It said the overwhelming majority of graduates get a positive return on their education, which is still true. The studies I've read have concluded between 60-80% of college degree recipients earn more than they would have without a degree after compensating for the cost of college and lost earning years. That is an overwhelming majority.

The top Bachelors degrees with over 100k of annual degrees conferred that have more women graduates are Health Professions, Psychology, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and Social Sciences. So basically doctors, nurses, and psychologists. Not exactly low paying fields. Social sciences are obviously the ones you are referring to, but the medical field degrees outnumber those by 5 to 1.

As others have rightly pointed out, this is a very valuable export for the US. It not only earns us revenue, it improves the rest of the world which "rises all boats."

There are good universities outside of the US. If the US stops admitting as many foreign students, they will still get just as educated. They will just get educated in foreign universities. Those universities will grow and improve to meet demand, because that is how capitalism works.

We aren't making other countries more competitive. We are taking advantage of their drive to become more competitive. It is overwhelmingly a net benefit for the US.

EVs and hybrids shoudln't have significantly different brake wear. Factored in oil changes, which includes the oil filter. I've never needed to add any other fluids in any car I've owned other than wiper fluid, which an EV also requires. I guess I left out the air filter, but that's such a tiny maintenance cost compared with the other stuff that it almost isn't even worth mentioning.

Belts and transmission do wear out eventually, but that's not an issue unless your car is outside of its warranty period, and an out-of-warranty EV can also have things go wrong. The only straightforward comparison is between two in-warranty cars, because it's impossible to predict the costs for an older vehicle reliably. It might go 300k miles or it might blow a head gasket 10 miles out of warranty.

Jiffy Lube in the Bay Area. And while cars are under warranty, if you don't do an oil change at the recommended interval, it can negatively impact your ability to get engine problems covered under the warranty, so most people do so.

Of course, they also charge you more for your heat and air during the day. With a whole-home time-of-use plan, they're likely to get their money either way.

I'm pretty sure the only way you're not going to get screwed with your pants on is to have a separate meter on an EV-B rate plan. Totally worth $1.50 a month. Too bad I'm not currently eligible because of where I live (because PG&E doesn't own the meters). Then again, I have unlimited supercharging, so I guess I probably wouldn't use it anyway. :-)

Sure, but only if you also have a Powerwall or similar. Otherwise, your car is going to be at work during the day, rather than charging at home, and you're going to be getting jack s**t for your excess solar during the day thanks to PG&E's rate structure, and then buying that power back at night at full price.

PG&E nearly went bankrupt with lawsuits over their mishandling of gas pipe maintenance (San Bruno explosion) and high tension line maintenance (multiple wildfires). If they can't make a profit from cutting corners on maintenance, their only choice is to make a profit with extortionate rate hikes. /s

In all seriousness, the biggest mistake multiple California governors have made was not letting PG&E go bankrupt, buying up the assets, and starting over with a state-owned not-for-profit power company. For-profit essential utilities are like for-profit medicine: you pay more for less. Competition never really works when you have a natural monopoly like essential utilities or when comparison shopping is impractical, such as emergency medical care. That's why certain essential services are generally better off socialized. And anybody arguing otherwise doesn't have a solid grasp of economics.

I haven't read this bill. But if it's remotely like the right of erasure pursuant to the European Union's GDPR, it does not apply to data that a data broker is required by law to retain.

In California, even if you can charge at home, the cost per mile is more than many gasoline-powered cars:

Model 3: 3.7 to 4.2 miles per kWh. PG&E residential service averages 45.33 cents average per kWh. That's 10.79 to 12.25 cents per mile.

My usual gas station is $3.90 per gallon. A Prius hybrid gets 56 miles per gallon. That's 6.9 cents per mile. Add to that an oil change for $100 every 5,000 miles on oil changes, which is 2 cents per mile, and the Prius hybrid is still 2 to 4 cents per mile cheaper than the Model 3.

The only way you save money per mile with an EV in California is if you have free unlimited supercharging or free workplace charging. And even then, somebody is paying for your charging, just not you.

Last I checked, it was a crime in Slashdot's home country to make children's sleepwear out of cotton or other flammable fabrics.

Colloidal silver is almost certainly useless when taken orally, but don't knock silver in general. It is used in wound dressings for a reason. Candida auris is one of those reasons. From the article:

You don't have to take over a country to get that. The U.S. brain drains countries that aren't democratic just fine. There are a few that we arbitrarily choose not to brain drain or sell to (currently Cuba, Iran, and North Korea, I think), but very few countries are on that list. And Cuba was one of the countries that I was thinking of as a country that has nothing worth taking over, because if it did, then those gains combined with eliminating the risks associated with having a country like that so close to our borders would probably have been enough to tempt someone to overthrow its government long ago.

Then again, Republican war hawks have started thumping their chests about Cuba now, so who knows. It might still happen.

Only if you have something that someone else needs, such as oil. Without that, nobody will bother.

Given how corruption usually works, they probably sold them to some even worse third-world country and deposited the resulting money in a private Swiss bank account.

No, that's actually the only correct interpretation of those words in English. If someone's actions caused the leaking to stop, then a native English speaker would say, "After Half a Decade, the Russian Space Station Segment Leaks Are Fixed" or "... Leaks Have Been Stopped/Fixed". (Or they would avoid passive voice and explicitly say who stopped it.)

Saying that something stopped is different from saying that something was stopped. That helping verb indicates that there is another actor other than the leak who caused the event. Without it, the only correct way to interpret that sentence is that the leak stopped on its own, and that nothing was done to make it stop.

This headline would have caused my newswriting professor's forehead veins to rupture.