Make work and school start and end at different times in summer and winter then, problem solved. I've been doing that for years now. Working from home benefits, I know. In winter I start work at 9. In summer, at 8. About, not exactly. It works great.

I don't know about the US, but in my country the official reasoning was to save energy. And study after study has since shown that's not true and no energy is actually saved.

Shocking, right?

Almost as shocking as people who bought something, anything, from the Facebook company being oblivious to the fact that the entire company is built on violating their privacy. It is literally what they do for a living.

They are so tame.

The "ribbon UI" is dogshit. It is the product of office politics. One section within MS kept tacking on features to Word, Excel, etc. - many of whom less than 1% of users actually use. Any other company would have seperated the UI into a "normal" and an "expert" mode, where ordinary users would get the 99% of features they use in a simplified UI and be happy, and for the once-per-year advanced feature they'd have to jump a couple layers deep into menus. But you can't have that once office politics enters the room, because nobody can stand being less important. So the UI team was tasked with coming up with an interface that offers everything, despite it being impossible to fit on screen. The result: Ribbon shit.

The fact that absolutely nobody outside the MS Office world has copied it speaks volumes about how bad it is. Good ideas get copied before they had time to dry.

That, exactly, is the deadlock.

Some people want year-round DST, some people year-round normal time. Since the sides are split roughly evenly, we can't decide, despite everyone agreeing that the current setup is shit.

You see that in friends groups, too. Everyone wants to go out. Half of the group wants to see a movie, the other half wants to go dancing. End result: Group goes nowhere and everyone hates it.

We have elected politicians exactly so that they can figure out a solution because unlike us that's their full-time job and they can invest the time to come up with something while the rest of us have to work. That they can't is a sign that we don't need the fuckers. We can be undecided without them, thank you very much.

The time changing is a glaring example of how our governments are unable to make decisions when no lobby is pushing them. It's a disgrace to humanity that decades after every last shred of doubt that it does anything good has been eliminated, we still have it.

Well, at least we can say for sure what it isn't: Letting an AI do your homework.

Not saying an AI can't have a place in learning. Using it like an advanced search machine to gather data, etc. that's pretty cool. AI is going to replace search soon - until the SEO dudes figure out how to fuck it all over again.

The main problem is that school never teaches you the meta-skills. It never tells you WHAT FOR you are learning all this shit. That nobody really gives a shit in 10 years if you remember the date of that battle or the name of that king. But the ability to put together a number of events in history into a whole story, that will come in handy.

I hated every hour of Latin in school. It took 20 years before I realized that thanks to it I can understand bits and pieces in Italian, Spanish and half a dozen other languages despite never having had a single lesson in them.

We are in such deep shit, "trouble" wouldn't even BEGIN to describe it.

Gross profits are low right now, and net profits are negative.

After a huge drop in customers, we are slowly gaining a few back, and while profitability is still negative, last quarter was slightly better then the one before.

How come that lawmakers behave as if they were never kids or can't remember how they themselves considered any and all "stay out, you're not old enough" measures a challenge to overcome?

Especially if it's a machine, which lacks the common sense of, you know, the dumbest door bitch who would take one look at you and say "I don't give a fuck what your fake ID here says, you're at most 15 and you're not going in".

Yeah... no. No, that's not the reason. But yes, with higher standards of living and education and the absence of religion comes lower birth rates.

All of which is currently being rolled back.

Because of a) incompetence or b) obviously inventing bullshit to get a viral post?

I see, my alien overlord, that you learned a lot about Earth from training videos and textbooks. But you failed to send someone undercover to validate.

Yes, most human assistants actually do have full control over their bosses mailbox and other data. Either through shared login data, or throught a special functionality built into the software that gives them just that. So yes, if the CEOs secretary wants to delete an e-mail, (s)he can.

Because it makes for a cool posting on social media that is guaranteed to get attention to you, your channel and/or the product you are selling.

It's the dot-com hype all over again.

Revolutionary, life-changing, grand promises. Insane investments in both capital and real value (land, hardware, etc.).

And in the end we'll end up with a few useful tools, a small number of successful companies, and a whole lot of dashed hopes.

Unless the slow destruction of the Earth's ecosystem worries you a bit. Because all of this stuff uses up resources. And while there is tons and tons of water on Earth, actual drinking water is already scarce in many parts of the world.