After joking about this at work, I landed on the most cursed scale I could think of… pT = log10 FPW.

Pros: no bottom to scale, increasing negative values asymptotically approach absolute zero. Water freezes at zero.

1 pT is almost exactly the melting point of iridium. Lightning bolts are around 2 pT. Boiling points of neon and helium are in the neighborhood of -1 and -2.

Not really how that works, but I dig the enthusiasm!

Too high or too low can be dangerous, and there’s different varieties of diabetes that make one or both swings more likely/dangerous.

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I swear I had to read these headlines like 10 times.

“GOP candidate calls his campaign stop an autism fundraiser, gets banned when venue owner finds out.”

Curious about what was crossed out. We could probably tell with a better photo.

If it makes you feel better, “one third” is realistically a reduced precision approximation of something like 23/64 (from a genealogical perspective) or near 33% of certain markers on a genetic panel.

Imagine having to choose between object-oriented penetration testing keynote and whatever the programming conference has to offer.

I could have sworn Ds wanted muted mics because trump was just talking over everyone and trampling the debate structure?

Not even a “yes, but…”

“Tesla builds factory on farm” is the kind of hard-hitting journalism we need.

No, it’s been incremental for a while now.

I can’t recall… Was it the motte or the bailey?

They could have left a naked “average” at the end of the sentence and it would have made sense to assume ‘appropriate methods’. They could have thrown in an appropriate qualifier do describe the cohort they’re comparing him to “most people approaching retirement age.”

They chose to say “the average American” which makes the statement somewhere between misleading and an outright fabrication.

You can’t just bait-and-switch the headline. Don’t say “these things are equivalent” and then turn around and say “it doesn’t make sense to compare these things.”

If I had an investment account that would give me $10k per year, it would be worth about $125k. If I was entitled to $10k a year through a pension, wouldnt it be fair to say that entitlement is an asset that’s worth (at least a portion of) that same value?

2 teachers, military and Congress. I’m not saying they’re billionaires, or even that they’re closer to one than normal.

They did and we should.

It’s incongruent with the headline. “The average American” is not the same population as “the average member of the ‘pull up the ladder’ generation.”

This does gloss over the multiple pensions, doesn’t it?

Median for his age