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This is progress. The USB-C cable and charger is no longer new tech, and cheap versions that work well enough are readily available. Devices should start advertising the recommended wattage and let stores stock chargers sorted by that.

The C-Suite is filled with ignorant people who have made a career out taking credit for other people's work.

Now they want to pretend that the "AI is writing the code" just because a developer is making use of it.

All AI is doing is giving CEOs an excuse to called yet another group of workers, "unskilled."

Teachers are paid for 40 hours per week. And not well. Current starting salaries are enough to afford to live in a ditch.

They teach 5 classes per day. They get 1 period free when students cannot come into their classroom. Plus 1 hour before school and 1 hour after school when students can come in.

The system thinks grading papers and preparing lessons are free services that teachers provide.

The system will do anything but hire more teachers so that they each can have 3 periods per day and spend the rest of the time grading, prepping, and helping students during their paid hours.

Don't worry, the skilled trades will be devalued as well. They already are.

Companies just don't want to pay proper wages and will make every lame excuse they can to justify it.

Most people who work full time struggle just to pay rent.

They aren't "irresponsible."

They have to pay their rent and put food on the table. If business owners paid living wages, people wouldn't be playing games just to survive.

There are no shortage of stores you can go into today where these "job creators" have one poverty wage employee working.

That's all this is about. Skilled labor thinks they're worth money. Unskilled labor can be paid minimum wage.

It's long past time for developers to unionize and stop playing the game of letting rich people oppress workers by demeaning them to justify poverty wages.

pay for them.

You pay for 40 hours a week, you get 40 hours a week.

as if 2 voices cried out in terror and then were silenced.

virus and malware have been doing this forever. The difference is that they are very small programs so they can do this instantly.

If you get the USB-3 cable, you can use the Quest as a standard VR headset connected to your PC. Since the Switch 2 has far better hardware than the Switch and USB-C video out, that makes it possible in theory for the Quest to be a VR headset for the Switch 2 as well.

Of course not.

Work the hours you're paid. Go home.

We already know how to build cheap high density housing with shared resources: Motel 6.

Shared bathrooms are not ideal. Every unit needs its own full bath so people can keep themselves clean.

A bed and a space to work are sufficient. Basically, a one-bedroom apartment minus the kitchen. The kitchen should be a community resource with staff like is done for public schools.

Idiots will do anything but pay people.

... to work 70 hours.

I've historically gone beyond 40 hours per week, but I was paid for every single one of them. It's how I got ahead before my salary got high enough that 40 is enough.

What he wants is to pay people for 40 hours and then have them double their hours for no additional compensation.

People certainly can find another 30 hours to get paid if they want to. But that isn't what this is.