Obama is not my guy, you can throw him in the Hague right alongside Trump for all I care. Hell, scoop up Biden and Bush while you are at it.

BUT, there is a difference between setting enforcement priories for CBP such that you are spending less resources on deportation vs completely trampling on people's civil rights by renditioning them to death camps in countries where they aren't even citizens (while ignoring court orders to recall them), capriciously revoking green cards based on slap fights the VP gets into on Twitter, and activating the national guard in a state without consulting with the governor.

Sure, Trump can chose to crash the higher education system if he wants by zeroing out new student visas, that's his prerogative, I guess. But if you can't tell that there is a difference, not just in degree, but in kind between that and the other things, then I don't think we have very much else to say to one another.

Executive orders aren't law, and some shit Trump makes up isn't sound legal theory.

Hey gen Xer here. Fuck all that nonsense. Companies have absolutely no loyalty or care for you, so you owe them none either. I'd only go above and beyond if you have a solid contract that guarantees lifetime employment and a pension, but they stopped handing out those jobs before I was born. You can be as committed as you want to "the success of the company" or work extra hours outside your employment contract, and swallow all the complaints you want, and the company will say "thanks", give you nothing, and lay you off the very next time there is a quarterly shortfall just as fast as anyone else.

Even if I find their mannerisms a little grating at time, the gen Z kids I work with have absolutely the right attitude towards work. I wish I had wised up as young as they did. I wish them the best of luck. If they keep it up maybe we'll have a few more unions in the tech sector in 5 or 10 years.

Before phones we had to consult printed MapQuest instructions. Before that, we had to wrangle a giant road atlas with one hand. Looking at a map on your phone with the route clearly highlighted can't possibly be any more distracting than those other two things as long as you aren't trying to do any inputs.

AI that interacts with a skilled operator is different than expecting AI to do the job outright or interact with the general public directly. When AI is deployed in the office, it is allowing one senior or principal engineer delegate work that used to go to a team of juniors to an AI. In that scenario it doesn't matter if the results need tweaking or the process is clunky, as long as then end result is sufficient. That's a far cry from letting AI do a business process directly.

How do you master calculus without solving 100s of calculus problems? There isn't enough class time to do that. Class is for new instruction and going over the homework to help students understand concepts they had trouble with. You don't know where your trouble spots are if you don't try to do some work on your own.

Same for developing written communication skills. You're going to have to write a couple 100 essays in your academic career and get them critiqued to learn how to write and develop the associated critical thinking skills.

What about literature? Are we just going to devote lit class to silently reading the novels instead of discussing them?

I think it depends. I'm all for eliminating busy work, but some topics, such as working complex algebra problems, just requires repetition to master. Sure a student might be able to memorize and regurgitate the "rules" quickly, but developing an intuition such that they can actually solve problems efficiently requires a certain amount of volume of worked problems. Unless we want class time to be reduced to the teacher overseeing the students completing worksheets rather than being devoted to instruction, there needs to be a certain amount of math homework.

The same can be said for writing. Getting good at it involves writing a decent number of bad essays on the themes in "The Great Gatsby" or whatever and getting feedback. The only way to improve is to do it, and the teacher can't spend all of their time supervising a room full of kids with their heads down writing.

There are plenty of single family or town houses in dense urban areas that have limited or no off-street parking. Another issue is your electrical service. Older houses often have only 100A electrical service. Adding even a 30A charging circuit might not be possible without an expensive electrical service upgrade. And that's if you can get one. The utility can deny a service upgrade request if the service in your area is already near capacity. I'm very pro EV. I own one myself, and I think there are plenty of people who don't have one yet who would be a good fit. But there are a lot of issues that mean that there will be a very long tail on adoption without some systemic changes.

Get rid of the quarter. Bring back the 50 piece and keep the dime.

It's literally the topic of the gp comment I quoted, and I was replying to a response that waved it away as "males being punished for being males"

Any law that Michigan could make restricting the selling of that information would probably bump up against the Commerce Clause and get struck down. Even if they could make a restriction on the sale stick, brokers with no physical presence in Michigan could still sell to Michigan cops. The one thing that they have total control over is their own police, so restraining them from using that information without a warrant at least preserves civil liberties in the face of the lack of de facto privacy.

If "males being males" means we get to sexually harass women without consequence, we should change our idea of what "being male" is. There's no genetic compunction that forces men to make sexually explicit comments to/around coworkers. It's purely a social construct and learned behavior that can be changed.

How do you know it is reversible? It could be blowing a software addressable fuse on the SOC that renders it unbootable afterwards.

Lots of people's lives have been getting steadily worse over the last 20 years. The Dems promised to keep things exactly the same. Trump promised to change things for the better. He was lying, but desperate people voted for him. You gotta promise people something besides fighting for the status quo.

The thing is no single 3rd world government or voter or faction or voting block can really be said to be responsible for the petro dollar. If your tractor won't run because your country's refineries can't get their hands on US dollars to buy oil because your government's central bank is out of dollars because your exports can't be sold in the US anymore, there is not much you can do about it, but you still can't grow the food.

The fact of the matter is that the US, our country, and our voters and our government, through 70 years of deliberate trade policy, leaning on the IMF, and plenty of bloody wars, put ourselves at the center of a very interconnected web of trade that yes, greatly benefited US and created a tribute system, but that flawed unfair system still feeds and awful lot of people. Just like you can't responsibly dismantle a feudal system by dropping a tactical nuke on the king's castle and expect everything to just go on functioning, you can't just blow a US-sized hole in the economy without doing major damage.

We strong-armed the current system into existence, we owe it to the world to disengage responsibly if we are tired of being the market of last resort.