He must be looking at different numbers than Wall Street is

Hundreds of thousands. Plus as many or more contractors

Oops. Didn't notice the 7 am start. My eyes don't open that early

"Oh lord", the judge replied.

Seems fair on both sides

Writers have a saying that if you really love a sentence you wrote, you should delete it. Only the author really loves it.

I can't run myself ATM, but course marshall or gear spotter is doable. Glad to help

Free atmosphere -- you burn the gasoline and populate the free atmosphere with the resultant CO2 at 425 ppm, with the atmosphere having been initially CO2-free. (trying to keep it simple)

Your take on the NCSE's 'Project Steve'?

This has been studied -- people estimate percentages to be towards 50%. If the actual number is tiny, it produces a gross overestimate. If the actual number is near 100%, it produces a gross under-estimate.

Similar distortions occur for estimating % over 6' tall, iirc

My son and a few others

First one I used was a Wang 8k -- 8192 bytes of ram with about 1800 of it taken up by the system. 5.25 inch floppy disk storing over 100,000 bytes! Who could use all that space !?

More seriously, I also wrote my first AIML program on it -- it learned to play '21 sticks'.

That isn't pessimistic so much as depression. Pointless, 'doesn't matter what I do', 'why bother' and many other common phrases in political discourse, are classic depressive statements.

Thanks Josh. Also here from sci.environment days is @mtobis.bsky.social

Got it. Still need a larger picture.