I lug my laptop to work 3 days a week, and use 2 of its ports (dock, portable display).

I don't know what type of laptop you use, or how heavy it is, but I have a piece of advice for you that fits no matter what your laptop is like: if your laptop came with a case, don't ever use it. That's because the type of case you get when you buy one looks exactly like what it is, and they're all thief magnets. Get something that looks like a brief case, or even better, a backpack. Nobody's going to consider a backpack worth stealing, even if it's hanging from your hand and if you live or work in an area with lots of thieves, this simple trick can save you lots of time and money replacing things you need to do your job.

There is no difference between gravity and acceleration.

I'm not a physicist, and I don't know if a physicist would agree with you completely. I do know, however, that any effect that you can create with acceleration you can also create with gravity, and vice versa.

What gets marketed as Kona coffee does not necessarily have much Kona in it.

Right now, I'm using a Kona blend that's 10% Kona. I buy it as whole beans and grind it as needed because I use a French Press and it works best with a coarse grind that you can't find in the market.

I don't know if they still do, but there was a time when hot Dr. Pepper was provided to all of the volunteers doing the last minute prep on the floats for the Rose Parade. Considering that all the work was outdoors near the end of December, I'm told that it went down quite well. I'll try to remember to try it this winter, as I now live in snow country.

Socialism with American Characteristics

Iowa's rolling farm fields of coffee

No one is "retiring obsolete ICE vehicles", they are just junking cars that no longer work.

So tell me, what is the difference between the two ways of describing the situation? The ICE cars going to the junk yards are obsolete, partly because they don't work any more and it would cost more than it's worth to repair them. All you're doing here is quibbling about the way the situation is being described.

If what you're making has no dairy in it, it isn't really ice cream any more than "fat free half and half" is really half and half.

I lived in California until seven years ago. Most but not all repair shops are licensed to do the biannual smog tests. However, if you need to get repairs to pass, you have to go to a different shop to get them because the shop that does the test is forbidden by law to make the repairs. Yes, it's a tad inconvenient, but it does prevent the shops from finding imaginary faults just to get the extra money from "fixing" them.

Indeed, I fully agree. The funny thing is, monthly numbers would help us move away from the distortions of the quarterly cycle. If key data reporting becomes frequent enough, you can't get into a cycle of "do adverse-numbers stuff early in the quarter and then cram positive-numbers stuff into the end of the quarter". You have to - *gasp* - just run your business normally.

Some businesses could still manage to switch to a monthly cycle, but anyone who deals significantly in transoceanic feedstocks/parts/goods shipments won't be able to.

BLS numbers aren't some sort of dark art. They're literally just the compiled numbers reported by companies. Numbers are what they are. To fight against jobs numbers is to fight against reality.

People get confused by the existence of revisions. The problem is that not all data gets reported in a timely manner. When late data comes in, it causes revisions to the earlier reported numbers, either up or down.

Firing the head of the BLS because you don't like what numbers US companies reported is just insane Banana Republic-level nonsense.

The difficulty is not the temperature: new algae can presumably evolve adapted grow in the new warmer environment. The difficulty is the speed of temperature change, faster than the speed of adaptation.

If we're that concerned about the speed of adaption, we can always breed them in tanks with the temperature and other important factors set to the conditions we want them to adapt to and force them to adapt much faster than they would in nature.

I think that the poster was referring to the duration of summer-like weather, not the astronomical seasons. That's what most people consider summer, and yes, that would get longer.

Yes, he fired the same person who was ultimately responsible for putting out crap numbers.

US reporting has always been the gold standard. Nobody has accused the BLS of "crap numbers" until Trump decided he didn't like them. It's is so way outside the norms it doesn't even resemble something that could conceivably happen in the US; this is banana republic-level stuff.

Yeah, as an investor, my reaction to this proposal was, oh HELL no.