It's 2025 - where is my edit button?

It's right there after you hit the "Preview" button. Then you have the choice of clicking on the "Submit" button or the "Continue Editing" button.

XX Engineering is processes, best practices and quality control so you don't go to jail for screwing up. And you can go to jail for screwing up.

"Screwing up" can get a PE a hefty lawsuit and possibly a loss of their license, but going to jail would not happen except in cases of wilful misconduct / fraud / etc, at least in the US.
One of my bosses was originally from the USSR and he did know of engineers there going to jail for making mistakes that caused fatalities.

The US is 36 trillion dollars in debt, mostly to Communist China.

No. Most of that debt is owed to Americans. 23% is held by the Federal Reserve, 22% by mutual funds, 9% by state and local governments, 8% pensions, and 5% insurance companies. 30% is held by foreign investors and most of those are not China.
We're not bankrupt, since we're still able to make our payments, but at 125% of GDP or so, it is getting worrisome.

Better planning is always an option. Like pooling a rainy day fund, which should be in addition to investing, say dropping $100/month into an index ETF, and only using the latter when your rainy day fund is exhausted.

You should know that there are a lot of people who can't afford a rainy day fund let alone also dropping $100/month into any investment (and yes, there are a lot people who could afford to do that but don't.)

And being a professor is increasingly a shitty job (from a pretty great starting point, to be sure). Average salary hasn't gone up since the 1970s. (Seriously, look it up.) Culture war bullshit is poisoning the academy, and the MBA-infested administration has decided to replace you with adjuncts who don't even get minimum wage (from that pool of doomed Ph.Ds, remember the big about them working against student interests?). Outside a few schools, it just isn't a good job any more and will keep getting worse.

My brother retired a couple of years ago from being a professor in a small private college, and none of that was true for his situation.

I may be out of touch, but the general idea (back when I was working on my Ph.D.) was that if you were paying for grad school you were doing it wrong.

Yeah, when my oldest was in graduate school his tuition was fully covered and the university got him a part-time job as a teaching assistant to cover his living expenses.
My daughter definitely had to pay for her DDS, though, and it wasn't cheap. Still, she was able to pay it off easily once she started working.

Let me tell you something....even when I offered a steeply discounted price of $20 for the service call (down from my usual $85 to walk in the door)....people got pissed. All I did was press a button...so therefore I shouldn't charge them.

Reminds me of a story my old boss used to tell about justifying engineering fees. A worker was called in to fix a problem with the HVAC. After looking for a while, he took a screwdriver and adjusted a screw. This fixed the problem and he charged $100 (this was in the 80s). The owner balked at the price and asked for am itemized bill. The bill read: Adjusting a screw - $1; Knowing what to do - $99.

The thing that gets me is almost all of the streaming apps I've used have something like "Since you watched that show, you might like this one", then half the shows they recommend I've already watched using that app. I know the app is aware of what I've already watched, since they sometimes suggest I "watch it again".

We hit some record colds in the 70s and 80s. The Milankovitch cycles were just beginning to be understood and popularized. There was speculation about the timing of starting a new glacial period in the next few thousand years, and questions about how fast that could occur. Of course the popular press sensationalized that with headline questions about "Have We Started a New Ice Age?".
Yet I remember hearing about global warming due to CO2 in the classrooms as early as the 60s (though it wasn't necessarily seen as a sure thing then) and the early 70s. And in the 70s and 80s the scientific consensus was that CO2 would cause global warming if we didn't do anything about it (and we have done very little since).

What does "artificial" mean?

"Artificial" means made by the skill of humans.

I think most human reasoning starts with a conclusion and uses reason to explain and/or test it.

Well, several of my bosses have wanted me to do a "study" that would come to the conclusion they wanted. I usually just did an actual study the best I knew how. Sometimes my boss's conclusion would be proved right, sometimes not - sometimes that led to awkwardness in the write-up.

This is sort of the basis of the scientific model.

I wouldn't exactly say that a scientific theory is starting with a conclusion, as observation and reason are needed to come up with the theory. Reason is used to come up with testable hypotheses from the theory, but hypotheses coming from a theory are tested, not explained, using reason and experiment.

There are only so many chords (four, if I remember correctly)

The saying is that there are only three chords (the notes of chords I, IV, & V make up the scale, all other chords can be seen as just variations on those three.)

I live in a fairly small complex, with no enclosed parking . . . Pretty typical complex. It would cost at least a million dollars to install chargers for every parking space (and it has to be every parking space, because every tenant needs to charge every night).

I worked on a large open parking structure with 2% of the spaces having level 2 chargers and the electrical infrastructure to add chargers to another 18% of the spaces - including the up-sizing of the service to the building, the switchgear, transformers, conduit, and wiring. It came out to about $6,000 per parking space with a current or future charger. Note that this price included all the electrical upgrades to "tear up the streets for miles" as well as miles of wires within the parking structure. You didn't describe the particular layout of the complex, but if it is a low rise with dedicated parking near each unit, you might get away with tapping into each unit's electrical and not need a dedicated new service.
$6,000 per unit does give the same high cost impression as saying "at least a million dollars."

About 16% of California's agricultural water use is for growing alfalfa, which is used to feed cattle, and cattle also require more water, so I would say that almonds are no worse than beef in terms of water consumption.

How often do you see anything below -25C?

-25C is -13F. That's about the median of the annual extreme here in northern Illinois, US. So, half the years it gets colder than that at least once. And it has been as cold as -27F (-32.8C).