... Governor Newsom weighing in on this issue? Unless the phones have been mislabeled, why should he even care?

Most good spies look more like George Smiley.

... they could use a cat while the wolf is on back-order.

Maybe figure out what industry you'd like to work in. And then apply for a job there. Even if it's a shit job, they'll see your work ethic and if you're honest about using the entry job as a stepping stone, they'll help you move up.

A bit different situation: When I graduated with an EE degree, I went into the utility business. One outfit had a probationary/training program where they would run engineering candidates through "shit jobs". They put me on a line crew for a while (no energized work). Sure. Give me the end of the cable and I'll drag ith through the ditch. At the end of the probation period, one of the foremen that I worked for commented that I was one of the few engineers willing to do that work. Most sat in their cars, reading the paper (now I'm surre that would be pecking on a phone). I was a shoo-in for practically any opening that came around.

Oh, and I learned to climb. Trees, not poles. I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid. Being a lumberjack with 50,000 volts is work for other people.

Let's have these figures in MPH charging. Because 10 to 80% of what isn't very useful.

I figured out the "charging rate" of my old truck at the gas pump. It's about Mach 4.

Nice data point. I'm still on my first ICE vehicle. 47 years old. Runs just fine. I'd hate to see how much I'd have spent buying a new one every few years. Not to mention the CO2 generated and other environmental damage done by having to supply myself with a new one every so often.

I'll keep this in mind if ever I consider buying a new car. In addition to the fact that many cars now must be connected to the cloud periodically (or always) and they risk having their 5G radios abandoned when telecoms switch to 6G.

Call for a tow to the dealer. I'm sure this is something covered under warranty.

From TFS:

That's an affirmative on the laziness.

That dashboard camera is a convenient place for me to hang my hat while I'm driving.

Grid capacity. And that includes the local utilities equipment needed to supply the chargers. We had a 12 station Tesla charger installed in a local supermarket parking lot. Once the Tesla equipment went in, the site remained fenced off for 6 months. Reason? No transformers available. And when one was finally delivered, it was rated at 1500 kW. For all 12 chargers.

We have had a couple of charging sites go in where the utility power available was insufficient. And the owners just went with diesel gensets. Conveniently hiding the equipment behind fences to to assuage the green sensibilities of the customers.

Not really. EVs appeal to a different market. You have to be able to afford the time to charge one*. Which means your time probably isn't worth much. Sure, I have to slop $100 worth of dinosaur juice in my car. But that's dirt cheap compared to the additional charging time an EV would take.

*Seattle, for one, completely blew the EV economics out of the water when they modified building codes to allow zero parking residential construcion. No more overnight charging. And the traffic cones and old lawn chairs are going in to reserve on-street parking. Gun battles soon if you move one.

Other way around. First the data center. Then, once residents grow tired of the blackouts, they'll beg for a nuke.

That explains a lot.

Or perhaps it runs backward, relative to the universe you just left behind.

Yes. Already verified experimentally.

There are conjectures that every universe (and there are many) is the interior of a black hole. And that physical properties (like time, for example) are discontinuous at the event horizon. Both looking in and from the inside, looking out.

Time, for a traveler heading toward an event horizon, appear to slow down to observers sitting back a ways, watching. So, to the traveller, time in the universe left behind would accelerate. Their trip would seem normal, but the universe they see in their rear view mirror would die due to entropy/heat death and cease to exist as they crossed the horizon. The arrow of time would reduce to zero as they actually reached the horizon*. But once inside (if they survive) the observation would have to be considered relative to the flow of time inside. They might stop accelerating toward the hypothesized singularity at the center and begin decellerating as they travelled into the new universe. Consisting of a distributed but lumpy centerless mass with no singularity. Just as our universe is.

*Particles for whom there is no arrow of time in our universe are called photons. So, passing the event horizon probably involves a matter to energy conversion. Probably not survivable, IMO.

pYeah, right. Topologists don't know the difference between a cup of coffee and a donut.