I get the impression that the price of bread on the shelf is loosely coupled to the price of wheat at the grain elevator. A lot of work needs to be done along with wages paid and fuel purchased to mill the grain, bake the bread, stock the shelf and sell it to the customer.

It appears that the price of food rises and falls (yes, some food prices have come down from their peaks) with the price of #2 diesel fuel.

It used to be that staples such as bread, rice, pasta and potatoes were cheap in relation to meat, butter, eggs and milk. Meat, especially beef has gotten really expensive, but it is not too hard these days to pay 4 dollars (US) or more for a loaf of bread, especially if you want a whole-wheat or multi-grain product.

Before we blame corporate greed, the entire supply chain has faced increased costs in all of the inputs to put food on a store shelf. Labor and energy costs of food distribution and retailing have to be recovered from consumer spending some way, some how, and there is a lot of "overhead" expenses that need to be apportioned between the items stores sell. "Poverty food" items such as rice, dry beans and peas, lentils and so on are not that cheap, in relative terms as they once were, suggesting more assignment of general store overhead in their price.

To use a car analogy, when you take out a loan to pay $50,000 for a new automobile, a large fraction of that is going towards the health care benefit car companies provide their workers.

Now that is an excellent mindset for developing software.

for a high-level containment infectious disease lab?

Pipe fitter for a nuclear power plant?

Something tells me there are added requirements.

Sad!

Modified gravity/modified inertia (two ways of explaining MOND) actually represents the rotation curves of galaxies more accurately than dark matter.

MOND, they tell me, breaks down on cosmological-scale features such as the cosmic microwave background and related things whereas Lamba (the dark energy term) Cold Dark Matter theory gives a somewhat reasonably good approximation.

The Hubble Tension that Pavel Kroupa is jumping up and down about is that physicists insist on high degrees of precision from their particle accelerator experiments before announcing confirmation of a theory whereas cosmologists are OK being in the same ball park.

Keel's The Road to Galaxy Formation quips that owing to the difficulties in calibrating distances to remote objects and uncertainty in measurements, astronomy is physical science where "the error bars are in the exponents."

The red shift of distant galaxies is not a velocity Doppler shift. It is the consequence of the expansion of space itself, giving the appearance that distant objects are flying away from us.

Or at least that is what every serious writing on the subject states.

Pretty much.

The AI will be performing at the level of a Board Certified cardiologist when it promises at a patient's office visit for a follow-up to a heart attack, "You will hear from my scheduler about your next visit a year from now", you won't hear from the scheduler a year later, and when you message the clinic where the AI practices, you will be told that the AI has transfered its practice to the West Side clinic and is scheduling patients "a year out."

I was on an Interstate when I was startled by a car stopped in, I guess you could call it an island, where highway lanes merge.

I guess it was the correct course of action to keep going rather than to stomp on the brakes, which would have risked a chain reaction of rear-end collisions, or to swerve into a lane to the left, where people were driving with not enough headway to allow this.

I guess I could have been more vigilent with my visual scans. At the time I was talking with my passenger about which exit could take us to a new big-box store, its signs visible from the Interstate.

The I41 lane pattern going through Green Bay, WI is a bad design with "express" and "local" lanes that separate where there is a major exit/on ramp and then merge after the exit. I "get" that merging traffic doesn't slow the express lanes to a crawl in rush hour, but it confuses everyone but the natives as to which lane you need to be in. This was the idea of a certain recent Wisconsin governor who had all manner of ideas about things. You know, like giving a certain Taiwanese company tons of tax breaks with the lame idea it would turn Kenosha into the next Palo Alto and Racine into the next Sunnyvale.

The Chicago Dan Ryan Expressway has that since it was built (in the late 50's? early 6's?) along with a reputation for being the scene of many accidents.

But what are people thinking to stop a car at one of those merge points let along in the middle of a traffic lane? What fails so catastrophically on a car that you can't limp over to at least the shoulder? Are people such aggressive drivers that they can't let some one move right to get off the road?

new to Slashdot.

Apologists on this sight?

Sad!

Can "the public" find out how the guy was treated whose Corolla was smashed by a tire falling off a United B-777 departing LAX?

Did the insurance carrier for United take the liberty of declaring the car a "total loss" and make the dude/dudette a low-ball offer for the retail value of the car before being smashed, less the "salvage" value from the scrap yard?

Or did they make a good-will offer of a new-car replacement owing to the notoriety of a tire falling off a jet? Or is their position that if you cheap-out and park in an airport "surface lot", you assume the risk of damage by stuff falling from jets? Like this Canadian musician dude?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There is a practical, utilitarian reason to have a model train layout.

After spending the entire day receiving criticism from your spouse, disrespect from your children, rudeness on the commute and taking guff at work, one can spend some time in the basement, flip a switch and turn a knob to make an electrically powered model train go around a circle of track.

It is the only thing over which you have had any control over, and the feeling is glorious.

to see Mom and Dad once a year and to attend Cousin Fran's wedding this summer in Phoenix when it is 108 deg-F outside.

Nerds rely on low airline ticket prices.

Blocking this merger insures that travel on the carriers offering the most misery at least stays cheap.

Actually, what you describe is very German. I know. My ancestry is from the intersection of German and Slavic culture.

Slavic culture is rather slap-dash. That is why there is an air leak in the first place.