They still have 10g fat and 500mg sodium, that does not seem ridiculously low in fat or sodium.

$12k was a lot to pay for a car in the 60s. My dad bought a new 66 Mustang for about $2500, a VW bug was under $1500. Houses then were $30k, about 2 years salary for him as a teacher.

You're right about the safety features, but that mustang was fun to drive.

I think some things have become much more affordable, such as clothing and technology. Some things have become less affordable, especially houses. Cars are about the same level of affordability in my view.

There are all kinds of CNC mills and routers. A lot of the really cheap ones are mainly good for working on wood or plastic, or are kits. Lots of people find an old mill/router and convert it to CNC. If you want a plug-and-play desktop mill or router there are a ton of options. Here is a fairly typical one that looks like it is capable of some serious work, $700.

Excellent suggestion! Turns out it's available free

Your question is one that has been answered Mars lost its magnetosphere 4 billion years ago, allowing solar radiation to strip away its atmosphere. Water vapor was flung into space by this process over the billions of years, and any surface water will boil away due to the low atmospheric pressure.

I think it is really good for a late career change. The kids are grown, it's easy to stay in touch with friends, and it's good to get out of your rut. I'm going to seriously consider it if I find myself out of work for a long stretch. I'm in my 40s and wary of my future employability, and the prospect of broadening my horizons is appealing. I'm also interested in retiring abroad where the cost of living is low, this might be a good way to explore that before retirement.

You don't have to speak an asian language to be valuable. If you are interested in it, you can make a good living in Hong Kong or China or India. There are a lot of opportunities for people who understand technology and are native English speakers. You can bridge the gap between customers and engineers who speak limited English. You may not make good bay area wages depending on where you go, but you'll make excellent for local cost of living wages.

H3N2 is a common strain every year. It mutates all the time. There is no flu shot that covers H3N2, it will cover a particular mutation of that type. For example, the current flu shot covers an H3N2 strain first identified in 2011, and an H1N1 strain first identified in 2009.

I don't think you understand what Warren Buffet is saying. He is worth ~US$ 46b, and makes billions a year from that wealth. He thinks he should be taxed on that income at a higher rate than those who make much less, yet under current law he is taxed at a lower rate.

Current tax law is widening the gap between Warren Buffet and his secretary, and he suggests changing that.

If the vaccine were helpful one would expect there to be a decrease in mortality rates as the vaccine acceptance rate increased. There is not I suggest all routine vaccinations with the sole exception of the influenza vaccination. I see no evidence that it is helpful.

You could have provided a synopsis and link, I'd have believed you after checking the link.

They have a complex (even worse than their product assembly) ownership structure where most of the profits go to a nonprofit that gives away a few percent of income. Here is a quick overview.

There's something broken about human perception of risk. Every month there is a 9/11 of traffic fatalities but nobody is taking their shoes off about that. For some reason certain kinds of deaths are given disproportionate importance and others are blandly accepted.

Medical errors cause a 9/11 of fatalities every 5 days. It's so strange that few people are even aware of this yet we are collectively freaked out about child abductors and terrorists which are rounding errors on fatality rates.

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You have an incorrect view of Standard Oil, and monopolies. The ruling from the breakup states

There are countless stories of Standard Oil buying up wells and refineries in an area and once they controlled the market rates would skyrocket. They would use these profits to buy wells and refineries in another area and repeat the jacking of rates.

IQ tests are designed to have a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. They have to reformulate them every so often to rebalance to this standard. For the last hundred years or so raw IQ scores have been increasing by about 3 points per decade, a phenomenon called the Flynn effect

There are various theories about why this happens, such as nutrition, and there is some evidence that the trend is weakening, but your gut instinct about this is not accurate.