Here's a better way to visualize the weight.

The tag weighs about 1/10 the weight of the butterfly. So in human terms, it would be like carrying around a Thanksgiving turkey, or a couple of gallons of milk.

It will be interesting to see if these transmitters alter the flight of these butterflies.

Agreed. And in that Socialist or Communist country, that price won't be realistic. Just as rent controls disincentivize landlords from maintaining their properties or building new ones, controlled pricing by Communist regimes causes people to not produce the things people want, but rather, produce the things they can get party leaders to support.

Nope, the median income in NYC is $73K. https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

It's always been a game. Without the pricing game, they don't really make money. If they just charged "fair" prices, competing hotels would trivially undercut them.

FTFY.

It's not the ban against paying ransoms. It's the ransoms. Go after the gangs, keep the prohibition.

*Everything* in moderation. As soon as you go off the rails saying it's "always bad" or "always good" you've lost credibility.

Some video watching by kids is fine. Excessive video watching is harmful. Where's that boundary between "some" and "excessive"? That's the hard part. And the best people to make that determination are...parents. At least, parents who actually care about their kids.

Power corrupts. Supermajorities corrupt any party in power, Democrat or Republican. It is the need to negotiate with the other party that makes our government special. Whenever they don't have to negotiate, you get what we have seen since January.

This made me laugh. Duh! This is always true. But being true doesn't make it a bad thing. Luckily, the median income in the US ($83K) is plenty to live on, in all but the most expensive markets like New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

That's great that you got yourself to 85 wpm without a class. Most people aren't as determined as you, and need to be taught. By your logic, students shouldn't need school at all, because some people can and do pick up everything they need to know in life, on their own. My grandmother quit school after the 8th grade because she had to work on her parents' farm, but she did all right. But she always wished she had been able to continue her education. Your achievement is *not* typical.

I see you didn't contradict my statement, so that's good at least.

But as for useless, students have claimed that history, literature, art, music, even algebra, are "useless" and a "waste of time." I disagree. You might not use cursive every day, but there are many times you will find yourself needing to read someone else's writing, even if that person is your grandparent.

I don't think self-taught touch-typing is as prevalent as you suggest. I've seen a whole lot of people hunt-and-peck their way through office life at 35-40 wpm. It's painfully slow.

What kind of speeds have you achieved? My typing class got me to 95 wpm. That kind of speed allows me to run circles around my hunt-and-peck office-mates.

For some people teaching themselves their own method works. But not many people are as persistent or determined to become more efficient on their own. I've seen a whole lot of people hunting and pecking at 35 wpm because they never learned how to type. I'm glad your method works for you.

Personally, I did learn the "proper" way to type, and average 90-05 wpm. I've never struggled with any repetitive motion issues.

That's great! So what kind of speed did you achieve by watching that single video? Yes, speed matters, because it's the whole point of taking typing. If you got up to 50 wpm, then your video didn't really help you that much. You can almost hunt-and-peck that fast.

No, no it wasn't. Typing was for secretarial jobs, yes. But it was also for accounting, data entry, research, teaching, and yes, programming did exist back then too.

Almost nobody works for minimum wage these days. Even Walmart has a $14/hr minimum wage, almost twice the legal minimum. If you're "stuck" working a minimum wage job, you are either disabled in some way, or just aren't trying. For that matter, even employees at Kroger with special needs, who do things like rounding up carts and sacking groceries, make at least $13 an hour. The BLS says only 1.1% of workers in the US make minimum wage, and that includes teenage workers. https://www.bls.gov/opub/repor...

So no, don't give me that crap about people "these days" being expected to do horrible jobs for minimum wage. That is nothing more than a trope.

They’re based on engineering estimates from the world’s top rocket payload delivery company (by far), its consistent history of meeting its own estimates, as well as independent analysis of same by industry experts. They’re NOT based on an oddly smug and rather spectacular flip: “person M was the second coming of Jesus until he derailed my side’s self affirming censorship”.

But hey, no worries - the truth is simply performative, eh? Even NPR CEO Katherine Maher agrees that a self affirmation bubble is more important than the full context: “Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that is getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done”.