The problem in California is that private lawyers realized they could sue almost anybody for failure to warn about carcinogen risk. The result was that everybody (both private individuals, companies, and government facilities) stuck a warning on virtually anything. The initial intention of the law was good but very badly worded.

One example, "how many new records has the S&P 500 set so far in 2025." Perfect question for an AI but the answers range from 12 to 28. Sometimes the answer decreases from day to day.

You are a century too late for that job.

"The first practical cotton picker was invented over a period of years beginning in the late 1920s by John Daniel Rust (1892–1954) with the later help of his brother Mack Rust. "

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Grafting fruit frees is a learnable skill.

Just a reminder, those "corals" you reference which formed during the Cambrian Period are all extinct. No survivors, no descendants. They all died, 100%, in the end-Permian extinction. After a while-- tens of millions of years-- new species rose up to occupy the same ecological niches, and we also call those corals, but they are unrelated, and in fact even use a different mineral for reef forming.

So, how does anyone enter the workforce?

Every decision you ever made has two sides and possibly more. Also, indecision is in fact a decision to retain the status quo.

Not exactly. You can see fossils of organisms that are called "corals", but they are not related to the organisms we call coral today.

Rugose and tabulate corals became extinct in the Permian–Triassic extinction event 250 million years ago, and a different form of reef-building organism arose ten of millions of years later.

"Virtually all corals" is not all corals.

"In the Atlantic Ocean" is not "on the planet".

Headline is very misleading.

The headline oversimplifies, it is more accurate to say the ice generates a voltage. It's an interesting phenomenon but not revolutionary enough to solve the world's energy problems.

Ban on tobacco products.

Yeah, let's make cigarettes cool again!

I definitely can't imagine any issues running a functional market economy under the theory that the first amendment allows you to make or conceal any claim you like about a product.

Teenagers tend to make mountains out of molehills and do rash things. They are not considered adults for a reason.

For actual adults I agree with you, it's not my business.

Far too many people were told to go into debt and attend college and get that magic degree, only to find themselves in debt, and working jobs that either require no degree or do not line-up with the degree they got. Also, most people who went to college had the experience of being required to take a bunch of junk courses they had no interest in, and which were unrelated tho their majors, supposedly in the interest of becoming a "well-rounded" person - but are aware that many of these classes were more of a partisan indoctrination (politically or culturally) rather than being the traditional classical education stuff.

You can tell people all day long that they and their kids and grand kids all NEED those college degrees and all that debt, but as long as they see with their own eyes that this is not actually needed, large numbers of people will not buy-in.

Incidentally, before somebody replies critically, Yes I DID indeed serve my time in college, and I think it's highly important for people to do it IF THEY ARE TAKING THE RIGHT MAJOR FOR A GOOD CAREER. We NEED doctors and engineers and scientists etc with degrees, but we do NOT need carpenters, plumbers, store security people, baristas, etc with useless fluff degrees and so much debt they'll never be able to buy a house and live comfortably. If somebody is going to end-up in a blue collar career, they should not be wasting 4 years of their lives and going deeply into debt with college, and it's abusive to counsel them to the contrary. We sadly developed a system in which a lot of people have been told that blue collar jobs are awful and only stupid people do them, and this is wrong on both points.

They want the public to think it's OUR fault they keep shoveling out fake numbers with loud pronouncements, and then later try to slip-through huge corrections,and they don't want us to think this through. There's no need for them to get any data this way! Every single valid employer in the USA is required by law to file accurate job data with the IRS as they take part of every person's paycheck on a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly basis and send it in. Any increase or decrease in employment will be immediately reflected in tax payments tied to specific employee SSIDs the with the first filing of taxes to the IRS after an employee is hired/fired/layed-off. When the employees file their annual taxes, they are required to indicate what they do fr a living (plumber, doctor, engineer, teacher, etc). With the mountain of required-by-federal-law-to-be-accurate data constantly cascading into the government, the BLS does not need any phone surveys to get good data; in fact they probably should not EXIST as an agency (the IRS and the Social Security Administration ought to have very reliable labor data at all times).

The BLS has a LONG track record of reporting bad numbers, and the seemingly-partisan way they're always wrong and then later correct (seemingly always with numbers and updates (in magnitude, direction, and timing of release) that favor one political party) lead many people to be VERY suspicious. Random errors would be in random directions, not directions that conveniently line-up with partisan interests. This most-recent hugely positive data before the presidential election end then huge downward revision post-election is one of their largest ever and seems to have gotten the attention of this administration which was hurt both by the initial reporting (making their opponent look better during the campaign) and by the update (making them look bad now that they're in office). People who think humans become non-partisan saints when they land government jobs may see nothing wrong here, but they should at least understand why others "smell a rat".