We are also (I assume) college educated professionals. Not the guys with hs diplomas being fired for being 4 minutes late from their potty break at Walmart where they are treated like kids and can't have their phones out etc. all for 35k a year.

These are American statistics of course. Terrible management who are a different breed rule blue collar jobs. It goes back to slavery and class structure for these roles.

Only 25% are college educated. Terrible work environments motives my education

A CHARACTER'S style or appearance, no. But a specific artist's performance of that character? That feels like a creative work by that artist to at least 50% degree.

To be clear, I wish indeed that we were debating the first principles and original intent of copyright but let's be honest, current interpretation is a rather far distance from those.

The principles that are in play today - eg the ones that have girded the inviolate title/ownership of a cartoon mouse for 50 years past the creator's death (which I personally take issue with as being contrarian to the original intent of copyright) - should be the SAME principles that guard artist's rights to their performances. Anything else would be hypocrisy.

Again, just to reiterate: I personally AM AGAINST the current rules, and would prefer that they be fixed to align with the original intent AND THEN applied equally to all parties. Failing that revision (and I expect that's a much bigger fight) at the very least we can apply the same rules on both sides of the court.

"According to the survey, more than half of workers (57%) say they'd rather quit their job than continue working in an environment they feel is toxic ... "

So why don't they quit?
Not being snarky, it's a genuine question. If they're that unhappy, there is absolutely nothing stopping them starting a business themselves and running it with all the principles of kindness and generosity and compassion that (they assert) is missing in the workplace they're in.

And while I know the (coincidentally self-exoneratory) meme is that the past was this magical place where jobs were flying at you while you bought a $10 home. It was not.*
Previous societies were very much work or die. The bulk of populations lived in a relative subsistence state (at best) scratching by hoping their children survived.

*The 50s were a notable historical exception, the US having an unprecedented Renaissance due to being the only nation to escape WW2 unscathed. First, this isn't happening again, it needs to be seen as the EXCEPTION it was. Then again, curiously, many of the people insisting that's 'how it should be' today ... would also insist fervently that MAGA is wrong for suggesting a better time ever existed. Curious.

Well, considering your tax money is used for the loan and not being paid back, it's not like you're involved.... Duh?

The most promising concept was the Sono Sion which was going to be a no frills boxy car covered in panels. The panels might gain ~20 miles per day under good conditions but that's sufficient for many commutes, school runs and so on. Of course it could also be charged the normal way too. It nearly made it production but funding ran out. I've been to lots of places where there is so much strong sunlight that a car that charges while parked should be a no-brainer.

Gen Z are a bunch of babies whose feelings are hurt if you look at them funny.

Is it? Or were many wanting revenge and payback for increasing salaries since 2019 and doing remote work?

The frustrating thing is wages were constant from 2000 to 2019 for most folks. A few professionals they did skyrocket which skewed some data. As a system administrator 75k remained constant for 18 years! Now it is finally like 115k, but adjusted for inflation you are screwed if you tried to buy a home or rent today.

75k could get you a mcmansion in 2000. Today it is not enough for a starter home, even in an affordable area. It is 1 bedroom apartment only.

Meanwhile, CEOs and leadership are furious and think prices need to return not realizing at all that $ sign doesn't have the purchasing power it did for so many years. So yes people are angry at both sides.

You are in a minority.

Statistics I read is 75% of people hate their jobs. Be greateful!

I wonder if it has always been like this or were there times when that number was much lower?

It does impact these criteria as it shows bad leadership and management and culture.

If the culture is treating you like an assembly line worker when you are not, then that damages morale and kills loyality.

Employees who do not want to spend over 2 hours a day and $300 a month in gas just to join Teams meetings in a shared open office when they can do the same at home, so they can be watched by managers who do not believe in remote work or self atanomy and feeling stressed and disgusted by disrepect. SHOCKING!

Musk brought micro management and Style X Management from the 1950s back in style again, and away from Style Y and empowermment. It is all the rage now in leadership. Attendence, attendence, and attendence, and firing if you make a mistake. Forget about trying new innovative things and being creative.

THe pendelumn has swung back to the employers HARD from the employees and it is showing. I wonder if this is revenge syndrome from the C Suite who felt blackmailed to pay people more back when in 2019 they paid the same in 2005 and in office attendance where workers finally got a pay raise and gave the finger to in office work? Now the jobs are paying closer to 2020 levels.

People are definitely buying EVs and even electric hyper cars. Electric performance cars are practically a no-brainer. I just wonder about the insecurity of both Ferrari and its customers that they feel the need to put in fake broom broom noises into a car that could wipe the floor with any ICE counterpart.

Solar benefits everyone. Lots of people drive their car from home to work, leave it parked outside all day and then drive home. They're not hooked up to a charger but the car would still be replenishing itself while it is parked. People in apartments could of course benefit from a vehicle that lasts a lot longer (potentially forever) between charges, but the benefits are still the same for everyone else.

I said nothing of the battery, I was talking of the solar panels. The average daily commute in Europe is 17 miles, in the US its 40 miles - kind of shameful for the US but anyway... If solar covers the commute then the car never needs charging ever. If it covers *most* of the commute it still slashes the time between charges. But if you want to talk battery, then the implication is less charges means the car could offer a variant with a smaller battery and therefore be cheaper. There was a car called the Sono Sion a few years back which followed that route but unfortunately couldn't secure funding to go into production.

Aptera's issues are uniquely their own but that is why in another comment I called them the Star Citizen of cars. I think solar is viable in EVs, but Aptera is so questionable as a company I wonder what is going on - constantly scrounging for money but conspicuously failing to deliver on their promises of making cars.

Easy ... this.

Sony can't order chips 2 years ago that will be fast or up to date a chip from next year. That is not how technology works.

  They can work on algorithms or existing hardware to do things at a much smaller scale, but if Sony/'AMD released chips every 2 to e 3 years it would be obsolete anyway.

As soon as a prototype is ready IT MUST GO LIVE within 4 to 6 months or Nvidia/Intel will beat them to the punch.

AMD and Sony have also partnered to make things off camera not render. AI assisted ray tracing researchi s almost done but that takes a efw years.

While I'm highly skeptical of Aptera, the concept of putting solar on EVs is still a missed opportunity. Even if a car *only* got 20 miles from solar a day that's still more than many people commute meaning they never have to charge. Or even if they drove 30 and recouped 20 miles it still triples the time between charges. There are plenty of places around the world where the concept could work fantastically well. Aptera's problems seem less to do with the concept and more to do with their fundamental inability to build a frigging car.