I would suspect that on average the parents who are afraid to feed honey to their kids have a much longer list of "don'ts" than the honey feeders. It is that cumulative restriction of exposure that may impact a kid's development, life, health, or whatever, its not just the individual 'no honey' restriction. Of course, there is the other end of the spectrum where anything goes.

I can say my kids love honey. Its one more pleasure in their lives.

That's irrelevant. There are always going to be things going on in people's lives. I can tell you for certain that nothing else significant changed in his life during that timeframe other that smoking pot. We were the type of friends that spend all of our free time together.

I'm seeing a lot of attempts to deflect any blame from pot. I find it quite interesting. I've had one person call him a liar, others claiming it must be some other cause. And now you searching for something else.

Here's the thing... there are always multiple factors that affect people's behavior. In that sense, the word 'cause' becomes the excuse for others to deflect because it certainly can't be proven philosophically, and certainly there are a list of contributors. But there is a level of common sense that can be applied and it is clear that smoking pot is, if it makes you feel better, a primary contributor.

I could claim that when a drunk driver kills a family, we should not blame the role of alcohol, that there must have been some reason he drank so much and acted so irresponsibly. But that would be avoiding the real point, and the fact that alcohol was a primary contributor.

So please, everyone, stop looking for excuses for pot. Its OK to use common sense and admit that a mind affecting substance can have a negative impact on people's lives. There is ample evidence, I've seen if first hand. It doesn't mean its an evil substance, or that you are wrong for using it. Denial and scapegoating is your own problem, not mine or my friends.

No, thats not my point but appears to be yours. My point is that you are vilifying the only entities that are providing the solutions, and the system that enables them to be deployed, albeit not on your time schedule. But, it seems you have a vision in mind of a world where things like priorities and trade offs don't come into play.

My experience with H1-B engineers is that they all have very different situations. I know several that wanted a few years in the US simply for the experience and contacts, then they would go back to Asia in a better position than they left. Some Europeans want to live here for a while for the experience but eventually plan to return home, those individuals often have a lot of experience. Others have little to return to and hope for citizenship here, they tend to be younger, less experienced people.

I think there are a certain number of engineers with certain skill sets that can demand a quite high pay, skewing the average upward for "engineers".

LYING? I was with him the whole time, there is nothing to lie about, a blind man could see what was happening. You are lying to yourself if you have to try that hard to take blame off pot.

Unbelievable! You have no clue about the situation, and you accuse him of lying because you don't like the association. That says a lot about you. Good day.

It was his choice to smoke pot, which led to his skipping school. It makes sense that it affects different people differently, if you want to assume otherwise go ahead. Compared to those who have accidents, "a considerably larger number of people" who drive drunk arrive at their destination with no incident. That would be foolish logic to apply.

My friend knows very well it was smoking pot, he admits it freely and regrets it. It is quite clear in this situation that if he didn't start smoking he would not have dropped out.

The answer is absolutely yes, it can cause some kids to drop out of school.

I have witnessed my best friend go from a straight A student throughout high school to dropping out the last half of his senior year so he could smoke pot. This set him back a long way, and he had to go back and get a GED 3 years later. It was a clear case of pot's impact on this particular kid, it didn't have the same impact on my or other close friends who all started about that time.

No, he wasn't taking home all that money. That is why the author used the word "accepted" because he knew it could be misconstrued as take home pay. A lot of folks here seem to jump to the conclusion that the author intended.

Do you really think if you asked a news reporter from any major news outlet if they could describe the difference between the two, they would be able to? Or 90% of the general public for that matter. Its not like one title gives him more credibility than the other in the eyes of most, so I think its an odd thing to focus on.

I hope I didn't imply cars are scrapped due to engine failure. Very old engines can be replaced or rebuilt, motors can as well. It impacts cost of ownership.

Picking a couple of cases or prices isn't a real good indicator of the true market. KBB uses large numbers of actual sales combined with mileage and condition to provide a pretty good estimate for value of a given car, that data isn't yet in for EVs yet, IMHO. When I Google resale values for EV's, I see a lot of different results, including some pretty pessimistic outlooks. I'm really not focused on Teslas as much as the EV market in general, nor do I care about assumptions on what they might be in the future. There is not really a good historical database yet, as there is for gas cars, so the risk is certainly present.

I would not assume "the motor does not wear" in EVs. They certainly will wear, but it is also very possible that they may last a lot longer than ICEs. We'll see in 10 years when we have a lot of cars with a lot of miles on them under a lot of different conditions. Body resilience & condition is a large part of resale value as well.