Buying an ICE car doesn't make you better at time management. Maybe be an adult and plan your trips so you arrive when you need to arrive.

because stopping to charge on the occasion that you are driving a longer drive just isn't that big of a deal. If I had to do it weekly that would be somewhat inconvenient but even with all the road trips I go on I have to stop for a charge less than once a month.

This is my take as well.

Yeah, because it will cost a lot less to take kids away from parents that are poor and dealing with food insecurity and put them into an already overburdened foster care system where the state has to pay for their food and clothes and a roof over their heads instead of just providing support to the family and making sure the kids have access to the food they need.

Seriously, this is braindead thinking. CPS is for parents that are an actual problem, not ones who are simply poor. It costs so much less to address the problems of poverty and food insecurity than it does to criminalize people who live in poverty and with food insecurity.

Income tax is not the only kind of tax

So clearly the answer is 6 day work weeks, you will be 20% more productive for your corporate masters.

"Maybe everyone's just practicing their language skills with ChatGPT?"

Or: Maybe no one's practicing any skills whatsoever anymore, because they expect answers will always be available on-demand via ChatGPT (et. al.)

My limited sample: I have 3 long-time engineering friends currently looking for jobs, and they've all been asked to use AI tools of some sort in all of their recent interviews.

Weirdly, most of those cases have sprung the requirement on the person by surprise midway into the interview.

You sound like one of the misinformation spigots that are cheesed you can't get traction on Bluesky.

I access Bluesky on the Firefox browser on my Android-based phone.

Listen to Jeff Bezos' Washington Post and Trump's Wharton School.

If you're a right-winger, it's a terrible place to be. Don't come!

I was a senior software engineer (now a CS professor), and I never touch-typed, and it never held me back.

The work of the programmer/engineer is what, 95% mental work, 5% typing? (to be generous to the latter) That's without even getting into rapidly-changing input techniques, autocomplete in the IDE, etc.

Anecdote: When I got my first engineering job in the 90's, I vented my frustration to my father, "The guy in the next cubicle is like 100 times more productive than me" (comparing a day-1 out of college programmer to a senior codebase expert who was indeed one those x100 engineers). My father's response was, "Well, he must be a much faster typist than you are", and it was all I could do to not laugh or choke on such a ridiculous misunderstanding of the job. Consider the degree to which that's a relevant assessment.

A few weeks SO staff posted a "we're rebranding" post on the site in the Q&A format. They've been throwing out all kinds of supposed strategic expansions lately, which look scattered and less than coherent.This particular post generated comments and the CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar started responding.

Observation: The CEO (unfiltered by editors, legal, or PR) can barely write a coherent English sentence. They're not making any sense at all with their current plans, as far as I can tell. Their goose is probably cooked. Remember when Slashdot came off its peak and was sold and shuffled around a couple times by corporations grasping for some way to leverage its former popularity? Like that.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/408825/341383

I personally have a lot of white and Asian community-college students who can't do basic algebra.

Since 1866, New York State has had a standardized testing regime at the end of high school to qualify for a statewide Regents Diploma. Since at least 2015, they likewise goose the scores in a broadly similar way. You can see a scoring conversion chart from last year here. For example, out of 82 possible points on the Algebra I test, scoring 29 (that is, 35%) gets scaled up to a reported score of 65, qualifying for performance level 3 (out of 5, like a 'C'), and so qualifies for the Regents Diploma (more).

In the time since that's been done, the proficiency of basic math skills for incoming college students has become so poor, the colleges (like CUNY) have had to abandon the requirement to know any algebra even as an expectation to graduate college.

yeah you want to spend your time at gas stations and breathe in gas fumes and spend more money per mile to get where you are going.

Spending 10 minutes looking at a map app 1 time a year when I'm driving to the middle of nowhere is a worthy trade off. Hell the car will do it for you in most cases, I just like checking ahead when I'm planning a trip (which I do, unless I'm going someplace Ive been before, I tend to check a map and figure out how long the trip is very Gen X of me I suppose). If you ask your cars nav to get you someplace it will find the chargers for you based on your charge preferences and you can just blindly follow its instructions. Not my style but I'm confident a lot of people do that.

People are just so in their head about charging which is barely a concern for actual EV owners instead of looking at the annoyances and costs they have dealt with for their entire life. Once you don't deal with them anymore it's really quite nice and the quality of life improvement is completely worth it.