Or maybe (if it exists) it's just an iPad and this analyst is wrong.

Who cares? A 2 point drop is meaningless. And the median score went UP, from 744 to 745 (also meaningless). Trying to read anything into these small movements is futile.

If I watch you drown and do nothing, even though I'm a capable swimmer standing next to a bunch of flotation devices, and all of this is caught on camera, your family could probably sue me for causing your death even though I'm not a lifeguard and do not own the pool.

The equivalent here is suing the camera manufacturer, as if the camera should have done something when it saw the drowning.

I'm unaware of legislation making AI chatbots mandatory reporters.

Silicon Valley tech people not finishing college is more Fire in the Valley era than anything more recent. Gates and Allen, Jobs, and Wozniak all dropped out. Ballmer was the only major connection made at college for any of them, so far as I know. Page, Brin, Bezos, Randolph, and Hastings all finished college, some with graduate degrees. Zuckerberg dropped out, but his going to college was central to his business model.

The BLS jobs data is from the CES (Current Employment Survey). This is a survey of firms, not of the public. That's what Trump was complaining about. Whatever is wrong with that survey seems to be very new -- it used to be revisions were fairly evenly distributed, but since 2023 the revisions have been very biased downward. It seems unlikely this has anything to do with public survey fatigure.

The unemployment numbers come from a public survey (Current Population Survey), but those are different from the jobs numbers.

"Chat" is generic. So is "AI". The logos are deceptive, but OpenAI has no claim on "chat", "chatbot"or "AI chatbot", and no one should expect that those terms mean "ChatGPT"

Presumably you could grow barley in arsenic-free soil. This is probably prohibitively expensive, but it's the kind of thing slashdotters would insist on.

ALPA just wants the airlines to be the only thing in the air. They don't like general aviation and are always pushing (often successfully) for further restrictions on it. They've claimed that to be allowed to fly a model airplane you should have as much training as a 737 pilot. If they ran out of things to do they'd probably pick a fight with the Audubon Society. They should be ignored.

Correct, but PEX pipes do contain and leach MTBE (the controversial octane enhancer that used to be used in gasoline), ETBE (its slightly larger cousin), toluene, phthalate esters, and other chemicals. Of course, sticking with copper isn't 100% safe either because copper pipe leach copper, at least until they're well-coated with a layer of minerals (assuming hard non-acidic water; if your water is soft and acidic the plumbing leaches copper continuously and you get holes in the pipes)

Pick your poison.

Before, during, and just after COVID, the tech companies were (over) hiring like mad. Since then, they've reduced hiring a LOT. So fewer new young workers, existing workers age, there's fewer young workers.

Spare phones (perhaps an old one) and/or strong magnets seem like an easy workaround.

Well look at it this way, your taxes mostly go towards keeping someone else from taking the rest of what you've earned. Whether the potential taker could be some other country or another American who feels like they drew the short straw in life.

That's what the Sicilian gentlemen with the double-breasted suits and no necks said, but they were taking a somewhat smaller cut.

They haven't built any new reservoirs since 1992. That's worse than New Jersey, where we're kinda backwards; instead of turning low areas into reservoirs, we take high areas, dig out all the rock, and then make reservoirs in the hole.

If Torvalds steps down on his own, he can pick a successor at that time. If something happens to him or he just quits without arranging a successor, there's going to be a fight. The second scenario argues for arranging for a successor earlier, but the problem is as soon as you do, there's temptation on the part of people (possibly including but not limited to the successor) to try to force the succession earlier than Torvalds would want. So it's in his best interest to not arrange for a successor until he's ready to step down.