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A re-direct to www.google.com.tw would have been interesting.

If you had a house, and a mortgage, you could put money into the principal. Mine is 5.675%. What investment is going to guarantee me that return?

Do the averages for beef consumption and airline hours seem low to anyone else?

I checked the sources for beef...it's only the amount you eat at home. Doesn't include eating out, which would like double or triple it.

Couldn't find fault with the airline numbers, but four hours a year? One two hour roundtrip flight? Srsly?

I'm no climatologist. I don't know a lot about how temperature is measured. But your question is based on several assumptions that I think need analysing.

1) What temperatures are we talking about? Surface air? Water? 2) Who's collected it? There's probably dozens of organizations that collect it. I doubt there's one single repository for it all. 3) How was it collected? Are the data comparable? Especially historically. You can't simply ask the weatherman what the temperature was in Antarctica in 1874. 4) Even if you had universally comparable data for the past 150 years, you still have trouble. Temps in urban areas for example skew results because of heat trapping. Those factors need to be accounted for.

Science is complicated for the very simple reason that the natural world is complicated. There's no such thing as "pure" data.

I trust science industry (for the most part) over time. The over time part is key. There are generational checks and balance in science. Young turks looking to make a name are attacking the holes in theories all the time. If something is faulty, we'll find out...from other scientists.

I don't need to trust individual scientists, just the process of science. Which I do.

The quote was originally in Korean. It could be a translation problem, or a cultural issue (conflict avoidance?).

Sure, but should you be recharging your mental batteries (reducing cognitive overload) based on what documents your printing?

Short breaks and walks are wonderful and productive, but not necessarily at the times your printing.

How does that follow? Maybe there are more laws, but people aren't being arrested for breaking them.

"179,031,479 – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean."

Statistics like these, with overstated and confusing precision, bug me. Why not say 180 Million?

That doesn't work either. One, there's the assumption that you're two opposed news sites are "really" opposed. Are Fox News and MSNBC diametrically opposed? Amy Goodman would disagree. I could also read the Socialist Worker Magazine and the American Enterprise Institute's newsletter, but I don't know what conclusions I would draw.

The issue isn't that all media organizations are biased, it's really that I am biased. I think the world exists in a certain way and the news that doesn't agree with that or fails to convince me to change the way I think, well then that news source is clearly biased.

It's not luck that interest rates and inflation are both low. Inflation is a key factor that influences interest rates