from that possibility in something as high stakes as a mass shooting.

If your kid is laying low and keeping quiet, their odds of survival are far better than if they are calling you on a phone.

I don't know if you're building some strange straw man argument here or if you're just out to waste my time with that, but I'll also point out that a kid on a phone is only going to be making noise and end up doing more to draw in the attention of a shooter. Smart phones in the hands of kids don't do anything to help this situation; I could just as easily ask if you're shilling for Samsung, Apple, or the phone companies in pretending otherwise.

"academia works"?

You think Academia ever accomplished anything at all?

Good. You're finally getting the picture that American crony Capitalism sucks rocks and considers immigrants to be barely better than slaves.

With millions of citizen tech workers laid off in the last 3 years, fewer foreign workers is only good news.

PLEASE avoid the United States. We're going through an existential cultural identity crisis right now, and don't need your third world kleptocracies, we have enough kleptocracy here.

Some people throw around the term "screen addiction" very casually but it is a very real thing and the kids that are suffering from it are facing a much greater hill to climb than some of us realize. It's not better because they grew up with screens in front of their faces at all times, in fact it's worse. Beyond the obvious social implications of screen addiction we have the issues they are having with day to day existence without screens. These kids need help, and our nations economy will soon depend on us getting it to them.

Do you not remember Columbine? The school was able to lock down before smart phones even existed. Or for that matter Sandy Hook? That was an elementary school; it's highly unlikely any kids there had smart phones but they were able to lock down as well. We don't need smart phones to protect students from mass shooters. More so, this applies to students and not teachers; teachers will still be able to communicate and coordinate.

Somehow the lawyers will get the majority of the settlements.

This is bad news if the Pixels are now eSIM only.

GrapheneOS only supports pixels and many of its users prefer a permissionless SIM.

Maybe they'll add support for some other device, perhaps one of the privacy phones.

The academics you want most for consulting are the ones from research universities. However, those academics generally work 80 hours weeks already just to keep their jobs.

I know this first hand. I was a postdoc at a major research university, at the time intending to follow the academic career track. This was after doing my PhD at another - albeit much smaller and less prestigious - public research university. What I saw as a postdoc while rubbing elbows with junior faculty really opened my eyes.

Junior faculty at major public research universities are working at least 80 hours a week. 40 hours go to grant writing, lab management, and departmental obligations. Another 20 goes to teaching. 10 goes to managing institutional requirements (including negotiations for how much they pay to their institution for space, utilities, etc - and consumption of those resources). Another 5 goes in to actual research. The last 5 goes to attending local seminars.

When a most junior (assistant professor) faculty member makes it to the next level they are still working 80 hours, but they're making slightly more money. Now they are putting more effort into making their pitch for tenure (if it exists at their institution), or looking at where they want to work next (if that's a better career path for them). If they ever make it from medium level (associate professor) to senior (professor) - and many never do - they still need work 80 hours a week but now they have a larger presence on campus.

At what time do we expect American faculty to have more time available for this?