Calculation are done with a different system, a slower system, than is normal time recognition on an analog clock.

FWIW, I have no trouble reading an analog clock, but I strongly dislike using polar coordinates, even while I recognize that in some situations they are valuable. They aren't the same skill.

Even if it's explicitly taught, if it isn't used it will be forgotten...unless the teaching is continued for a long time.

E,g,, at one point I could read German with fair fluency. (Not good, but fair. It never became enjoyable.) These days, I could barely say "That is the oldest car around here.". And I couldn't spell it.

I had sort of felt that way, but if Microsoft is pushing that line it must be wrong. They've got a history.

He's only a small part of the problem. A very small part.

Yes, he benefits from the problem, but he didn't create it. It's been increasingly obvious and significant year by year for decades. The only solutions I've seen are "chain of provenance" solutions, and those are only practical for extremely limited uses. Remember the movies about things like giant squids tearing down the Golden Gate bridge, or giant tarantulas roaming around the country? Those are parts of the problem. And unless you want to get rid of "special effects" and even cosmetics, the problem still exists. And cosmetics goes back to before Babylon.

So the real question is "How should this be dealt with?". The obvious claim is "teach critical thinking", and that would help a lot, but it's both not practical and not going to be seriously attempted. (And it probably wouldn't work anyway.)

The one's I've heard being pushed are things like "watermarks", which don't do the casual observer any good.

I learned in engineering long ago that road damage was proportional to the 4th power of vehicle weight. This is not a complete picture; much road damage is environmental due to temperature fluctuations, etc. But is is mostly accurate in terms of road damage due to the flexing of the roads due to vehicle weight.
The myth of electric vehicles being twice the weight may be a result of confusing the cost due to weight. A 19% increase in weight being a 100% increase in road damage.
Or maybe it's just the all too common, FUD.

Yeah, but those are problems that could actually be solved. Difficult, but possible. I'd question the benefit, and see it as only reasonable as a research project. And I think the farside radio telescope more worthwhile. (Also easier.)

That's a real problem for all spaced based nuclear reactors (fusion included). It's a difficult problem, but not one that's intrinsically insoluble. And it really should be solved.

(My design goal here is building a large mobile habitat, but not within the next few decades. Ideally something that could be converted into a SLOW interstellar vehicle... say averaging less than 10 km/s different from the local drift. And subsisting by savaging off that drift. So it needs to be a pretty closed ecology.)

That's currently true. Does it have to remain true?

Of course, I think the smaller bodies hold greater promise. It's easier to rebuild an asteroid.

The summary indicated that it would be a joint project with China.

Of all the word processors I've used the best was MSWord 5.2a for the Mac LC2 & LC3. LibreOffice Writer comes close. Nothing since from MS that I've used comes close.

You can talk to a clerk, but the clerk doesn't appear to be able (willing?) to forward the message. That was true for several different clerks.

Yes. There essentially wasn't any feedback mechanism.

And it's often the fault of the local businesses. If I want to buy "unsalted mixed nuts", my local store doesn't carry them any more. (It used to, but it stopped.) So now I buy them on Amazon.

One way it's different is that it's a 2 year commitment. IIUC, there's no plan proposed to extend the employment.

Also, considering the companies I heard named in conjunction with the play, I hope it's a total failure.