If "immigration" and "work authorization" are two completely different things, are you claiming that everyone in the US on a work visa is an "illegal immigrant"? Surely "having work authorization" counts as some kind of legal status or we wouldn't have people on work visas at all.
I made no such claim. I explicitly said that an EAD implies no legal status in itself. A pending Adjustment of Status does not provide legal status, either. If you already had a massive overstay, and your Adjustment of Status was likely to be denied due to ineligibility, and you have an order of removal, you're going home, of course.
And as we now know, the Irish man in question:
- Entered under VWP, which EXPLICITLY bars any form of status adjustment
- Filed a Habeas Corpus petition, which was denied by a judge
- Has a final order of removal, signed by a judge, not an administrator
In fact, you need to just take a look at the back of an EAD card. It explicitly states it is not evidence of status.
This guy is a weird hill for you to die on. He overstayed TWENTY YEARS and immigration courts, which are known to be far more lenient, have denied his ridiculous arguments to stay.
EVs heat up the interior before you get in (very effectively, since they are usually a heat pump for interior heating/cooling and also for battery temp management). Generally you tap a button in an app on your phone about 10 minutes prior, and by the time you get in the car it's nice and toasty. If you keep your car plugged in at home it doesn't even use any battery to do this. Heated seats is just a luxury feature, not a necessity.
When I was street parking in New England winters I was not exactly an EV target customer. I'm sure that's very nice if you have a driveway and home charging though.
Absolutely heated seats are a luxury feature. That doesn't change the fact that if put heated seats in a car and then have touchscreen only controls, you have created a stupid product that's made to be comfortable in cold temperatures but not usable in cold temperatures.
Of course they should be making cars usable in cold temperatures whether or not it has cold weather luxury features, but the addition on heated seats in a car that you can't operate with gloves on just highlights the stupidity of the screen interfaces.
The manufacturer is considering "what would be nice for a car in cold temperatures" and then skipping over "it would be nice if you could turn the heat or defogger on."
Even the death marches were fun in their own way (though exploitative).
I think the reason it feels different now is that all the big companies are just constantly doing layoffs (at least every few months). So it always feels like layoffs are looming and everyone is at risk. Jobs used to feel safer (especially when most tech companies were growing rapidly instead of shrinking).
This is a non-sequitur. Almost all programming languages are Turing complete, but I think we'd all agree they vary in expressivity (e.g. x64 assembly vs. TypeScript).
By expressivity I mean that you can say what you mean, and the more expressive the language is, the easier that is to do.
It turns out saying what you mean is quite easy in plain English! The hard part is that English allows a lot of ambiguity. So the tradeoffs of how you express things are very different.
I also want to note how remarkable it is that humans have built a machine that can effectively understand natural language.
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